Twitter Paranoia Grips GOP

Hmmm...

Either I'm not a liberal or Schultheis hasn't figured out that I have been following him for months! Mwahahahaha!

Seriously, most of his junk is just retweets from other people anyways. Very few original tweets or thoughts on his behalf.

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by: lanman2k @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 13:38:28 PM CDT

except that AIDS is good for single moms and their babies

What worries me is my friends on the left who are buying into the 'inevitable GOP resurgence' - or helping it for misguided reasons. JeffcoBlue Jan 2 2010

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by: MADCO @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 14:55:41 PM CDT

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He hasn't figured out that my heinous sockpuppet is actually liberal

and he hasn't "scrubbed" his clean account from the filth that is he.

Oh, if only I could reveal to you who my sockpuppet is. He is so awful. Schultheis even started following him of his own volition. I don't know how Schaffer, Schultheis, Penry and McInnis followed me first-- I think it's because of my friendly/crazy back and forth with Zach Lahn.

Fools. All of them.  

Corporations are historically the biggest opponents of the free market.  

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by: sufimarie @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 14:49:04 PM CDT

You're really Jandrus@backboneusa, aren't you?

What worries me is my friends on the left who are buying into the 'inevitable GOP resurgence' - or helping it for misguided reasons. JeffcoBlue Jan 2 2010

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by: MADCO @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 15:04:47 PM CDT

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Yes,

but that's ok. BECAUSE I CAN JUST GO MAKE A NEW ONE!

Attn Republicans elected to represent and feed the fearful: I will just make a new sockpuppet and I will take screenshots of the things you say and I will post them when you don't want me to even though all of your tweets are in the public timeline.

That is all.  

Corporations are historically the biggest opponents of the free market.  

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by: sufimarie @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 15:10:29 PM CDT

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Why would anyone want to follow Schultheis on Twitter?

Or anywhere else, for that matter.

It's like listening to a bag lady.

When I use lots of words, they always form an analysis (and, while producing high volume, also produce high information-density).
--Steve Harvey, 2009

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by: Ralphie @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 14:54:09 PM CDT

really

this is just sad.  Yeah I think the important part is that everything on twitter (or social networking sites) is still public, no matter who is "following" or "friends" with whoever.

I just hope Megan McCain doesn't block me :(

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by: Nomadic Politico @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 14:58:21 PM CDT

He's Learning...

Now, not only am I "blocked" from following him, but he's made his updates "private."

Uh, Dave, if only people who you know are following you, does that mean you ought to be using e-mail?  Maybe just send an email out to your supporters?

Nice work, Pols.  We've now successfully stopped a fire hose of (asininity) hate from addressing the world.

Maybe he will make his blog private, too.

Seriously, though.  I think this illustrates just how "ready, fire, aim" the right wing is when it comes to using Web 2.0 tech stuff.

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by: dlof @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 15:35:27 PM CDT

I spoke too soon.

You can still follow his twitter posting simply by visiting his website.

What a tool!

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by: dlof @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 15:37:47 PM CDT

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You can still see what he tweets

on the RSS feed for his Twitter account, even if you're blocked:

feed://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/19622198.rss

"Please don't eat any peanuts out of anyone's crap." - LaughingBoy

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by: RedGreen @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 15:40:21 PM CDT

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No, really, I spoke too soon

He un-privated his updates.  It this guys was a reasonable human, like say, (well... nevermind), and I only had issue with  his politics, I'd say this was funny.

But, this kind of idiocy can only come from a colossal nincompoop!

Way to go Senator!

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by: dlof @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 15:54:25 PM CDT

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If they don't want liberals reading their tweets

That means they assume a liberal reading what they have to say will fail to be convinced that a conservative approach is better. Interesting self-image of what they write.

Tea party support in the primary.

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by: DavidThi808 @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 15:50:27 PM CDT

lol

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by: A-bob @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 19:48:42 PM CDT

Sen_Schultheis Doesn't Like Me

It's possible I was the 1st person blocked by SS. Happened a couple of months back. What the poor techniliterate doesn't seem to get is the usefulness of Twitter Search on Tweetdeck - or the concept of sock puppets, which in itself is weird considering his blind loyalty to RNC talking points.

There is, I think, a question of legality to be answered. Schultheis' Twitter account is under his Senator Schultheis persona, meaning, I believe, he falls squarely under the 1st amendment prohibition against prior restraint of citizen speech. I wonder his fellow El Paso County denizen, AG John Suthers, might be asked for an opinion about that?

There is no way to deny that a nation founded by way of revolution is "liberal" and there is no legitimate way to deny that a nation that refused to establish any religion is "secular." - Dr. Bruce Prescott

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by: dean.barnett @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 20:48:32 PM CDT

I was blocked in February

after I posted his break-up-like email demanding why he says a child should suffer and die from AIDS so that the people who watch it would understand the effects of promiscuity.

He didn't like @sufimarie after that.

And your point about the legality of protected tweets of an elected official. That sounds like a good blog post for me!

Corporations are historically the biggest opponents of the free market.  

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by: sufimarie @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 20:59:12 PM CDT

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Transparency Queen

BJ Nikkel has been blocking ALL her tweets for months...only the "true believers" are allowed, and only with her permission!  How's that for openness in government!

"History is'a made at night! Character is what you are in the dark!"  Lord John Worfin

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by: Meiner49er @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 21:21:13 PM CDT

Transparency Kings

Sens. Brophy and Renfroe were by invitation only for a while, but they appear to be open to the great unwashed now. Maybe they have a secret tweet for true believers.

"Please don't eat any peanuts out of anyone's crap." - LaughingBoy

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by: RedGreen @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 22:58:52 PM CDT

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This sounds like a great time

to revisit some of the greatest hits of dumbass tweets from Republican officials:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo...

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!" - Nietzsche  

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by: twas brillig @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 21:49:48 PM CDT

Send the fool an open records request

If he's using state funds/time/equipment (computers) to send his silly little Tweets, then any citizen in the state should be entitled to see them.

Unless some sort of exemption for legislators applies, all we should have to do is email the doofus a request to inspect his Tweets. See http://sunshinereview.org/inde...

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by: Half Glass Full @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 23:45:13 PM CDT