Too, too delicious! Congressional Quarterly politics:

Ron Paul is having a hard time keeping his cyber-supporters in civil debate mode.

Interesting that CQ assumes the Paultard movement has to be top down, isn’t it?

Indeed, things have gotten so bad that a growing number of political blogs and discussion boards — not exactly prime outlets of delicacy in public-spirited discourse — have taken the drastic step of barring especially vocal backers of the Texas congressman from their ranks. Two high-profile conservative blogs, redstate.com and littlegreenfootballs.com, have issued selective bans on the more disruptive Paul supporters trolling the sites.

A Conservative site…. bans trolls. My irony meter just pinned.

And this month, Bobby Eberle, who runs the site GOPUSA.com, addressed an open letter to Paul backers urging Civility.

Snicker. Eberle clutches his pearls and heads for the fainting couch! Because I’ve noticed so, so much Civility from the Conservatives over the years. [Michelle? Michelle! Wake up! Front and center!]

Eberle’s letter took pains to note that he wasn’t singling out Paul supporters per se but rather “the aggressive network of online fans who bombard discussion boards, spam Web sites, flood online polls, and behave in a manner that puts their candidate in an extremely bad light.”

Eberle’s concern for the Paultard’s candidate is touching, isn’t it?

Eberle says that in seven years of running GOPUSA.com, he’s never come across users as routinely abusive as Paul backers can be. “The typical e-mail from a Ron Paul supporter often contains profanity [Fuck! Say it’s not so!] and is filled with name-calling and attacks on the other candidates,” he says. “They throw out slurs such as ‘neo-con’ ….

Neo-con is a slur? When did this little bit of revisionism sneak in?

… or ‘fake Republican’ …

I sympathize. The redundancy bothers me, too.

… or ‘sheeple’ …

Again, I sympathize. Here at the Mighty Corrente Building, we’ve struggled with the word “sheeple.” And we struggled against the word because it was wrong, and tactically destructive.

…. or ‘jerks’ or worse.

Worse than “jerk”? Could it be? I feel another fainting spell coming on! I can barely type the word that’s…. appearing … before my… darkening… vision: w... a... n... k .... * O-o-o-o-h! [Thudding sound, as of body hitting couch. Pause. OK, I’m better now.]

In addition, Paul’s backers have spoiled the fun when the site has sponsored unscientific polls to gauge the popularity of the Republican field.

Oh. My. Gawd. The Paultards freep polls? I feel another fainting spell coming on! Where are my smelling salts? I can’t find them! Wait! Here’s a new column from David Broder! [sniff] There. That’s better.

Meanwhile, last month, redstate.com barred newly registered users from writing any pro-Paul commentary on the site. “Effective immediately, new users may not shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion. Not in comments, not in diaries, nada,” wrote Leon Wolf, a senior editor for the Web site.

They hate us for our freedoms, don’t they?

And why does Wulf take this stance? Wait for it:

Wolf added that the reason for the change was his view that backers of the libertarian Paul — who, unlike most Republicans, has always opposed the Iraq War and opposes federal laws criminalizing drugs — are “a bunch of liberals pretending to be Republicans.”

Well, except for shit like supporting forced pregnancy and really drowning government in a bathtub.

Stuff like that.

NOTE * Paultards, feel free to take advantage of this new, exciting word, brought to you courtesy of Lord Eschaton, in any of the extremely civil continued discussions you may have.