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Why Ron Paul is off my list
I always to try take a somewhat detailed look at each of the candidates whenever there’s an election. Especially for president. I’ve posted on here a two different sites I’ve used to compare my views with those competing for the chief executive position. Usually, I’ll also check into the websites of the candidates to read their “official spin” in addition to the soundbites I see on the news and in the debates.
I’ve read some things I really like about Ron Paul, such as his ideas on freedom, smaller federal government, free markets, greater personal responsibility, the Second Amendment, and border security as well as his strict Constitutionalist ideas to do away with the Department of Education, The Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Reserve Bank. I’m intrigued about his notion to eliminate Medicare and Medicaid, as well as US membership in the United Nations and NATO. I think his views about the abolition of federal drug laws are interesting, too. I don’t know if I agree with him about that, but it’s certainly worth a closer look.
In the “no” column, I disagree strongly with him in regards to his “blame America first” attitude. And his thought that the reason we are so broke as a nation is because of defense spending (hint: it’s entitlements, not defense, that are bankrupting America.)
Additionally, the past week has seen some very unflattering information come to light about Dr. Paul (such as The New Republic article, Pajamas Media’s exposé and Ace of Spades HQ’s sledgehammer to the forehead of the Paulites). And while mudslinging is by no means unique to the 2008 election, and the timing of the NR article was obviously timed to sink Paul before New Hampsire, the material is too disturbing – and too extensive – to ignore. Sultan Knish found plenty of evidence to prove that Dr. Paul wrote the newsletters he’s now denying.
The January 1991 newsletter features the author mentioning another congressman as “my successor” and talking about his experience as “a flight surgeon in the air force” and then afterward launching into another tirade about Martin Luther King. Again this is Ron Paul’s record, not someone else. The author is clearly Ron Paul.
In that same newsletter the author writes about his time running for President in 1988 on the Libertarian Party ticket. Ron Paul ran for President in 1988 on the Libertarian Party ticket. Here it is completely unambiguous that the author is Ron Paul and that he is expressing his own views about Martin Luther King.
In Feb of 1991 the author writes that he voted against “an expensive federal holiday for this man” referring to King. Of course Ron Paul famously voted against recognizing MLK day as a holiday.
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If Ron Paul lied about authorship, then he’s made a false statement during a presidential campaign right now, rather than having published a newsletter with racist statements two decades ago. Considering the evidence, he has to disprove his authorship before getting a pass on it. If he proves he is not the author, then we can begin examining what degree of knowledge and control he had.
Real the allegations for yourself. Personally, I’ve concluded that Ron Paul is either a crackpot and a racist, or a completely incompetent boob who allowed crackpots and racists to post in his name. Neither is a good choice for the Oval Office.
The evidence demonstrates exactly why there is such a freaky coalition of white supremacists, homophobes, and conspiracy kooks eager to throw their, um, let’s just say enthusiastic support behind Ron Paul. LGF sums it up rather well:
The problem for Dr. Paul is that there was a lot of this stuff. It stretches credulity to the breaking point to believe he had absolutely no idea what was being published in his name for that long. Doesn’t pass the sniff test.
And the newsletter isn’t the only source of the odor. There are Dr. Paul’s numerous appearances on the whacked-out conspiracy radio show hosted by 9/11 Troofer Alex Jones—and there are all those Nazis and New World Order types hanging around, who somehow, somewhere got the impression that Ron Paul was their kind of candidate.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
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Good follow-up article which addresses Ron Paul’s opinion that the 9/11 attacks were our own fault:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/no_ron_911_is_not_our_fault.html