Posted on 01/18/2008 11:56:43 AM PST by SJackson
January 18th, 2008 by Chris Jones
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Randy Gray, the Midland County, Michigan coordinator for the Ron Paul campaign is also a longstanding active and vocal organizer for the Knight’s Party faction of the Ku Klux Klan.
A number of people have brought this to the attention of the Paul campaign, to which they have had no response. However, quite mysteriously the list of Michigan county contacts on the official site of the Ron Paul campaign has vanished.
It’s just too bad the Ron Paul thugs can’t make Google’s cached pages disappear, because phenry over at Daily Kos has located the missing pages.
Here is what the list of Michigan county contacts at the official Ron Paul campaign site looks like now, and here is what it looked like before the cover-up.
Also, the allegedly independent site michigan4ronpaul.com is suddenly missing Midland County and the name of its KKK coordinator.
Here is what the Michigan County contacts list at michigan4ronpaul looks like now, and here is what it looked like before the cover-up.
Without a doubt the Ron Paul supporters are going to claim that this is yet another conspiracy and it’s a total coincidence and/or complete fabrication every time Paul is associated with hate groups.
As a little icing on the cake, here is the now missing profile of Midland County Coordinator Randy Grey from the michigan4ronpaul.com website. Notice how Ron Paul is smiling and shaking the man’s hand?
If that still isn’t enough for you, then please enjoy the above YouTube clip showing Randy Grey with a freshly shaved head holding a friendly KKK rally. He’s got that whole “angry Führer” thing down pretty well don’t you think??
I know you Ron Paul supporters are still going to say that doesn’t prove anything! How was he supposed to know that guy was a Klansman? Or that time he was photographed shaking hands with most notorious Neo-Nazi leader in America, he of course didn’t know a thing about it.
Oh yeah, and the racist newsletters that were printed under his name for 10 years, many of which were written in first-person he also had nothing to do with. We’ll just chalk that up to a Jewish conspiracy!
But even you die hard “Paulnuts” have to admit that it’s a little strange that no other candidate seems to have his picture accidentally taken with Nazi’s, or accidentally hires Nazi’s, or has racist and bigoted newsletters penned under his name, or has Nazi’s show up at campaign rallies.
How long are you going to keep lying to yourselves? You thought he would be a good candidate at first and maybe you like some his ideas, but your being hoodwinked and it’s time to walk away.
Week after week the evidence of Ron Paul’s ties to right-wing extremists and hate groups continues to mount, and week after week you tell everyone to stop hatin’ on Ron Paul and you just sweep it under the rug. Wake up!
If you really want to nitpick, the abbreviation of et cetera, when it ends a series, should be preceded and followed by a comma, not parentheses, (as you did in the reply to which I am responding).
On your FR About page you misspelled "raising" (you wrote "rasing"), and, you also misspelled "interests" (you wrote "intrests").
In your reply #33 of Train Whistles Silenced, you wrote "vibration" instead of "vibrations". Surely you don't believe that a long train passing by causes only one vibration. The plural would be in order.
Enough of this silliness on my part...........we all make mistakes in spelling and grammar........I usually check my posts not a few times and still mistakes sneak through.
My belief is that unless folks are well paid, professional writers, their mistakes in spelling and grammar are part of the beautiful mosaic of American life. I do believe that we should be trying to improve all aspects of our lives, including spelling and grammar, but, if every single word written was written correctly, it would be a dull world..........
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Thanks. :-)But what I see here is not sloppy
The fact that someone reading it would have no idea that the Michigan organization is independent of the Paul campaign makes it sloppy and dishonest.
but until it's investigated thoroughly it will hang there and be a sore spot to the campaign
That is EXACTLY, verbatim what Mia T and her loons said when people called them out on their anti-Thompson stuff. And they're still on their fringe site wondering why in the heck the media hasn't hammered Thompson on it. Believe me, broseph, the media isn't going to pick up on this either.
I can understand your high ideal for fair play and justice, but your constant denigration of others, and criticism of grammar and punctuation, is turning you into a buffoon.
Stop now and read my profile page. What I post on FR is not a representation of me in real life per se. It's almost like a political professional wrestling, and I'm Chris Jericho. I'll make silly wise-ass comments, piss some people off, amuse more people, and still usually win.Do so with your own factual evidence in a proper respectful tone.
It takes all kinds. There are some Paul defenders who respectfully engage the smart Paul bashers and ignore the "your a traitor for supporting Paul" morons. Triple E is an example.
Forget the smart a$$ remarks and show yourself to be an honest yet respectful contributor.
