What are we calling Ron Paul supporters?

[GoneOffShore]

Hundreds, if not thousands of them out there and what do we call them?

Here are a few ideas:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I like the melliflous sound of "Ronophiles,"

but for the sake of accuracy I'm going with "batshit crazy loonies."

[blondie58]

56. ditto here, ocelot!

but they really are batshit crazy loonies. I think that we all just crave someone who speaks the truth.

[patrice]

2. Tertiarians - some of them anyway.

Probably most are the old Contrarians that many of us are so familiar with in association with Libertarians.

BUT - some are those who are trying to push a dialectical process into genuine (though as yet undefined) synthesis, yeilding somekind (?????) of "third thing". It's also been called "triangulating" and has been strongly associated with the DLC, but now, due to the internet, it's taken a more genuine and grassroots form that will lead "god" knows where.

[TwilightGardener]

3. I prefer "Paultards"--sometimes the Freepers come up with funny stuff.

[Papagoose]

6. That one made me laugh the first time I heard it

but I am making a deliberate effort to not be insensitive. I made a careless and thoughtless comment recently referring to someone jokingly as "retarded". It was too late for me to notice the family behind me with a mentally challenged child. I felt pretty low.

[GoneOffShore]

7. How did I miss that one!

:toast:

[AnnieBW]

59. Wonkette Rules!

Even better since Ana Marie Coxucker sold out to become a "real" journalist.

[TwilightGardener]

60. Was that a Wonkette term? Even better! First Walnuts!, and now Paultards. Gotta love 'em.

[saltpoint]

4. The batshit crazies choice works for me.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. MoRons?

:shrug:

[GoneOffShore]

8. Another good one that I missed!

:toast:

[rhett o rick]

36. Got my vote. nm

[rucky]

9. Paul-o-ticians? n/t

[underpants]

10. Part of the Paul Pot?

:shrug:

[onyourleft]

11. Neighbor.

I'm the "other" vote. :) Our neighbor has a Ron Paul sign in his yard. I don't know this family at all except to wave when we are all outside. They are very young with very small children.

[durrrty libby]

12. Well my neighbor beats yours. He has "Ron Paul for President"

covering the back window of his van and on the side window

"Vote Ron Paul...Save Our Constitution"

[onyourleft]

13. You do have me beat because...

...this is just a little sign that sits by the mail box. :) I might just add that the mail box is for purely aesthetic reasons (or to fool potential buyers as the house is up for sale). We do not get mail delivered on this street. :)

[blondeatlast]

14. If they claim to be progressive, "ignorant" works for me.

But I voted for "batshit crazy loonies" to let off some steam. :rofl:

[AngryAmish]

15. Ronulans

kinda Trek-y

[PurityOfEssence]

16. Based on his chances, I suggest "Pallbearers"

Or "Paulbearers", if you must...

[youthere]

18. ..

:spray:

[ConfidentialStatus]

17. Another Ron Paul thread

How can there be so many supporters? I was told it's a couple of young kids spamming the internet polls. These same young kids are raising plenty of money for Ron Paul.

I just posted on the Huckabee thread FreeRepublic doesn't allow Ron Paul discussion, unless you are calling him names.

[Rydz777]

19. Paulards. Historically, in the English language the suffix "ard"

has had a negative connotation. e.g. coward, and a relic of the time when England and Spain were enemies, Spaniard.

[Bucky]

26. Lollards. Retards. Communards.

Junkyards.

[orleans]

20. bat shit crazy minus loonies (but i still voted in the bat shit box) n/t

[crawfish]

21. Ron Paul supporters...

Sure, there are some loonies. The vast majority, though, are people who are fed up with the current way politics is working and are looking for something different. They want change, they want revolution, they want honesty.

In my opinion, the movement isn't about Ron Paul or his platform. It is about an increasing number of people who feel the system is failing and are willing to accept something radical to change it. The movement showed its first signs of life as a major factor with Perot; Howard Dean harnessed it to some extent. The current phenomenon shows that the feeling is growing by leaps and bounds.

