I would hope that the least the Ron Paul antagonists could do is just use your energy on attack the other candidates or the system or going out and doing civil disobedience but to sit there and spend time coming up with ways to hurt the Ron Paul movement is just mind boggling to me.
This is how most idealistic social/political movements usually end up collapsing: The purists within the group start attacking those that aren’t, wasting everyone’s time. Ultimately, two or more factions emerge, each a fraction of the strength of the previous group.
Why purists have to behave in such a manner, I don’t know. Perhaps it’s because they think it’s easier to convert people who are “almost there” than it is to convert people who are completely opposed to them. Perhaps it’s because it’s more maddening to keep quiet about someone who shares your worldview except for one or two minor points, than it is to keep quiet about someone who’s so different that you can’t relate at all to them.
And there’s no good way to respond to them: You can waste
your time engaging in their arguments with them (have you noticed just how many of the threads on this forum recently have been nothing more than debate?), or you can split from them—which is the starting point of the factionalism I mentioned earlier. Either way, nothing is accomplished except everyone involved getting pissed at everyone else.