Posted on 12/22/2011 12:12:33 PM PST by Mark Mayberry
It is no secret that in politics the infamous “race card” trumps all. We have seen it used time after time.
Most recently it has been used by Eric Holder to answer the question (at least in his own mind) as to why there is such a resounding cry for his resignation or impeachment.
Before him was Jeremiah Wright who so eloquently told his church that Obama would make a better president because Hillary Clinton didn’t know what it was like to be a black man in a society run by rich white people.
It is fair to say that the “race card” will continue to be the high card in political poker for years to come.
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The comments below seem to be the most notable:
• "Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
• "We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational."
• After the Los Angeles riots, one article in a newsletter claimed, "Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks."
• One referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as "the world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours" and who "seduced underage girls and boys."
• Another referred to Barbara Jordan, a civil rights activist and congresswoman as "Barbara Morondon," the "archetypical half-educated victimologist."
In my opinion this is the final nail in the coffin of Ron Paul and his campaign. Who knew that his vetting would end so quickly? I figured it was only a matter of time before Ron Paul would get hit pretty hard. Ron Paul has enjoyed a certain amount of invisibility during this campaign. This is largely attributed to the fact that all the viable candidates were not going to waste time and resources to take down the little fish. Now however with Ron’s new poll numbers, the crosshairs have fallen on him.
It is now exposed that Ron Paul committed the unforgivable sin. He has been implicated in racism. He has gotten away with everything else. By everything else I mean the fact that he has no actual strategy for anything except ending the wars and ending the Fed. However, being a white guy from Texas, he will never wipe off the stain that recently showed up on his campaign.
I agree with Phil Klein when he says, “Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have both attacked each other for what was written in their respective books. If either of those books had included a number of overtly racist statements, their candidacies would be over before they started.”
Paul has been able to avoid this so far but now it is going to come to light. It is still early in the story but you can guarantee that his recent rebuttals of “it was twenty years ago” and “I didn’t write it” are not going to save him from the wall of bad press that he is speeding towards.
Ron Paul is also about to deal with statements that he personally made as well. The second unforgivable sin, Israel Bashing. Ron Paul gave an interview to the Iranian news agency in which he refers to the Palestinians as not the aggressors and ripped off. Add this to his affiliation with The John Birch Society and his glowing review of them during his keynote speech at their 50th anniversary celebration.
My views on these people and Ron Paul’s views are irrelevant to the facts at hand. These are just my observations. Ron Paul is going to be painted as a racist and anti-Semite and that is something, ladies and gentlemen, that he will not come back from.
As a final thought I would like to know what Ron Paul supporters think of this and if it has changed their view of him. All though I doubt that it has since most people follow Ron Paul like the North Koreans follow, well followed, Kim Jong-il. I want to know, what can he do to lose their support?
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Most of them just want to smoke free dope. If RuPaul would back off of that plank in his platform, they'd leave in droves.
Ron Paul has the First Amendment right of free speech.
My problem with the situation is Rep.Paul has claimed he didn’t know the contents of these newsletters, when in 1995 he gave an interview on C-SPAN where he said he wrote them!
President Harry Truman had a plaque on his desk at the White House that said “The buck stops here”. Presidents takes responsiblity for what happnes during their administrations, period. Such responsible behavior is consistent with true leadership.
There isn’t much to choose between a candidate who said he never wrote or read the newsletters he signed, or the candidate who said he sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church for twenty years and never listend to the racist screed.
Actually, there's a fair number of conservative independents who:
1. Don't do drugs, but don't trust the "War on Drugs" and the way it's been used to curtail liberties,
2. Favor reduced government spending and
3. Favor a return to first principles in government, including
4. A return to the primacy of the Constitution as the primary Law of the Land and
5. Securing the borders.
Generally speaking, we would also:
6. Vote for a worthy Republican candidate, IF:
7: The Republicans would only run a credibly conservative candidate.
The above is why Ron Paul has a following, and how the GOP could steal it away if it wanted to.
Furthermore, these comments betray the mentality of a 13 year old, not an adult. He was far to old to be acting this juvenile. Or not be totally embarrassed by someone saying it in his name. Paul pretends to be an adult, but this puts that into question.
Ron Paul is a economic moron compared to someone like Thomas Sowell, who happens to be black.
Is Ron Paul a supporter of Howard Stern? These comments make him sound like someone of that level.
I wonder if he will get questions about this at the next debate?
I wonder if any other candidates are using this in their ad campaigns in Iowa?
I heard Ron Paul try and defend this by saying he did not write everything in those newsletters and did not always know what went into them because someone else was editing.
I personally found that hard to believe. Anyone have a reference for his 1995 quote and what years these quotes appeared in his newsletters in relation to that?
Irrespective of this, Paul’s positions on Iran and the War on Terror are indefensible. The fact is, the Jihadist Islamics do want to kill or enslave us and the rest of the world...and it is not because we have or have not done anything to them...it’s a part of their faith to conquer and convert or enslave the world for Islam and bring about world-wide Sharia Law.
Is anyone questioning his right to say these things. He has the right to say Stalin was the greatest leader in world history, if he wants. But others have the right to criticize him, and call him on his hypocrisy, since these comments conflict with his stated beliefs.
Personally, I dont think much of what he said is all that off base.
Damned straight!
Ron Paul would be the first (and Michele Bachmann the second) to hold Rush accountable for anything that was printed in the Limbaugh Letter or to hold Newt accountable for anything that appeared in any book that he simply wrote a forward to.
Paul should just pull a Cain and say a few mea culpas and declare he isn’t very PC. Seemed to work for the Godfather.
ron paul has his greatest following among stormfronters, white europeans.org, muslims for ron paul, and illegal aliens who don’t want to be ‘locked into’ the United States by having a fence on the border that would force them to stay here, and those who would rather smoke dope and drop or shoot whatever than work. The iranians endorse him. The arab press endorses him. The falsetinians love him.
And people should stop insulting RuPaul by calling this bigoted, twisted old bastich by his/her name. At least RuPaul doesn’t hide who/what he is. He/she might fake it, but he/she don’t lie about it.
I don't think I indulged in this kind of juvenile (and not even clever) rhetoric when I was 13, but at least there would have been an excuse. Is it too much to ask out president to act like an adult? Are you a Howard Stern fan?
I don't think I indulged in this kind of juvenile (and not even clever) rhetoric when I was 13, but at least there would have been an excuse. Is it too much to ask out president to act like an adult? Are you a Howard Stern fan?
If that's true, why did Paul say he didn't right it, and these statements go against his deeply-held beliefs?
Well, if you say so. You're welcome to your opinions, as is everyone.
[backs away slowly]
It isn’t my ‘opinion’. There is plenty of proof.
Well hey, it's your internet talking point, don't let me push you off-message. Meanwhile, I'll be out looking for a capital-R Republican candidate who will secure the borders, shrink the budget, cut multiple cabinet-level departments out of the Federal bureacracy, enforce existing banking law, and return us to a valid currency.
No doubt I'll be looking for a long, long time.
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