Posted on 10/03/2007 7:03:51 AM PDT by traviskicks
Edited on 10/03/2007 7:51:05 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
So, Im a Ronbot. According to certain denizens of the web lurking in their shadowy corners of the blogosphere, there are many of us Ronbots out there, but not too many. No, if there were too many if us, if we were more than say one or two percent of the population, then that would shatter the world view of some of these Internet denizens. We are a small Ronbot army, somehow controlled by this mystical deity and granted the magical ability to be able to hijack Internet, phone and other polls meant to give viewers of debates a voice of who won said debate. Come to think of it, according to some pundits, there are only a few of us who are very smart and know how to spam these polls. Ok, ok, I admit it, Im the only real Ron Paul supporter and Ive been creating all this hubbub and spam on my old turbo charged Atari 800 computer.
But seriously, think about this term Ronbot for a minute. Its a term some clever blogomatic coined in an attempt to minimize the power of Ron Pauls message. Its a term that intimates that Ron Paul supporters arent real people, that they are some form of mindless zombie sent into the cyber world to disrupt and distract from the normal operations of the Internet. Its meant to suggest that Ron Paul supporters have been programmed by his campaign to infiltrate the Internet encampments of the establishment and shake them up a little. What strikes me as ironic is that Ron Paul detractors will accuse his supporters of blindly following without thought, when it seems to me it is they who have blindly followed the establishment for years without question. It is they who continue to follow the leader down the road paved with corporate dollars as they support one candidate or another who get the majority of their contributions from special interests. They are the ones supporting candidates that have been bought and paid for by the corporate elite. They are the ones supporting the candidacies of the very rich who know nothing of what its like to struggle to earn a living.
There is something else that seems to be happening. On the streets, real people with real lives are showing their support for Ron Paul. These are not keyboard pundits sitting behind their monitors hurtling insults into cyber space at those who disagree with them, these are men and women with real jobs and real families making real decisions about their future. They dont want the government in it. They want to make their own choices. They want real freedom. Ive talked to people. Ive talked to the mechanic at the oil change place. Ive talked to the farmer in the waiting room there. Ive talked to the clerk behind the counter at the drugstore. Ive talked to my coworkers. These are common folk, but they still have their dreams. They have silently pledged their support for Ron. They understand his message and realize it is a message of hope and of positive change. They realize that the best thing for the common good, the best way to protect our children and their progeny, is to respect the individuals rights and the God given freedoms spelled out for us in the constitution. They understand that it is best for all concerned for the United States of America stop trying to be an empire, to stop building nations, to end the wars, and to bring its soldiers home. These are not Ronbots, but they are the politically dispossessed that the system and the pundits have left out of the equation. They are the people the talking heads on TV are forgetting about when they spew out their artificially low numbers in their poll results. How else is it that Ron Paul could win or place in so many straw polls if not for such people? How else is it he could raise so much money so quickly without corporate backing? Thats what Ron Paul detractors dont get, that he is more than just some Internet phenomenon due to fade. He is the real choice of the real common man, not the choice thrust upon on by the elite, self appointed guardians of the American body politic. Real people with real brains who are able to make real choices like his message of a limited, less intrusive federal government that follows the mandates set forth by our founding fathers in the Bill of Rights instead of dictating to us what to think and do. Now that they finally have a candidate that espouses these views instead of pandering to try to be everything to everyone, they are going to support him.
The people using the term Ronbot will in the same breath use the same tired old axioms that have gone unquestioned for far too long to support a policy of war, or of taxes, or of any number of socialistic policies meant to tie down the common man and keep his face pressed to the teat of mommy government. These people have been arguing conservative v liberal in meaningless blogs and now that a candidate shows up with a substantive message of restoring individual liberty, individual responsibility and governmental non-interference in both the markets and personal lives, a message that tears apart both liberal and conservative paradigms, a message that the common man can truly back, they call foul. They cry, Get out of our face. Dont come around here screaming about individual liberty and responsibility. We dont want to hear it. We want the government to take our money and spend it on the war. We want the government to take care of us. We want the government to tax us to the max so we can have free health care. We want to be told what to do. We want to give up our freedom so the terrorist boogie-men dont get us. We want to be shaken down in the airport by TSA agents. We want dissenters corralled into free speech zones where we dont have to hear them. Please keep the status quo. We dont want the government to change. We want the government to decide for us. Were scared of freedom. Well now you are going to hear it. The message is being shouted from the rooftops now that a viable candidate is touting that message. It is reverberating across the country and as more people hear and understand it, more people add their voices to the chorus until soon the song will come to a crescendo and we will bring a true measure of freedom back to this country. That, my friends, is not the clamoring of a few mindless followers known as Ronbots, that is the roar of an oncoming tidal wave crashing upon the shores of 21st century America carrying an ideal that was born over two hundred and thirty years ago, an ideal that was thought lost in the socialistic propaganda of the last century but is quickly re-emerging with a force to be reckoned with. The concept of freedom is not easily held back, and given time it will swell and wash away the sands of fascism and socialism that seek to contain it.
