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The Ron Paul Newsletter and His Jeremiah Wright Moment (How big should the tent be?)
Red State ^ | December 22, 2011 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 12/22/2011 2:02:40 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

If you’ve been under a rock somewhere recently you may not know that Ron Paul published a bunch of crazy, racist newsletters in the late 80′s and early 90′s.

Ron Paul, ten years ago, took responsibility for the content, even admitted at one point that he had written some of them.

Today, Ron Paul claims he knew nothing about them even though they generated around a million dollars in income for him.

The newsletters were the “Ron Paul” newsletters and each was written in the first person as if from Ron Paul, without an author’s byline, conveying that the views expressed were Ron Paul’s.

No one doubts that someone other than Ron Paul wrote them, but they were written as if they were from Paul and he profited handsomely and at one point took responsibility for writing some of them himself.

One of the newsletters claimed that gays were going to donate blood en masse in hopes of infecting the American blood supply with AIDS.

Let’s presume Ron Paul did not write that.

But I know many Ron Paul supporters, including some in my church, who cast aspersions on Barack Obama for attending Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years. They don’t believe Barack Obama didn’t know Rev. Wright believed the CIA invented AIDS to kill black men. They will give Ron Paul a pass, but they will not give Barack Obama a pass.

Why?

I fail to see how Ron Paul’s eponymous newsletter written in the first person as if from Ron Paul claiming gays intended to infect other Americans with AIDS through compromising our blood supply is any different from Reverend Wright claiming the CIA invented AIDS to kill black men.

If you know all these things about Ron Paul, and know he was perfectly fine with Neo-Nazis raising money for his campaign in 2008, and know he was perfectly fine going on Iranian national television to claim Israel keeps concentration camps wherein it routinely kills Palestinians, and you still intend to vote for him, I don’t really see that the Republican tent needs to be big enough to accommodate you.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: gopprimary; paul2012
I believe a lot of Ron Paul’s support is cynical (follow the money). Young people "looking forward" to no jobs in the Obama depression, or working on degrees in areas where government money could fund a study, a program (their professors have sucked on this tit for decades) -- instead of being “wasted” to support the "evil" military and “misguided” war on drugs -- which also ties into what they've been taught in many institutions of higher education -- so many useless degrees and “green” thinkers believing that Ron Paul is the Rx for what ails the country. So they're leaving support for Barack “hope and change” Obama at the school house/no job market door and flocking to Ron Paul which has the sweetener of hurting those "evil-rich” conservatives who are destroying the planet and are ready to “bomb” the world.

The problem for them is -- they never will get the money; it always finds another home. With the debt and deficit ballooned out of sight, that money isn't heading in their direction. The naturally productive ones will eventually “grow up” and realize the truth about living in a safe, free market society but many will hang fast to the hope (libertarians for sure) that once the "war on drugs" and the "evil military complex” have their wings clipped, some of those trillions of “wasted” dollars will certainly flow to them. It won't and their lot will be worse. We have for too long been building “me-me-itis” generations, whose values and goals are nurtured and fanned by teachings of socialist professors spawned in the Sixties who have multiplied themselves with our youth.

So Ron Paul is their cup of tea. They’re only one step away from OWS (most likely have a foot in both camps already). If Ron Paul definitively said, "I will not run third Party," much of his support would evaporate today. Which is precisely why he has not ruled it out.

1 posted on 12/22/2011 2:02:44 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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2 posted on 12/22/2011 2:03:44 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
They’re only one step away from OWS (most likely have a foot in both camps already).

I agree. Extremes always meet.

3 posted on 12/22/2011 2:35:31 AM PST by livius
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The “crazy racist newsletters” highlight the fact that black people are overwhelmingly the criminal element in this country. Something indisputably true.


5 posted on 12/22/2011 5:19:54 AM PST by WilliamHouston
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Ro Paul’s support is cynical...and overrated and won’t hold. Ron Paul himself, is a racist and a conspiratorial freak who’s message on the economy, which is mostly right, is lost because everyone starts to twitch when listening to him. Me included. The man is a creep.


6 posted on 12/22/2011 5:31:27 AM PST by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: Solson

When Paul is given time to keep talking — people (thinking people, people who have reasoning skills) instinctively recoil from him.


7 posted on 12/22/2011 5:36:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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