Ron Paul raised $3.5 million through Internet donations. I'm not shocked, his campaign seems to be made up of a network of online activists. I don't get his appeal. I had never even heard of him until he was on Jay Leno saying he wanted to abolish the IRS. Uhm...ok freak...you go ahead and do that.
Just watch, his supporters will find this post and put it in forums and say the nastiest things you've ever read about me. They will call me part of a conspiracy to discredit him and if I had any advertisers they would tell me how they are calling them up to demand they pull advertising from the site.
Of all the, arguably, mean things I have said about politicians I have never had a group so over-the-top before. That sort of fanaticism only confirms my quickly developing belief that they're all a bit off their hinges.
I'm no Ron Paul supporter. I've seen what he's been like in Congress.
But, I've heard that a good portion of his support comes from his opposition to the war on drugs. I've also heard that people like his straight talk, or at least what comes across as that. His folksy, I'm-not-part-of-Washington demeanor has managed to get him reelected time and again.
Beyond that, NW Austin has a lot of Libertarians, so his visibility there isn't too surprising. Some Paul supporter had even put up signs outside the Rosedale school voting location this morning.
At least, his support in Austin is no more surprising than his overall prominence.
I don't think I've ever seen a Ron Paul supporter that's not an A-1 douchebag. When you have all of the "9-11 truthers" on your side, that's probably not a good thing.
Here it is in a nutshell; just about every election there is a candidate that attracts all the fucking nut jobs, Buchanan, Perot, Nadar, etc. etc. These pants pissing, frothing at the mouth loonies are crazy and when they recognize fellow crazy in a candidate, well, there's just no stopping them.
I"d say about 20% of those that follow "ass clown candidate A" are true beleivers, the other 80% don't want to miss out on all the Capt. Coo Coo pants good fun of being with the wackiest sum a' gun in the race. It's fucking annoying and Ron "Tard" Paul could raise a billion dollars and it won't help offset the creepy, nutty vibe he puts off.
If you have ever been to any Congressional town hall meeting you will have seen these people that are following Paul. They usually armed with a stack of notebooks and folders stuffed with proof of their conspiracy usually consisting of black helicopters, govt. spying on them or in some other way taking away their special rights to do something assinine, or some other one world govt/Masons/Biderburger/Committee of 13 etc. etc. BS
I dont' know if they are to be pitied or feared, probably both.
I hate agreeing with anon, but they really are a bunch of nutjobs. Leaving the voting booth today a Ron Paul supporter gave me some crappy black and white printout about Ron Paul and Liberty along with a free DVD and booklet on 9/11 - Endgame of the Illuminati.
black helicopters are real
He's consistent. Something almost no other candidate can claim.
He's pro-2nd Amendment.
He's against messy foreign engagements.
He believes the U.S. isn't perfect and that we should look at our foreign policy before we blame every other country in the world for being against us. (If everyone calls you a douchebag, maybe you are a douchebag.)
He has a lot of nutty people supporting him, but the man makes some good points. Oh, and he gave Guiliani a reading list about how 9/11 was caused by bad foreign policy. Anyone who can shake up the Republicans and make a couple of them think is ok with me.
Yea, consistently fucking nuts.
If there are some Ron Paul supporters reading this, can someone tell me what's going on in NW Austin that he has so much visibility there? I see signs on every other street corner and yard, I swear. If he had this kind of support in the rest of the country it would be "adios IRS!"