Fred Thompson Forum: A Ron Paul Weenies Front?

IMAO ^ | July 06, 2007 | Frank J.

[Josh Painter]

I've had a commenter advertise the Fred Thompson Forum, but the actual site is pretty silly. There seems to be a bunch of posters pretending to be ignorant "neocons" who support Fred Thompson (with over the top names like I LOVE HANNITY and Neocon4Fred), while links and facts to Ron Paul are casually put into the discussion and his supporters are made to seem sane in comparison. The biggest tell is that's theres a poll up about whether Fred Thompson can beat Ron Paul, and Fred Thompson is losing -- on a supposed Fred Thompson fan site.

Plus, the reader who alerted me to this said he actually had all his sane posts about Fred Thompson removed. So the whole point of the site is to make Fred Thompson supporters look stupid while pushing them to Ron Paul... except I doubt anyone who isn't already a Ron Paul supporter is dumb enough to fall for it.

Then again, this is actually one of the more clever things those weenies have done -- certainly more clever than the poll spamming. It's like a dog figuring out how to work a doorknob. Any toddler can do it, but, for a dog... wow.

Still, Do Ron Paul supporters really have no idea how ridiculous they look to everyone else? They're like a bunch of Glenn Greenwalds.

[OCCASparky]

Congrats to the L. Ron supporters. You can’t debate the issues, so you resort to making up stuff. And you wonder why nobody takes you seriously.

[AdamSelene235]

Did you know during Roman times, actors were considered to be in the same social class as whores and were not eligible for burial among "decent" folk much less considered suitable for public office.

Do we really need another make-believe President?

[SE Mom]

pitiful..

[TexasAg1996]

Do we really need another make-believe President?

Care to identify the other "make-believe President"?

[Petronski]

That sounds like a completely senseless and juvenile plan . . . much like the Paulbearers themselves.

[cammie]

Did you know that during more recent times, crackpots like Ron Paul would have been allowed to rot away in asylums?

Do we really need an insane president?

[Theresawithanh]

I didn’t know Ron Paul was an actor!

[SittinYonder]

Did you know during Roman times, actors were considered to be in the same social class as whores and were not eligible for burial among "decent" folk much less considered suitable for public office.
Do we really need another make-believe President?

I hope you're not referring to Reagan ...

[Josh Painter]

Oh. Almost forgot the link to the sham site:

http://fredthompsonforum.com/

[AirForceBrat23]

*chuckle* I think my cousin is one of the web captains for the Ron Paul campain. If this is his doing, I’ll let him know how lame it is. (And then, just for fun, I’ll remind him how much food he used to smear on himself when he was a toddler.)

[Petronski]

Do we really need another make-believe President?

Were there others? Name names.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Ron Paul has his kook fringe, yes. But don't blame it on him. His message of limited government, non-interventionist foreign policy, and eliminating bureaucracies reasonate with people across the political spectrum, and unfortunately he's attracting the anarchist types.

I'm a Fred Thompson guy, BTW. I know realistically Paul doesn't stand a chance of winning. But I'm glad Paul's in the race to get his message out.

[Petronski]

Do you think he has the cojones to name names?

[BGHater]

On the Domestic side, RP and Fred agree on alot of the matters.

Abortion, gun control, borders, the Constitution, impeachment of Clinton, the IRS.

It’s on Iraq where they really differ.

Either way, two small Gov’t Repubs.

[TnGOP]

Did you know during Roman times, actors were considered to be in the same social class as whores and were not eligible for burial among "decent" folk much less considered suitable for public office.

Man, it's a good thing we're not in Roman times. We do a lot of things different here, in America, in modern times.

Do we really need another make-believe President?

No, we don't. That's why I'm proud we'll soon have a REAL candidate to consider. (FDT)
Have a nice day.

[The Blitherer]

Oh, I soooo agree! I HATED Reagan too!

/sarc

[GCC Catholic]

Sounds like the same problem that Digg is having lately.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Yep. Thompson was somewhat the Ron Paul of the Senate. He was the lone one voting no on some 99-1 votes.

He's probably the only one who understands the importance of limited government after Paul himself.

[TexasAg1996]

Ron Paul has his kook fringe, yes. But don't blame it on him. His message of limited government, non-interventionist foreign policy, and eliminating bureaucracies reasonate with people across the political spectrum, and unfortunately he's attracting the anarchist types.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Ron Paul also pulls in Truthers because of his statements regarding the 9/11 cover-up. If 9/11 Truthers back you, I certainly don't.

[Jokelahoma]

Yes, and of course, everything that was true in Roman times is still true today. Mankind has not advanced or learned anything in the last few thousand years. This is evidenced by the fact Ron Paul apparently didn't even learn from recent history, apparently thinking the Neville Chamberlain appeasement/Woodrow Wilson isolationist approach were effective diplomatic methods that just need his particular genius in order to work.

Ron Paul is a certifiable loon who has less chance to win the nomination than you or I, let alone the general election. His supporters are becoming more and more desperate as his poll numbers continue to hover around negative 3%, and so they adopt the sneaky underhanded tactics of guaranteed losers. It's pathetic and laughable, which is fitting, because so is Paul.

[pgkdan]

Do we really need another make-believe President?

And just whom do you claim was the first 'make-believe president?

[Petronski]

And just whom do you claim was the first 'make-believe president?'

So far he hasn't demonstrated enough courage to specify.

[The Blitherer]

Ron Paul has his kook fringe, yes. But don't blame it on him. His message of limited government, non-interventionist foreign policy, and eliminating bureaucracies reasonate with people across the political spectrum, and unfortunately he's attracting the anarchist types.

