Revolusion 2008 illustrates the delusions of Ron Paul supporters in the face of the TNR piece exposing Ron Paul’s objectionable (to say the least) newsletters over the last few decades. I’d been aware of the newsletters long before the TNR wrote about them, and honestly I didn’t think they were big news because how could you support this guy and not have looked at his views/publications throughout his career? Apparently the Paulinites didn’t have any clue that the man they’ve been supporting harbors dangerous racist rhetoric, not to mention good-old-boy militia mentalities.

The Revolusion article highlights how supporters who begin to cast doubt on Paul’s squeaky-cleanness are reintegrated back into the cozy Paul collective by others who convince them to believe things they know are lies. Ironically, the Paulinites, who are so quick to reference 1984 at the drop of a hat, wholly embrace deception and groupthink when it suits them…

All we got now is the signatures, but the point is to repeat it over and over. we can make the thought reality.

This is just another example of how delusional the Paul supporters are. Far too many of them are youths with no real knowledge of the political landscape, clinging desperately to whomever they can so long as that candidate carries an anti-war message. Paul also offers a double-punch for the uninformed by railing against the evil patriot act and repeating ad nauseum that we’re just a bunch of fascists with no freedom. Just cover your ears when he calls black people “animals”, it’s for the good of the country and the constitution!

Seriously, it’s sad. A lot of these people mean well, but they’re only going to become more jaded by the system when/if they realize their savior Paul is a sham.

Update: Here’s another snippet of the Paulinites being unhinged. (h/t: Confederate Yankee)

 

Jennifer Call’s eyes searched the office for nothing in particular. Her arms waved and her fear spilled out.

“This is where I grew up,” Sutton’s town clerk said yesterday. “This is my hometown, this is where my family is, and all of sudden, my name is being splashed across the internet as this horrible person. And the frightening part is, I don’t know these people and they don’t know me.”

Call wants the nationwide army of boisterous Ron Paul supporters, believers in more conspiracy theories than Oliver Stone, to know that she’s committed no crime.

Not treason, as the dozens of phone callers screamed. Not fraud, as the dozens of e-mails charged. Nothing.

Human error, by someone unknown, caused Call’s office to claim Paul received zero votes from the town during Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation primary.

Paul actually got a whopping 31 votes.

Out of 920 cast.

Launch an investigation. Alert the media.

The mistake was corrected early the next morning, but that hardly mattered. The Paul machine, upon reading the number in print, quickly went into counteroffensive mode.

This is luck at its worst. Screw up Rudy Giuliani’s vote total. Or John McCain’s. Or John Edwards’s. Or Bill Richardson’s.

But never, ever get anything wrong when it comes to Paul and his voting tally. If you do, fans who shouted from the rooftops through the primary season will track you down and chew you out.

“Most of the these people are not rational,” Call said.

…

A police dispatcher in New London said yesterday she’d received inquiries about the clerk’s office phone.

Call got a handful of calls that night at home, refusing to pick up whenever an out-of-state number appeared on her screen.

She got about five more the next day in her office. She tried to get work done. She called the Massachusetts company that makes the licenses for dog owners in her area. The guy had heard of her.

“Wow,” the man said. “This is the second time this week I’ve seen your name.”

“Where?” Call asked.

“I’ve gotten a dozen e-mails about how you’ve destroyed the New Hampshire primary.”

“Why?”

“We make voting machines.”

“The problem is,” Call said yesterday, “we don’t use voting machines.”

She went home and locked her doors. She called her mother in North Carolina. She cried. The calls kept coming. She unhooked her answering machine and requested an unlisted number.

“I was drained emotionally and physically,” Call said. “That’s when I really started to freak out. Thursday it hit me, that most of these people are not rational. That’s when I became scared.”

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