Erick Erickson posted this over at RedState that just really pissed me off. My response is as follows:

“Ron Paul has only about 3,000 real supporters nationwide. He’s got another 5000 or so who are just damn dirty liberal hippies in need of real jobs.”

Where are you getting those figures from? Certainly not the article you linked to. Most of Ron Paul’s supporters are concerned about out-of-control government spending, Democrats and Republicans who think the answer to every problem is more government intervention, and think that Republicans need to occasionally read the US Constitution (especially Art. 1, Sec. 8).

Finally I take offense at being called a “damn dirty liberal hippy in need of a real job”, as I too am opposed to closed-source electronic voting machines with no mechanism for independent review of the results (ie I want either open-code or voter-verifiable-paper-trails).

I know RedState is owned by the same company that publishes Ann Coulter, but I expected better from you Erick.