tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11787458.post-77530177334781780362008-06-11T09:00:00.000-04:002008-06-11T09:01:26.349-04:00<span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>By <a href="http://www.the-reaction.blogspot.com/">Michael J.W. Stickings</a></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Let's start a new and unabashedly ironic series: </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Greatest Republican Idea of the Day (GRID)</strong>.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">(Great because self-defeating and self-destructive, of course.)</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">**********</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Dick Scaife's right-wing rag is <a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_571996.html">reporting</a> that "[m]averick GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has booked an arena in Minneapolis for a 'mini-convention' that could steal some of John McCain's thunder just days before he accepts the Republican nomination."</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Hey, what a <em>great</em> idea!</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Could Ron Paul 2008 be the new Pat Buchanan 1992? Sure. Buchanan's a fascist thug, but Paul's a <a href="http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2007/11/ron-paul.html">crazy racist libertarian</a> -- he may be right about Iraq, but he's just as much an extremist, in his own way, as Buchanan (who's also a Nazi apologist who, with a new book out, argues that WWII was the worst war ever -- the U.S. shouldn't have gotten involved, and, presumably, the Holocaust shouldn't have been stopped). Buchanan is worse, I think, but Paul, who continues to have a large and committed following around the country, could be just the right thorn in the side of McCain and the GOP establishment (if the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America/dp/B0012F9WEW/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1213159092&amp;sr=8-2">fascists of the christian right</a> don't puncture them instead, still a distinct possibility).</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">So, yes, Ron Paul, go for it. Hold your mini-convention. Generate some buzz. Send a message to the GOP. And steal as much of McCain's manufactured thunder as you can.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Great, great, great idea.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11787458-7753017733478178036?l=the-reaction.blogspot.com'/></div>Michael J.W. Stickingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01589680050920393444mjwstickings@yahoo.ca1