woohoo, I was the first person to vote yes. "Yes" was a little strong for me, but I thought it fit better than no.
It is interesting to me that Paul is such a continuous source of derision around here.
One of his themes, that the US has been led by a bunch of neocon nutjobs into an unnecessary war seems to be pretty much the standard view on that issue, so why such enmity towards Paul?
Some speculation:
1. Some people around here are uncomfortable with his libertarian economic ideas so that even if he's with them on the war they still are most comfortable with just dismissing him because of his economic ideas that they disagree with.
2. Some of his supporters are anti-semitic and some people around here think that the only possible reason he could be against the US policy toward Israel is that he is anti-semitic so some people have concluded he's anti-semitic and they make derisive comments about him for that.
3. Some people around here are uncomfortable with anybody that doesn't share their vision for the American military as a kind of super police force for the middle east so they just dismiss him for that.
4. Mostly the anti-Paul derision is just done to annoy ronpaulisright and doesn't actually reflect the views of the deriders.
5. Paul looks weird and it fun to make fun of somebody just for that reason.