CNN bringing up Racist Ron Paul rumors again

so no policies.


thanks

The article you never read in the course of your exhaustive research and still probably won't read sums up my thinking, which is simply common sense:

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those new supporters, many of whom are first encountering libertarian ideas through the Ron Paul Revolution, deserve a far more frank explanation than the campaign has as yet provided of how their candidate's name ended up atop so many ugly words. Ron Paul may not be a racist, but he became complicit in a strategy of pandering to racists—and taking "moral responsibility" for that now means more than just uttering the phrase. It means openly grappling with his own past—acknowledging who said what, and why. Otherwise he risks damaging not only his own reputation, but that of the philosophy to which he has committed his life.

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http://reason.com/archives/2008/01/1...s-newsletter/1

Running away from interviews like a little girl is not helping.

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Originally Posted by cheguevara

so no policies.


thanks

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So you understood the post?

Yes or no.

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Originally Posted by Blake

I cant come up with a good reason for a candidate to ever lie or steal, so for all practical purposes, yes.

Do you believe that Dr Paul's lying and stealing is acceptable?

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i dont believe he's lying about the goal of becoming the potus, especially not because of what a poster on spurstalk believes. He's never made the claim of not wanting to win the presidency so how this is the talking point you're focused on, I can't comprehend.

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Originally Posted by DisAsTerBot

i dont believe he's lying about the goal of becoming the potus, especially not because of what a poster on spurstalk believes. He's never made the claim of not wanting to win the presidency so how this is the talking point you're focused on, I can't comprehend.

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The comments/questions were aimed at Che based on his claims.

If you can't keep up or fail to comprehend after re-reading, there's no shame in ejecting from the conversation.

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Originally Posted by Blake

The comments/questions were aimed at Che based on his claims.

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obviously.
keep playing chumpdumper lite with him though, it looks good on you

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Originally Posted by DisAsTerBot

obviously.
keep playing chumpdumper lite with him though, it looks good on you

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Keep playing stupid with me. :tu

Is this it? Is this all the RP haters have to cling on to?



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Originally Posted by 4>0rings

Is this it? Is this all the RP haters have to cling on to?



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It certainly is turning Paul into a little bitch.

Think about it. What else should one expect from the Communist News Network?

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Originally Posted by Wild Cobra

Think about it. What else should one expect from the Communist News Network?

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What an empty headed post.

Just like the Repugs, nothing new here

Ron Paul and Libertarianism's Dirty Secret -- Pandering to Racist "Rednecks" to Get Ahead

he fact is, Paul has lied like a very old-fashioned sort of politician about these newsletters, and he has been lying for years. He has gone through the motions of public regret about their contents, but has never acknowledged knowing who wrote the offensive material or even being aware that offensive material went out under his name. That’s bullshit. Now he ducks questions on the subject entirely (and his supporters complain that it’s “old news,” because they have no serious defense of the comments or Paul’s responsibility for them).

Ta-Nehisi Coates has been essential reading on Ron Paul’s cynical embrace of racist populism and subsequent refusal to own up to it.

But while I imagine Dr. Paul doesn’t believe in the inherent criminality of black males (though I’d bet he does believe some variation on his newsletter’s remark that “only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions”) these comments didn’t originate in a vacuum.

Years ago, a bunch of libertarians decided to act like huge racists to win votes. Reason explained it in 2008:

The most detailed description of the strategy came in an essay Rothbard wrote for the January 1992 Rothbard-Rockwell Report, titled “Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement.” Lamenting that mainstream intellectuals and opinion leaders were too invested in the status quo to be brought around to a libertarian view, Rothbard pointed to David Duke and Joseph McCarthy as models for an “Outreach to the Rednecks,” which would fashion a broad libertarian/paleoconservative coalition by targeting the disaffected working and middle classes. (Duke, a former Klansman, was discussed in strikingly similar terms in a 1990 Ron Paul Political Report.) These groups could be mobilized to oppose an expansive state, Rothbard posited, by exposing an “unholy alliance of ‘corporate liberal’ Big Business and media elites, who, through big government, have privileged and caused to rise up a parasitic Underclass, who, among them all, are looting and oppressing the bulk of the middle and working classes in America.”

That’s Murray Rothbard, the legendary libertarian thinker.

http://www.alternet.org/news/153551/...paign=alternet

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Is this it? Is this all the RP haters have to cling on to?



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Obama pandered to Terrorists, Gingrich to Wall Street, Cheney to his own company

welcome to politics 101

Ron Paul pandered to bigotry.

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Originally Posted by cheguevara

Obama pandered to Terrorists, Gingrich to Wall Street, Cheney to his own company

welcome to politics 101

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Is this it? Is this all the RP lovers have to cling on to?


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Originally Posted by ChumpDumper

Is this it? Is this all the RP lovers have to cling on to?


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Yes.

Dallas Morning News

5/22/1996: Candidate's comments on blacks questioned

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He also wrote that black teenagers can be "unbelievably fleet of foot."An official with the NAACP in Texas said the comments were racist and offensive. Dr. Paul, who is running in Texas' 14th Congressional District, defended his writings in an interview Tuesday. He said they were being taken out of context.

In the interview, he did not deny he made the statement about the swiftness of black men.

"If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them," Dr. Paul said. He also said the comment about black men in the nation's capital was made while writing about a 1992 study produced by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, a criminal justice think tank based in Virginia.

