My Twitter is mostly apolitical, but I’ve tweeted a little about healthcare this week because it’s such a prominent part of every conversation.

So here’s a fun fact: I’m one of those crazy people who think health care reform is not really worth doing if it doesn’t have the public option. I love when right-wing politicians get on TV and say things like, “What Obama really wants is a single-payer system,” as if Obama were advocating drowning puppies. That’s funny.

Anyway, I’m a big scary liberal. But you knew that.

Over the last two weeks, every tweet I’ve made about healthcare has been followed up by either getting followed by a conservative politician or an @ reply linking to an article full of lies about what’s in the plan. Today I got an @ reply linking to a Youtube video cobbling together things Barbara Boxer has said and trying to prove that she advocates killing your grandma. I kind of want to respond and say, “You get that I like the idea of the government ensuring that all Americans get health care, right? Was that not clear from my tweets? Do you even read?”

Followers and @ replies from people advocating the public option: 0. Unless you count some silliness that happened under the hashtag #obamacarefacts. (Under Obamacare, all Americans will have to eat all their vegetables before they can have dessert, for example.)

I wonder about that a little. The people who stand in the way of real health care reform seem to be working harder than the rest of us. It’s possible that these politicians on twitter that are spamming people that stop to listen and a few people are clearly getting convinced, if the poll numbers mean anything.

So maybe it’s time to rethink our strategy.