Would you like to start a Ron Paul Revolution?
One thing I've noticed about the Ron Paul phenomenon -- which has pulled numbers from the Left and Right with popular anti-administration, anti-war sentiments -- is how little many of his newfound supporters know about the man.
Speaking of not taking responsibility for one's printed material, The New Republic decodes some of the Ron Paul cipher:
((Be warned, TNR's server is being crunched by this))
James Kirchick writes:
Antiwar conservatives, disaffected centrists, even young liberal activists have all flocked to Paul, hailing him as a throwback to an earlier age, when politicians were less mealy-mouthed and American government was more modest in its ambitions, both at home and abroad.
The story lays a lot of foundation before getting to its "nut graf" that Kirchick found back copies of Ron Paul's various newsletters and found lots of anti-black, anti-gay and anti-Jewish rhetoric:
What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics.
Team Ron's response: Story is a politically motivated rehash of old news about newsletters topped with "Dr. Paul's" name, but he was totally unaware of the content.
anyone can be a populist
Don't need to read his newsletter (which he may not have written but bore his name) I was appalled when I saw him on TV saying the civil war wasn't necessary for emancipation. Apparently he was willing to wait. While I have some sympathy for the less is more theory of government of the libertarians in actual practice it would be as dystopian as anarchy objectivism or communism, not all to the same degree.
Back in the 70s, they said that Libertarians were just Republicans who wanted to smoke pot.
Those were the good old days. Everything's veered to the right since then. Today's libertarians come of more like John Birchers.
If Hillary wins, I'm turning Republican.
Watch out PRC.
really? You would vote for mitt rudy or huck? It is your right but if I hated HRC that much I would stay home or at least come out for the local and congressional elections.
Check out the Ron paul newsletters, before you make that threat.