Ron Paul never said blacks were animals and never praised David Duke. The quotations in the article show nothing of the sort. You are smearing a good man.
Good man?
Please take the fawning support of this lunatic America hating kook to some forum sympathetic to his Al Qaeda echoing views.
In June 1991, an entry on racial disturbances in Washington, DC's Adams Morgan neighborhood was titled, "Animals Take Over the D.C. Zoo." "This is only the first skirmish in the race war of the 1990s," the newsletter predicted. In an October 1992 item about urban crime, the newsletter's author--presumably Paul--wrote, "I've urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming."
I know, he was concerned about chipmunks taking over DC. Bot his family .410s.
In a passage titled “The Duke’s Victory,” a newsletter celebrated Duke’s 44 percent showing in the 1990 Louisiana Republican Senate primary. “Duke lost the election,” it said, “but he scared the blazes out of the Establishment.” In 1991, a newsletter asked, “Is David Duke’s new prominence, despite his losing the gubernatorial election, good for anti-big government forces?” The conclusion was that “our priority should be to take the anti-government, anti-tax, anti-crime, anti-welfare loafers, anti-race privilege, anti-foreign meddling message of Duke, and enclose it in a more consistent package of freedom.”
I know, that's political commentary, not praise.
He's a racist, better for his supporters to embrace and defend his views, those that haven't. This Ron Paul didn't say it or Ron Paul didn't mean it is old. If it's true, he's a near incompetent or simply a liar.