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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Don't go back to....Paulville?

 

Ron Paul may be the only still-active Republican candidate who's doing worse than John McCain, but his small band of supporters with their seemingly bottomless bank accounts still have some big dreams. Now that they've realized that there's not enough Paulites -- or Paulians, or Paulanians, whatever they're called -- to take back Washington, D.C. -- they've set their sights a tad lower.

On 50 isolated acres of tumbleweed in the wide-open spaces of West Texas, in a utopia of the future they call -- and no, I'm not making this up -- Paulville (huge h/t Ben Smith, although Wonkette had it first):

The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty.

Where is it?

Paulville.org's first community location in Western Texas, the mountain range is about 15 miles from the community and is the Guadalupe Mountain range, the highest range in Texas. Just west of the property is yet another mountain range for great views surrounding the community.

OK, is it just me, or does anyone else wonder why a town dedicated to "the ideals of freedom and liberty" would need to be a gated community? Nevermind, I'm sure that the town of Paulville.org, Tex., will be one that's marked by its respect for the Bill of Rights, its opposition to the Iraq War, and its doubts about 9/11. Just don't expect them to celebrate the Martin Luther King holiday. Of course, there are also elements of this scheme that sound a tad like the last email I received from Nigeria...

However the goal is a minimal financial outlay of around $500 per share to establish this community.

...but who wants to spoil the fun of a such a great idea. And you thought it was wacky when liberals and conservatives started their own dating sites? But I guess "red states" and "blue states" is just soooo 2004 now, and that dusty exurbs for each losing candidate's supporters will be the norm from now on.

Well, I sure wouldn't want to live in Hillaryburg, Pa., with a lot of bitter unemployed steelworkers who are down at the shooting range when they're not at Mass. And I believe there already is a Romneyville in Texas -- wasn't it in the news recently? I also did hear there's a movement afoot for Bidentown -- they haven't found a location yet, but they're looking in "a slave state."

As for me, I want to retire to a quiet rural community. I'm thinking about Dodd City...population 6.

Posted by Will Bunch @ 11:07 PM  Permalink | 14 comments
Comments
12:56 AM, 05/08/2008
I'm all for this! (I assume the locks are on the outside of those gates)
Posted by The Wire
06:10 AM, 05/08/2008
hey, I'm there. Anything to get away from the Obots....
Posted by paul_lukasiak
06:44 AM, 05/08/2008
paul, be our guest.
Posted by mike l
08:26 AM, 05/08/2008
When will we be banding together to start Bunch City?
Posted by Captain Awesome
08:27 AM, 05/08/2008
I'm saving up to invest in Bushtown. In a community of folks naive enough to vote for him twice, you could run any scam in the book and make out like a bandit.
Posted by Talking point sleuth
08:36 AM, 05/08/2008
"When will we be banding together to start Bunch City?" Soon as we gather enough tin foil to build it and outfit the residents in headwear.
Posted by b.atkinson
08:36 AM, 05/08/2008
"OK, is it just me, or does anyone else wonder why a town dedicated to "the ideals of freedom and liberty" would need to be a gated community?" In Kerrytown the gate is used for the annual medal-toss competition.
Posted by legatus
08:40 AM, 05/08/2008
Wow, those wacky righties! Now they're huddling in communes! What's next, a hookah party?
Posted by LJL
09:13 AM, 05/08/2008
Legatus, get your facts straight. It was a ribbon-toss before it was a medal-toss. Or the other way around, I'm not sure. This story truly is an outrage, though, and bunch is right to copy and paste it and pretend he reported it as his own. Liberals would never live in gated communites. They live out in the open with the common man like in Beverly Hills and Hyannisport and...oh, wait, never mind.
Posted by b.atkinson
09:15 AM, 05/08/2008
This is just like that other community of kooks I've heard about. I think they call it San Francisco.
Posted by jmc
09:19 AM, 05/08/2008
This is actually not really a new idea.. some libertarians have had a crazy plan for years to move to NH in droves and create some sort of utopia there.
Posted by Politburo
11:23 AM, 05/08/2008
Levittowns were also built with the intention of being completely independent communities.
Posted by Captain Awesome
01:43 PM, 05/08/2008
I'm sure you'd rather live in San Fran JMC than your living hell on earth Obamaville Alabama! Don't worry, it's half white so I'm sure there will be a place for you.
Posted by James TL
08:44 PM, 05/08/2008
How typical of right-wingers like the Paul fanatics. The last thing the beautiful Guadalupe Mountains need is a gated, white suburb sucking up all the water and paving over the landscape. And when right-wing Libertarians/Republicans like Paul's fans say "freedom," they mean the freedom to do anything to make money, without restrictions, and they also mean that those with money and property should be able to do anything they want to other people and the environment without restrictions. It's a sick philosophy, leaving most people bereft of freedom and no common laws to protect people from the rapacity of the greedy.
Posted by deang
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