Posted on 12/26/2011 10:06:21 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A former Ron Paul staffer named Eric Dondero, who worked closely with the Texas congressman and presidential candidate over the course of 15 years, has issued a statement in which he both defends his old boss from charges of racism and anti-Semitism and reveals damning new details about about the "sheer lunacy of [Paul's] foreign policy views".
First, Dondero claims that his old boss is such an extreme isolationist that "he strenuously does not believe the United States had any business getting involved in fighting Hitler in WWII. He expressed to me countless times, that 'saving the Jews,' was absolutely none of our business."
Second, Dondero writes that that Paul himself is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist:
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Before I stopped talking to my dad, he told me people judge you by the company you keep..
Ron Paul is the sock puppet of Lew Rockwell, his former congressional aid. These are Rockwell’s views, especially re 9/11, which those of us on FR on that fateful day well remember. BTW, how’d you like Paul on Leno— “Michelle Bachmann hates Muslims” and “Santorum hates Muslim and gays?” Let him boil in his own grease; he wanted to play the media game so long as he was getting their “strange new respect.”
It's coming, if the RINOS are able to get away with cramming him down our throats as our nominee (as they did with that other LOSER McCain).
I saw Ed Gillespi (I think it was) in an interview on FNC where he said that he has seen the DNC's stack of opposition research on Romney. He raised his hand to indicate that it was higher than his head.
It’s good to see someone I don’t like being investigated.
See the thing is,...
Just when it seems, all of this mud-slinging is transparent pap from the Romney people.
There you go again. Perrywinkle.
No, we’re not “down to taking The word of a disgruntled fired employee”. RPaul’s affiliation with with multiple individuals and websites that say the same thing is well documented.
Indeed...
Isolationism within reason should not be a dirty word to conservatives. For much of American history, isolationism was the typical conservative position.
Whether Ron Paul, with the extreme and sometimes disturbing foreign policy impressions he sometimes gives, is a proponent of "isolationism within reason" is a debatable topic. But to automatically denigrate all isolationist sentiment is to embrace the world view of FDR and reject the attitude of conservatives from George Washington to Robert Taft.
After Japan sneak-attacked the U.S. and declared war, and the U.S. reciprocated by declaring war on Japan, then Nazi Germany declared war on the U.S. due to their alliance with Japan. We didn’t initiate a declaration of war on either of those countries - they did. You can’t avoid fighting a defensive war, even if only the initial sneak attack was fought on U.S. soil.
>> He expressed to me countless times, that ‘saving the Jews,’ was absolutely none of our business.”
Hard to believe the ‘ex-aide’, but the remark is not inconsistent with Paul’s attitude concerning the welfare of foreigners. Whether or not this is a view maintained by Ron Paul, no doubt it’s one held by a segment of his supporters.
Problem is you can’t separate the good from the bad. If you vote for Paul you are endorsing all the crackpot ideas, newsletters, etc.
Well, we would all be speaking German if Paul’s group thinkers had won.
Did you actually bother to read:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2825188/posts?page=23#23
or for that matter any of the available newsletters?????
I think not.
The real question, is whether or not we should have fought in World War 1.
If the United States had not entered WW1, then it most likely would have been a stalemate and Hitler would have been working in an art studio his entire life and there would have been no such thing as WW2.
When reasonable and respectable people have abandoned conservative principles, the field is left to the crackpots and extremists. Too many conservatives have embraced the foreign policy worldview of Franklin Roosevelt. I was all for fighting the Cold War, it was the necessary completion of our World War business. But the Cold War is over and Washington's advice to avoid foreign entanglements should be respected more by conservatives. We should want to conserve the ideals of the Founding Fathers over those of the New Deal.
“I dont know if this stuff is true or not (he is not my choice anyway) but I don’t believe they suddenly acquired this info over the last couple of days.”
C’mon man he is now “on top”. Time for the MSM and the Pub’s to take him down.
I’m by no means a Paul fan but these attacks are the norm once anyone starts polling well.
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