Ron Paul

[Victor Steinbok]

Since he's highly unlikely to be running in the November election, now
that Gingrich back to the ranks of the also-rans, I've already given you
the list for his "opponent". Now, if you want to discuss the list for
Willard and /his/ opponent, that's another matter.

     VS-)

On 12/26/2011 6:00 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Victor, can you give us a similar list for his likely opponent in the
> November election?
>
> Joel
>
> At 12/26/2011 03:14 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>> There are several versions of epithets for Ron Paul's fervent supporters:
>>
>> [Ron-]Paulistas, Ronulans, Paulians, Ronbots, Paulbots, Paulinists,
>> Paulites, Paultards, Ron-Paulians, Paul[l]ination, Paulunteers,
>> Paulaholics, Paulestinians, and, for the Paul-Palin ticket, Paulinistas
>>
>> There may be more, but I have not been following the matter so closely
>> as to track all of them. Of course, "Paulinist" is repurposing of a much
>> older word. Also note that not all of these are taken as mocking or
>> derogatory (unlikes, say, "Mo-Rons") and have been adopted by the
>> supporters themselves ( http://goo.gl/70lwe ).
>>
>>      VS-)

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