Ron Paul advocates plan in-game WoW rally

by Griffin McElroy on Dec 30th 2007 3:45PM

As campaigning for the presidential primaries reaches critical mass, America's political eye will be sharply focused on a number of locations during the upcoming months -- places like Iowa, Washington, D.C., and ... Azeroth? Yes, the fanatical internet following of Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has spread its influence into the digital realm of World of Warcraft, and is currently planning a pro-Paul march from Ironforge to Stormwind on the Whisperwind server.

Most of us will be too busy attending the "Orcs for Obama" and "Rogues for Romney" rallies to make an appearance, but if you want to show your support for the Republican underdog, and you don't have better plans for the night of January 1, then roll on in to Ironforge astride your Great Red Elekk and join in the festivities.

(Via WoW Insider)

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Tags: PC, Politics, PresidentialElection, Ron-Paul, RonPaul, WorldofWarcraft, WoW

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This is redic- What? RON PAUL? RON PAUL IN '08!

VOTE RON PAUL, FOOLS!

Yeah Ron Paul this Ron Paul that...

Fuck that VOTE for FRED THOMPSON!

By the way this Ron Paul nonsense doesn't stop with WoW. They have people running through LSU campus plastering grafiti all over the place to vote for him.

does anyone one know a good joystiq esque website for politics?

Yes, fools--vote for Ron Paul. I'll be voting for him, too--but, it'd be great if fools also voted for him. That would increase the chance that he might get elected.

There was someone playing COD4 with the name "Ron Paul 2008". The only smart thing I heard him say on Meet the Press was that if an illegal immigrant give birth in the US, then their child should not automatically be given citizenship. Other than that, I just don't see why he has become such a big deal.

I saw someone in TF2 the other day by the name of "Ron Paul 2008" and after arguing with him for a bit, found that he didn't even know Ron Paul was a conservative. At that point I decided that, futile as internet arguments ever are, trying to talk some sense into the guy just wasn't worth my time.

Ron Paul is the "feel good" Republican candidate of the season... and the only thing most of us agree with him on is his stance on the war. Other than that, his policies are ass-backwards, and the guy has no chance at winning. As if electing a 72 year old conservative old man was a "revolution" anyway.

Shame Blizzard doesn't crack down on this shit.

Ron Paul really did lousy the first half of his interview on Meet the Press. A lot of backpedaling, equivocating and trying to explain how he gets so much pork in his district despite saying he's against it. He did a little better in the 2nd half.

Basically, he looked like a regular politician, not some reLOVEution.

I don't see why people put so much interest in our President anyway. There are two ways to change the law, through the front door (Congress) and through the traditional back door (courts). The executive branch has nothing to do with either of them, which makes sense in that you wouldn't want to give that much power to a single person.

You guys don't know what the big deal is? Here's a guy who voted against Patriot Act I, Patriot Act II, renewing provisions of the patriot act, has been against the Iraq war since the beginning, opposes the drug war, supports limited government, has actually read the Constitution, and wants to abolish the IRS. Nothing revolutionary here, folks. Move along.

And opposed net-neutrality... and when people mentioned the fact that if it weren't for the internet he would have no base and that voting against NN is really against that base he mentions "Quite frankly I don't understand all the details..."

hmmm...

I don't get why this guy is so popular in the internet, when a year or so ago the same internet was up in arms about attempts to end net-neutrality.

i don't play WoW but that's setting up something that would ruin the "fantasy" in fantasy MMOs with the WoW games. i wonder if Blizzard will do anything about this?

lol@ fantasy in WoW

what? there's no fantasy in it? then what's the point?

Really big chat room where you brag about numbers?

Never played wow before, but are pvp possible? I guess so from for the South Park episode. would be funny if a bunch of people started killing them at the march.

PvP is possible on designated servers, and pvp raids have been organized against marches before... there was a famous one about a funeral for a real life gamer. (You can youtube it)

It wouldn't surprise me if the Ron Paul march gets swarmed.

The march isn't on a PvP server. All they could do is start heckling.

Anyone else think this idea is pretty damn genius for a politician? Talk about getting in there and trying to hit a key demographic. WoW is swarming with ~18-25 year olds, exactly the group of voters that is impressionable enough and big enough to move an election in their favor. I am not very political and not even a Republican, but I still think this is a cool way to campaign, especially since it's cost-effective.

So... how many votes does Azeroth have in the electoral college?

