Intrepid SF-Radio correspondent James Kelso reports from Ames Iowa
“Victory for Ron Paul!”
By James Kelso
Audio Report
I’m seated at my laptop inside the Ron Paul Tent right here at the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa.
The Iowa State Ron Paul Chairman has the mic right now. He just announced that Ron Paul will be arriving at our tent shortly.
It will take a lot of posts to give you some of idea of the great event going on here. I drove in last night with a carload of Ron Paul Revolution activists from Chicago, Illinois. I got into Chicago by finding a last-minute bargain-basement one-way air ticket from West Palm Beach to O’Hare Airport.
I’ve never been to Chicago before. Wow! What a great White achievement is Chicago! What a beautiful clear lake we White folks have preserved in Lake Michigan. What an astounding treasure-trove of the greatest art in the universe is gathered on that clear Lake Michigan waterfront in the Art Institute of Chicago. Dozens of posts would fail to convey the sweep of how beautiful this city, this lake, and this museum are. I’ll try a few such posts as the next two days unfold.
Right now a country band has just taken the stage. Singing patriotic White music.
My reports are going to be necessarily choppy from this amazing event, simply because there is so much going on, so many people, so much improvising going on. But here we go.
Dr. Ron Paul has got the crowd roaring right now in the huge Ron Paul Tent. The tent is packed. Another horde of Ron Paul Revolutionaries are spread out all over the parking lots, all around the Neocon candidates’ tents, and around the huge Hilton Coliseum.
Rep. Paul is saying that, even though there is no way to predict this wild event, that he thinks that the outcome today will be good, even in spite of the mountain of money that is being lavished by the other candidates on inducing Iowans to travel here today and vote for them.
I’m talking with a patriot videographer next to me right now who is describing the scene over at the bus parking lots just behind us about 200 yards. He says that he was filming Romney buses pulling up, then opening their doors, and filming while…..just about NOBODY got off the bus Alright!! Oh yeah! Classic! Oh how I hope that video gets up on YoueTube as soon as possible. Can’t you just see it? Big ol’ expensive coach buses paid for by mega-millionaire Mitt Romney…and five or six people get off. As they say on your Media Monopoly TV: “Dozens of deluxe coach buses rented for the whole weekend - $100,000 or more. Shots of empty buses pulling up - priceless!”
Speech in the Big Arena
At about 1:45pm hundreds of us who volunteered to be in the “Mosh section” marched into the Hilton Coliseum cheering and shouting “Ron Paul, Ron Paul” before Laura Ingraham introduced Dr. Paul.
The crowd exploded when Ron Paul came on the stage. He then gave one of the best presidential candidate speeches any of us are ever likely to hear. You’ll see pictures of this on the national media tonight and tomorrow, unless they go into total blackout mode.
Just Heard Another Speech
At 4pm the huge Ron Paul tent was filled to overflowing, and standing room only as Dr. Paul gave us another speech that none of the folks here will ever forget.
There is so much going on here that I can only give these completely inadequate little notes. I’ll put up posts later about the 3 giant marches we made throughout all the tents and grounds of this event. And posts about the wholly different and non-inspiring atmosphere of all of the other campaign tents. The news reporters even have been having to admit this huge difference, even in some of their reporting. Privately they all see it completely. I talked with CNN’s Bill Schneider about this huge difference this morning.
I talked about the same things with a U.S. News & World Report reporter also. As well as the NBC, ABC, and C-Span crews.
Late buses full of Iowans are arriving still, so hundreds of us Ron Paul supporters are heading over to the walkway into the Hilton Coliseum grounds where they are debarking, for a last-minute effort to enlighten some of them before they cast their ballots inside the Coliseum.
In the talk that Dr. Paul just gave us in the big Ron Paul Tent he made it clear that we’re “just getting started” in Iowa. So much was accomplished today with Iowans and Iowa by this revolutionary appearance of thousands of patriots from all over the U.S. that Ron Paul and his Iowa campaign manager said that however these Iowans vote today, they will have an unforgettable experience of having seen a sort of patriot army appearing out of nowhere in their State. This is what they’ll be talking about and thinking about in the months leading up to the Iowa caucuses, which will be the ultimate vote here. That vote will be in January, unless the Iowa legislature moves it up into December 2007.
The voting will close in 40 minutes. The doors will be shut at that time. Then the counting process will begin. That is scheduled to take 1 hour. The vote results are scheduled to be announced from the stage of the vast Hilton Coliseum at 7pm, which is just one hour and 40 minutes from now.
It’s sounds like hype, but I think it would be easy to say that every single one of the thousands of Ron Paul Revolutionaries that spent today in Ames will be going home tonight or tomorrow (Sunday) with an experience that they will be telling all of their friends about for the rest of their lives.
