[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“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.

[wideawake]

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.

[wideawake]

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.

[wildbill]

Didn’t your mother teach you personal responsibility? The excuse that “Jimmy did it too” doesn’t fly with me.

And I think there is a qualitative difference between making a mistake about a foreign country’s politics and tin-pot politicians and a US politician personally holding morally repugnant racist attitudes.

I too like a lot of the things Paul says (Lets get rid of the IRS! Yay!)

But anyone can find and mouth a few libertarian ideas that will appeal to me. But I don’t let it lead me down the path toward supporting this guy who has been known as a radical kook in Texas for years.

You should feel betrayed by him, not attack others.

[been_lurking]

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

I guess namecalling is easier than researching.

I guess changing the subject is easier than defending the indefensible.

You have not made any effort to address the issue at hand. You are using the classic Democrat defense of "everybody does it..."

Pathetic.