Spammers Betrayed
Richard Viguerie spams:
“I am dismayed that the Fox News Channel apparently plans to bar Ron Paul from its January 6 presidential debate. I have not yet declared my support for any candidate, but I find this action inexcusable.”
Understandable, given that the guy’s a crank, whose supporters have long been doing to online polls what Viguerie himself does to everyone’s inbox. Birds of a feather, I suppose.
“Ron Paul is a traditional limited-government conservative in the grand tradition of Robert A. Taft, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan.
Yeah, it’s too bad Goldwater’s famously dovish “if we’d just act a little nicer, the communists wouldn’t exist” foreign policy pronouncements cost him the election. On the other hand, President Reagan ushered in a brand new era with his time-honored “I’m not sending my troops anywhere in the world without a war declaration, and then only if it’s written on a John-Birch-Society-approved form” slogan, which left that imperialist Jimmy Carter in the dust. I sure am stoked to see Paul picking up the torch now.
In the latest Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, he is ahead of Fred Thompson in New Hampshire. Yet Fox News is inviting Thompson and barring Ron Paul.
Earth to Viguerie: we’re electing the President of the United States, not the President of New Hampshire. Show me a single scientific national poll in which the fake Republican candidate bests the only real conservative in the race, and then we’ll talk. Until then, keep your pearls of wisdom to yourself, or at least confine them to your own web site and to the mailing lists of those who have actually asked to join it. Just because Congress says you “CAN-SPAM,” doesn’t mean you should.
UPDATE: More on Paul’s brilliant conservatism in the molds of Goldwater and Reagan here and here.
January 6th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Man, a lot of conservatives are off their medications these days. If Reagan were alive, he’d be turning over in his grave.
January 11th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
There are websites that claim that the electronic voting machines are rigged, and that the vote counts for McCain and Paul were switched.
That’s understandable - if my candidate didn’t win, it must be because the vote was rigged.
It’s looking like the next President is going to be decided not by the voters, but by the media.