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LOL. Good observation.... you know, it would be quit humorous to have a mainstream poll end up having to report that Ron Paul was beating Hillary in the election. They’d shut down the whole bogus horserace polloganda pronto.

I keep thinking the RP folk have got them so used to being spammed, it would be funny to let them have one of their little polls and then boycott it. Absolutely no RP votes registered. Sean Hannity would think the Apocalypse had come. He'd know for sure those Ron Paul People were out to get him.

Some of this stuff with RP supporters has become a humorous cat-and-mouse thing with the websites and the bloggers and the news organizations. Some of them just write something, most anything, just to bait the RPers into slamming into their site and drive their hit counters up and their ad revenue. I saw one blogger who only posted "Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Ron Paul" just as a test of the so-called Ron Paul Effect. They melted his server that weekend. What a hoot.

For a while, they were grouchy with Laura Ingraham because when she introed the candidates at the Ames straw poll, she failed to pledge her undying love for Ron Paul or something. Then they forgot about her for a while and she said something rather nice about Ron Paul. They just loved it and they got together on a ChipIn (chipin.com) and quickly bought flowers and dispatched a nice tax accountant in a suit to buy her book, get her to sign it and present her with a nice patriotic bouquet. Of course, they got pics. It was a nice love-bomb event and Laura seemed pleased.

Anyway, for all the whining about those Dirty Hippies that support Ron Paul, it's a very young crowd. In that bunch, you're old if you're over thirty, I think. They're very web-savvy. They kind of remind me of how FR was in the old days. They're very creative too, spawning all kinds of websites. RonPaulGraphs.com shows his website's fundraising on a live feed and offers over forty different fundraising graphs. RonPauloween.com is their site to promote Ron Paul on Halloween by handing out candy while distributing subversive Ron Paul literature to the parents with the plan being for one Paulite to hand out the candy and ooh over the kids' costumes while the second Paulite hands out slim-jim Ron Paul propaganda to the waiting parents (so they get to work the crowd in pairs just like a real cult!). LOL.

Just today, they launched RonPaulSpace.com. It's a complete custom MySpace.com site, very slick, expertly designed, all dedicated to (you guessed it) Ron Paul. Just when you think you've seen it all, well, you ain't. They're a very busy bunch.

They're really fun kids, very determined, very single-minded about Ron Paul. I think Ron Paul is still trying to figure out exactly how he got so lucky for them to rise up and support him like this. But, as he says, it's the message more than it is him personally. What he brings though is his unwavering record in Congress so they believe he'll actually do what he says he will. But in many ways, the Ron Paul campaign belongs to those young people. And I think that's fine with Ron Paul. He could hardly be happier, I think. Well, unless they got him $20 million dollars maybe. But those young people are his political legacy. And if the planets align just right, maybe he can have an impact on the race and on national policy or even become president.

Honestly, I don't grasp why people get so tweaked over RP and his supporters. Ron Paul does a lot of good talking about sound money and Austrian economics and liberty and small-government. It surprises him and everyone else that they're so interested. Really, really interested. Yeah, in Austrian economics of all things. Well, there are a lot worse things for young people to be interested in than Austrian economics.