Republican Jewish Coalition Bans Ron Paul from Debate

Reason TV ^ | December 1, 2011 | Matt Welch

[pocat]

On Wednesday, Dec. 7, the Republican Jewish Coalition will host a presidential-candidates forum featuring Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum. Not invited is the GOP candidate currently polling around third in New Hampshire and second in Iowa: Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). The explanation:

Paul was not invited to attend the RJC's candidates forum because the organization - as it has stated numerous times in the past - "rejects his misguided and extreme views," said [RJC Executive Director Matt] Brooks.

"He's just so far outside of the mainstream of the Republican party and this organization," Brooks said. Inviting Paul to attend would be "like inviting Barack Obama to speak."

[nkycincinnatikid]

Then too, maybe they just didn’t want more candidates than there are members of their Republican coalition.

[gargoyle]

...None, officially...."That's classified" The ADBM doesn't have a "Need to Know"

...Retaliate? If Israel gets nuked, it’s OVER.

...Do you really believe the Israels will allow that? Or even this disfunctional administration, unless that's what BHO wants? We've cow towed to a police action peace keeping agenda for too fookin long! We have the weapons, seems sometimes screw collateral damage, wipe them all off the planet!

In short, anyone who believes in such a philosophy is dangerously stupid... you want to want(wait) until AFTER millions of innocent men, women and children are turned to dust before you do something about Irans’ nuclear program.

...OK, we're worried about collateral damage, like we've ever worried about that in war, who sorts that out? I'M ALL EARS...

[pocat]

LOL. “The Log Cabin Republicans” probably boast more members.

BTW - If your screenname is still relevant, we’re in the same area.

[pocat]

Anyone who uses the word “blowback” to “explain” 9/11 is a pro-terrorist un-patriotic POS.

The CIA?

[Yaelle]

I like seeing ron Paul at the debates but he is fairly anti-Semitic. I am a little torn, but if it were up to me I’d have him debate just to expose his Israel and middle east views. For the sake of freedom of speech.

[pocat]

He stood on the house floor as an example and stated that “Iran really does mean it when they say all Jews should die and Israel be wiped off the face of the earth”. He is constantly saying this terrorist or that terrorist doesn’t mean what they say, he always has and excuse for them.

I think your quote above is a little disingenuous; most likely slanderous. Please show a source or transcript that shows what he really said if you're going to make these types of accusations.

[samtheman]

Sure. Obama’s CIA.

The Kenyan CIA.

[pocat]

The CIA blowback report came out long before Obama was even a twinkle in his handlers’ eyes. Try again.

[samtheman]

There are plenty of Clintonoids in the CIA.

You know that.

Try again.

[Wallace T.]

It is ridiculous to call Ron Paul an anti-Semite when the two major influences on his political philosophy are Austrian School economists Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, both men of Jewish background (though I do not believe either man was observant).

He is opposed to supporting Israel, but he also opposes supporting South Korea, Taiwan, or Japan. However, no one accuses him of being anti-Asian. His foreign policy views are unrealistic in the current world, and he is too trusting of unrestrained international trade. You cannot turn Iran into a peaceful nation by trading with them any more than you could with the Soviet Union. However, I fail to see any justification for the canard that Paul is anti-Semitic.

[svcw]

Here are just a few statements.
As a side note slanders must have some monetary damages, and since there are so many paulbots it would never happen.

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Fox News Sunday” that sanctions should be removed altogether to get Iran to act differently and that the U.S. response to Iran’s nuclear pursuit was an “overreaction.” He added that Iran does not pose a threat to either the U.S. or the region.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/ron_paul_ignores_irans_treachery.html#ixzz1fPaGhAnW

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Paul also writes that, based on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran should be allowed to develop nuclear energy, as long as it is for peaceful purposes. Besides, Paul adds, U.S. sanctions simply allow regimes to blame problems on the U.S., maintaining power for themselves.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/Ken-Walshs-Washington/2011/11/29/ron-paul-free-trade-not-sanctions-will-solve-iran-nuclear-crisis

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Keeping true to form but breaking with his GOP counterparts, Texas Congressman Ron Paul spoke about the potential of Israeli military action against Iran during CNN’s foreign policy debate Tuesday night, stating that he would not aid Israel if an attack against Iran proved imminent. Paul said he wouldn’t expect such an attack to take place, but if it were to asked: “Why does Israel need our help? We need to get out of their way.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ron-paul-says-he-will-not-aid-israel-in-military-action-against-iran

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The Texas congressman says fears about Iran’s nuclear program have been “blown out of proportion.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67708.html#ixzz1fPb57HAY

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excuse making
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIO-4v8qpYc

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3vF6Vcjr0

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The Texas congressman also warned against any military strike against Iran, saying, “Iran doesn’t have a bomb. There’s no proof… And for us to overreact and to talk about bombing Iran, that’s much more dangerous.”

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/211212.html

[Youaskedforit]

Okay, we’re gonna have a debate... Oh what’s this, you don’t share my point of view (even though you’re third in the polls)? No, no, no... we don’t have those kind of debates.

Makes no sense. Views need to be aired and judged.

Next up, a debate on evolution. Oh, only Darwinians need to apply!

Sure, it’s a private organization so they can limit the discussion to turkey recipes... but these Jews are not only doing themselves and the Republicans a disservice, they’re insulting the fine sport of politics, which is not a festival of the likeminded, no matter how hard one tries.

[Earthdweller]

I think RP adds much to the economic debate. His foreign policy is severely unrealistic, but I’m not sure it’s antisemitic. I’m not getting the logic here...

[pocat]

*yawn*

We still have some WMD's to find in Iraq, don't we?

[svcw]

WMDS had nothing to do about our conversation. I provided what you asked for and you have change the criteria, not surprising.
However, since you are misinformed about Ron Paul you might be pleased to know you are also misinformed about WMDs.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_did_find_iraq_wmd_AYiLgNbw7pDf7AZ3RO9qnM

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http://mainegazette.com/world-news/wmds-finally-iraq/

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http://www.warriorsfortruth.com/iraq-wmd.html

[Republican Wildcat]

Your defenses of Paul simply don’t wash - this is a guy who endorsed and aggressively campaigned for a Code Pink activist candidate who was well known for having gone overseas to military bases and encouraged troops to abandon their posts and desert into foreign countries for assylum, disrupted the 2008 GOP Convention during McCain’s acceptance speech, openly endorsed physical attacks on President Bush after the shoe throwing incident, known for being a 9/11 truth activist, etc.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Ron Paul is allied with Code Pink and Hamas.

This is enough to show he is Extreme.

[Godebert]

"I shudder to think what the nut would do to our military if he ever got in not that he ever would ."

Only one commissioned officer upheld his sworn oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, by questioning Obama's Constitutional eligibility as commander-in-chief.

It's not "our" military anymore, it's Obama's.

[SJackson]

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If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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[SJackson]

Can't be much of a group. Most jews vote Democrat.

Just a couple of guys meeting in a garage. Who want's them in the GOP anyway.