December 7, 2007 11:38
Ron Paul Rocks the Internet
Okay, we kind of already knew that. But the analytics firm Compete puts out this "data hub" comparing web traffic for the various campaign sites that makes for some fun reading. Paul's visitors are not only the most numerous, but also appear to be the most heavily male (and have the greatest percentage earning $100,000 or more), while Clinton's lean most heavily female. Obama's are the youngest, while Edwards, Kucinich, Richardson and Gravel's are oldest. Huckabee's, on average, spend the greatest amount of time on his site.
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Reader Comments (10)
Ron Paul and his supporters are dorks, but at least they are not as bad as neocons in terms of their foreign policy ideas, except that they would not use our military to help others out like in Darfur and that is the only reason to have an army.
Posted by Time4Tolerance | December 7, 2007 12:35 PM
The insight you provided in this post is most impressive.
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December 7, 2007 3:03 PM
Time4Tolerance why do you call Ron Paul supporters dorks?
Were these the people that raise 4.3 million dollars in one day?
Were these the people Sponsor the first presidential candidate blimp ever?
And why do they have over 1 thousand meet up groups with over 80,000+ members around the U.S?
I expect your answer quickly.
Posted by microspect | December 7, 2007 3:32 PM
They are dorks because while they are smart enough not to be republicans they are not smart enough to support a real viable candidate like Hillary as opposed to a nonviable fringe boy like Nader. I would love to see Paul make a run as an independant because it would cement Hillary's victory in 2008 like Ross Perot did for Bill.
Posted by Time4Tolerance | December 7, 2007 4:07 PM
Time4Tolerance
The real dorks are the liberals in the Democrat Party.
They did their best to prevent Dear Leader from transferring the oil wealth of Basra to Persia.
They howled when Dear Leader airlifted the architects of 9/11 from Kunduz to safe havens in Saudi Barbaria.
They mocked Dear Leader as he bravely hid in a bunker on 9/11 with no one but Jeff Gannon to comfort him.
They mocked Dear Leader has he spent trillions of tax dollars to help Taliban lobbyist Grover Norquist and Haley Barbour eliminate the black vote.
No it is Nancy Peolosi and Harry Reid who did their level best to prevent the US from the reaching this current economic zenith.
Thank God for Dear Leader or we would have paying over $3.00 for gasoline and Dan Senor would have had to work for a living.
Surely, Pete Hoekstra must have some comment on all this.
Posted by Wanderer | December 7, 2007 5:41 PM
'Dorks' is the pitch-perfect description of Paul supporters, I think I can explain why rather quickly:
-They are, almost w/o exception, upper middle class white men. They probably fancy themselves as 'post racial' ignoring the evidence that income disparity between whites and blacks has widened over the last several years. Removing what little there is left of the rich/poor wealth transfer will only exacerbate this problem. I don't think Paul supporters are racists, not in the least, I just don't think that constituency ever enters their heads.
-They don't realize that Paul's candidacy is the only one of the 18 that directly and immediately contradicts. Paul argues that 'less government will mean more individual power.' What would actually occur with 'less government' would be 'more corporate power' and even less individual power.
-I agree with the general sentiment of Paul supporters that 'something has gone wrong' and that government has been captured by a self-serving elite. Paul's policies though would probably just enhance rather than enervate elite power (the big exception is the end of the horrible waste on military spending).
-If something is broken, the thing to do is fix it, not get rid of it.
-Paul is an honest guy, the real deal. Libertarianism has it's appeal, but at the end of the day, it's a puerile form of government.
Posted by Mike M | December 7, 2007 9:23 PM
I was reading another document by a bunch old white. These whiny liberals were complaining about their tax money being used to support an burgeoning military and foreign mercenaries.
These nutcases complained that the government was sending people out of the country to foreign prisons on the flimsiest of excuses! They insisted on due process and jury trials!
Thank God we have eminent jurists of the calibre of Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia who reject the notions of found in the Declaration of Independence.
Posted by Wanderer | December 7, 2007 11:28 PM
Libertarians = half ass democrats, half ass republicans and are more than the sum of jackassery.
Posted by Time4Tolerance | December 8, 2007 12:25 AM
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