I remember in the last election they zotted, spam and made a general nuisance of themselves on the Fred Thompson Group to the point were you could almost count on some asinine post from one of them being up every time you logged on. And not 5 minutes after Fred dropped out they where back on begging us to back Paul. The majority (Clearly not all) Paul backers are among the rudest crudest individuals I have come across and if for no other reason I would never support a man who has the backing of such a large group of Truthers, dopeheads, goldbugs, and people who are as far left as most members of DU except for one issue that of government spending and size. A man is known by the company he keeps and I have no desire to join such company.
If you’re saying that Ron Paul’s supporters can sometimes be unhelpful, this is true. It remains to be seen exactly how people act this time around.
What happened in 2008 is a whole bunch of people, mostly young people, got really excited about Ron Paul. Ron Paul was not really expecting this, did not coordinate this, his campaign did not have any idea how to deal with all these people, there was open hostility toward the official campaign from the grassroots. Etc. Ron Paul had very little control over the grassroots. The grassroots was very enthusiastic, came up with a lot of great ideas, but was very inexperienced, and often did stupid things.
It’s 4 years later. I have no idea how the official campaign and the grassroots will work this year, but I would guess much much better. The Campaign For Liberty has been an ongoing thing since the campaign ended, people are being trained, have been continuously.
I’d like to see a link where Ron Paul’s supporters are attacking Cain. In situations where I see Ron Paul’s supporters attacking other Conservatives, I typically tell the Ron Paul supporters to modify a bit.
We’ll see how everyone acts this time around. I think it’ll be better, but who knows.