That's how Paul reads it. Why should he succumb to the PC crowd?:
Ron Paul on White Supremecy (30 second youtube)
Posted on 12/19/2007 2:12:32 PM PST by Westlander
Edited on 12/19/2007 2:32:28 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Aide: Candidate to take money and 'try to spread the message of freedom'
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has received a $500 campaign donation from a white supremacist, and the Texas congressman doesn't plan to return it, an aide said Wednesday.
Don Black, of West Palm Beach, recently made the donation, according to campaign filings. He runs a Web site called Stormfront with the motto, "White Pride World Wide." The site welcomes postings to the "Stormfront White Nationalist Community."
I guess it doesn’t hurt that Paul shares the Aryan Nation’s position on the state of Israel.
“There’s an opportunity here for Ron Paul...”
Exactly. Paul is supposed to have so much money, why not create a Sister Souljah moment and take advantage of some good publicity? The big knock on Paul is that he is a nut, and yet he spurns an easy chance to look normal and do something that shows principle (which is supposed to be his strong suite). The Paul campaign is not well run.
From previous postings There is even a Ron Paul Banner on stormfront.
That’s really a no-win situation. If he gave the money back, he’d be accused of giving $500 to some Nazi (and that would technically be true). Better to come out and say that the guy is an idiot who just parted with $500 to give to someone who agrees with him on absolutely nothing, and that the guy won’t be getting a refund.
Why would someone from Stormfront give money to Paul, anyway? I can’t think of a single issue where they wouldn’t be 180 degrees apart. Neo-Nazi/Aryan Brotherhood politics are basically far left-wing plus racism and bigotry. If you took out the racial crap, the racist thug political platforms are basically indistinguishable from the Greens or the Socialists.
I hate Ron Paul's policies, his joking pandering to the 'libertarian' movement, the empty rhetoric of another empty seat congresscritter who will be living on my dime for the rest of his life because eventually he'll lose an election and 'retire' from civil service. His anti-federalist viewpoint is as deep as Hillary's feelings on anything.
However, if he doesn't have to give back the money from outright liberals who want the state to determine our every waking moment, the thought police that state it's just fine for a group to advocate taking a portion of this country and calling it Mexico, open border supporters, etc who actually do real harm to our country, then I have no clue why he should bother distancing himself from someone openly mocked on a conservative forum.
Honestly, making issues out of this kind of empty issue simply gives the donator and his cause more attention than he's had in years.
The Stormfronters are adamantly against the Iraq War. I’m sure that’s the reason behind their support for Paul. That, and the fact that Paul appears to have become a magnet for weirdos.
Half the Paul supporters I’ve talked to on my campus don’t even know what he stands for. They just know that he’s “anti-establishment” and that they can pretend to be faux-rebellious by supporting him.
Cute props. If he’d paid the kids another ten bucks, maybe they would have actually held the signs up.
This is my take on why Paul attracts such a diverse spectrum of kooks, er, supporters. Seriously.
To a lot of people who are frustrated with the status quo, Paul represents a political blank slate, and they perceive his ideas as being fresh, original, and at times radical.
Because he has a low-key personality and presents himself as a sort of unassuming Everyman, people tend to project their own views onto him, whether correctly or not.
That is why to a 9-11 Truther, he’s a Truther; to anti-war lib, he’s an anti-war lib (that’s partially true); to a white supremacist he’s a white supremacist; to someone who perceives himself as a staunch consitutionalist, Paul is a defender of the Constitution.
And the reason his supporters get so deeply offended when Paul is criticized is that they feel that their OWN deeply held views are the ones being challenged.
” I don’t like it because Paul is considered to be a republican ......”
by who?
But at least he believes in the "correct" Jesus....
A. There are some people that a hooker won’t take money from.
It's funny, because it's true.
“Paultard”?
LOL! Nice.
I probably won’t vote for Paul, but it is refreshing to see a candidate not back down to the whims of the mainstream media or special interest groups, and stand by his principles of fee speech.
Ron Paul is the Fredo of Republican conservatism.
“I can handle things! I’m smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I’m smart and I want respect!”
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