Rep. Ron Paul - Straighten Up or You Are Outta Here!

Pajamas Media has a lot of nerve. It is one thing not to take a candidate seriously. Judging viability for a candidacy months before the first presidential debate is dubious, but everyone else thinks its ok. Punishing a candidate like a schoolmarm because of some over enthusiastic nuts is horribly insulting. PJM has taken to treating Rep. Ron Paul like he really is a redheaded stepchild. Here's the news.

We regret that Congressman Paul, a good and decent American with loyal motives and deeply held convictions, seems to have garnered among his supporters a small group for whom unethical conduct appears to be permissible if it gets him elected. We are certain he would disapprove of it.

Still, this behavior must stop immediately, as well as the rude and abusive messages we are receiving from these supporters. If they do not, Pajamas Media will have no choice but to remove Mr. Paul permanently from our poll.

In other words... tell your little friends to be good, or else.

PJM claims that they are being harrassed by Ron Paul supporters, and that there is blatant cheating in the Paul camp. The story about 200+ votes from one IP sounds dubious - the pod on the main page here closes voting immediately, and I don't see a way around that unless they mean a server IP, rather than a client one (which should technically still count).

Honestly, this pisses me off - but Ron Paul needs all the publicity and notice he can get, good or bad.