As many as the district of columbia.

And Canada.

Seeing as it has the population of Georgia, I'd guess 15?

Sorry, but District of Columbia has ONE electoral vote =/

Political flame war ahoy!

SHALLOW THINKING WATERS AHEAD CAPTAIN! WE NEED TO HEAD TOWARDS A NEUTRAL PORT!

In all seriousness, It will be interesting to see how many actual suckers* will participate. Still, wouldn't be surprised if it turns into a massacre(IF WOW has PVP. I should guess as much.)

* Voting for X or Y don't make you a sucker but parading for X and Y does. Especially VIRTUAL PARADING!

Yeah, in game advertising is bad enough, but in game campaigning is just too much. Now all we need is a virtual Tiananmen square in Battlefield where some unarmed noob gets run over by a tank.

Horde for Huckabee?

Oh dear...if that happened I'd have to quit WoW. Alliance is off limits because of the Paultards, I couldn't take my side being invaded as well.

oh and who might you think to be the best?

I don't play WoW, but as a person who has had to suffer through the Paulies pushing their candidate in myriad inappropriate places IRL, I take some solace in that WoW addicts have to suffer through these knuckleheads too.

Kooks for Kucinich?

I really love the guy. :)

Furries for Fred Thompson, it could happen.

Fuck furries.

No thanks, I'll pass the furry fucking.

i don't wanna fuck furries, i just want to euthanize them all

nothing like inactive activism to get the kids into politics.

Seriously. How about a real-life rally? If all these people organized a real rally, maybe something would actually, you know, happen. Same with all the online petitions.

Thanks for letting me know about the term "inactive activism" :D That's good stuff.

haha yeah thats my own term i think.im sure some one out there had the same idea i did.but i came to it all alone XD

zuburi,

Ahem...

http://ronpaul.meetup.com/about/

:)

Zuburi...

When he was kept out of the Iowa debates, (that had a 600 head live audience watching) there was a peaceful demonstration of over 1200 strong protesting that Ron Paul was kept out of that debate. Since then, they haven't kept him out of the spotlight anymore.

Aberu, he's being kept out of the faux news new hampshire debates.

Wow really is one of the last places I would want people to talk politics about - and especially Ron Paul's miracle shot at president. Biggest regret: that they didn't choose Alliance so I could grief.

Thank god I'm on an RP server. Otherwise I'd be stabbing my eyes out.

And I'm suppose to vote for him....or any of these republican phonies (I'm a black conservative BTW) just becuase he's got some campaign in WoW?

No thanks...I'm unsure of Romney but if it'll keep Hillary out, I'll vote for him.

And this is why I'm going to be so pissed off if Hilary wins the Democratic primary. Too many people despise that woman. Sure, plenty of Democrats heart her-- but the undecided voters who actually decide campaigns? Many hate her. And she won't get any turncoat Republicans for sure. =P

Barack the vote, people.

I'm afraid to vote for Barack because i know that America isn't ready. It isn't a racist assertion, but it'll be a black guy with a muslim sounding name facing off against any of the Republicans, who are white guys with normal sounding names

I love Barack, and i'll root for him if he gets nominated, but it'll be a trainwreck

Edwards is my choice

I don't vote for people becuase of skin color, but becuase of their character and their politics. I know nothing about obama other than he's black and he has this muslim name. What are his politics? Why the hell should I have to care about him? I want borders, language, culture (michael savage words..) in the white house. And right now, no one has it in them.

Although Obama's my guy, this country is just too back asswards. I just can't see the majority of the "undecided" voting for a Black man with a Muslim sounding name. As pathetic as that sounds, I can hear the ditto heads calling him a terrorist while touting bumper stickers galore. I do have the same fears Nights.

As for Ron Paul, I like his stance on foreign policy, as he's probably the only sane republican when it comes to that issue, but that's about it. All over the Philly/NJ area there are Ron Paul signs, it's an amazing grass roots effort for sure.

I think you underestimate the undecided voters. You don't get to e undecided by taking the right-wing media line "anyone but Hillary". And the number of people who listen to Limbaugh at all is small, let alone in the undecided segment.

I don't listen to a republican ass kisser like Rush Limbuagh. I listen to Michael Savage.

I fully support Ron Paul's candidacy, he'll take enough votes away from McCain and enable Rudy to win, thus assuring the Republicans get crushed in the general election :)

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