A Valentine's Day Tale: Ron Paul at the drugstore checkout line...
As the father of three daughters and husband to a tolerant wife, the day before Valentine's Day is a critical one for my continued domestic happiness. Failure is not an option! Therefore, during lunch today, I journeyed to the nearest drugstore for cards and candy.
Elbowing aside the horde of other fathers, I succeeded in finding all four cards. From the card aisle I moved on to candy, and collected three identical heart-shaped boxes (which should minimize disagreements among the daughters) and the larger one for my bride. Being the lunch hour, there was of course a line, and I was at the end of it to check out. It's a good thing, since I'm not exactly quick when I start speaking, but today I got a surprise...
After ringing up my purchase, and scanning my discount card, I swiped the card machine, hit "cancel" when it asked for my PIN, and prepared to make my debit transaction a credit one with my signature. I jokingly pointed out to the woman - of roughly my early 40's age - that we could both remember a time when all transactions with a card required a signature. For some reason, she began to point out how our freedoms are disappearing and that she was upset by this. She said she might just become Amish, and then said they were getting persecuted as well.
How stunning is this conversation, I thought! Here is someone I have never met, running the checkout counter at the drugstore, talking about civil liberties! She then floored me by pointing out her friends in California who were raided for raw milk, had their food stores confiscated, their seeds taken, and even their cash. She was visibly upset by this, as we all should be. I told her there was one person who was running for office to fix all of this - and she immediately answered "Ron Paul".
I asked her if she was a Republican, and she said she was. With that information, I gave her the people to contact if she wanted to try and go to the county convention in March (this is in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County). She wrote down both my name and the county chair, and said she'd call him about it. We were both inspired, I think, to randomly run into another lover of Liberty while going about our normal daily activities.
Freedom is a unifying force. It is what bound the peoples of many nations into Americans. It propelled us from a frontier to the pinnacle of human achievement. It is a threat to those of the old world, who would pull us back to class distinctions based on birth, and destroy innovation and liberty in the name of security. There is one candidate for President who embodies the spirit of Washington and Jefferson, who would restore our country and not destroy it.
He was with me at the checkout counter of the drugstore today - Happy Valentine's Day!
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very nice !
is it possible that lets say neocon supporters of other candidates have stories like these too ?
Customer:"Hey, I am so worried about Iran getting a nuke, they are so suicidal they would throw their nuke at Israel, which has 300 of them and wont do anything in return and I think we should have a strip search and cavity check done by the TSA, the groping is just not enough to keep us safe.
Store Clerk: Ya, and you know we can only get out of debt by raising the debt ceiling and taking in more debt. Isnt it wonderful that there are 3 candidates we can choose from ? Who are you supporting for President?
Customer: Santorum.And you?
Store Clerk: Me too, Romney !!"
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Dr.Ron Paul's 2002 Predictions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDisyWkIBM
Romney is Obama - DONT vote for more of the same!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWDJEc92d38
May I please
copy this? It's perfect (satire)! :)
lol
Yes You Can !!
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Dr.Ron Paul's 2002 Predictions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDisyWkIBM
Romney is Obama - DONT vote for more of the same!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWDJEc92d38
Cool story! We had an
Cool story! We had an experience too, but not quite the same.
Hubby has a work injury, and needed a 2nd outpatient surgery last week. Of course, we had to show up before the sun came up. So, we got called into the registration office. There we were, the lady asking about workman's comp, insurance, etc. I couldn't help myself. I started talking up Ron Paul. It wouldn't surprise me if she googled him after we left her office. Then, after his surgery, the doc came out to talk with me. My hubby had mispronounced his name, and I thought he said Rothbard. Instead of asking about any after care, I asked him if he was related to Murray Rothbard.
OMG, I am a harcore Paulbot! LOL
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I thought this was gonna be
I thought this was gonna be about Ron Paul going to pick up a box of chocolates and some viagra for a V-day date later tonight.
Bring people with you. Get people to go who normally wouldn't. Multiply your vote!
Viagra?
He's so vibrant and energetic, and the love between him and Carol is so strong, he probably doesn't even _need_ hard-on pills.
In fact, off the record, we could probably solve most of the country's problems overnight by surreptitiously replacing all the hard-on pills with cyanide. >:->
Freedom is my Worship Word!
PDE-5 inhibitors (''hard-on pills'')
Bubbeleh, have you read the adverse effects profiles for all those erectile dysfunction (ED) meds?
Replacing their contents with potassium cyanide might be a kindness.
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." [H.L. Mencken]
Cool story, though
your title is a bit misleading. I was waiting for Ron Paul come up right next to you in the line or something!
His spirit was there - notice
His spirit was there - notice that I didn't bring him up, the clerk did.
hmm well he did
well i should say she did, Ron Paul was the cashier;) I am Ron Paul, you are Ron Paul, She is Ron Paul!!
Ron Paul 2012
This has happened to me over and over again...
And Ron Paul is ALWAYS mentioned! (That's when I'm trying to learn to reach for a Super Brochure in my purse - just "happen" to have one with me, I tell them. Even today at my house, a Tree expert who owns his company (native of Belgium) - a wonderful discussion of Freedoms and Liberties in this Country...and I showed him my "shirt" - Reclaiming America - and he said he 'hears' about him everywhere he goes! (Still here legally after 13yrs on a Worker's permit, he isn't registered to vote.)
BUT we ALSO had a chance to talk about our Economic System; he is so angered at the games played with the Stock Market... and was calling that "Capitalism". Being one of my pet peeves, having been a free market Capitalist MYSELF for 20 yrs, was neat to see his eyes widen - literally - about the fact the HE is a Capitalist, and that's a good thing! CRONY CORRUPT CORPORATISM is the correct term for what we all despise, in my opinion!
Susie 4 Liberty
Opportunities
are always out there when the topic is liberty! That is the unique thing about Mr. Paul, the state of the country is all the advertisement a person needs to bring him up and talk about his policies...they are not just the policies of one politian, but rather the policies of us all!
Should have given her a box of that candy!
thanks for the story!
Thanks for sharing that story
What a beauty! Seems that little lady knew what was going on.
And she sure knew who OUR guy is... I love it!
Ron Paul is My President
Great post!
There's a lot more of us out there than the MSM will permit you to be aware of!
Participate in America's future- Research Ron Paul- Truth will Prevail! You too, will be proud one day, to be able to say: "I was a Ron Paul supporter."
Great story Steve. Thank you for sharing that here.
It is heartening for us all to hear personal stories of awakening and encounters w/ others awakening to our ever more alarming reality.
Beyond that thought, your story causes me to think of the flip side of that positive result.
The mounting outrages against LIBERTY should be expected to slap more and more from their slumber. Yet it is a sort of race with the devil. As the devil progresses ever further towards closing the door permanently against the restoration of LIBERTY-more and more become aware. Will enough become aware to halt the anti-LIBERTY devil before he completes his dismantling of all the safeguards against tyranny the founders handed to us on a platter?
"You are a den of vipers and thieves."
I mean to rout you out!
-Just because you are among us, does not make you with us
-The door is wide open, anything can slither in
Oklahoma is moving in the
Oklahoma is moving in the right direction! I wear something everyday Ron Paul related (besides the tattoo) and i constantly have people walking up to me and commenting or wanting to talk about Paul. I cant wait for the conventions!
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Thank you for sharing this.
Happy Valentines Day to all of those who love liberty and freedom!
I ~heart~ this essay.
Thank you! It is a RE-LOVE-UTION!
Beautiful! So we grow..
Beautiful! So we grow..
Nice story
Thanks Steve.
Valentine's Day Paulinated!
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