Yes, Ron Paul is bad.

[RainDog]

115. This board has been inundated with anti Ron Paul threads

the OP was making social commentary off that. that's why it was included. if those posts hadn't been here, I doubt this OP would be either. Such spin-off threads are a tradition at DU - a lot of times done tongue-in-cheek.

The OP is smart and her rhetorical strategy was smart.

It was an expression of frustration, not support for Paul.

the problem is that people here are in attack mode and see this post as some sort of validation of Paul. It's not. That entirely misses the point.

I posted a thread that allows people to see where they fit on a "political compass." I posted a joke thread about the DU political compass that includes topics that are not political - at least not traditionally.

But the point of the real political compass thread was to show that Obama aligns with the left/libertarian quadrant (economic left/social libertarian... not the same as Paul's economic version) more than Paul does - and, interestingly, that same political compass demonstrated how narrow political discourse is in the U.S. with both parties who have a chance of winning closer to one another on a variety of issues than they are with the left in the U.S. - iow - there is no real representation for a huge number of the population in the U.S. politically. Yet, people still vote for Democrats.