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Real Levi Johnston blogs as Fake Levi Johnston
There's already a fake blog for Levi Johnston, the young Alaskan man who impregnated his girlfriend, Bristol Palin, and as a result will soon be the son-in-law of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska. The twist: levijohnston.com wasn't registered by an opportunistic domain-name speculator or a political troublemaker. The site previously hosted the real blog of Levi Johnston, a developer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. The kicker: He says he's voting for Ron Paul.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Ted Dziuba: i think levi johnston is a pretty cool guy. eh impregnates jailbait and doesnt afraid of anything. 2 Responses | Other threads
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Paultards thumb noses at GOP with counter-convention
Across town from the Republican National Convention, 10,000 supporters of anti-war Texas Republican representative Ron Paul are expected to show up for tomorrow's final day of Rally for the Republic, an event to promote "the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy." Call him crazy - he's crazy! — but Ron Paul voted loudly against the invasion of Iraq and got re-elected in a Republican district. So what's Joe Biden's excuse? I just dialed the event's publicist and confirmed that unlike the Republican convention, Rally for the Republic will go on as scheduled Monday and Tuesday. Here's the lineup. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Mouser_UK: Looks like the REPs have found there own Nader to stuff up the election and will there be a mass parade... more » | Other threads
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Ron Paul quits race, Valleywag endorsement up for grabs
Yes, Valleywag's lovably insane presidential endorsement has thrown in the towel. Texas Congressman Ron Paul has chosen to solicit donations under the new moniker "Campaign for Liberty," where he can lobby against abortion, except in the case of retards who will lose the race at the Special Olympics anyway, and make John C. Calhoun proud. I weep alongside my free market brothers over the power of monopolists to co-opt our two-party system. [Wired]
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By Jackson WestComment by matto: What will he do with all the gold bullion and coins in his campaign war chest? more » | Other threads
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IT professionals split on Obama vs. McCain question
In a survey that found Obama and McCain in a dead heat among IT professionals, Clinton and Huckabee came in a surprisingly close second for both parties. The methodology seems suspect: Where were the Ron Paul supporters? [PC World]
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By Jackson WestComment by Fidel on the Roof: @bbucy: Hahahaha... Did you see the movie, "Man of the Year?" Terrible acting on RW's part but it shows a long... more » | Other threads
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Paultards, seeking a scapegoat, find only Wonkette
Really, you'd think they'd be out rigging Diebold machines or something. But no, soreheaded Ron Paul supporters have decided to call for a Wonkette blockade at Digg's front door. Why they didn't call for a more helpful mass burial of McCain articles, I don't know.
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By Paul BoutinComment by HughJennicks: @30yearRepublican: why those no good ingrate mainstream Republicans. Clearly, if you supported GW Bush and Ron Paul, you are... more » | Other threads
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Democrats mysteriously stop whining about voting machines
As much as I hate to agree with Ann Coulter on anything, the outrage, outrage over the unreliability of electronic voting machines seems to have stopped as soon as the Dems won a Congressional majority two years ago. Diebold, the company most accused of shipping buggy and/or rigged machines, renamed its subsidiary Premier last summer and is still shipping units, but only a few relentless bloggers are still claiming e-fraud in the booths. My take: If the machines were that hackable by savvy IT workers, Ron "the new Linux" Paul would be doing a lot better.
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By Paul BoutinComment by BluDupage: Some of you dear readers should do some research before you talk garbage. Dems (specifically Kucinich, and also Republican Ron... more » | Other threads
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Would calling them beta elections make you feel better?
Every vote counts, people. Even if like Peter Thiel, you plan to vote for a loon like Ron Paul. It still sends a message. It says: I am a crazy person who opposes the FDA. Which is cool, because this is a democracy and the majority rules. And you wackos — you lovely, lovely pageview-generating wackos — are never going to be a majority. But don't take my word for it. Go vote and find out for yourselves. Follow this link to find your polling place. (Photo by jean_baptiste_soufron)
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Comment by sample032: @Jordan Golson: The funny thing: the Democrats have made the race about race and gender, and the statistics show that... more » | Other threads
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Ron Paul for President
At Valleywag we're bound by a strong sense of identity politics defined by one issue: pageviews. More views = more attention + more traffic-based bonus pay to keep our breakfast bourbon flowing. And when it comes to pageviews, Ron Paul's always-on boosters put Barack backers and Hill/Billies to shame, shame, shame. McCain can't raise a blip against The Blimp. You think we're joking, but ask yourself this. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by dalechuk: Looks like we need some high-tech tin foil helmet distribution here. My current favorite Ron Paul quote (and there are so... more » | Other threads
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"A lot of these community news sites are all about Ron Paul. Ron Paul may be a valid candidate. But what that is really demonstrating is that you are seeing 1 or 2 percent of a community shaping where the whole community is going. A small dedicated group of people can manipulate these sites very easily... With sites like Digg, it's the wisdom of the crowds or the tyranny of the mob. You never know what you're going to get." — Slashdot founder Rob Malda on Digg and other social news sites. [Bits]
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Comment by rkminc: Wait a sec, hold up.... Ron Paul is a valid candidate? more » | Other threads