Why do these people cling to guys like Paul instead of becoming Democrats? Well, it could be that they see us as part of the problem. When the repukes vote yes on the war, we see them as chickenhawks. When Democrats vote for the war, we see them as being bullied into it. That is a pretty biased view; can you blame people for looking at Democrats with suspicion when the words don't match the actions?

Make fun of Paul all you want, but leave his supporters out of it. If we're smart, we'll come up with our OWN revolutionary candidate in the future, and take advantage of the movement at the point that it is finally strong enough to get someone elected. I think it's inevitable.

[ConfidentialStatus]

23. You are so right

The repubs are calling him names, we are calling him names... and look what is happening at his site the money is rolling in by the second. I went to the site about an hour ago it just broke over 10 million, now take a look.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/


Also look at the money raised for the blimp...


http://www.ronpaulblimp.com

[txaslftist]

34. If I could recommend a comment, this'd be it.

Kudos crawfish. You've got the truth by the tail.

[frylock]

22. how about calling them people fed up with the fucking status quo?

[ConfidentialStatus]

27. Agreed

:toast:

[txaslftist]

38. And willing to be called "batshit crazy loonies" to change it.

[BadgerLaw2010]

24. Tombstoned. n/t

[Bucky]

25. I call them what ever they want, but I won't call them late for dinner.

Of course as libertarians, I assume they don't want to be called in for dinner. They'll just appear in the kitchen when market forces tell them they're hungry and--wallah!--food magically appears by virtue of the invisible hand.

[YoungDUer]

28. I think a lot of them do have loony ideas but I respect them

I'm not some hippy leftover living in Berkeley. I'm a progressive who realizes that some people have different beliefs than me and I respect Paul because he's honest and isn't bought out by the military industrial complex. Now, his anarcho-capitalist beliefs are full of shit, but he couldn't implement them even as President (and I don't plan on supporting him for President).

But my family overseas won't die if he's President. The Empire can't kill them.

[ConfidentialStatus]

29. Call them

Po-lice Look who they caught cheating at the polls. In Bold is mine for emphasis.

snip:

Romney got 893 votes, besting second-place Ron Paul's 534 -- despite Paul's shuttling in supporters on a rented trolley and shuttle. The campaign had a plane sporting pro-Paul slogans and a boat touting him, too.

In fact, Paul supporters dominated the crowd, which reached an estimated 1,000 people. Tickets for votes cost $20 each.

So how did Romney do it?

"I voted 20 times," Derek Gyongzois, 38, of St. Petersburg exclaimed after casting ballots.

He said he works as a volunteer for the Romney campaign (and begged a reporter not to print his 20-vote tally). Did he buy the tickets?

"I don't have that kind of money," Gyongzois said.

He wasn't the only person voting more than once. Paul supporter Mike Wagner, 57, of St. Petersburg: "This thing is rigged."


http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/29/Worldandnation/St_Petersburg_straw_p.shtml

[blondeatlast]

31. I thought Paul was leading heavily in donations?

Cheapskate couldn't cough up enough to throw the vote?
Let's add bad business model to the lists of "what to call Ron Paul."

:rofl:

You can't make this poop up! Thanks for the laugh! :rofl:

[ConfidentialStatus]

32. Laugh all you want

Like I said he's cleaning up. Not because of him, it's because of the people.

[Vickers]

30. Repukes. n/t

[txaslftist]

33. Concerned people with a lot of money.n/t

[polichick]

35. Desperate and Misguided. nt

[txaslftist]

37. As opposed to complacent and bamboozled?

If you don't think we've reason to be desperate, you haven't been keeping up.

[polichick]

39. I didn't say people have no reason to be desperate...

Just posting two terms that describe Ron Paul supporters.

[txaslftist]

40. Well, I'm with you on the "desperate" part.

I don't go with the other part.

People are justly fed up with the leadership in both parties, and it's coming home to roost.

I hate some of Ron Paul's ideas, but he's honest and he's right on the war, on civil liberties, on torture, on domestic spying and on government staying within it's means. We've murdered a million people in Iraq, and if that means we have to sacrifice here to end the slaughter, I'm all for it.

Until John Edwards or Hillary or Obama is willing to commit to ending the illegal occupation of Iraq, they're just Republicans in sheep's clothing.