I do like his message of smaller government, and I think it's good his voice is being heard on these issues, but if he wants to be taken seriously by mainstream conservatives, he needs to lay off the Truther rhetoric and stay away from the Blame America First mentality.

[American_Centurion]

I didn’t know Ron Paul was an actor

Oh he's not acting.

He really is that stupid. Heh!

[The Blitherer]

And just whom do you claim was the first 'make-believe president?

That would be Al Gore, who won Florida in 2000 in make-believe world.

;-)

[Josh Painter]

AdamSelene235 wrote: “Did you know during Roman times, actors were considered to be in the same social class as whores and were not eligible for burial among “decent” folk much less considered suitable for public office. Do we really need another make-believe President?”

Did you know that during Roman times, people ate and drank until full, then threw up and started eating and drinking all over again? Do we reeally nead to believe the words of idiots?

[Petronski]

Do we really need another make-believe President?

Notice he hasn't the courage to specify who he means by this.

[weegee]

Moby probably wised up not to show his hand this election...

Punk the prez? - Moby's anti-Bush tricks (New York Daily News 2/09/04)

One of Sen. John Kerry's celebrity supporters is ready to pull out all the stops to get him elected. Republicans are shrieking over a suggestion by rocker Moby that Democrats spread gossip about President Bush on the Internet. "No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on Election Day," Moby tells us. "It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes."

Moby suggests that it's possible to seed doubt among Bush's far-right supporters on the Web.

"You target his natural constituencies," says the Grammy-nominated techno-wizard. "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.

"Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, 'What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?'"

Moby didn't claim that he believed the abortion story.

In a world where kids are paid to blog support for bands and young adults are paid to protest in key cities (check Craigslist lately?) it wouldn't surprise me to learn that people are being paid to blog such blather to whatever forum is targeted.

[misharu]

Its kind of funny . .. on the way home from work last night I saw a small poster or something or another hanging from an overpass that said “Who is Ron Paul?” There were two of the signs and then I vaguely remembered seeing something similar to it a few days earlier on another highway near town. How quaint.

[pgkdan]

I’ve noticed that...a real one hit hero. I have no patience with clowns like that or with anyone who disparages the memory of the greatest President of the last century.

[pgkdan]

LOL! Now that IS a make believe president!

[1035rep]

"The biggest tell is that's theres a poll up about whether Fred Thompson can beat Ron Paul, and Fred Thompson is losing -- on a supposed Fred Thompson fan site."

They could try and be a little less obvious.....LOL

[LonePalm]

Thanks for the post. Have a bumper sticker.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Beagle8U]

” It’s like a dog figuring out how to work a doorknob. Any toddler can do it, but, for a dog... wow.”

ROFLMAO!

[longtermmemmory]

seems like that site is a violation of some ISP service agrement regarding deception.

[CJ Wolf]

Your getting worked up over a 22 participant poll? LOL

[radioman]

Oh. Almost forgot the link to the sham site:
http://fredthompsonforum.com/

Nice try. It isn't a sham site and there are as many lunatics attacking Ron Paul there as there are here.
You only have 377 members. Trying to drum up business on FR?
.

[samtheman]

They try to pretend that they and they’re candidate, RP, are the only rational voices in the debate. Then they pull a stupid prank like this, and try to talk about the “mindlessness of actors”.

Ron Paul is a moron, with a solid base of moronic support.

[AdamSelene235]

Care to identify the other "make-believe President"?

We currently have man in office who has been pretending to be conservative.

Bubba Clinton's primary skill was acting. It was the root of his popularity.

Bush I was a lousy actor and it cost him dearly.

Unfortunately, skill as dramatist is one of the most important assets a President can have in the Tee Vee age.

[AdamSelene235]

Yes, and of course, everything that was true in Roman times is still true today. Mankind has not advanced or learned anything in the last few thousand years.

No, it has not.

This is evidenced by the fact Ron Paul apparently didn't even learn from recent history, apparently thinking the Neville Chamberlain appeasement/Woodrow Wilson isolationist approach were effective diplomatic methods that just need his particular genius in order to work.

The neo-cons are the modern heirs of Woodrow Wilson's globo-socialist democratic utopianism.

[WWTD]

“Woodrow Wilson isolationist”

You may view Ron Paul as a “certifiable loon”, but he certainly isn’t as ignorant as you are concerning Woodrow Wilson.

[AdamSelene235]

That's why I'm proud we'll soon have a REAL candidate to consider. (FDT)

Given the Founders designed the US to be a fusion of the best of Roman and British systems, I would suggest the Roman conception of actors be now reserved for career lobbyists.

[Josh Painter]

Figured that doorknob thing out yet?

[Vasilli22]

Its kind of funny . .. on the way home from work last night I saw a small poster or something or another hanging from an overpass that said “Who is Ron Paul?” There were two of the signs and then I vaguely remembered seeing something similar to it a few days earlier on another highway near town. How quaint.

I saw the same type of thing the other day. It was done on poster board with marker and looked like it was written by a 4 year old.

[Constantine XIII]

“Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, ‘What’s all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?’”

LOL

[eboyer]

I can debate limited government issues.

For instance, I understand why a humble foreign policy is a conservative position. Do you?

[Jokelahoma]

Heh! Funny what skipping one word does to a sentence while typing, isn't it? I obviously meant to type post-Woodrow Wilson Isolationist. I need to proofread a bit more before clicking "post".

None of this changes the fact Paul is a loon with zero chance of gaining the nomination.

[LibLieSlayer]

“non-interventionist foreign policy”

IMHO, that policy is suicide in this day of islamo-facsist terrorism. To embrace this isolationism is tantamount to surrender. It appears that Britain is sliding towards this policy.

LLS