Some stamp their money with RON PAUL. Others wear T-shirts that read: "Who is Ron Paul?" There are men who carry little Ron Paul cards and drop them on top of urinals, no joke. "You have to get creative. Sometimes guys need something to read in the bathroom," says Chris Richards, 38, who works in finance.
I believe there is something in the US Code barring commercial stamping of currencies — something the “Where’s George?” site sort of meddles through.  As for sticking Ron Paul cards on the top of urinals — I would suggest creating them in the style of Jack T Chick tracts.  There are plenty of testimonies of Chick affecting people to the glories of end of times hyper- fundamentalist Christianity with those tracts over on Jack Chick’s website — why not for Ron Paul and the glories of Survivalist Libertarian – fill in the blank –?

Second Comment:

Jamie Jackson  writes on Sep 12th, 2007 11:05am

This article seems to belong in Gandhi’s second phase. So, that’s a start. Time to work even harder, folks! 🙂

His political career arc — to be forgotten shortly by everybody except people who travel in libertarian circles — and to be forgotten even sooner than I had thought since he has expressly forbid a run in a third party — goes something like:

First they ignore you, than they ridicule you, than they ignore you again.

Second phase.

A couple of weekends ago, Ron Paul was on the NPR quiz-show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”.  He was given a three question quiz about fringe presidential candidates, which included a question about the political career of one Lyndon Larouche, Jr.  As a whole, it was a stab in Ron Paul’s back — fringe candidate asked about fringier candidates.  I balk at the implication,  though, with ragards to Mr. Larouche — the same with the New Republic side by side profiles of Larouche as “The Crazy Who Is Not Running” with Dennis Kucinich as “The Crazy Who Is Running” — which, whatever one may say about Paul or Kucinich, they are not cult leaders.

Ron Paul finished off by saying that “Lyndon Larouche is always right.”  It is a joke I took as roughly equivalent to Homer Simpson’s line.   But apparently this was taken in Laroucheland as this weird sort of wink and nod from Paul — a semi-establishment figure sending a message to the huddled Larouchies.  Larouchepac issued a press statement on Ron Paul’s mention, and I passed by a Larouchie-written blog entry which considered it an act of communication.  It may be the case that the sentence is taken to heart as the least subtle axiom issued from out of Larouche.
As though the most libertarian elected official in Congress sees eye to eye with a sick parody of a Statist.
LL is/was always right. It is an axiom, proposed by Kepler. Remember: Lyn successfully predicted the outcome of a coin flip 594,375,820,001,1593 times in a row. What more needs to be said? 
In other news, this sad little story has been taken down:
http://ibykus.blogspot.com/2007/08/slandered-by-own-father.html

Depriving us all of one more insight into the mind of a LYM recruit, this one with the saddest of contexts.  I did not get there in time to offer up a comment.  Ah well.
And the latest EIR-ish pamphlet (as pertains to the standard lackadaisical non-solution to the Mortgage crisis)  is subtitled “The End of Our Delusion”, which… is apt.  Look for it when the LYMers do their “Rush” as the college terms begin… oh, wait.  Printing?

Jump to the final comment on this dailykos diary entry on the political history of interesting and admirable in his own manner but ultimately you’d just as soon leave him on the fringe Presidential candidate Ron Paul: 

Let me understand this…this is a website by communists, for communists and it is attacking the most respected man in congress?

Do I dare ask what you opinions are of Robert Byrd grand wazoo of the KKK? I guess he gets a pass because he’s a leftist racist, such as the ones who run this site?

Or how about Hillary’s demand that people are not allowed to look her in the eye when passing in the hall which is typical of narcissistic dictators? Her racism knows no bounds.

The whole article is not based on racism it’s based on facts of numbers.
The ideas about the Fed Reserve (that it’s a private entity) are true and accepted by those who are educated enough to find out about it.

Dr. Paul is far too beloved to have your petty smears stick in any way.
It won’t change his popularity one bit. He’s teflon. These comments by you are not going to hurt him any more than Bill Clinton’s sexism and racism or Ted Kennedy’s sexism and racism will hurt him.

This whole website which I happened on by accident is a joke written by 13 year olds and will hardly be anything anyone will take seriously.

No Ron Paul is not your friend, because he’s not a disgusting socialist.

This site is in fact run by racists. It’s on many lists of racist, terrorist hate groups because it is likely funded by George Soros a man who turned in his own Jewish counterparts to save his own skin.

So I doubt you are ones to talk.

Um.  Huh?

Ron Paul smothers his french fries in ketchup.

Ketchup.

He ends up eating more ketchup than french fries.

Is he full at the end?

