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Yes. Thompson staffers have not been able to keep their websites up. They have been google-bombed 24/7. And it is Ron Paul people. I got back from Thanksgiving dinner and all of Thompson’s official site and blogs were gone or pushed down the page by Ron Paul supporters and Lew Rockwell himself. They also bomb articles about other candidates with the express purpose of keeping Fred’s own sites and and pro-Fred bloggers off the first page. They hit him hard 1 hour before his fundraiser and took the sites down, then they started again this morning.

I managed to get one Fred site back to the top, but there should be 5 or 6 there. There are 2 and 1 doesn’t work, so they google-bomb it so that it remains at the top of the page. Go ahead and check out the page.

See for yourself.

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&client=news&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Fred+Thompson&btnG=Search+Blogs

There are so many positive news articles and so many things he has written recently, but who the heck would know if you can’t find the stuff. You guys say Ron Paul deserves a voice. Thompson staffers are not doing anything against Ron Paul.

You wonder why no one wants to listen to anything Paul has to say. It’s because of this behavior by his supporters.

Check out the nasty articles that are being written by Paul people just for google-bomb purposes. They’re all there.

Rockwell is in the top dozen U.S. websites. It's not comparable to FR's traffic but it is widely read, especialy by RP people.

I'm kind of dubious that this kind of googlebombing has any real effect. The Fred folk can find his site and the main sites and blogs for him easily enough. For instance, I personally would never use blogsearch.google.com to find blogs or forums. Maybe I'm just out of date but I don't think it's that popular. Normally, you just search out your top forums and blogs on the Google main page and then bookmark them or subscribe via RSS feeds.

But as long as you have some pointless quibble to try to blame on RP supporters, I suppose you're happy. Funny how there's never a credible explanation of why other GOP candidates can't arouse such interest online or at rallies.

Wasn't yesterday Fred's Giving Day, a moneybomb for Fred like the Nov. 5 one that raised $4.2M for Ron Paul? Last I heard, they only had 82 pledges at $100. So how much did Fred's Giving Day bring in for his campaign? RP's next moneybomb for 12/16 has 18,000 signed up for it. Huckabee tried one and it kind of bombed. So did Obama's from what I read.