"If you don't agree with me then zip it..."
I have been asked regularly of recent as to why I have such a dislike for the candidacy of Ron Paul. The first thing that comes to mind is obviously the stark denial that he has in his own mind that Islamic Jihadists around the world are trying to kill us and he seems to think if we just come home and lock ourselves in our room that they will just go away... (denial of reality)
But I've recently added a second - the behavior of those who support him. Rhetorical thugs that attempt to bully anyone who disagrees with them. Watch the comments grow even to this blog entry as proof. But they do it in public to...
Best Quote of the story: "You're not helping your candidate with this," a middle-aged man told a 20-something man toting a blue-and-white Paul campaign sign.
I'm all for letting all the candidates express themselves and articulate their message. That's one of the reasons I was equally critical of the Brownback campaign at CPAC attempting to disrupt Governor Mitt Romney's slate of interviews on radio row at CPAC last year.
In adopting such methods - you're effectively arguing for the elimination of free speech. A lack of opportunity to compare ideas, and for a campaign that supposedly going to show the universe how much grassroots support there is for one man's ideas... you're not allowing others to choose when you behave like a bunch of baboons...