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One of the unifying factors among Paulbots is that they have pretty much all succumbed to hero worship. In their eyes, their candidate can do no wrong. He doesn’t believe in evolution? That’s fine. He thinks that the North started the Civil War, not the South when it tried to secede? That’s great. He thinks that Abraham Lincoln should have paid off wealthy slave owners? Even better. He wants people to start using private currency, not US dollars? Perfect! He doesn’t want people to be able to elect their own Senators? Excellent!

A commenter named Wilder K Wight summed this up pretty well the other day:

What disturbs me is the cultish, apologist tendencies of Ron Paul’s followers. Every little bit of information that would otherwise be negative to a liberal voter is being explained away by these people.

* He’s an isolationist — “That just means he wants to pull America out of things that aren’t out business.” (no, it means he want to pull America out of everything that isn’t America.)

* He’s a fundamentalist Christian — “That has nothing to do with his message of freedom!” (Yes it does. Fundamentalist Christian tendencies have a way of making people make biased decisions that hurt non-Christian citizens).

* He’s against abortion — “But he said he want to leave it up to the states!” (That’s right, and he knows exactly how all the southern states will vote on that issue. It’s his GOAL to make abortion illegal in his home state, and others. It’s better for his cause than the states having to follow federal decisions on this issue. It’s a back-door way to get what he and his religious friends want.)

* He doesn’t believe in evolution — “That shouldn’t matter. He’s a doctor. He knows enough science to be smart about this.” (No he doesn’t. If he is a doctor and doesn’t believe in evolution, then his education is clearly flawed. Besides, this just backs up his whole Christian fundamentalist stance.)

* As President, he wouldn’t have support from Congress or the Senate for his radical plans (doing away with the IRS, the Federal Reserve, legalizing drugs, legalizing all guns, etc.) — “The people would see how great he is and vote Libertarians into the legislative branch!” (No, they won’t. Sorry, but there aren’t exactly a ton of Libertarians in the legislative branch now… That won’t change.)

Seriously, this scares me. Always with the excuses. If they can’t come up with an intelligent angle of debate, then a lot of them turn to scare tactics, bullying, hate mail, and vandalism (There’s Ron Paul graffiti all over the college campus here.)

It makes me think that they’d apologize for him if other terrible things came out… Imagine these scenarios:

Ron Paul kills kittens for fun — “That has nothing to do with how he feels about the Constitution and bringing the troops home!”

Ron Paul caught stabbing a hooker to death — “She was probably working for the Rockefellers or some other secret black ops team trying to stop him from ruining their plans!”

Ron Paul caught stealing from graves — “There’s no crime in stealing from the dead. He was probably retrieving a campaign contribution from a recently-dead supporter. It’s all been edited and taken out of context!”

Ron Paul says he wants to build concentration camps for atheists — “That’s totally not true. He wants to leave it up to the states how to treat their stance toward atheism! It’s giving them MORE freedom!”

How much can they apologize for? I mean, it was creepy for me when I saw supposedly liberal college students defending the guy when it was revealed that he made racists comments (”That wasn’t him. It was some staffer who did it in his name.”) and put forth a bill that would make ALL abortions illegal at the federal level (”He was making a point about how ineffective federal laws are.”)

These people are sort of cult-like. It’s scary.

Are we sure he’s not L. Ron Paul ?

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