I kinda feel bad for Ron Paul. With friends like his, he doesn't need enemies. Viz. this post, seemingly from a Pauloid, in an earlier thread:

Yeah, I don't get why people think he has such high support. Any reasonable person can see that fighting the war on terrorism is necessary to our safety and that we should win in Iraq.

And that Israel is in the right,

and that we shouldn't eliminate the Federal Reserve...

and that 9/11 was definitely and obviously NOT an inside job.

Yes, most (if not all) reasonable people do in fact understand these things to be true, and for a long list of very good reasons.

I'm a small-government, fiscal-conservative/social-libertarian kind of guy, and when I first heard about Ron Paul, I liked him. But I can't trust someone whose policy on jihadofascism is to stick his fingers in his ears and sing "la la laaaa".

But I can't trust someone whose policy on jihadofascism is to stick his fingers in his ears and sing "la la laaaa".

That sums it up nicely.

Mad Insomniac,

In fairness, that wasn't a Pauloid.

They weren't biting, so I wanted to see how much of that I could toss out before they got too incensed and just felt they had to respond. I also was curious to see which of those they'd be the most irate at. (In my defense, they did start chiming in shortly thereafter)

Dude, it's like in that V for Vengeance movie when the government, um, tries to shut it all down but then the, the whole, the V for Fawkes like guy is all, "no way, I'm gettin me a mask, cause no one's gonna like attack MY constituti..tution..initality, man."

And I bet Rudy would try to shut down the mask dude too, like the fascist communist guy he's all... about the... hey dude, will you pass me the bong already?

This just gets sadder and sadder. Honestly, it's flat out stupid.

You got some bloggers making sensational claims that Ron Paul's campaign is spamming, or some supporter is.

Then you have some bloggers making equally sensational claims that it's an inside job of another campaign.

Both sides buying into fruitcake conspiracies, and being at the least intellectually dishonest or at worst flat out liars.

Simple fact is, no one knows who did this or what their objective was. In the absence of fact, people are basically making up their own.

Shameful really, on everyone's part who are injecting conjecture rather than sticking with the facts.

This.. this is amazing... its more amazing than that chimp that knew sign language.... I always thought theories of "quick" evolution were nonsense.. but now.. I just don't know.

Let's step back a minute, why would the front runner Rudy go after Ron Paul. The man is a bad joke and I don't know why he is allowed into the debates. He should be known as "no shot" Ron. I would rather see Fred be the front runner, but Mr. Paul (the last surviving member of Peter, Paul and Mary?) is just gathering money for his retirement.

Why am I hearing a faint cackle? It's more like something Hillary would do and try to pin on Guiliani. Ron Paul is just a convenient target.

Giuliani pays people to deride Ron Paul? Hell, I'd do that for free.

I can't take it. I paid Bush to pay Cheney to pay Coulter to pay Rush to pay Fred to pay McCain to pay Barney to pay Rudy to pay the reporter to tell Ron I said 'hi'! I guess things got a little out of hand...

Drawing from my experience with Pauloids, I'd have to say Exurban Jon hit the proverbial nail on the head.

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That was a funny thread - "What's wrong with 'em? Why won't they come out to play?" They did roll in, just later than expected.

I votes for Ron Paul! Is most likely to bring swift end to "big goverment."