A massive “A-HA!” raced across the Internet when Wired broke a story that someone was using bots to push a pro-Ron message. So that’s where all this has come from. There is no Ron Paul Revolution… it really is just a few hackers causing all this ruckus.
Of course there is no evidence to suggest that a Ron Paul supporter is behind the activity, let alone the Ron Paul campaign. Anyone with the expertise on how to launch this bot-net attack would have known that it would be relatively easy to identify the email as spam. I would also imagine that if the person or persons behind the spam were smart enough to launch the attack, he/she/they would also be smart enough to know that this would cause a lot of negative publicity for the campaign. Personally, I would give at least even odds that this activity was done to attack the Ron Paul campaign.
But lets ignore that relatively simple chain of logic. If it has Ron Paul’s name on it, on a secure and well ordered media like the Internet, then Ron Paul must surely know about it and approve it….. right? (And people bash Ron Paul supporters for being conspiracy theorists.) Lets ignore that the Wired article declines to state how long the spam has being going on for. It does not say if it has being going on a day, a week, a month, or if they have no idea. The article just ignores that relatively important detail and lets the matter hang. By leaving it out the article creates the impression that the entire Ron Paul campaign originated from the spam. A-HA! There is no Ron Paul Revolution. It is all just a few hackers in their mothers` basements.
Personally I find this, and other hatchet-job blogs and articles that are floating around with more and more frequency to be comforting. Why? I think it is the biggest proof that the Ron Paul campaign is gaining traction. Spammers are using Ron Pauls name in their emails to get people to look at their ads for Viagra. Adult websites are using Ron Paul’s name to drive traffic towards their site. Why? because using Ron Paul’s name brings people in. Either there are many people who are interested in Ron Paul or the handful of spammers in their mothers basement are very, very busy people.
Do I think there is some sort of conspiracy against Ron Paul? No I do not. I do think that because he draws his support from all across the political spectrum, because he is still largely based in the wild new frontier that we call the Internet, that his campaign is hard to get a handle on.
Does Ron Paul have a good chance of winning? Again, I do not think so. Not yet. The backlash against Ron Pauls growing popularity is only getting started. (For every new fad there is always a backlash. You do remember disco, don’t you?) There are also alot of middle-men Ron Paul would like to cut out of government and needless to say, those middle men are very interested in maintaining the status-quo. Regardless of weather the spammer sought to promote or hurt the Paul campaign, there will be increasing attacks on the Ron Paul revolution in the future.
With an army of 56,000 activists registered on meetup.com, $2.5 million raised just in the month of October and 16,336 people registered to donate $100 on this november 5th you better believe the campaign is just getting started.
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