Only some of the effect of this extraordinary army of patriots is expected to show up in tonight’s vote totals. Because so many of the Iowans who came here today arrived with some sort of set idea on who they were “supposed to” or “obligated to” vote for, Ron Paul’s vote percentage may be seemingly small. But everyone who is here can feel that there is a much bigger effect that will take a few weeks and months to develop. Ron Paul is such a different kind of man, so different from these fake politicians that are running against him, that everyone who hears him in person for the first time at events such as this, is bound to require a little reorientation time to realize that Ron Paul just raised the bar of what they should expect from someone running for any office.
My biggest goof in this event so far is failing to have brought a digital camera with its uploading cradle. Dummy! Had I brought the camera that copperhead bought for trips like this you’d be getting some amazing photos right now. I’m looking right now at a wonderful White couple as Mom is holding her little tiny new baby…and guess what’s written on this cute little girl’s back? Yep! Ob/Gyn Dr. Ron Paul signed this little girl’s outfit on her back.
I hope that the professional press and the many amateurs here got shots like this onto the net. Then we can scout them out and post them here…so that you’ll get the “I was there” experience that you’re not getting since dumb-bunny me didn’t think in advance to line up a digital camera to bring with me on my last-minute Odyssey.
WhiteRights: I just talked with Jamie Kelso on the phone, who is in Ames Iowa at the straw poll and he asked me to write this update. He’s saying that the Ron Paul supporters held four marches around the event and they had the most enthusiastic supporters by a large margin.
Jamie was saying one big problem with the Iowa Straw poll is that many participants have their transportation provided and their $35 entrance fee paid by candidates with a lot of money often being obliged to commit themselves to vote for that candidate. (Sam Brownback made an announcement shortly before the event that he would pay admission for any supporters.) Many Iowa voters -after hearing Ron Paul speak- felt Ron Paul was the best candidate and regretted committing themselves to vote for the other candidates.
Jamie noted that people wearing Romney shirts were chanting “Ron Paul” as the enthusiastic Ron Paul supporters repeatedly marched by. The top four finishers had spent a HUGE amount of money and had made as many as 35 trips to Iowa, and there was a general consensus in Ames, Iowa that Ron Paul (who had spent almost nothing in Iowa and made only two trips to the state) was getting the best response for the effort. And of course the Ron Paul supporters were 100 times as enthusiastic, marching around the event while the other Republicans seemed somber and maybe a little depressed that they committed themselves to the wrong candidates.
WhiteRights: I was just talking some more with Jamie Kelso.
He was saying that Romney and Brownback had paid for their supporters’ trip, paid for the tickets and even paid for hotel rooms for their supporters to come to Ames, Iowa.
They even had little golf carts for the rich candidate’s supporters so they wouldn’t have to do the long walk from the parking lot. Also they raided some old folks homes to get supporters in wheelchairs to vote for them.
The Ron Paul supporters were packed in private cars and doing road trips to Ames, Iowa. They were walking from the parking lots to the Ron Paul tent.
Brownback, Huckabee, Tancredo and Romney were all buying tickets for their people.
Ron Paul was the highest scoring candidate whose supporters had to pay out of their own pockets.
It’s Sunday morning, Aug. 12, and I’m typing this on my laptop on the granite steps of the Art Institute of Chicago. Our Ron Paul Meetup carpool of four comrades made the 353-mile drive back from Ames through the night. We drove through the same Iowa and Illinois cornfields we drove through on the way out Friday. Some people thought that we were odd to drive through the cornfields rather than on I-80.
The analysis above, by James Buchanan, is good. It reflects what every one of the thousands of Ron Paul supporters at Ames seemed unanimously to agree was a real victory.
Before leaving for Ames, I got to spend half of Friday in the Art Institute of Chicago. I was hoping that I could spend more hours in a pause on the way back. And my wish has come true. I found a bargain plane flight back to Florida that gives me time to soak up more of the treasures of White art that exemplify what the fight is for. And, as about fifty joggers, all of them White, limber up to start a half-marathon along the beautiful Lake Michigan shore of this magnificent White-created city, we’re under perfect weather for a first-ever swim in a Great Lake for me. I mentioned earlier that I was happily amazed when I first looked down into Lake Michigan on Friday to see a sandy bottom below through clear blue water. I wished that there were time for a swim. Today and tomorrow I’ll get to swim as far as I like in one of these Great White Lakes that must for all time remain the property of the race that built the gleaming cities and the productive farms that line their shores.
The same Ice Ages that scooped out these Great Lakes may very well have brought White Europeans (Solutreans from Southwest France) to the New World as the very first humans to inhabit the New World. And that may have been 6,000 years (17,000 years ago) before any Asian crossed a Bering Land Bridge (11,000 years ago). (Check out the Discovery Channel’s DVD/movie entitle “Ice Age Columbus”. It’s available on their website for $10. This DVD has astounded lots of White folks.)
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