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Peter Thiel supports Ron Paul, the candidate who opposed the "black agenda"
PayPal cofounder, early Facebook investor and noted Objectivist Peter Thiel endorsed Ron Paul, the Republican presidential candidate, late last month, according to the candidate's website. Ron Paul, you'll recall, is the candidate known for his taste in blimps as well as for his plans to withdraw troops from Iraq and dismantle government agencies such as the IRS and the FDA. Paul has also become known for a series of newsletters he and his staff published, ranting against the "black agenda." What's the black agenda? It's what caused the 1992 L.A. riots, of course! More »
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Comment by KitKat4Me: C'mon guys... The Libertarian Party doesn't hate blacks, or any race for that matter. If anything, it's pro-minority... more » | Other threads
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Kevin Rose "supports" Ron Paul, Barack Obama
Ron Paul, inexplicably, has locked up the geek vote. The quasi-libertarian crackpot has plenty of fans, affectionately known as "Paultards," from San Francisco to the Googleplex. Add to them Digg cofounder Kevin Rose, who listed Paul and Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama as his favorite candidates. (Blogger Will Chen noted the preferences on Rose's Digg profile page.) But I'd ask this: How much is Rose's support really worth? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Dweezil: Support of Ron Paul should be justification to revoke said supporters voting rights. Austrian economics is (almost) as stupid as... more » | Other threads
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Blimp proves Googlebomb-proof
The libertarians are more powerful than anyone thought: They just flew a dirigible up the East Coast with the slogan "Google Ron Paul" on the side. No one hacked the search results to insert another canididate's message or even some rote Paultard-bashing. Looks like the googlebombing lefties at Daily Kos are lying down on the job — have you seen who comes up first for "best president ever?"
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By Paul BoutinComment by cv: Google bombing is for famous people. Ron Paul is practically a nobody, ranked sixth amongst Republicans in the Nov 13th... more » | Other threads
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Why San Francisco loves Ron Paul
The libertarians are coming! But don't let a Republican explain it to you. Instead, crazy fun local lefties the San Francisco Bay Guardian report on the Ron Paul phenomenon. I've culled some easily-absorbed bullet points from the lengthy article. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Amazonca: It might be of interest to you to learn that CA has donated more money to the Ron Paul campaign... more » | Other threads
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Ron Paul fans smartmob Republicans
The San Francisco Examiner reports that this week's annual holiday dinner for the San Francisco Republican Alliance (if you're wondering: 13 percent of SF voters are registered GOP) was flashmobbed by a last-minute cellphone campaign to hack the event's straw poll vote on the 2008 Presidential campaign in favor of libertarian-friendly candidate Ron Paul. SFRA president Gail Neira cancelled the poll after "they started showing up with signs, buttons — it was a like a mob. I don't believe in stacking the deck." Welcome to San Francisco. If it's a left-leaning mob, it's a smartmob. If it's a right-leaning smartmob, it's a mob.
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By Paul BoutinComment by RollyPolly: @Sean Robertson: Spoken like a true Wonktard. more » | Other threads
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Digg selects the next president, Hillary not in running
The online news-voting site Digg has added a page tracking the Democratic and Republican candidates for president. Digg's a virtual unknown inside the Beltway, so the page's geek-skewed results aren't a true barometer of candidate popularity. They're more a gimmick by Digg founders Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose to guilt candidates into participating on their site. Predictably, the Internet's unlikely favorites lead: Barack Obama, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel on the Democratic side, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee on the Republican side. You can view the candidates' favorite Digg stories — or rather, some anonymous campaign staffers' favorite stories. The lone holdout among candidates with a real shot at the nomination? Hillary Clinton. Her lack of participation shows she understands the true value of Web 2.0 in today's presidential election: none. An image of the current "Digg the President" leaders after the jump. More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by OrangeAlert: massive web support...cult following...great at money raising...i'll bet a lot of paultards were deantards a few years back. so all we... more » | Other threads
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Web popularity, shockingly, still not real popularity
Long-shot presidential candidate Ron Paul's recent appearance at Google is by far the most popular video of the Candidates@Google video series, a YouTube collection of speakers at the Mountain View Googleplex. His more than 290,000 views blows away Hillary Clinton's with more than 47,000. If the Internet were the Electoral College, Ron Paul would be our next President of the United States by a landslide. Thank God it's not.
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By Tim FaulknerComment by graham_glass: Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate that supports the US Constitution and believes in a limited federal government. And... more » | Other threads
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Eric Savitz goes through Federal Election Committee filings, picks out the top political contributors in Silicon Valley. Barack Obama gets some big names: Sequoia Capital VC Michael Moritz, Google backer Ram Shriram, and YouTube founder Chad Hurley all gave to his campaign. Sadly, no information on Ron Paul supporters. [Barrons] -
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Add another politician's name to Google's visitor logs. Presidential candidate and YouTube superstar Ron Paul will address Google employees this Friday, following in the footsteps of fellow candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain.
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