[John Jorsett]

To be fair, every candidate has partisans who are this deranged. Some people get their entire identities wrapped up in a campaign and go bananas when they think somebody is sabotaging their guy.

[mnehring]

Which begs the question, what is the exception and what is the rule..

[rightwingintelligentsia]

To be fair, every candidate has partisans who are this deranged.

Yeah, I remember all those rabid Bob Dole supporters from '96. Man, they were out of control!

[Popman]

To be fair, every candidate has partisans who are this deranged.

Very true, but they tend to be a small fringe element, not the majority as with the Paulbots

[kingu]

To be fair, every candidate has partisans who are this deranged. Some people get their entire identities wrapped up in a campaign and go bananas when they think somebody is sabotaging their guy.

Yes, but what were the votes for fairness? How come they weren't listed? They're committing voter fraud! Fairness might have feelings, you know! COUNT ALL THE VOTES!

I wonder, honestly, how much write in votes cost American taxpayers each presidental election.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

To be fair, only the extremist candidates have such overwhelmingly high percentages of their supporters who carry on like this.

[highlander_UW]

To be fair, every candidate has partisans who are this deranged.

I'm sure that is true, although it appears that a very large portion of the Paul supports are nut-cases on par with Ron Paul himself.

[2CAVTrooper]

“To be fair, every candidate has partisans who are this deranged. Some people get their entire identities wrapped up in a campaign and go bananas when they think somebody is sabotaging their guy.”

Really?

Other than those on the left (and that’s including ron paul), I have yet to see supporters of a single Republican act like that.

[Tom the Redhunter]

"To be fair, every candidate has partisans who are this deranged. Some people get their entire identities wrapped up in a campaign and go bananas when they think somebody is sabotaging their guy.",/em> Nice try at equivalency but no cigar. No people in any significant numbers acts like these Paulites. You simply do not see this behavior from the followers of any other candidate, Democrat or Republican. I find Ron Paul distasteful enough, but his followers (most of them, anyway) are disgraceful and need to put a lid on it.

[SALChamps03]

I don’t think anybody’s followers are as rabid as the Paulistas. There is no way he would ever get my vote.