Ron Paul Comes to Rock Hill!

Ron Paul came to Rock Hill and signed my shirt.

He spoke at the Freedom Center in downtown Rock Hill. The crowd is estimated to have been around 600.

He was scheduled to arrive at 11 AM, but I heard from a fellow Paul supporter that people were expected to start showing up at 10, which meant that I had to be there at that time.

As I drove past in search of parking, there were already a bit over a dozen supporters on corners of the block waving signs and cheering at cars passing by. Supporters would hand out campaign literature to all who dared to stop.

The event contained people of all walks of life (except minorities, oddly, despite Paul being the most popular Republican among black voters, but they were probably on their way to Columbia for the Oprah/Obama rally), from college students with Mohawks, to the elderly.

Interesting thing to note. If you do a Google News search for "Ron Paul + Rock Hill", you will find a few news articles about the rally held yesterday. In every one of those that I read, it mentioned the college student with a Mohawk. The neat thing about this is that my friend, Jared Philips (mentioned in my very first blog post), was the only person with a Mohawk. As a result, he had dozens of photos taken of him (go to Flickr.com, search "Ron Paul + Rock Hill", and enjoy), and was quoted in the Star-Telegram.

Besides the picture of me in the crowd (my face oddly the only one blurred), the only other pictures of me at the rally so far are of the back of my head while talking to Ron Paul. The campaign said no personal pictures because of time, but that the event photos would end up on the campaign's flickr.com page, but as of this writing they aren't there.

To fulfill my journalistic duty, I asked Ron Paul one question. It went as follows:

Me: "Congressman Paul, recently the wife of Congressman Kucinich said that he would 'absolutely consider' choosing you as his running mate. My question to you is, when you receive the nomination, would you consider choosing Congressman Kucinich as your running mate?"

Paul: (Paraphrased) "Right now I'm concentrating on winning the primaries and haven't given it much though. However, Dennis is a good man and I've spoken to him a couple of times. I can't think that far in the future however."

With that, he signed my shirt, I shook his hand, I got a group photo with him (not posted yet), and was off. It was magical.