I started to write a long comment here last night about the Paul people, but I made it a post instead.  Shorter version for here--I think you're only guilty of not understanding the ridiculous nuisance they are.  They really ARE a nuisance, amounting to nothing more than trolls when at any site that doesn't worship at the altar of the Reverend Doctor Saint Ron Paul the Messiah of 2008.  If it were just a matter of, say, a bunch of people writing blog posts at RS in support of RP or whomever, it would be one thing--but it goes way, way beyond that.

Yes, they have "passion," but passion in itself isn't necessarily a virtue.  I also doubt that there are more than 5% of them who'd vote GOP without Ron Paul, and that small percentage is the exception to the trolling behaviour--and they probably will still vote GOP.  Nobody has a problem with them, anyway.  Ron Paul's supporters by and large despise the Republican Party and the other candidates, calling them fascists, liberals, fundies, etc.  I'd go so far as to say that if RP were to run third party (which I seriously doubt will happen), he wouldn't siphon off a measurable number of voters from the GOP.

Anyway, I'll cut it short.  My full response is linked in my name. 

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