Ron Paul?

Ron Paul sucks.

Eggs.

Ron Paul sucks eggs.

I think anyone looking at the picture objectively will come to that conclusion.

… yes, but Ron Paul won’t really have arrived until the sort of soft-core porn* web-video maverns who keep releasing those music videos of hot chicks slinging double entendres regarding the presidential candidates (And, yes, I just watched the new “Giuliani Girls versus Obama Girls” one, so I am no better than anyone else)…

… release one with some barely clad busty lady prances about for Ron Paul.

I think I see better how this “Chattering Class Consensus” on which candidate is legitimate and which is not works.

Interestingly enough, the Hillary one appears to be unaffiliated, which is strange because it is professional and with the same techniques and cues as the Obama video it was responding to.

I swear, these things make me want to go read somebody’s legalese-worded Health Care proposal. And it makes me appreciate Mike Gravel’s tossing of rocks into rivers.

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* In this case, a very broad definition that includes these cutesy, but titillating, things where the comment wowoweewa! this song was actually kinda catchy. and yes, i did masturbate to this video… eleventeen times! is not out of place, and probably — for that poster– true.

I note that the idea that Ron Paul might pull of a shocker in New Hampshire and/or Iowa is becoming one of those conventional unconventional wisdom.  Joe Scarborough has come out in saying “He is going to shock a lot of people in New Hampshire” — a bold enough prediction, and thus this conventional unconventional wisdom has wormed its way into establishment types (Cable mcnews?).  I will keep half an eye open to see if this bit of conventional unconventional wisdom floats forward from here.
It’s a prediction for people who want to be cleverer than thou, and it will either make the prognosticator of such an idea come across as absolutely brilliant, or will lead them to be complete dunderheads in a “What the Heck were they thinking” way.  You will note, if you go back to “You Read it Here Third”, that I set myself up to be truly brilliant in the case of such a thing happening, with the “no big deal” if he stumbles to that small percentage point slumber.

I do not know what these things will get him.  Perhaps he will be able to ride his way to the end of the debate season (if those in charge of the debates can get back to stomaching the idea of including him) as did some moderately impressive third place showing for Alan Keyes allowed him in 2000.

In the realm of the vaunted National Journal rankings  — I think I would insert Paul as #5 — behind the fledgling John McCain, who — embarrassingly enough has raised less money than Paul and embarrassingly enough has a much higher burn rate– can still trout out the line on where Kerry and Clinton were at this point in the campaign, roughly stumbling just as he is.  But even that is a tough call.  As for the figures National Journal has stuck between the “Rudy McRomnpson” beast and our erstwhile buddy Ron Paul — the knock on Ron Paul, particularly from National Journal, is that his support is “Internet Support”.  I suppose maybe and perhaps, but granted that, but that’s more than can be said for those four others.

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One more note to Ron Paul supporters: I hate to say this, but as I see still floating out in cyberspace the mean-spirited list comparing Paul supporters to Larouche supporters, and I see the news about Ron Paul’s fund-raising prowess: in the 2004 race at a comparative time, Lyndon Larouche either lead the field or was second — right behind Dean — I do not quite remember and will have to look it up.  (It’s what you get when all of your supporters send you the $2000 maximum, dedicated to you as a God-like being.)  It’s an interesting enough dynamic, and probably only worthy of the loosest of loose parallels — dedication in terms of ultimately a minority.

Viewing some uptiks in his poll number, as well collapses and general humming hooing toward the Republican standard-bearers generating no particular excitement, I see a chance, and I do not know how large it is and I do not know if I would really be willing to bet on it, that Ron Paul might win or do very well in the Iowa Caucuses and/or the New Hamshire Primary.

And that would be the end of it. Ron Paul would get no further than that, until I guess he signs up for the Libertarian Party nomination.
Ticking off the precedents of Primary upsets, which includes Estes Kefauver against Harry Truman in 1952 and Eugene McCarthy against Lyndon Johnson in 1968 — the former a victory, the latter one of those “exceeded expectations”.

The more meaningful precedents for my quasi-prediction with Ron Paul are 1988’s victory by Pat Robertson in the Washington state caucuses and the New Hampshire quasi-victory and 1996 actual victory of Pat Buchanan. These were victories by a dedicated core of supporters, not altogether aligned with the Republican Party but there nonetheless, with a crowded group of candidates of poblematic natures.

I can’t say which one is more likely. Given the nature of the state of New Hampshire and the nature of caucuses, I think that if New Hampshire held caucuses I may just suggest putting money down. As it were, only if the odds makers give weak enough odds, and only if you are playing a game of horseshoes.