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The world is made up of many different types of funny people.
Some of those funny people are really very simple minded. For them, it is much more accessible to find all kinds of faults with you, rather than a common enemy abroad. In this way it is you who are the real and only threat.
The funny thing about many paultards is that they don’t want to listen to what he has to say about the role of religion or the limited role of government. They are just anti-war lefty kooks who want legalized drugs.
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The adam kokesh wing of the libertarians...
Alex Jones (9/11 was an inside job) is still quite popular amongst the freaky deaky..
Hell...even drudge has a link to jones...
Bad ju ju if you ask me...
They really got ya, didn’t they?
Spamming and other such crap is likely as not, but how do you explain the actual BODIES that show up to all his events and vote in the “conventions”?
If you followed the adventures of the stormfront blimp, you know they have a significant social network all across the country. Much larger than one might think. And nearly all of them are virulently anti-Jew,and guess what YOU are.
I am not a Paul fan (understatement warning!), but he sure must have some dedicated supporters.
I was looking at some Ron Paul videos on youtube, and each one has a staggering amount of positive comments. Whether they are all from different individuals or not, there’s an awful lot of effort being made on his behalf there and elsewhere.
The Ron Paul coalition is comprised of various factions none of which agree anything other than one sacred and often unspoken principle. All of these factions are antisemitic.
The core of his “Staff” and “Paid consultants” are from the far religious right: They are either Dominionists or Replacement Theology followers. These folks allow the large bulk of Objectivists, Randian, Libertarian, Atheists in their midst due to their loathing of Israel. The same is true for the Neo-Confederates among them.
No one is allowed into the inner circle of their operations if they do not profess this simple decree.
Beyond this however, one must realize that both Anti-war and Isolationism are in fact historically Republican positions. Minority positions mostly, but not traditionally Liberal ones. Even George W. Bush campaigned on “ending Clinton’s nation building overseas”.
Additionally are some long time true conservatives who are eating the rat poison because there is simply no other alternative and in their self deluded view, Ron Paul is simply the lessor evil among many other evils.
Lastly of course, are the remnants of every kook pet theory out there who need a home and a leader who will not ever say anything which may contradict their conspiracy theories. Coast to Coast AM has millions of listeners and Ron Paul has given these useful idiots all a place and a campaign to call home.
None of these factions have ever possessed more than 2-3% strength at any time in American History. But, a collectively, they do fully account for the 15% Ron Paul gets in the national polls.
But that 15% is a hard ceiling. He can never get above it. He cannot hold this coalition together and bring any other into it at the same time.
And aside from the 3-5% who are not otherwise insane, they would just stay home as usual if they did not have a campaign like this to join.
So, Ron Paul is a non factor. Don’t fight it. Don’t worry about it either. His message and tactics will eventually kill off his own followers, in time like Rat Poison. The truth is this: Rat Poison is 99.95% good food. With just enough poison to kill. Just like Ron Paul’s message.
This is an entirely plausible explanation. I don’t rule out conspiracies, myself. I part company with conspiracy theorists only to the extent that they claim that they know the precise nature of the conspiracy and the identities of the conspirators. It’s always people who are their polar opposites. Left-wingers believe in a vast right wing conspiracy. Right-wingers believe in a vast left wing conspiracy.
I am a conspiracy agnostic. I believe there are multiple conspiracies at work, in competition with one another, and I can’t begin to guess what those conspiracies are, or who is the real man behind the curtain, or anything. Probably a little of this, and a little of that, and G-d is the only real power behind everything. Every conspiracy that there is is analogous to me to a baby in a car seat, playing with a toy steering wheel, and believing that he’s making the car go by spinning the wheel as fast as he can.
So this conspiracy may well be true. It sounds likely. Wouldn’t put it past them. No fear, though. Ron Paul is nuts. The Pauleolithic Paulistas are nuts, too, and not necessarily on his team. Pass the pretzels. Yawn.
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His base is quite weird and seems to consist of:
East Texas shrimpers
9/11 Truthers
JFK Conspiracy nuts
Chemtrail Truthers (for lack of a better word)
Anti Semites
“Free the Weed!” devotees
Most of them whom I have met fall into one or some of these categories.
Actually the only people I have met who are weirder than the RuPaul supporters are Lyndon LaRouche supporters.
I mean they are certifiable. And good for a laugh if you ever run into one.
Looked at your site and the Ron Paul feedback stuff. Eric Hufschmid is a main US neonazi.
I say, bring on the Paultards. There is not a single issue where they can stand on. Neolibs...all of them