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Ex-aide calls Rep. Ron Paul's foreign policy views 'pure lunacy'
TheHill.com ^ | 27 Dec 11 | Cameron Joseph

Posted on 12/27/2011 12:27:24 PM PST by seanmerc

A former congressional aide to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has written a piece slamming the presidential hopeful's foreign-policy views, calling them "pure lunacy" in an online post on the conservative website Rightwingnews.com.

The long piece by former aide Eric Dondero alleges awkward treatment by Paul of gays and Jews, but saves its strongest criticisms for his policy positions.

"It’s his foreign policy that’s the problem; not so much some stupid and whacky things on race and gays he may have said or written in the past," he writes.

Dondero writes that Paul does not believe Israel should exist, that the United States should not have gotten involved in World War II, that the government might have known beforehand about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that he planned to vote against the war in Afghanistan before changing his mind for political reasons.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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To: seanmerc

Paul a kook on foreign policy? A self evident fact except to the young, naive, or intelligent.


41 posted on 12/27/2011 7:05:43 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: algernonpj

RONULANS usually miss the most obvious facts and instead bait and switch


42 posted on 12/27/2011 7:06:13 PM PST by RaceBannon (Ron Paul is to the Constitution what Fred Phelps is to the Bible.)
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To: RaceBannon; algernonpj
are you going to deny ron paul called for legalizing drugs, too??

Can't have that, as it would put tens of thousands of government employees out of biz.

The only thing the WOD won, is a bigger, more controlling government, yet the drugs can be had anywhere.

It's allowed violent gangs to flourish are create all knew crime industries...lol..Can you imagine? Who would have ever thought?

Looks like big-gov roped a bunch of dopes into buying into their concocted WOD sham, which gave government a blank check and budget you'd never ever believe.

43 posted on 12/27/2011 7:06:13 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: RaceBannon

Your courts now have more cash registers than your local Walmart...lol

It was a win win for big gov!


44 posted on 12/27/2011 7:12:16 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: seanmerc

I would like to see Ron Paul’s newsletters. I think it will be crystal clear one way or the other if this ex-aide is telling the truth.


45 posted on 12/27/2011 7:17:04 PM PST by this is my country
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To: seanmerc
It’s his foreign policy that’s the problem

Yeah, and look at our foreign polices with foreign neighbors Mexico for instance.

Top shelf diplomacy, runs like a Swiss watch and totally benefits the American citizens!

46 posted on 12/27/2011 7:21:14 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Policies too


47 posted on 12/27/2011 7:22:20 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: algernonpj
"Any time I have been able to track down the entire newletter referenced in a Ron Paul smear..."

LOL...Good for Paul. Live by the smear, die by the smear. Paul has run $2 million dollars worth of smears targetting Newt (and leaving Myth alone).

Couldn't happen to a nicer dirtbag.

Hank

48 posted on 12/27/2011 7:27:28 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball (Screw it. Newt's the smartest candidate and the guy I want to see debating Obummer. Flame away. Num)
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To: Longbow1969

“Paul is a kook.”

An increasingly dangerous one. The media hype of RP which grows daily is alarming.


49 posted on 12/27/2011 7:27:53 PM PST by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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To: algernonpj
It has nothing to do with the elites, but has everything to do with Ron Paul. He is a kook - the old fashioned kind and he is a racist - the old fashioned kind. He is a stain on the Republican Party.
50 posted on 12/27/2011 7:36:04 PM PST by Dave W
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To: dragnet2

“Yeah, and look at our foreign polices with foreign neighbors Mexico for instance.”

You don’t understand. American foreign policy is only supposed to serve the interests of foreigners, not Americans.


51 posted on 12/27/2011 7:37:01 PM PST by mas cerveza por favor
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To: mas cerveza por favor
It’s his foreign policy that’s the problem

Yeah, and look at our foreign policies with the foreign neighbors in Mexico for instance.

Top shelf diplomacy, runs like a Swiss watch and totally benefits the American citizens!

You don’t understand. American foreign policy is only supposed to serve the interests of foreigners, not Americans.

LOL!

Well then, they've done a hell of a job for Mexico, all at the expense of the U.S. tax payers!

52 posted on 12/27/2011 7:44:38 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: algernonpj

“As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces”

Oh, gee - the Ft. Hood shooter was a military officer, too.

Maybe RP was not so overtly loony in the 80’s. He has, however, strongly dissed Reagan.


53 posted on 12/27/2011 7:46:12 PM PST by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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To: seanmerc

“Breaking news” has really been dumbed down. Along with “Alert” or “Urgent” e.g. on Fox.


54 posted on 12/27/2011 8:26:58 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: seanmerc; All

55 posted on 12/27/2011 8:27:35 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: Zhang Fei

FDR was a crypto-communist who went to war against Germany to protect the Soviets, and went to war with and (his successor) nuked Japan for the same reason. Additionally he put the Communists in power in China and Eastern Europe. FGR was a traitor, and the fruits of his treason are still apparent and flourishing both at home and abroad.


56 posted on 12/27/2011 8:27:44 PM PST by plenipotentiary (Obama was a BRITISH SUBJECT at birth, passed to him via Pops, can't be NBC)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
“Breaking news” has really been dumbed down. Along with “Alert” or “Urgent” e.g. on Fox.

And it's painful obvious. Yet a thread about a Christmas day mass murder in Texas, was sent to "Chat".

Very odd.

57 posted on 12/27/2011 9:15:34 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2; the OlLine Rebel

I am not sure who added the breaking news category, but I know it wasn’t me.


58 posted on 12/27/2011 9:32:26 PM PST by seanmerc
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To: seanmerc

I believe you. But I must say, that’s pretty interesting.


59 posted on 12/27/2011 11:24:39 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Longbow1969; All

Does Ron Paul actually think that Hitler would have just stayed happily in Europe if he had won? Or that the Japanese would have settled with Hawaii and Alaska? Sheesh.


60 posted on 12/27/2011 11:50:02 PM PST by gleeaikin
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