Giuliani faces Ron Paul supporters at Marietta Square

STEVE VISSER
ajc.com
Monday December 3, 2007

It was Rudy Giuliani campaigning for president on the Marietta Square on Sunday afternoon, but anyone listening may well have thought the candidate's name was Ron Paul.

"RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!" — a crowd chanted from Glover Park, effectively drowning out comments from the former New York mayor and occasionally changing the chant to "FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM!"

enthusiastic, lungs than the middle-aged crowd of Giuliani's gaggle, who responded with a college try — "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!" — while the Paul cadres tailed the GOP front runner on his walking photo op in downtown Marietta.

The Paul backers, handing out their own candidate's literature, said they were more interested in a president who would truly try to shrink government, not just promise to do it, and who promises outright to bring the troops home from Iraq.

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"You're being very inconsiderate," an elderly woman, aghast at the lack of Southern manners, told three young female Paul acolytes.

"You're not helping your candidate with this," a middle-aged man told a 20-something man toting a blue-and-white Paul campaign sign.

"This is a Republican rally," a testy older man snapped, apparently forgetting that Paul, a physician and Libertarian by philosophy, is an elected Republican and running in the GOP primary for president.

His supporters simply answered, "RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!"

"We just came by to say, 'Hey,' " said Rob Miller, a 35-year-old Paul supporter with a mischievous grin, who with his cohorts said their candidate would trounce Giuliani in the New Hampshire primary.

A weary looking Giuliani, in metro Atlanta for a Buckhead fund-raiser, started his tour of Marietta at The Brumby Chair Co. on the west side of the historical square. The store is owned by Otis Brumby Jr., publisher of the Marietta Daily Journal.

Along with Brumby, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) and state House Speaker Glenn Richardson, who co-chairs Giuiani's campaign in Georgia, gave the candidate a less-boisterous welcome.

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