Posted on 08/16/2011 4:17:26 AM PDT by Rufus2007
It is the truth
Ron Paul will never be President of the US
Don’t shoot the messenger
If anything, the perpetual Paul campaign helps RINOs the most.
2. He is irrelevant, out of ideas, wrong most of the time, and just a whisker short of the level of narcicism as the stain - and that is saying a great deal!
3. This "east coast intelligencia" is yet another reason why I no longer watch or listen to fox. They waste my time. And I don't have a great deal of that commodity left to me.
I would suggest to all on here to use your time in better, more constructive ways!
IMHO....
Seems to be a very popular activity these days.....
I would like to see Paul as the Chairman of the Fed or Treasure Sec.
I would like to see Paul as the Chairman of the Fed or Treasure Sec.
Krauthammer is right. Ron Paul us a perennial candidate like Harold Stassen. He knows he can’t win but uses the race to promote his views and score some pot on the bus.
Now, in the meantime, how does Ron Paul help or hurt the conservative effort? He's good at articulating the Libertarian message but his very serious baggage bolsters the libs and hurts conservative candidates. He is a distraction from the effort of identifying the final nominee.
A lot of conservatives would prefer that Ron Paul stop interfering in the primary process and go back to writing his newsletter.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
You're kidding me right? Ron Paul is delusional and so are his followers. Who would be his VP Cindy Sheehan?
Neither will Michelle Bachmann.
Or does he not stand a chance because he is being ignored? So much for unbiased journalism.
Of course the real reason Paul is being ignored is because he is a true Constitutionalist, opposes the Federal Reserve, and rejects Globalism. The Republicrat/Dumbocan Party and the Corporate Media will do everything in their power to prevent somebody like that into the White House.
Yep, FR has its very own crack circular firing squad
A Quick Investigation into Ron Paul’s Racist Writings: Did he Actually Write Them?
...it all looks rather harmless, if confusingly so, right? But the Libertarian site reason.com (http://reason.com/blog/2008/01/11/old-news-rehashed-for-over-a-d) points out what was published in 1996:
The Dallas Morning News:
Dr. Paul denied suggestions that he was a racist and said he was not evoking stereotypes when he wrote the columns. He said they should be read and quoted in their entirety to avoid misrepresentation...In the interview, he did not deny he made the statement about the swiftness of black men. “If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them,” Dr. Paul said. He also said the comment about black men in the nation’s capital was made while writing about a 1992 study produced by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, a criminal justice think tank based in Virginia.
The Houston Chronicle:
Paul, a Republican obstetrician from Surfside, said Wednesday he opposes racism and that his written commentaries about blacks came in the context of “current events and statistical reports of the time.”...Paul also wrote that although “we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.” A campaign spokesman for Paul said statements about the fear of black males mirror pronouncements by black leaders such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has decried the spread of urban crime.
The Austin American-Statesman:
“Dr. Paul is being quoted out of context,” [Paul spokesman Michael] Sullivan said. “It’s like picking up War and Peace and reading the fourth paragraph on Page 481 and thinking you can understand what’s going on.”... Also in 1992, Paul wrote, “Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.” Sullivan said Paul does not consider people who disagree with him to be sensible. And most blacks, Sullivan said, do not share Paul’s views. The issue is political philosophy, not race, Sullivan said. “Polls show that only about 5 percent of people with dark-colored skin support the free market, a laissez faire economy, an end to welfare and to affirmative action,” Sullivan said.
The Washington Post:
Paul, an obstetrician from Surfside, Tex., denied he is a racist and charged Austin lawyer Charles “Lefty” Morris, his Democratic opponent, with taking his 1992 writings out of context. “Instead of talking about the issues, our opponent has chosen to lie and try to deceive the people of the 14th District,” said Paul spokesman Michael Sullivan, who added that the excerpts were written during the Los Angeles riots when “Jesse Jackson was making the same comments.”
Roll Call:
In a statement, Paul said he had “labored to conduct a campaign based upon the issues that are vital to our nation” and charged Morris with “repeated attempts...to reduce the campaign to name calling and race-baiting.” He called Morris’s request that he release all back issues of the newsletter “not only impractical, but...equivalent to asking him to provide documents for every lawsuit he has been involved in during his lengthy legal career.” Of his statements about Jordan, Paul said that “such opinions represented our clear philosophical difference. The causes she so strongly advocated were for more government, more and more regulations, and more and more taxes. My cause has been almost exactly the opposite, and I believe her positions to have been fundamentally wrong: I’ve fought for less and less intrusive government, fewer regulations, and lower taxes.”
When Ron Paul was asked by several newspapers about the racist newsletter articles in 1996, he did not deny writing them, and it’s quite apparent that his staff thought he wrote them, too.
http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/a-quick-investigation-into-ron-pauls/#ixzz1VBxtYYWs
I think you are right
Now I am waiting for the brave man or woman who says Mitt Romney will never be president of the US
I have a friend that is a member of the kool aide drinkers in the Ron Paul camp followers who has supported him for years. He refuses to see where his hero attaches ear marks to a bound to pass bill and then votes against the bill so he can brag about it. Some of the things he is spot on but then again a stopped clock is right twice a day. He will quietly fade away after 2012.
Yep! with chain guns!
“1. Why does fox permit old kraut-hammer on their network at all?”
I agree. Same with Juan Williams, and several others
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