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Old 02-12-2013, 01:21 PM
 
Location: New York (liberal cesspool)
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I'm posting this to try and show libertarians why I have been so against Ron Paul. Mainly, he's a crotchety, narrow-minded old fart whose time has passed him by. And this particular story couldn't be more enlightenng of that reality.

Ron Paul sues supporters for control of RonPaul.com



Sadly, included within this story is this blog post comment by a supporter of his;
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Back in 2007 we put our lives on hold for you, Ron, and we invested close to 10,000 hours of tears, sweat and hard work into this site at great personal sacrifice. We helped raise millions of dollars for you, we spread your message of liberty as far and wide as we possibly could, and we went out of our way to defend you against the unjustified attacks by your opponents. Now that your campaigns are over and you no longer need us, you want to take it all away – and send us off to a UN tribunal?
That’s not cool! We want our old pre-retirement Ron Paul back!
I really fail to understand why his supporters simply don't abandon him for the junior version of Rand Paul. At least he has a bit more realistic view of the world.

Paul's formal complaint can be found here [View/Download PDF File]

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Old 02-12-2013, 01:27 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Both sites should have been put to bed when Paul retired.
Don't know why they weren't and don't know the full story of the monetary sale.
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:33 PM
 
Location: New York (liberal cesspool)
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HT, are you a libertarian supporter of his?
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:37 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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HT, are you a libertarian supporter of his?
I was through the convention. But he was running on the Republican ticket.
I did vote Libertarian though and started looking at those candidates when Paul lost.

He's retired now so no more supporter.
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:38 PM
 
Location: in here, out there
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It'll end up as a porn site in ten years.
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:38 PM
 
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Both sites should have been put to bed when Paul retired.
Don't know why they weren't and don't know the full story of the monetary sale.
Maybe someone is pakking it in.
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:41 PM
 
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Interesting. They could toss anything out on that site and it would appear to be from Paul. I remember back in the day the squatters used to buy up every domain name they could think of and try and blackmail companies to pay em for it. Maybe if they would donate the money he would pay em the 250K. lol
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:42 PM
 
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Do a search before you post. This has been discussed and fully explained.

The guys at Ronpaul.com tried to sell the him the domain for 800K only after pocketing hundreds of thousands in campaign funds by selling merchandise that customers thought were going towards the campaign. Look at the comments on the website in question and you'll see who supporters actually feel screwed over by.
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:44 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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I never went to those sites because they weren't his sites.
Now it has "fan site" on it and they have a store and they sell stuff.

Ron Paul is retired now so retire those sites as well.
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:45 PM
 
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I'm posting this to try and show libertarians why I have been so against Ron Paul.
You're telling me you wouldn't be pissed if someone pocketed the cash you needed to run for office and then blackmail you?
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