I am not a bot of any kind. I have been a believer in freedom and liberty since I can remember. I have been writing about freedom oriented themes since before I even heard of Ron Paul. My writings are archived and available for all to see. I dont write about Ron Paul because hes running for president, I write about him because he embodies the ideas I believe in, ideas that made this nation great. I have no delusions that he will obtain office and everything will magically change. He is just one man trying to achieve a position of power that is supposed to be held in check by many other men. He would need the support of many more in congress before smaller government and the repeal of oppressive laws could be accomplished. His supporters would not only have to vote for him as president in 2008, but would also have to vote in other freedom oriented candidates as their representatives and senators. If nothing else, Ron Pauls candidacy has given us the opportunity to once again discuss the issues of freedom and liberty both in the marketplace and in our personal lives. It would be a wonderful thing to see America once again become a beacon of freedom, a place where one can live by ones own will without the oppressive yolk of government dragging one down. A Ron Paul presidency would at least be a good start.
I can see you’re having fun here. LOL.
You might want to ping a few of the stronger RP supporters yourself. I’m on a pinglist vacation currently.
Good article though.
I am also one of the Ronbats which, of ocurse, means that I almost also a brilliant spammer and software genius. I can create Ron Paul holograms out of thin air to win straw polls! Bill Gates is a babe in the woods compared to me. A distinguished professor in computer science at MIT isn’t even worth five minutes of my time.
‘I suppose at the end of the day it doesn’t matter, because Ron Paul IS NOT going to come close to getting the nomination.
He won’t even come close.’
Yep, Howard Dean will have had a better run when this is over.
The only question is will he run as a third party candidate (I think he will) and will it hurt the GOP (I seriously doubt it)?
Paultards are better off spamming another forum.
Why not spam us with OsamaObama crap as well?
GTFO!
On the other hand, if Paul won the nomination many of the so-called "loyal Republican" detractors would immediately form a third party even if it meant a Hillary presidency. Their purple prose about "spoilers" only applies to antiwar Republicans.
Yeah, let them rear their heads.
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‘Your predictions of Paul’s showing in the primaries is about as reliable as your prediction that he won’t run’
My predictions about his showing in the primaries will be proved, or disproved, when a primary actually takes place.
Til then, its all speculation, no denying it. One of us learned from Ho Ho Dean in 04, one of us did not.
We’ll see. I’m sure you will ping me if Ron Paul somehow won a primary....I doubt you will do so if he loses by a significant margin as I and many others suspect he will.
(chuckle)
Let's not go that far, at least some on Paul's side want to discuss the issues instead of repeating cult like lines that "Ron Paul is our only hope".. The ones that got kicked off (not voluntarily left) were the ones running around claiming Paul was the only true Conservative and the rest of us are neo-Con warmongers. Travis hasn't been that way.
RonPaul is just a troll.
He needs to be zotted.
I suspect that's going to be a long interim.
As to Paul running as a third party canditate, I'd be willing to make a wager with you on that one. He won't. Just let me know if you want to lose some money.
Just curious. Would you support a third party if Paul somehow won the nomination, even if it meant a possible Hillary victory? Let me lay my cards on the table: I would be willing to support a third party if Paul lost and/or I would write in his name.
I realize it's the author and likely the AM not you, but I hope you recognize that identification as a RonBOT is virtual admission of cult status.
Nice sign btw.
Am I correct that all the signs put up on highways during the "Paint The Town Ron" celebration were in compliance with state and local law? Florida, at least, doesn't seem to think so.
On private property, like your pic, with permission of the owners in every instance?
Do I assume that while spammin the highways is a good thing to Ronbots, in instances like Florida, where state employees remove them at taxpayer expense, suddnely the RonBOTS are no longer RonBOTS, but independent actors which the Paul campaign has no association with?
You call it spam, not a particularly complimentary term, but appropriate for the Paul campaign. Littering, vandalism fit too.
Does public nuisance ring a bell? Quite a recomendation for a Presidential candidate. =============
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That’s “very muchg a long shot,” though he is also short like me.
This guy is a regular Ron Paul spammer, and has morphed into a more suitable form to fit the survival of pro Ron Paul threads here on Freerepublic.
I don't buy it, and I prefer to see 'Pro' threads of real GOP candidates who would not cut off our necks via suicidal foreign policy.
traviskicks is just trying to put a pretty pink dress on a swine.
Well done.
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