Soil from Stone

Although I have doubted the claims that Ron Paul supporters somehow spam every poll except those telephone polls of “likely Republican voters,” his numbers do seem bizarrely inflated. I find it difficult to believe that any Republocrat candidate in America could receive 80%+ of the vote on general interest web sites like 600 WREC’s. I’m willing to entertain the idea that someone out there is using some kind of automated tool to hack the polls in Paul’s favor. He is definitely a favorite among many techies, myself included.

Pajamas Media went so far as to remove Paul’s name from their on-line polls. That’s why I removed their poll from this site. Their site implies that the number of weekly votes dropped by as many as tens of thousands due to voter frustration at the Paulbots.* If spammers were still actively attacking the polls while other voters drifted off, Paul’s percentages should have gone to 99% and stayed there until he was removed. That didn’t happen. Whenever Paul was included in poll–which certainly wasn’t always–his numbers remained between 35% and 50%.

Paul is back in their polls now. They have added an anti-spamming feature known as a captcha. Spammers have found ways around early captcha systems; all security systems are eventually broken. That could be the case here, but considering PM’s previously rabid anti-Paul rhetoric, I presume that they are using the latest and greatest in anti-spam techniques. Unless, of course, they deliberately left themselves an out in case Paul continued to out-poll everyone else.

The results? As of this moment Ron Paul is ranked number one with 41% of the votes for all polling places. 36% last week and 38% the week before that, always in first place. Part of their problem might be that they allow every visitor to vote for a Democrat and a Republican. I don’t think so, though, because so far there are 201 votes for Republican candidates and only 86 for Democrats. Bill Richardson is consistently the top candidate with Obama not far behind. Clinton barely registers. That tells me that Democrats are not participating in PM’s poll in significant numbers.

The logical conclusion seems to be that, among politically interested right-leaning Internet users, Ron Paul is indeed the leading candidate.

*The number of votes has dropped, but “tens of thousands” appears to be a slight exaggeration. At the very start, the voting peaked at around 19,000 combined Republocrat votes, probably representing fewer than 12,000 individual ballots cast. Many of those ballots could have been the result of a “vote early, vote often” philosophy. That lasted about two weeks. Subsequent polling periods rarely exceeded 6,000 votes. Recent weeks have remained steady at around 1,000 to 1,300 combined votes.

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I don’t believe for one second that G.B. II is stupid. He might be a fool, but he isn’t an idiot. During his first bid for the presidency, he told the public what they wanted to hear. They elected him and he slapped them down. During his second bid, he did exactly the same and so did the great unwashed.

The questionaire that most of the Republocrat candidates recently answered for Charlie Savage is revealing, not because of the specific answers, but because of the manner of answering. Hillary Clinton followed Bush’s lead by lying through her teeth. Even the most naive among us can’t possibly believe her when she writes, “The President is not above the law.” Most of know she’s lying to us, because even Satan wouldn’t vote for her if she told what she really believes. Like Bush, Clinton–may she fade away in ignominy and believed by future generations to be of Canadian birth*–is no dummy.

Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson took a more honorable–but no less telling–route. They simply refused to answer the questions. Q: “Does the Constitution permit a president to detain US citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants?” A: “The candidate declined to answer this question.” It’s the same tactic that a well-advised accused employs in a courtroom. If you don’t say anything, you can’t be caught out in a lie. I think it’s safe to assume they both believe the answer is “Yes.” When would you not take 30 seconds to have a flunky tell people about your beliefs? When your beliefs will cost you an election. Silence is golden.

Mitt Romney, on the other hand, is an idiot.

He answered the questions, but did so ambiguously. And a bit ominously. He tried to leave enough room for interpretation that those who want to believe the best of him are able, but he made a terrible job of it.

Q: Does the president have inherent powers under the Constitution to conduct surveillance for national security purposes without judicial warrants, regardless of federal statutes?
A: Intelligence and surveillance have proven to be some of the most effective national security tools we have to protect our nation. Our most basic civil liberty is the right to be kept alive and the President should not hesitate to use every legal tool at his disposal to keep America safe.