Citing statistics from the study, Dr. Paul then concluded in his column: `Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal." "These aren't my figures," Dr. Paul said Tuesday. "That is the assumption you can gather from" the report.

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He sounds pretty guilty here. And now we're supposed to believe he "didn't even read" his own newsletters when so many of them are even written in the first person.

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/ron-paul-newsletter

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Is this it? Is this all the RP lovers have to cling on to?


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Ron Paul: ultimate troll

The Bigots and Billionaires in Ron Paul’s Orbit

He is a perennial favorite of the John Birch Society and kindred extremists on the right. He once refused to return a donation from a leader of the Nazi-worshipping skinheads in the Stormfront movement.

What is it about the kindly old doctor that attracts some of the most violent and reactionary elements in society to his banner?

For many years, Paul was merely an outlying crank in the ranks of the Republican Party—a “libertarian” who courted the paranoid bigots in the John Birch Society, whose monthly magazine featured his name on its masthead as a “contributing editor.” More than a decade ago, during his 1996 campaign for Congress, the racist ravings in his newsletters were first exposed—the same series of articles that besmirched Martin Luther King and Barbara Jordan and encouraged every racist stereotype about African-Americans as criminals and welfare dependents. He disowns those words now, but back then a spokesman defended them as merely “taken out of context.”

Back then, his rhetorical flirtations with the White Citizens Councils hardly mattered. Almost nobody bothered to listen seriously to his urgings that America return to the gold standard, repeal the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators and erase all of the advances of the past century in protecting the public from cyclical depressions, poisonous food, water, air and drugs, and the insecurities of poverty, old age and ill health. Most Americans still could remember when this Darwinian ideology influenced policy and knew that the nation was not better off—except for a few robber barons—back in the days before Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated the Progressive Era, beginning a century of reform.

On the far right, including wealthy figures such as the Koch family that once supported the Birch Society and now backs the tea party, there are many who share Paul’s brand of political nostalgia. Kindly and gentle as he appears, Paul has always known how to sound the dog whistle that excites them, whether it was in the race-baiting that adorned his newsletters for years, the claims that medicine served us better before Medicare and Medicaid or the campaign against the Federal Reserve. Although Paul has occasionally disavowed his supporters on the ultra-right when political expediency demanded it, they have never abandoned him—and they won’t, because whether or not he is actually a racial bigot, he shares their disdain for the 20th century.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/print...rbit_20111222/

Fox REPUG network giving airtime to n!gga-hatas:

Fox News' Latest Racist Attack: "Obama Looks Like a Skinny, Ghetto Crackhead"

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews..._crackhead%22/

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Fox REPUG network giving airtime to n!gga-hatas:

Fox News' Latest Racist Attack: "Obama Looks Like a Skinny, Ghetto Crackhead"

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews..._crackhead%22/

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Originally Posted by Bozell

How long do you think Sean Hannity's show would last if four times in one sentence, he made a comment about, say, the President of the United States, and said that he looked like a skinny, ghetto crackhead? Which, by the way, you might want to say that Barack Obama does.

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Why might you want to say that?

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Originally Posted by boutons_deux

The Bigots and Billionaires in Ron Paul’s Orbit

He is a perennial favorite of the John Birch Society and kindred extremists on the right. He once refused to return a donation from a leader of the Nazi-worshipping skinheads in the Stormfront movement.

What is it about the kindly old doctor that attracts some of the most violent and reactionary elements in society to his banner?

For many years, Paul was merely an outlying crank in the ranks of the Republican Party—a “libertarian” who courted the paranoid bigots in the John Birch Society, whose monthly magazine featured his name on its masthead as a “contributing editor.” More than a decade ago, during his 1996 campaign for Congress, the racist ravings in his newsletters were first exposed—the same series of articles that besmirched Martin Luther King and Barbara Jordan and encouraged every racist stereotype about African-Americans as criminals and welfare dependents. He disowns those words now, but back then a spokesman defended them as merely “taken out of context.”

Back then, his rhetorical flirtations with the White Citizens Councils hardly mattered. Almost nobody bothered to listen seriously to his urgings that America return to the gold standard, repeal the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators and erase all of the advances of the past century in protecting the public from cyclical depressions, poisonous food, water, air and drugs, and the insecurities of poverty, old age and ill health. Most Americans still could remember when this Darwinian ideology influenced policy and knew that the nation was not better off—except for a few robber barons—back in the days before Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated the Progressive Era, beginning a century of reform.

On the far right, including wealthy figures such as the Koch family that once supported the Birch Society and now backs the tea party, there are many who share Paul’s brand of political nostalgia. Kindly and gentle as he appears, Paul has always known how to sound the dog whistle that excites them, whether it was in the race-baiting that adorned his newsletters for years, the claims that medicine served us better before Medicare and Medicaid or the campaign against the Federal Reserve. Although Paul has occasionally disavowed his supporters on the ultra-right when political expediency demanded it, they have never abandoned him—and they won’t, because whether or not he is actually a racial bigot, he shares their disdain for the 20th century.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/print...rbit_20111222/

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Lol "Ron Paul's orbit"

Replace "Ron Paul" with "Obama" and "tea party" with "communists" and "white" with "muslim" and you have yourselves a Fox News story. Same credibility. Wake up sheeple.

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Lol "Ron Paul's orbit"

Replace "Ron Paul" with "Obama" and "tea party" with "communists" and "white" with "muslim" and you have yourselves a Fox News story. Same credibility. Wake up sheeple.

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So who should we vote for, Parker?