Posted on 01/02/2012 10:15:33 AM PST by mnehring
I am pretty sure Ron Paul just admitted that at least some of the insane conspiracy theory material in his newsletter was his. Dave Weigel notes that Paul was on Jan Mikkelson’s show today, and a caller asked Paul about the newsletters. Paul offered what is now at least his third or fourth different explanation for the content of the newsletters, which is that he wrote some of the content, but not all, and certainly not the racist parts. The caller then went on to make the eminently reasonable point that in addition to the racist stuff, the newsletters contained a lot of material that ordinary people would find, you know, completely insane. Paul’s answer defies belief; unless, that is, you’ve been following the career of Ron Paul:
CALLER: But Dr. Paul, many of the newsletters are filled with conspiracies. You had one newsletter from start to finish with fear that the $50 bill, because it was going to be made pink, and it was gonna have all kinds of things that can track us down, so we should all be afraid that maybe tomorrow they’re gonna require us to turn in all of our old money.
PAUL: The paper money now is pink, you know? No, we haven’t had runaway inflation, but I still fear that.
So he's connected in high places! Awesome! ;-)
Paul’s answer defies belief
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As do the rest of his explanations about who did or did not write the screwy parts of his newsletters and why he failed to read those parts for years if not decades. Totally unbelievable.
Maybe some of the FR Ron Paul supporters can do better.
Face it. The man is a fool; he’s bonkers. He’s not a conservative; he’s not a Republican. He’s his own weird brand of dumbed down Ayn Randianism. He’s leading a cult of fellow crackpots who’d rather believe his outrageous comments than their own common sense. On foreign policy, he’s further to the Left than Barak Obama. He says things that are more anti-American. If you take away his dope-smoking groupies, you end up with mostly weird old cranks.
Boy, I’ve been tough on Rick Perry, but even I didn’t think up this one, lol!
It scares me that we have this loon running for president of the USA and some people are taking him seriously.
We have pink money?
Ron Paul stands about as much chance as a snowball in hades but he is right. Even if he were elected those who control politics in America would probably not allow him to live. Of course I have no proof of this but I honestly believe they would find a way to control him. Without a doubt he is the most honest politician in America!
In what universe?
The gun show Paulists who are armed with photocopies of chip-on-the-shoulder populist RP talking points are some of the worst, especially if they also have a "street preacher" streak that compels them to start proselytizing with anyone who walks past. I've had a few of them them get angry and visibly agitated, apparently because I didn't give them some sort of "amen" or "hallelujah" in response.
Mr. niteowl77
Fraud Paul honest? LOL, I guess I’ll file that under the ‘repeat a lie often enough’.
Lets be fair here, Ayn Rand absolutely hated libertarians. She called the Libertarians of her day (which were Paul's mentors) 'Hippies of the Right who trade capitalism for anarchy and reason for whims' (paraphrased).
You should be committed; you are insane.
Bush 1 introduced colored money so the government could track our purchases? What have they done with the data? Have the feds been to your door asking about your colored money spending habits? If you sent him $99, colored money or not, you wasted it.
Err, right about the pink money? About the conspiracy theory that the government would use the money to track us?
Do you think Ron Paul is right that traitor Bradley Manning is a hero and a patriot? Do you think Ron Paul is right that loopy Dennis Kucinich is the kind of guy that is worthy of a cabinet position?
Even on the actual economic stuff Paul is often dead wrong. How long has he been warning about runaway inflation? For pretty much ever right? Yet, while we have mild inflation we do not have anything close to what Paul is warning about. Oh, sure, we will run into that problem one day just like we will suffer all sorts of economic problems as history unfolds - but Paul's predictions are really pretty terrible.
Of course I have no proof of this but I honestly believe they would find a way to control him.
Control him....? You man like, control his mind? Maybe with the pink money? Sounds like you, like Ron Paul, are a conspiracy theorists. When something doesn't fit your world view, perhaps you just blame it on a conspiracy theory. Are you sitting up at night quivering with fear about the Bilderberg Group? Do you think Perry is part of the Bilderberg conspiracy?
I thought it was polka dot..
So that's why the couple Occupy events I attended featured Infowars and R[backwards]evol[/backwards]ution TShirts. Some aged hippies too.
Just like Europe and South America! And you know what condition they’re in :-)
And orange money (the new $10 bill).
And the $5 now has purple in it.
THE BILDERBERGERS and RICK PERRY: No one knows for certain what the Bilberberger outfit is about (except themselves), but they are certainly not solely about keeping the United States strong and free. They're outlook is global in nature, which anyone in their right mind would acknowledge, which Ron Paul did. Or should we think the Bilderbergers are some looney tune fantasy; a figment of Ron Paul's imagination? How should we interpet over a hundred influential people from all over the world meeting behind closed doors and making no public statements regarding their purpose or intent? Maybe they're just there for a nice game of croquet. Does Red State know something we don't?
As for Rick Perry's involvement with the Bilderbergers, it appears to be common knowledge that he is attending their meeting, for better or for worse. Perhaps the reader can inform us what the Bilderbergers are about so we can make a more informed decision as to whether Perry's involvement with them is in the interests of The United States.
THE JFK ASSASSINATION: Ron Paul seems to be of the opinion our government had an interest in covering up certain aspects of it. A good many Americans seem to think so, too. I do not happen to be one of them, inasmuch as the evidence seems to support a lone assassin acting on his own. But, I don't think people who question the matter are ipso facto “nutcases.” I also cast a wary eye to many things the feds say and do, as should any concerned citizen.
MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING: Ron Paul explicitly attributes the bombing to radical Moslem's, then intimates the means may have been a result of our sending money and arms to Israel; possibly making use of materials purchased with our own substance. Somewhere out there the origin of those materials could be traced, i suppose.
The question is, what motivated the attacks? Was it because Muslims are jealous of our accomplishments as a free and prosperous country? Possibly. But I would not deem someone a nutcase for suggesting we may have stepped on their turf with an overly intrusive agenda. Why be afraid to ask the question or look at it? Do we really think the Muslim world can destroy us unless we set up shop on their turf?
GENERAL NOTE: This fat kid with long hair dogging Ron Paul to make him appear crazy is like a living conspiracy theory in and of himself. Under every nook and cranny of Ron Paul is some inherent danger that, if he should obtain higher office, will surely ruin the USA. I don't buy it. The kids' intimations and interpretations of Ron Paul are fruitier than the subject he is investigating. He looks like a twelve-year-old and has about the same amount of reasoning capacity.
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