Posted on 08/09/2007 7:14:58 AM PDT by CenTexConfederate
Ron Paul big on 'Net, but media don't notice
Clarence Page August 8, 2007
WASHINGTON
Of all the interesting little fish swimming beneath the currents of the major candidates in this presidential campaign season, none is making waves as surprising as those kicked up by Rep. Ron Paul.
The Texas Republican, who embraces a libertarian point of view, has been riding an unimpressive 2 percent in the polls, but if the presidential election were held in cyberspace, Paul would probably win hands down.
Paul's supporters flood online polls, such as the unscientific survey ABC News invited viewers to join after the Republican debate last Sunday. Yet, you could barely find the Texas doctor in the network's after-debate coverage, despite the vigorous applause he ignited with his call for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
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“Voted YES on providing $70 million for Section 8 Housing vouchers.” This one seems particularly odd. What do the aPaulogists say about this one?
I thought the Paulites tout he would be the best person to defend the borders.
“I just hope he doesn’t decided to go 3rd party and take his supporters with him. That will give us hillary for sure.” I have never understood why people presume that a 3rd party vote for a liberalitarian would otherwise go to the Republican. I, for one, am tired of the go-along-with-us-or we’ll-go-3rd-party extortionists. Let them go. Have you looked at some of the things liberalitarians have said lately? Have you seen how popular Paul is with the Truthers? They’re angry with Hillary, They think she is almost as much a “war monger” as Bush. It is possible that he could siphon enough of the nutty true believers away from the democrats, too. (Yes, I know there are many liberals supporting him right now just to stir up trouble in our primary. But if he became a 3rd party candidate, he would pull the real nuts from the democrat party with him. I’ll bet if Hillary were the democrat nominee and Paul were 3rd party, she’d endorse Paul.)
See, the problem with Paul (besides the obvious fact that he is a surrender monkey) is he may talk a good game and share conservative values when it comes to issues like abortions and border security. But he always manages to find some technical reason for not supporting those concerns. It is all well and good for Paul to be pro-life when it comes to states, but that doesn’t do me any good if he is going to sit on his hands when it comes to the federal level. Why tout his personal pro-life values as a presidential candidate when they know very well he will do nothing pro-life as president? I don’t want a guy who talks a good game when it comes to human life and then, when elected to a federal position says, “Love to help, but that is state thing.” Sorry, I thought the 14th amendment was a federal thing.
He’s “huge” on the net because Paulistinians spam polls all day. He’s irrelevant in the real world.
I’ll bet he would not. The truthers voting for Paul in straw polls is a lot different from voting for him in the election. If there is one thing that democrats do, it’s stick together when it matters, in the general election.
Remember all the support for Mc Cain by the media? do you think any of them would vote for him in the general election? Of course not, it’s all to divide Republicans so the dems can win.
Being huge on the net frequently translates into almost nothing in the real world. Look at Firefly, good TV show canceled by Fox, became huge on the net, huge enough to inspire them to make a movie for theatrical release, which then failed to break even until well into the DVD release.
The internet has a real echo effect problem. Something (or someone) will get popular with the net crowd and dozens of websites will go up singing the praises, each with thousands of registered users and commentors. But then it turns out that most of thousands of people on those dozens of websites are actually a die hard group that are on ALL the websites. So what appeared to be a major movement of hundreds of thousands is actually 10 thousand people with too much time on their hands.
Yep He is the internet favorite alright. Of course you have to be a person, alive person of course to use the internet. So lets see go to freeme.tv- there you will see live people out in force rallying for this man that has gotten people off the couch to support him.If you care anything for your country at least check it out!- when your kids grow up and We are the Land of the FEE and Home of the Slave” and they ask why you did not see it coming-You were warned
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