[joshgold]

Hoping it's not untoward to post on a very old thread, but I just wanted to note that I'd also like to be able to choose to paste a link in plain text. My suggestion would be to add an entry to the context menu for the hyperlink to convert to text.

Workaround:

Copy it without http:// AND prepend some text before copying/pasting.

If you need to add back in the http, you'll have to undo (Cmd-Z) after it's recognized as a link and converted.