Wrestler-turned-governor Jesse Ventura, bowtie conservative Tucker Carlson, and country star Sara Evans are among Tuesday's listed speakers and performers.

• Ron Paul
• Jesse Ventura
• Rockie Lynne
• Tucker Carlson
• Gary Johnson
• Barry Goldwater Jr.
• Howard Phillips
• Lew Rockwell
• Bill Kauffman
• Barb Davis White
• Matt Colvin
• B.J. Lawson
• Sara Evans
• Bruce Fein
• Grover Norquist
• Doug Wead
• Aimee Allen
• Marc Scibilia
• Rick Ellis
• Thomas Woods

(Photo by AP/David J. Phillip)

Democratic primary

• 113,032 for Clinton (55 percent)
  
• 80,946 for Obama (39 percent)
  
• 9,388 for Edwards (5 percent)

Republican primary

• 44,709 for McCain (50 percent)
  
• 23,050 for Romney (26 percent)
  
• 8,104 for Huckabee (9 percent)
  
• 4,643 for Paul (5 percent)

If a guy with a smaller market share than Apple's can rack up 73 percent of TechCrunch's primary vote, what's your candidate's excuse? Al Gore and John Kerry didn't lose to President Bush because evil Republicans stole the vote, or because Ralph Nader stole the voters. They lost because millions and millions of I'm-too-busy Democrats didn't bother to show up on Election Day. This time around register as a permanent absentee, dummy, and mail it in. Spend some time online pestering swing state voters to do the same before next November. Otherwise, you'll once again get the government you deserve.

The next president of the United States will be the most powerful person on Earth. A leader that important should inspire passion and action. Yet the same people who obsessively count their pageviews, links, comments and rankings as irrefutable proof of importance write off Ron Paul's overwhelming volume of support as irrelevant. Instead of smugly dismissing the Paultards, sit up straight and take a lesson: This is how you win.

An old Ron Paul newsletter blamed the looting during the riots on the following:

Civil rights, quotas, mandated hiring preferences, set-asides for government contracts, gerrymandered voting districts, black bureaucracies, black mayors, black curricula in schools, black tv shows, black tv anchors, hate crime laws, and public humiliation for anyone who dares question the black agenda.

Granted, Rose's support for Paul and Obama is right in line with the Digg community, where Rose's votes for stories are often influential. But where modern politics really matter — in the wallet — Rose has yet to open up. According to Fundrace, the Huffington Post's campaign-cash tracker, Rose has yet to give anything to Obama, Paul, or any other candidate. Among his coworkers at Digg, only VP of marketing Michael Maser has bothered to put his money where his shovel is: $250 for Hillary Clinton.

• It's rare to see GOP campaign signs in Mission District windows and beat-up old cars, or crowds of enthusiastic supporters flooding the city's streets.
• Paul's frank assessment of the United States as an overreaching empire [remember, this is the Bay Guardian] got his campaign rolling.
• Paul's libertarian platform is attracting support from lifelong members of the National Rifle Association to medical marijuana activists to disenchanted college students.
• One unifying theme among all Paul supporters is their absolute belief in their candidate's integrity. "My gut tells me Ron Paul is different." "Ron Paul's not trying to sell you on himself; he's just selling you the message of freedom." "He is the only Republican nominee who would not steal the election."
• Paul's Dec. 16 fundraising push raised more than $6 million in a 24-hour period, breaking the record for funds raised in one day held by the John Kerry 2004 campaign.
• Most of the donations to the Paul campaign are small contributions from committed individuals. The average size of each donation is around $100.
• There is no political mystery to Paul; he has been articulating the same message — one of limited constitutional government, low taxes (if any), and free markets — since he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1976 from his home state of Texas.
• Paul is a self-proclaimed noninterventionist and has opposed the war in Iraq from the start. He is by no means liberal or progressive; he's more a classic conservative who opposes government regulation.
• He sees the USA Patriot Act as a breech [sic — Guardian] of civil liberties; wants to stop US involvement in the World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and other free trade agreements; and supports bringing American troops home from Iraq posthaste.
• He is also staunchly antichoice, introduced legislation in 2004 to repeal bans on assault weapons, and wants to beef up the US's borders.
• There are more than 80,000 Ron Paul online meet-up members around the country — 452 in the San Francisco group as of the writing of this article — and most of them find themselves in complete agreement with Paul's perspectives. "We're right where Kerry was in 2004 going into the primaries, when Dean had already been crowned winner by the media."

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