Are there Trolls in our midst?

is a libertarian elf, starving for Freedom.

Feed the elf, not the troll!!

In other words..Kill the troll with kindness, and education..

An easy way is to click on the person's name. If they have been a member for a day or two and say things in support of Obama, that's a tip-off.

that they should be allowed to use that term "denigrate".
It's racist!

HAHA gotcha.

This strategy works great if employed by people whose positions make sense. I have been advocating for fellow RP supporters to leave comments on non overtly political sites pointing out the inanity of Federal intervention in areas relevant to each site's audience. Like Cash for Clunkers and CAFE on Car sites, 2nd Amendment issues on gun sites etc. And also, to leave relevant comments at the end of articles in more general interest magazines / blogs / outlets.

The problem the Obamaites have is that the internet is real time peer reviewed, so BS has a hard time standing for very long. Which is also a major reason why RP is so big on the internet compared to elsewhere. Most of his stances are pretty much straight deductions from universally held common sense, and hence extremely easy to argue, while the leftists are stuck relying on blatant obfuscation (This is a complicated issue. Normally what we are about to do would be bad, but because of today's extreme circumstances, with unprecedented blah, blah), or more commonly, simple appeal to authority of the "Krugman said this, and he is smart. Since I want to sound smart, I'll regurgitate what he said, and call everyone else stoopid" variety. Or even better; "Warren buffet said something, and he has a lot of money"... OK, buddy, great argument. Now go hand some glue sniffing bum a few quid and see how brilliant he is. After all, he strategically positioned himself to maximize his chances of being on the receiving end of a financial windfall... Must be quite a "rocket scientist", that guy. Anyone who questions his wisdom must just be some uneducated hick in a red state who don't understand the intricacies of finance the way us enlightened ones do... And they're just not used to having a black president...

In traditional one way, or at least limited participation, media, leftist arguments have a much easier way of standing, as people will read "Nobel Laureate Krugman" says the Fed should keep rates artificially low because of the "rounded version of the Rudebusch version of the Taylor rule:
Fed funds target = 2 + 1.5 x inflation - 2 x excess unemployment
where inflation is measured by the change in the core PCE deflator over the past four quarters (currently 1.6), and excess unemployment is the different between the CBO estimate of the NAIRU (currently 4.8) and the actual unemployment rate (currently 9.8).
" (From NYT).

Sure sounds impressive, particularly to the average NYT reader, whose whole life has consisted of little more than kissing up to one authority after another in a never ending quest for good grades, promotions and good jobs, and improved social status. And who no doubt thinks this is somehow related to them being "smart."

On the internet, on the other hand, someone will ask "where did those 2's come from? and what about the 1.5? How come they're not 2.1 and 1.4? And what if the CBO estimate of NAIRU somehow off? How did the CBO even arrive at their NAIRU estimate, and why should anyone have any particular faith in their estimate, seeing as there is considerable disagreement amongst even mainstream macro "economists" about what NAIRU is at any given time (Should the Fed funds target really vary depending on exactly which economists happen to work at the CBO at any given time?) After all, CBO economists are, just like Taylor, Rudebusch and Krugman, pretty much just pulling stuff out of their rear end, justifying doing so by having managed to dig up some set of historical data where this formula, for unknown (and to be honest, even uninvestigated) reasons, just happened to not have been too far off.

Fat chance anyone in Eric Holder's nitwit army being able to intelligently answer even such simple questions. Or of making much inroads anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. When the entirety of your political thought process boils down to little more than "Obama is cool, Boosh is baad, and people don't like Obama because they're really racist", winning arguments against those in a position to talk back can be an arduous task, indeed.