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Paulbots are driving the inter-GOP nastiness occuring on every conservative website and board in this country. I'm privy to some interesting insight due to some random "friendings" on Facebook. These people are surreptitiously stirring up organized trouble.

They're masquerading as Perry supporters, Bachmann supporters, Romney supporters and Cain supporters.

When you run across a supposed "supporter" of a GOP candidate and all it does is spew MSM talking points against another candidate...or if it's spewing lies long discredited...or if it won't respond to reasonable argument...or if it is particularly nasty in tone...or if it's a repeatedly "hit-and-run" poster...it's probably a Paulbot. Their only hope is to move every candidate's numbers to a level of support below Paul's. They can only do it by highlighting the relatively minor differences between the other candidates, because the difference between Paul and the rest is an unbridgeable gulf

They're here and they're easy to spot.

Don't you think?

Thanks for the insight you have.

While I agree with you that it is easy to spot the “disruptors”, it is not always easy to see who they are disrupting more.

I know of two thread spammers here on FR who are always working together. One posts one thing and another follows in a certain-kind of methodical form. I’ve seen their Twitter posts too, and they are following a Romney campaign focus right now.

Could be Paubots may be working against every other candidate as you mentioned. Romneybots are tearing down Perry in particular because he is strong enough and has the financial resources to challenge and actually beat Romney. You will see Romneybots who were first posing as Palin supporters dissing Perry, and now they have moved over to pretending to be Cain supporters for the only reason of doing the same thing. Plus the spamming... All one needs to do is check Romney’s site and then do the right searches on Twitter to see some specific things, and you can see some coordination going on there with some of what you see here.

Then I’m sure you have Obamabots on sites too who do their thing to destroy the candidate(s) they are told to destroy, for whatever reason the Obama campaign thinks a particular candidate may be too strong for Obama. Let’s add some Democrats who just use message boards for writing fodder.

So while it is easy to see disruption in comments, it is not easy to know what’s going on behind that disruption.