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Opinion: Have it your way: Ron Paul must go! Or, Ron Paul rules!

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Because we always try to please our readers here on The Ticket, we have a special two-for-one offer today that, for a change, is worth exactly what you paid for it. (Ron Paul fans can just skip to the second part of this item):

1) Wonkette, the D.C.-based gossip website, has an absolutely hilarious item up now on Chris Peden, a small-town city councilman in Texas who’s running a well-funded Republican House primary campaign to oust Rep. Ron Paul. Peden you’ve never heard of. Paul you know as a perennial loser in recent Republican presidential primaries around the country, running behind even Mike Huckabee as a Libertarian-like, antiwar, anti-government, pro-Constitution candidate, whom Fox News deemed not good enough for a prime-time debate.

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With the headline ‘Kick Ron Paul Out of Congress,’ Wonkette shows total disregard for the wrath of Paulunteers who’ve earned a well-deserved reputation for militancy in devotion to their 72-year-old candidate, both in terms of campaigning and wasting their hard-earned money by fueling the former OB/GYN’s hopeless presidential run in state after state.

Yes, he got some second places in a few caucuses. But while he was speaking to large and small crowds in wonderful places such as Iowa and New Hampshire, people back in Texas’ 14th Congressional District, such as Peden, were wondering what’s in it for them?

Wonkette, with no pretense of objectivity, heartily endorses Peden and describes him as ‘a tall, handsome, charming young conservative with a fluent command of local issues from NASA to rice farming, and whose easy demeanor and embrace of English-only legislation will thrill all but the most hardened liberals.’

The site even sent a special correspondent to the Texas district near Houston and publishes a number of photographs of Peden campaigning. The site describes Paul this way: ‘To most American political fanatics, Ron Paul is just a goofy hobbit whose hilariously doomed online presidential campaign provided standout entertainment in a year that offered a wealth of hilariously doomed campaigns.

‘But to many of his constituents in Texas Congressional District 14, Ron Paul is just a blame-America-first attention whore who completely ignores the people who put him in office.’

Wonkette also points that Peden points out that over Paul’s 10 terms in Congress, he has introduced 351 pieces of legislation. Only six ever came out of committee and zero have passed into law. Every term, Paul just reintroduces the same doomed bills, Wonkette says.

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The website also refers to Paul’s challenger as ‘Future Congressman Peden.’

-- Andrew Malcolm

Ron Paulunteers start here

2) The notoriously irresponsible satirical website Wonkette has launched a completely unprovoked attack on Rep. Ron Paul, the 10-term principled former doctor who stands firmly for a strict interpretation of the Constitution and bringing our boys and girls home from military assignments abroad.

In a complete mockery of professional journalism standards, the biased website publishes an outrageous online article that actually endorses the congressman’s challenger in the Texas primary election next Tuesday as part of its ‘news story.’ It describes this inexperienced ‘city councilman’ as ‘handsome’ and ‘charming,’ as if that should have anything to do with representing the state’s 14th Congressional District.

It ignores the congressman’s long record of fighting for the rights of his constituents and that every term he continues that fight by introducing the same legislation, more than 350 pieces in total so far . The so-called article doesn’t even mention Dr. Paul’s Air Force service nor the nearly $20 million of fund-raising success from dedicated donors last quarter in Paul’s valiant struggle to downsize an out-of-control federal government that ignores people’s rights, the Constitution and invades other countries.

There are no quotes from the good doctor in the article either. It’s so typical of the mainstream media’s vast left-wing conspiracy to ignore the only Republican candidate to oppose the war and make sense while doing it.

It calls Paul’s opponent a ‘CPA,’ which stands for Certified Public You-Know-What. The article calls the good doctor, who has delivered 4,000 babies in his career, ‘a barking loon.’

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And it says this youngster politician claims to be qualified for Congress because he’s delivered one baby, his third child. What is that about?

The Revolution will not be televised!

-- Andrew Malcolm

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