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In 1996, Paul Wasn't Issuing Denials
Captain's Quarters ^ | Jan. 11, 2008 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 01/11/2008 6:59:44 AM PST by jdm

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To: 9YearLurker
Is there nothing the Pubbies can do to distance themselves from this guy?

Absolutely--the same thing they did when David Duke ran as a Republican. Ostracize and stop supporting him. If he wins his Congressional seat again, do not allow him to caucus with the GOP.

IIRC, there was a guy (racist) running for a state seat in TN. The state GOP actually endorsed the guy's DEMOCRAT opponent. If only the RNC had the same principles/stones.
41 posted on 01/11/2008 7:37:42 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: wideawake

I think I figured it out, some posters support Marxist Military Coups.


42 posted on 01/11/2008 7:38:38 AM PST by mnehring
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To: 9YearLurker
Is there nothing the Pubbies can do to distance themselves from this guy?

It doesn't look like that's going to be and issue. Thus far the media hasn't characterized him as a Republican, and the DNC hasn't picked up on the issue. His nuttiness and particularly that of his supporters probably helped in that regard. My guess by the time the general election comes around, he'll clearly not be a Republican. The other candidates will be able to handle this issue if it comes up.

43 posted on 01/11/2008 7:39:57 AM PST by SJackson (If 45 million children had lived, they'd be defending America, filling jobs, paying SS-Z. Miller)
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To: OCCASparky
Absolutely--the same thing they did when David Duke ran as a Republican. Ostracize and stop supporting him.

Luckily, the GOP has more brains than you, as evidenced by the New Hampshire GOP boycotting the debate last week after they dumped Paul. I'll take their word over the "steely eyed killer of the deep". What does that even mean, anyway?

44 posted on 01/11/2008 7:40:23 AM PST by jmc813 (Don't screw this up, vote for Thompson.)
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To: mnehrling

So your a “fool” if you ever made a foolish mistake oh perfect one? He made a foolish mistake, just like Fred did when he called for Aristide’s restoration to power (and later claimed falsely to the contrary).


45 posted on 01/11/2008 7:41:33 AM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: jdm

This could cost Ron Paul the Republican nomination for President. /sarc


46 posted on 01/11/2008 7:42:21 AM PST by barryg
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To: Captain Kirk
when do you think McCain will fully apologize for callling the Vietnamese gooks

Probably when the Vietnamese government formally apologizes to him for brutally torturing him for years. Imagine a man having unkind words for the nation that deputed sadists to torture him! What gall! It's not as if he had a good excuse for that kind of language, like having a newsletter for example.

BTW, the torture of McCain started around the same time that Ron Paul was sitting around in an air-conditioned National Guard examination room doing things he didn't believe in in exchange for cash.

47 posted on 01/11/2008 7:42:53 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

“That’s changing the subject from the thread topic: i.e. the demonstrated fact that Ron Paul is a lying scumbag.”

He explained this in 2001.

He’s not lying, and he’s not a scumbag.

However, the namecalling - scumbag, traitor, etc.

Aristide was a committed leftist in 1991, as well, btw.

His campaign was marred buy violence of his supporters, he called the US the “Great Satan,” and he urged his supporters to “necklace” his opponents. This was in 1991.

I guess namecalling is easier than researching.


48 posted on 01/11/2008 7:42:55 AM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem (The GOP is "Whig"ing out.)
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To: wideawake

“Probably when the Vietnamese government formally apologizes to him for brutally torturing him for years. Imagine a man having unkind words for the nation that deputed sadists to torture him! What gall! It’s not as if he had a good excuse for that kind of language, like having a newsletter for example.”

McCain did forgive the Vietnamese govt.

He went with Kerry to get the trade normalization pact done.

McCain opened Communist Vietnam to trade with the US.


49 posted on 01/11/2008 7:43:56 AM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem (The GOP is "Whig"ing out.)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
He’s not lying

Again he admitted writing the newsletter before he denied writing the newsletter.

So he was either lying then or he is lying now.

Whatever the answer, he remains a liar.

50 posted on 01/11/2008 7:45:18 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: jmc813
Hello? Are we on the same page here? The GOP needs to DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM PAUL. And they can do so.

Personally, the NH GOP is a bunch of mouth-breathing good-ol-boys who learned nothing from the ass-kicking they took in 2006. RINOs, the whole lot of them.
51 posted on 01/11/2008 7:45:39 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: SJackson
Thus far the media hasn't characterized him as a Republican

There was this Republican debate thingie last night, and granted I was two glasses of merlot deep at the time, but I could have sworn Ron Paul was on my TV screen. Maybe I was just f$%&ed up. Who knows?

52 posted on 01/11/2008 7:46:54 AM PST by jmc813 (Don't screw this up, vote for Thompson.)
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To: wideawake
BTW, the torture of McCain started around the same time that Ron Paul was sitting around in an air-conditioned National Guard examination room doing things he didn't believe in in exchange for cash.

Which branch of the military did you serve in?

53 posted on 01/11/2008 7:48:07 AM PST by jmc813 (Don't screw this up, vote for Thompson.)
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To: jmc813
Ron Paul has never accomplished jack-shit in his long career of living off taxpayers.

His moment of glory is betraying his country, and taking bloodmoney of the back of our troops, from seditionists, traitors and racists.

He can go to hell.

54 posted on 01/11/2008 7:48:24 AM PST by roses of sharon
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To: jmc813
Not to mention the fact I've hear Paul described as a "maverick Republican" or other such tripe more than once on my television.

Maybe it was just an auditory hallucination. A repeating one, at that.
55 posted on 01/11/2008 7:49:02 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem

I must admit, you’re very good at calmly pwning the Posse wannabes on these threads. Well done.


56 posted on 01/11/2008 7:50:05 AM PST by jmc813 (Don't screw this up, vote for Thompson.)
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To: OCCASparky
Hello? Are we on the same page here? The GOP needs to DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM PAUL. And they can do so.

Would you also agree that the GOP needs too distance itself from gun-grabbers and pro-abortion Republicans?

57 posted on 01/11/2008 7:51:50 AM PST by jmc813 (Don't screw this up, vote for Thompson.)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
His campaign was marred buy violence of his supporters, he called the US the “Great Satan,” and he urged his supporters to “necklace” his opponents. This was in 1991. I guess namecalling is easier than researching.

Apparently "researching" to you means reading the columns of gay activist/Ron Paul supporter/Milosevic apologist Justin Raimondo.

The reports of necklacing came from the 1996 split between the OPL party and Aristide's Lavalas faction, when there was open violence in the streets between Aristide supporters and his former allies.

But keep digging.

back to the topic of the thread:

Ron Paul is a lying weasel, as demonstrated by the libertarian Reason Magazine's inability to justify his continuously changing story about his whacko newsletter.

58 posted on 01/11/2008 7:52:25 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
It's not as if he had a good excuse for that kind of language, like having a newsletter for example.

So you think its okay to call the Vietnamese Gooks (still not fully apologized for), but not okay for Paul who unlike McCain, has fully apologize for his newsletters, eh? McCain can be a racist and that's okay with you.

59 posted on 01/11/2008 7:53:47 AM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: wideawake

A freeper defending Aristide. Imagine that. Next, you’ll be defending Chavez and Castro (both of whom your pal Aristide admires).


60 posted on 01/11/2008 7:55:18 AM PST by Captain Kirk
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