Posted on 05/14/2010 6:24:44 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Ron & Rand Paul will be the first to tell you how much they revere George Washington, how theyre the Last Politicians In America who are faithfully carrying out his ideas. But theres one lesson the Father of our Country took to heart growing up that the Pauls somehow missed:
Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for tis better to be alone than in bad Company.
Sins of the Father
Ron Pauls associations with the bigoted, lunatic fringe of American politicsincluding white supremacists, anti-Semites, and 9/11 Truthersare by now the stuff of legend. On November 14 and November 25 of 2007, Andrew Walden wrote two stunning American Thinker posts detailing many such skeletons in the elder Pauls closet:
Ron Paul is a regular guest on the radio show of 9/11 Truther Alex Jones, a strong Paul supporter. Walden writes that Pauls committee paid 9-11 conspiracy nut and talk-show host Alex Jones $1300. Jones claims the payment is a partial refund after he over paid August 27 when giving Paul a $2300 contribution. Aaron Dykes of Alex Jones company Magnolia Management and Alex Jones Infowars website gave Ron Paul $1600 (Paul himself, while being careful not to explicitly call 9/11 an inside job, has signaled his sympathy for the Truther movement). Paul has been endorsed and aggressively supported by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, Holocaust denier Hutton Gibson (yep, Mels dad), the white supremacist American Nationalist Union, the Communist newspaper Peoples Weekly World, scores of authors and commenters on various other racist websites, & the white supremacist Stormfront.org. In particular, Stormfront founder Don Black donated $500 to Paul, and when pressed on whether or not the money would be returned, the Paul campaign was non-committal.
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I think that you're misinformed as to ansel's posting history.
He doesn't much like Ron Paul; but he's a fairly strong opponent of Mitt Romney's faction of the GOP as well, of which Trey Grayson is a favorite son. He's said on several threads that given the two choices in this race, he much prefers Rand Paul to Trey Grayson.
I think you might not have read his posts very closely.
Spot on. Got you crossed with someone on one of the other Paul threads (humblegunner). Many apologies!
And I’m sure you think it’s terrible that these kids would be influenced by someone who teaches respect for the Natural Law and adherence to the Constitution, right?
No. I think it’s terrible that kids are being misled about Natural Law and the Constitution by a pseudo-historian who has an amateur’s grasp of the subjects he purports to be teaching coupled with a near-religious affection for Straussian occultism.
conimbricenses, would you kindly share with the rest of the class exactly what you think is wrong with the “Hillsdale” conception of natural law. That would, of course, require you to explain both their position and yours, and to render an academically sound proof that yours is the correct, “non-amateur,” version. And as the self-professed professional among us with respect to natural law theory, I fully expect your explanation to be completely free of ad hominem content. I wait with bated breath.
I call the Straussian variety they practice there "amateur" because it simply does not have what it takes to compete on a scholarly level at any place beyond the echo chamber of its own adherents. The stuff they peddle does poorly in the academic peer review process. It is justifiably shredded to pieces by scholars outside of the narrow Straussian occult whenever it pops its head over into the mainstream (witness this recent example, involving a very well known Straussian Hillsdale prof: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jala/31.1/winger.html ) It doesn't perform well in other universities - even sympathetic conservative ones - outside of an exceedingly small list of completely Straussian departments that are known for promoting their own from inside (Hillsdale and Claremont being the two prime examples). And in the practical sense, it tends to breed the very worst types of "conservative" government - the George W. Bush-style big spending neoconservative naively idealist "democracy building" variety that ruined the conservative brand name in the 2000's and gave us our present state of affairs with Obama.
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