What color is the sky, Mitt? “The color of the sky is a very important question.” What kind of car do you drive, Mitt? “The automobile manufacturing industry is vital to our economy.” Umm, Mitt?

“The right to be kept alive?!” That sounds like a very odd construction until you realize that Romney doesn’t believe you have the right to keep yourself alive. That’s the shepherd’s job, don’t you know? We can’t have the sheep going all vigilante on us. They might decide they don’t want to be eaten. 

Romney tried very hard to obfuscate without actually lying. He failed. Miserably. One could plausibly argue that Huckabee didn’t receive the questionaire or he didn’t have time to answer it. Romney took the time to craft some obscure, disingenuous answers and still managed to come right out and say he believes the president should be able to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants.

A lot of people will still vote for him in the primaries. All Canadian infiltrators of course.*

Ron Paul’s answers are different than anyone else’s. John McCain called him “the most honest man in Congress.” Paul is either an uber-master at deception, loudly and consistently hiding his true beliefs for more than thirty years, or else he truly is one of the last honest men in politics. If he’s trying to take over the world, he surely does have an odd strategy: eschew power and money, smile a lot. Well, at least he has the name: Dr. No. Some of his responses were a little wordy, but many were very simple.

• Answer 1: “Absolutely not.”
• Answer 2: “None.”
• Answer 4: “None.”
• Answer 5: “No.”
• Answer 7: “No.”

Sometimes Paul is so honest he might be shooting himself in the political foot. People are so used to being played, they don’t know how to respond to him. Here’s a good start: Vote for him. Wouldn’t it be nice to be left alone for a change?

*Nothing personal against you Canadians. I just want everyone to forget they were Americans.

Interesting side note: Andrew Napolitano is one of Paul’s close advisors. A good V.P. candidate? He’s a lawyer (I can feel my lip curling, baring my teeth.) but his work since retiring indicates he might have repented.

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I know it’s a little early and more than a little presumptuous, but what do you think about running mates for Ron Paul?

• Chuck Bladwin – Tall on philosophy, short on experience.
• Jeff Flake – Ditto. Unfortunate name, too. Women voters might like him, though.
• Sarah Palin – Lots and lots of form, but is there any substance? Would anyone care about substance?
• Pat Buchanan – Already has the reputation that people are trying to paint onto Paul.
• Dennis Kucinich – Yeah…right…whatever…
• Vox Day – The debates would almost certainly be more entertaining.
• Me – Not if Paul wants to win.
• Somebody else – Almost certainly.

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The Rogue Jew asks, “I’m wondering how much of this $6 million raised was donated by his neo-Nazi, KKK, White Supremacist supporters who have latched themselves to this odd candidate…” Ah, yes. Hmm. Let’s dedicate three whole brain cells to this question.

• Neo-nazi’s, KKK, and white supremacists don’t tend to have a lot of cash lying around.
• Neo-nazi’s, KKK, and white supremacists don’t tend to be the liberty-loving sorts. Firearms registration, marriage licenses, and Planned Parenthood are their brain-childs.
• Neo-nazi’s are socialists, hence the moniker Nazi from National Socialist. That would make them Democrats like Senator Dodd and left-leaning Republicans like Giuliani. Ron Paul is about as far right as you can get on economic issues.
• Ron Paul supporters tend to be well educated, intellectual people. Skinheads and Klan members do not.

So, I’m guessing the answer is about $50. I suspect that JPFO members gave more to Ron Paul than all of Mr. Rogue’s bogeymen combined. That’s not counting Jews for Ron Paul. If this pro-Israel, pro-Jew, Torah-keeping gentile had any money left over after being raped by the Nazi, Republocrat created family court system, a big chunk of it would be going to Ron Paul.

The question becomes, is his ignorance deliberate or accidental? And which is worse?

I honestly don’t care if a few rotten people support a good man. It’s bound to happen now and then. Paul can’t investigate all of the hundred thousands and more people who have donated to his campaign, nor should he. Even if they said who they were, why should he give their money back. I don’t think anyone is saying their money is stolen. If they want to donate money to a cause that will only hurt their goals, great! More power to Paul and to liberty for all Americans regardless of race or religion!

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