[polichick]

41. Ron Paul might look like some kind of a savior to well-off white males...

But I sure wouldn't trust him to represent women, minorities or those who aren't doing so well.

I also think the base of the Democratic party needs to hold our candidates' feet to the fire on a number of issues ~ it's absurd that they just take our votes for granted. Time for a viable Indie party imo.

[txaslftist]

42. This isn't a race or poverty issue. It's a war issue.

It's about our murder of a bunch of poor brown people so that a bunch of corporations can steal their oil. Our invasion and occupation of Iraq is a moral crime on par with Hitler's invasion of Poland.

If none of the Democrats will commit to ending that ongoing moral crime, and he's the only candidate who will, he's the guy I'm behind.

You want to talk about folks who aren't "doing so well?" How about the MILLION Iraqis we've murdered? How about the seventy million Iranians we're on the brink of murdering?

There are factors to balance sometimes, but some weigh more than others. For me, the war outweighs the other issues by a multiplier of about ten.

I'm very sorry that none of our candidates will firmly commit to ending the war crimes we are committing daily. I'm not going to compromise on this issue just because they have.

[polichick]

43. I think you might agree with what I just added to my last post. :)

[txaslftist]

46. I do.

A lot of Democrats have make or break issues. For some it's abortion, and I concede Ron Paul is TERRIBLE on abortion. For some it's church/state separation, where he looks pretty good. For some it's poverty and race, and he sucks on those issues.

For me it's the war. I'm not going to be satisfied with a few hundred thousand more deaths in Iraq just so I can vote for someone who chose to put a "D" by their name on a ballot.

[ConfidentialStatus]

44. If you think that is true

You're not paying attention.

I've met plenty of Ron Paul supporters... from 18 to 60 years old. I don't believe I would say they are "well-off".

Ron Paul is the first presidential candidate in history to make fundraising numbers and names publicly available in real-time.

Go to the RonPaul site. Take a look at some of the names and do a zabasearch and do your own survey. Please get back to me and tell us what you found out.

[polichick]

45. What I said is "I sure wouldn't trust him to represent women...

...minorities or those who aren't doing so well."

I wouldn't ~ doesn't matter how many desperate and misguided folks have signed up as supporters.

[GoneOffShore]

50. Sorry - Ron Paul is wrong on EVERYTHING!

He's more than willing to dismantle the government to implement his looniterian beliefs. He's basically a skinny Grover Norquist.

He's not honest, he's just playing the loonies.

[Crunchy Frog]

47. If their posting on this site? Trolls.

[GoneOffShore]

53. You know - there seem to be a few of them here.

Lurking under bridges and rocks. And coming out when anyone says nasty things about the Paultroid.

[seasat]

48. Paulnuts n/t

[NoPasaran]

49. Rondroids

"Fucking nitwits" works too.

[Catherine Vincent]

51. Ropauls. nt

[Chovexani]

52. Assnine morans

I'm series.

[AlCzervik]

54. selfish newly proclaimed Libertarians? So many "I've always really been a libertarians"

folks around now.

[LWolf]

55. We call them "Ron Paul supporters, since

we are not so juvenile as to find gratification in petty name-calling.

[Desertrose]

61. Some of us do...

...but it would appear that unfortunately, some here are that juvenile.

:hi:LWolf

DR

[LWolf]

63. Hi, friend!

:hug:

[ConfidentialStatus]

64. It's getting old to see

so many Duncan Hunter bashfest threads and yes I'm going to call Duncan... Duncan! :)

[Hollow Shells]

57. We should call them Ron Paul supporters.

That is what they are. If you need to shorten it, then maybe RP-fans would work.

[Rowdyboy]

58. "Nader Fellators"?

They'll do anything to insure continued Republican rule.

[Bongo Prophet]

62. his online army could be called the E-pistols of Paul.

At least they represent a split in the GOP, and it highlights how far from their stated principles they have fallen.

Not that conservatives had GENUINE principles - this has been proven quite hollow over the years, and Bush years have revealed that tenfold.

[2rth2pwr]

65. Kucinich voters? nt