Sample Ron Paul supporter response to my column this morning:

FUCK YOU PIECE OF FASCIST SHIT! HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BLOW RUPERT MURDOCH! WE AMERICANS ARE WAKING UP TO YOUR EVIL AND SLANTED VENOM!

MAY YOU ROT IN HELL!!!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

Surprising you guys don’t win over more converts!

UPDATE:

And another great one, mixing in the racism and anti-Semitism I’ve come to expect from the Paul Brigades:

Im Not Sure Of YOUR Politics”? Ive been a CONSERVATIVE Republican all my Life. Ron Paul Is Not a ‘Cook’ As you Claim to Know”? Im ‘Sic’ Of The Republicans and Dems “”They are For A NEW WORLD ORDER And Paul sees this and You sir Are a TWIT And can’t See The Fuzz On Your face.

The traitors In BOTH Parties In America want a North American free Trade Zone wioth No Border”" I don’t and I would rather see An armed revolution If these Stinkin Traitors Try And Make ME A Mexican Or a Socialist Canadian’!

Kid, You Live In a NYC Dream world and cannot see The Mexicans Invading My Country Any easier Then the Fuzz growing On your face’!

America Needs To Throw Off ISRAEL (Thats why America Is hated In The Middle-East And By the Muslims) and Foreign Aid and Get back to taking care Of Americans and Not The Babys Of Illegal Mexicans and Central Americans ILLEGALLY In MY Country’! We Must Take Back The American Revolution……………And……………Ron Paul IS THAT MAN”!

A Nationalist America Is What America Nereds Today’! (Some White Pride For a Change’!)

(This Not Taught In the Marxist Colleges That YOU probably attended Somewhere in America)

Oh well.

To be clear: I know these people don’t represent all Ron Paul fans. There are plenty of reasons to oppose the war and the Patriot Act and the state of never-ending warfare the Bush administration and others seem so eager to get behind. And there are plenty of legitimately libertarian things about what Ron Paul is saying.

But for anyone encouraged by the polling success (if you can call 5% success) and fundraising success (the money is real) of Ron Paul’s campaign, it’s worth keeping in mind just who a lot of these folks are. Paul’s message isn’t all about liberty. A lot of it is xenophobic populism and isolationism. Even if you’re not drawn in by that message, it’s important to remember that a lot of Paulites are.