Ron Paul's pointless Internet presidency

[The Free Hornet]

Ah yes, they are so desperate to keep us from snagging those 3rd and 4th place finishes. This lady was crude, but she has a point. But you keep voting in those online polls, it will turn into a victory someday, or........you could actually start looking to House/Senate seats and try to atleast get us a few Liberty candidates in there to speak out against future spending and "Homeland Security" legislation.

-1. I vote in the few polls brought to my attention. My enthusiasm for finding them after a debate has decreased and only when they get a top-posted thread am I going to see them. However, I see fewer threads of that nature. Ron Paul still does well in these polls with little thanks to me. I doubt others here feel much differently. If you have a problem with them (or more likely, you have a problem supporting Ron Paul as your posting suggests), your problem should be with the polls, not the results. Hate the game, not the player.

Did you expect someone to get a prize or hold an office after winning these? No, so why act like an a-hole as if anybody else did? Winning the polls is about publicity and clearly it works otherwise Ron Paul would be ignored even more so (the Yahoo author doesn't even have a new or original point here). These polls indicate that the internet hard-news savvy are more likely to be Ron Paul fans. Sadly, this group is too small and not yet sufficiently representative of the voting polulace.

And stop trolling the forums! You can't turn every Ron Paul thread into "Fuck this - let's promote house/senate seats!". Somebody should ban you.

 

[sylcfh]

Unfortunately we brought a lot of that on ourselves with not being able to keep civil about disagreement. It is blow back. She has been holding a grudge for years and now that she sees paul failing she made her counterstrike.

Civil?

She even repeated her own out-of-context statement that was a clear attempt to smear Ron Paul.

"Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."

From calling the criminal justice system racist, edited down to look like an attack on black Americans.

She deserved what she got.



And this gem:

"I know, because this happened to me. I'd give a link to my interrogation of the Paul scene from the waning days of 2007, but it doesn't exist. My editor at the New York Times fully expunged the record after hundreds of Paulians swarmed the site—like bacteria or antibodies—and sowed the comments section with vitriol."


Does she mean the same NYT that had to post a retraction to protect them from a libel lawsuit because she said that Ron Paul met with white supremacists at a conference?

Offical retraction: http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/editors-note-the-ron-paul-vid-lash/#comment-98743


Yeah, sowed the comments section with vitriol, kind of like her article.

That smug little bitch should just STFU.

 

[klamath]

Civil?

She even repeated her own out-of-context statement that was a clear attempt to smear Ron Paul.

"Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."

From calling the criminal justice system racist, edited down to look like an attack on black Americans.

She deserved what she got.



And this gem:

"I know, because this happened to me. I'd give a link to my interrogation of the Paul scene from the waning days of 2007, but it doesn't exist. My editor at the New York Times fully expunged the record after hundreds of Paulians swarmed the site—like bacteria or antibodies—and sowed the comments section with vitriol."


Does she mean the same NYT that had to post a retraction to protect them from a libel lawsuit because she said that Ron Paul met with white supremacists at a conference?

Offical retraction: http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/editors-note-the-ron-paul-vid-lash/#comment-98743


Yeah, sowed the comments section with vitriol, kind of like her article.

That smug little bitch should just STFU.

There is no lack of hate. I wonder how many people posted these kinds of comments to her anti RP article versus showing her she was wrong with some logical arguments.

 

[sylcfh]

There is no lack of hate. I wonder how many people posted these kinds of comments to her anti RP article versus showing her she was wrong with some logical arguments.

First time offenders get off with a warning.

It's the repeat offenders that deserve what they get.

 

[Butchie]

-1. I vote in the few polls brought to my attention. My enthusiasm for finding them after a debate has decreased and only when they get a top-posted thread am I going to see them. However, I see fewer threads of that nature. Ron Paul still does well in these polls with little thanks to me. I doubt others here feel much differently. If you have a problem with them (or more likely, you have a problem supporting Ron Paul as your posting suggests), your problem should be with the polls, not the results. Hate the game, not the player.

Did you expect someone to get a prize or hold an office after winning these? No, so why act like an a-hole as if anybody else did? Winning the polls is about publicity and clearly it works otherwise Ron Paul would be ignored even more so (the Yahoo author doesn't even have a new or original point here). These polls indicate that the internet hard-news savvy are more likely to be Ron Paul fans. Sadly, this group is too small and not yet sufficiently representative of the voting polulace.

And stop trolling the forums! You can't turn every Ron Paul thread into "Fuck this - let's promote house/senate seats!". Somebody should ban you.

You are calling me a troll? How about you and I post our donations to the campaign for all to see eh? What do you give every moneybomb: 20.12? Maybe I'm just tired of people like you who sit online all day spamming interent polls thinking you are actually accomplishing something all the while we are coming in 3rd and 4th. I would almost guarantee I got more people to actually show up in person at the polls and vote than most of you.

-rep, +rep, are you kidding me with this crap? What grade are you in?