Replies

Yeah, despite there being black politicians who are just as racist in the DNC. White racists and black racists are not equal.

Regardless, an new, openly racist white pol isn’t gonna be allowed in. A libertarian who apparently is not racist but just believes it is not the government’s business is a different issue, particularly when he has held a congressional seat for decades.

If Paul espoused some of Duke’s more inflamatory views, he would be gone from the GOP in a most celebrated fashion, resembling the trent lott birthday comments for Thurmond, (which I really don’t believe merited comment, much less the public crucifixion of Lott. He was trying to say something nice at the party of a 100-year-old guy who may not have been cognizent of it anyway.)

I've spent time with Ron Paul back in '88. I don't believe he has a racist bone in his body. He is personally a thoroughly decent, caring and concerned human being. He's pro-life, he's brought thousands of lives into this world as an OBG. He does have a tendency toward conspiracy theory. I asked him at the time about the attack on the USS Stark and Ron Paul had his theory about it, which I don't remember.

But if you look at the Declaration of Independence, you could argue that it makes a conspiracy theory:

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

The Declaration goes on to make a case that George III was the head conspirator. They had evidence and they made their case. Conspiracies do exist after all, but you have to have evidence and make your case. Conspiracy theories of the type that the 'jews run the media' or 'free masons control the government' are nonsensical and pernicious.