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Monday, December 3, 2007 12:00 AM

Ron Paul is a baby elephant

From around the country, Ron Paul's followers are descending on New Hampshire to go door-to-door for their man. But what do they really want?

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  • Monday, December 3, 2007 05:54 AM

    I'm still not getting the joke

    Why, exactly, is Ron Paul's candidacy a joke? I don't live in my parent's basement and I don't have any credit card debt. I'm 50, own my own home, et cetera.

    I don't see the "baby elephant" metaphor as being as compelling as the end of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (# ISBN-10: 0451163966; # ISBN-13: 978-0451163967) when Chief Bromden acts on the possibility of escape.

    I'm of the opinion that you could examine Giuliani and Clinton and find that they're precisely the same. Evil tentacles of the Combine.

    I'm not getting the joke. Could it be that the Mainstream Media division of the Combine has underestimated how angry the American people are? The Founding Fathers would have Giuliani or Clinton hanged. They would have embraced Ron Paul.

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