He does have a colon, that is where you'll find his head.
Posted on 01/11/2008 6:59:44 AM PST by jdm
Reason Magazine has long associated themselves with the Ron Paul campaign, if not officially endorsing him. Their Hit & Run blog has served as the heart of rational Paul apologetics, and in their skilled hands, that has proven essential to his campaign. Now, as the magazine has Paul on its cover, its new editor has the unpleasant task of looking a little more closely at the candidate, and Matt Welch finds it an unpleasant journey.
Has Paul really disassociated himself from, and "taken moral responsibility" for, these "Ron Paul" newsletters "for over a decade"? If he has, that history has not been recorded by the Nexis database, as best as I can reckon.The first indication I could find of Paul either expressing remorse about the statements or claiming that he did not author them came in an October 2001 Texas Monthly article -- less than eight years ago. ...
So what exactly did Paul and his campaign say about these and more egregious statements during his contentious 1996 campaign for Congress, when Democrat Lefty Morris made the newsletters a constant issue? Besides complaining that the quotes were taken "out of context" and proof of his opponent's "race-baiting," Paul and his campaign defended and took full ownership of the comments.
Indeed. Rather than claiming he had never read these newsletters, as Paul absurdly did on CNN last night, Paul claimed that he himself wrote the newsletters. Matt Welch find this in the contemporaneous Dallas Morning News report on the newsletters during Paul's 1996 Congressional campaign (May 22, 1996, emphasis mine):
Dr. Paul denied suggestions that he was a racist and said he was not evoking stereotypes when he wrote the columns. He said they should be read and quoted in their entirety to avoid misrepresentation. [...]
In the interview, he did not deny he made the statement about the swiftness of black men.
"If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them," Dr. Paul said.
Matt has more examples of Paul's non-denials in 1996. Twelve years later, Paul wants people to believe that not only did he not write any of his newsletters, he never read them either. His role in the single most effective piece of outreach of his organization, he explained to Wolf Blitzer last night, was as a publisher -- one who didn't bother to read his own publication. These 1996 quotes put lie to his CNN interview answers.
Not only does this show dishonesty, but it indicates that Paul had a lot more involvement in the publication of the despicable statements found in his own newsletter than Paul or his less-rational apologists want to admit. The supremacists and conspiracy theorists surrounding his campaign apparently got attracted by more than just Paul's views on the Constitution; they read the newsletters and determined that Paul was one of them. His refusal to recant in 1996 and his explanation that he can't recall ever reading the newsletters today signal to them that he still wants their support.
People wonder why this matters, given Paul's fringe appeal. It matters because we can't allow this kind of hatred to get legitimized in mainstream politics again. This kind of rhetoric used to be mainstream, and not just in the South, either. Republicans cannot allow the party to get tainted by the stench of racism and conspiracy mongering. If enough of us don't step up and denounce it, strongly and repeatedly, we will not be able to avoid it.
Matt Welch and the people at Reason have reached that same conclusion in regards to libertarianism and their magazine. Good for them, even if it came a little late.
Lol no. :)
I did used to do ‘Bikram Yoga’ though, and have never felt better than I did after a class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikram_yoga
Bikram is not popular with the hippie yoga set.
I haven’t excused Paul. I’ve’ condemned his lie. I do the same for all lying politicians. Period. How about you?
His comments on gooks were in 2001. Just google it....if you care, which you obviously don’t.
On that scale, you would be a paleowhatever just like Dr. Demento. Hence, in the paleofantasy world, don't you have to be a Wilsonian, globalist, internationalist tool of the United Nations, and of the international bankers' conspiracy, the Bilderbergers, the Tri-Lateral Commission and the Bavarian Illuminati to give a rat's patoot about human rights in other countries rather than eagerly joining their murderous dictators around the campfire singing Kumbaya to celebrate the latest deals for trade almighty????
No, Churchill lied for good reason.
You think Aristide should be executed? Good for you. I assume from this fact that you are also using some of your purple prose (you do have a talent there) against Fred....aren’t you?
Sorry, I don’t monitor every comment made by every political candidate on a daily basis, my time is limited.
I would suggest that you take up your issues with Mr McCain himself.
I didn’t have North Vietnamese captors torturing me, so I am not qualified to judge any comments Mr McCain may or may not have made about them.
Cap’n: Ugo Chavez and Fidel Castro and Aristide are all toxically antiAmerican and therefore gods to paleoPaulie, treasonous weasel extraordinaire.
“Cap’n: Ugo Chavez and Fidel Castro and Aristide are all toxically antiAmerican and therefore gods to paleoPaulie, treasonous weasel extraordinaire.”
Do you have quotes to back that up?
He’s against the Cuban embargo. He thinks that letting Cubans meet actual Americans would be a good thing. It will let them know the things they hear about us are lies.
I’m not 100% convinced, but we do trade with China (most favored nation status) and Vietnam (same, if I recall correctly)
We don’t trade with Cuba to pander to some voters in Florida, best I can tell.
You're liberal domestically?
Lemme think about that. Hmmmmmm. Nah, I'll stick around, at least until Happy Hour. Appreciate the suggestion, though.
Janet Reno took “full responsibility” for a variety of innocent deaths but I don’t remember the old witch being strapped into Old Sparky which would be really taking “full responsibility.”
PaleoPaulie has no guts.
Well, Reno did father Chelsea with Hillary. Isn’t that punishment enough? ;)
He does have a colon, that is where you'll find his head.
How does an Austrian Economist support Social Security?
I am seriously asking.
Your rolling today with that purple prose! Love it! Now....the question was whether you plan to use it against Fred because of (still unexplained an unrecanted) his support for Aristide?
One couldn't. There are several factors in the pure Austrian Economic school that fly in the face of the entire principle of Social Security. First, of course, is the individualist principle of the Austrian school. Basically, there would be little or no regulatory involvement with your personal economic issue. This is the good part of the Austrian school, albeit, they take it a little far by their statements that single form currency itself is an artificial construct.
Second, the Austrian school rejects any sort of metrics and statistical based analysis because of the belief that human nature is too dynamic, and thusly, cannot be calculated. They reject past history as a valid use of future calculations. This challenges the social security concept because one cannot predict the needs or economic growth rate of the individual in xx number of years. (praxeology)
In a nutshell, under the Austrian Economic school of thought, social security would not exist because it is not any institution's responsibility and secondly, because one cannot predict the needs of the individual when he is ready to cash out (if he survives that long.)
It is a lot more complex, but that is the simplest way to address it here.
PaleoPaulie will NEVER remove the stench of his antiwar, antiAmerican response to the Islamofascisti and his attempt to meld opposition to war, opposition to the military, opposition to our nation in time of war, enthusiasm for drug-dealing and drug abuse being tolerated, enthusiasm for avoiding central government solutions to protect marriage and to put an END to abortion together while dishonestly calling himself either Republican or conservative or patriotic. PaleoPaulie is an absolute disgrace. The purging of Dr. Demento and those lending him aid and comfort is necessary to the 2008 election process and to the rebuilding of the GOP and of the conservative movement.
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