Sen. Graham better have a good spam blocker
In an interview with the Greenville News’ Dan Hoover - who, much to the chagrin of SCHotline’s Jeffrey Sewell, yesterday broke the story of the small cadre of bridge players in Greenville County that “censured” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) - Graham noted that it was a small group of people and that the spamaholics of Rep. Ron Paul likely played a key role in the stunt.
Twice, during the conversation, he mentioned GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul and his supporters, many of whom were in the room. How many were committee members and eligible to vote isn’t certain.
“There’s no way I’m ever going to agree with the Ron Paul crowd.”
The resolution, approved on a voice vote, focused on Graham’s support for the recently failed immigration reform bill that would have created a path to legal status for many of the 12 million illegal immigrants. Opponents, including plenty of South Carolina conservative activists, read it as amnesty, something the Greenville party has twice gone on record in opposing.
Also, the resolution rebuked Graham for comments made to a Latino civil rights group that some took as a slam at anyone who opposed the bill.
“Sometimes you make people mad,” Graham said.
Oh, and if those folks think he’s not a conservative, he suggests they check out his 91 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union. [DAN HOOVER - Greenville News]
But Sen. Graham better be careful. We’ve learned the hard way that engaging these people online is like sending your e-mail address to the Spamhaus TOP 10. In fact, it’s probably a safe bet that a few of the folks on that list will soon be on here spouting the “truth” of “Le Revolution” and censuring US for “submitting to our corporate masters.”
So if the site crashes today, you’ll know why.
Photo: Hugh Hewitt
So let me see if I can follow this reasoning… Lindsey Gramhm being censured for supporting a policy which the majority of South Carolinians disapprove of… is a bad thing because Ron Paul spammers were involved… by spamming the meeting via being physically present.
Yep those dispicable spammers taking part in the political process, how disgusting! Just as dispicable as when they spammed the Georgetown straw poll by showing up and paying $10 to STUFF THE BALLOT BOX with one vote per activist spamming scum, stealing 2nd place away from Mitt Romney!
Maybe if the republican “base” were more satisfied with the direction our country was going, they would attend their own meetings and events in great enough numbers such that a vocal, activist, spamming minority couldn’t overwhelm their proceedings?
Nice picture. It has almost nothing to do with the accompanying post and is just slander. Oh wait, no, i’m convinced! He has a tin foil hat and likes a fat man! I’m saved and converted away from my spamming ways!!!!
What does your traffic do when you mention Dr. Paul?
Slowly but surely, the clueless get a clue.
Don’t worry, Ron Paul has enough clues for all of you.
God forbid people take part in politics. Spamaholics? By showing up in person? Ron Paul is bringing new voters into the GOP and this is supposed to be a bad thing?
THINGS TO DO LIST
- Go to supermarket
- Change oil on the car
- Vote Senator Graham out of Office
Yes, amnesty is good; Ron Paul is bad.
You, sir, are a great American
/sarcasm
I can’t help but laugh at the complete dismissal of anything Ron Paul related by the “neo-con” types or the business as usual “tow the party line” republicans.
This article is lame. For one, even if Ron Paul supporters were involved, why is that a bad reflection on Ron Paul? I guarantee that he has no control over any of these people.
Secondly, why is it a bad thing that previously uninvolved people are now involved in the political process? Do you dislike the idea of democracy?
|Do you dislike the idea of democracy?
The author hates America.
I don’t understand that picture. Ron Paul and Michael Moore don’t agree on anything that I know of. Certainly not on health care and gun control.
Paul Spammers will be holding a Spam rally in Iowa on saturday. They will be spaming the Iowa straw poll one vote at a time.
I’ll try in type this in a way that the neocons will understand. Amnesty Bad Paul Good
What does that picture have to do with anyting?
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
“There’s no way I’m ever going to agree with the Ron Paul crowd.”
South Carolina - that should tell you all you need to know about Senator Lindsey Graham. Afterall the “Ron Paul Crowd” is comprised of young, old, male, female, Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Independents etc. who ALL believe in the goal of returning this nation to Constitutional government. We are firm believers in things like lower taxes, smaller government, protecting our borders and not using our military to police the world.
Since you now know that there is NO WAY Senator Graham will EVER agree with us - I ask you - Which side are you on?
I am the guy who has created 30,000 meetup names and have viewed Ron Paul’s youtube channel over 3 million times and had to buy over 13000 IP address lines in my home just so I could vote as many times as I did in the MSNBC poll after the last debate.
And frankly I am getting tired of not getting the respect that I deserve for all of the hard work I’ve been doing. The other candidates don’t have a guy for me jacking up all of their online numbers and it appears that they are all just jealous.
Do you know how hard it is to post thousands of comments on various web sites along with all of the blogs that I am writing.
A little more respect at my great work would be appreciated.
Oh ya, and I like this line:
“Graham noted that it was a small group of people and that the spamaholics of Rep. Ron Paul likely played a key role in the stunt.”
I love how the neo-cons are starting to think that anything that goes wrong for them is because of the “Ron Paul conspiracy”
I guess that’s part of the revolution. You’ve got the establishment looking over their shoulder in paranoia.
yeah..I was at the meeting. True, the resolution was written by one of the Greenville meetup organizers, but an executive committee member had to introduce it and someone had to second it. Also, there weren’t any Ron Paul supporters there that could vote, we were just there to show our presence (we had ~40 supporters, romney had maybe 10).
12 comments??? I thought the angry herd of cats were going to just storm this article and crash the website.
I have a feeling most of them could care less about some trivial rant by some unknown editor.
When stuff is so one-sided like this, it just gets instantly marginalized and everyone rolls their eyes.
If you want to stick it to Ron Paul, dig up all his issues where he’s a liberal democrat and scribble about that—showing him as a lib will bring the angry cat herd in your direction like you originally intended.
“If you want to stick it to Ron Paul, dig up all his issues where he’s a liberal democrat and scribble about that”
Yeah, good luck with that one.
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