[Vision2020] Fw: Mr. Paul’s Discredited Campaign

[Paul Rumelhart]

I'm beginning to believe that Ron Paul is our only hope to stop the 
downslope this country is on.  For example, the Transportation Security 
Administration just got an extra $7.85 billion in funding for 2012, 
including several hundred million dollars of funding for whole body 
imagers.  This passed both the House and the Senate.  Does anyone here 
actually believe that terrorism is a personally actionable danger?  Do 
you change your behavior at all due to the threat?  Do you think all the 
security theater is worth the money?

Ron Paul is about the only guy out there that votes against this kind of 
crap.  Pretty much everybody else, (R) or (D), votes it in.  All they 
seem to argue about is who is getting the pork.

As I see it, your choices are 1) the same old shit, but next year having 
slipped even farther away from rationality or 2) this one bat-shit crazy 
dude that might actually try to do something about it.

One thing I've noticed this year is that Ron Paul is actually getting 
press.  There was a massive grassroots campaign for him the last couple 
of elections, but nobody in the media would take him seriously as an 
actual candidate.

The fact that they have started the smear campaign means that there is 
actually a chance of getting him in office.

My advice?  Don't vote for the person that looks like the most 
responsible Dad, or the guy that looks like he's someone you could have 
a beer with, or the one that looks like a he's a successful lawyer.  All 
of those guys are going to perpetuate the power grab that has been going 
on for the last few decades.

Vote for the dude that puts the fear of God into the others.  Vote for 
the one that will work to decrease their power, not the others that only 
want to increase it for personal gain.

Sure, he's a bag of mixed nuts sometimes.  But he's the only one with 
half a chance to shake things up a bit.

This should be a fun election year.

Paul

On 12/28/2011 11:35 AM, Art Deco wrote:
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> # The New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/>
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> Reprints 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/opinion/mr-pauls-discredited-campaign.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha211&pagewanted=print#> 
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> December 27, 2011
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>   Mr. Paul’s Discredited Campaign
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> Ron Paul long ago disqualified himself for the presidency by peddling 
> claptrap proposals like abolishing the Federal Reserve, returning to 
> the gold standard, cutting a third of the federal budget and all 
> foreign aid and opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
>
> Now, making things worse, he has failed to convincingly repudiate 
> racist remarks that were published under his name for years — or the 
> enthusiastic support he is getting from racist groups.
>
> Mr. Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas who is doing 
> particularly well in Iowa’s precaucus polls, published several 
> newsletters in the ’80s and ’90s with names like the Ron Paul Survival 
> Report and the Ron Paul Political Report. The newsletters interspersed 
> libertarian political and investment commentary with racial bigotry, 
> anti-Semitism and far-right paranoia.
>
> Among other offensive statements, the newsletters said that 95 percent 
> of Washington’s black males were criminals 
> <http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/12/22/v-print/133898/paul-walks-out-of-interview-over.html>, 
> and they described the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as 
> “Hate Whitey Day.” One 1993 article 
> <http://www.tnr.com/sites/default/files/January1993.pdf> appeared 
> under a headline lamenting the country’s “disappearing white 
> majority.” Other articles suggested that the Mossad, the Israeli 
> intelligence service, was responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center 
> bombing, praised the Louisiana racist David Duke and accused some gay 
> men with AIDS of deliberately spreading the disease 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/politics/ron-paul-disowns-extremists-views-but-doesnt-disavow-the-support.html?ref=politics&pagewanted=all>, 
> “perhaps out of a pathological hatred.”
>
> A direct-mail ad 
> <http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE7BM03320111223> for 
> the newsletters from around 1993 warned of a “coming race war in our 
> big cities” and said there was a “federal-homosexual cover-up” to 
> suppress the impact of AIDS.
>
> Mr. Paul, who, beginning in 2008, has disavowed the articles and their 
> ideas, now says that most of them were written by others and that he 
> was unaware of their content. Even if that were the case, it suggests 
> a stupendous level of negligence that should force a reconsideration 
> by anyone considering entrusting him with the White House.
>
> When the newsletters first became an issue during his Congressional 
> campaigns in the 1990s, however, he did not deny writing some of them 
> <http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/12/26/fifteen_years_ago_ron_paul_wasn_t_claiming_somebody_else_wrote_his_newsletters.html> 
> or knowing about them.
>
> Mr. Paul has never given a full and detailed accounting of who wrote 
> the newsletters and what his role was in overseeing their publication. 
> It’s especially important that he do so immediately. Those writings 
> have certainly not been forgotten by white supremacist and militia 
> groups that are promoting his candidacy in Iowa and in New Hampshire.
>
> The Times reported on Sunday 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/politics/ron-paul-disowns-extremists-views-but-doesnt-disavow-the-support.html> 
> that dozens of members of the white nationalist Web site Stormfront 
> are volunteering for the Paul campaign, along with far-right militias, 
> survivalists and anti-Zionist groups. Don Black, the Stormfront 
> director, said his members were drawn to Mr. Paul by the newsletters 
> and his positions against immigration and the Fed (run by Jews, Mr. 
> Black said), even if Mr. Paul were not himself a white nationalist.
>
> Mr. Paul, saying he still hopes to “convert” these supporters to his 
> views, has refused to disavow them or to chase them out of his 
> campaign. If he does not do so, he will leave a lasting stain on his 
> candidacy, on the libertarian movement and, very possibly, on the Iowa 
> caucuses.
>
> _____________________________________
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