Believe it or not, on less controversial threads I am. If you happen to catch me on Hunter vs. Thompson $hitstorm threads, I'm usually the peacemaker, or at least try to be.
Bottom line is, I'm not the douchebag I sometimes portray on FR. I'm pinging robertpaulsen and Mojave to this to vouch for me on this. For years we would battle on the Drug War threads here on FR and pull no punches. But as soon as we were done arguing, we'd chat about sports, family, music, you name it, and ended up getting somewhat friendly, or at least as friendly as you can get over the Internet without being creepy. And I'm ppretty darned friendly with most of the well-known anti-Paul freepers, as hard as that might be to believe.
Holy crap, this turned into a rambling response. I reckon it's just about time for Friday happy hour with my old friend John Daniels.
I thought Dr. Paul was in bed with left-wing extremists?
Which group will it be next week? Black gang-bangers?
Yep, and all those Democrats and left-wingers are giving Paul victory after victory in the primaries, right?
Paul's campaign has nothing to do with shenanigans that occur outside of his official campaign.
When you have a powerful message that Paul has, you are bound to attract some undesirables. And yes, Dr. Paul has repudiated the white supremacists, the 9/11 Truthers, racists, and other assorted garbage that a desperate liberal media and conservative establishment have tried to take him down with.
He is responsible for running his own campaign, whether or not nutjobs are attracted to his message or not, is THEIR problem, not Dr. Paul's.
I will take what you wrote with respect. And, again, I won’t dis the errors. But don’t get cute or disrespectful with me. I don’t tolerate it.
Oh, and give Elijah Craig a try. It’s far better than that rot gut Daniels, and for the same $. My happy hours are Saturday and Sunday evenings when I enjoy my 2/2. Especially this Sunday when the Packers are going to show! See? I too can be convivial.
On your FR About page you misspelled "raising" (you wrote "rasing"), and, you also misspelled "interests" (you wrote "intrests").
In your reply #33 of Train Whistles Silenced, you wrote "vibration" instead of "vibrations". Surely you don't believe that a long train passing by causes only one vibration. The plural would be in order.
Pwned! I love it!
I take it this means you’ll respond to my reply to you on the other thread.
He is neither. During the time when the newsletters came out, Dr. Paul was still a practicing physician as well as an in-demand speaker on liberty. He simply couldn't micromanage what people were doing under his name, and when he found out about it, he promptly took responsibility.
Donklephant is reporting that Lew Rockwell is the author of the letters.
I'm a Jets fan, so as far as I'm concerned, f#$& the Giants, go Favre.
Oh, and give Elijah Craig a try. It’s far better than that rot gut Daniels, and for the same $.
Well, most of my boozin' is done at my friend's bar for cheapness reasons and he doesn't carry it, but I'll have him ask his distributor if he can maybe get a sample bottle. That said, jmc out. Don't you freaks kill each other while I'm gone.
And, no, I did not mean vibrations. I meant vibration as it was the vibration that bothered me, not whether or not is was one long, singular vibration, or a sustained series of vibrations. It was the fact that a vibration caused the windows and things hanging on the walls to rattle. The word vibration in and of itself does not indicate any specific length of duration.
Defensive, eh?
Micromanage? Racist and conspiracy theory trash is published under his name for close to 20 years and you say “micromanage”? Please tell me that you are being sarcastic.
Uh, Free Republic is NOT a public blog. If it were you would be correct in expecting such.
This is a forum. That means it is made up of a cross section of conservative thought. Many people from across the nation, of varying degrees of education, make up this wonderful site. The site is NOT responsible for their content nor proper elucidation, punctuation, grammar, whatever. If someone makes an error at times, just who are you to criticize (especially with what AwesomePossum exposed)?
AwesomePossum's point should be taken with much thought. If you don't go around correcting every error in grammar, syntax, structure, whatever in your daily conversations (at least I hope you don't), don't do it here. It's just as big a turn off as it is in conversation.
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Save all the f**k yous in various forms.
You've explained to me several times that you don't take your posts here seriously.
You describe yoursel as a performance actor, I'd call you a disruptor/troll, more accurately a Ron Paul disruptor/troll since that's basicly what you post on. I guess that's not odd for a purported Thompson supporter, Paul does offer opportunity for humor, or the defense of hate.
Whatever the case, your posts aren't serious, and not deserving of answers.
For nutballs who, unlike you aren't trolling other forums, my posts at Wideawakes are here, feel free to bring anything to this forum you like in pursuit of your Ron Paul Jihad. Libertypost can be found here.
Paul gang-neoconed once again? LOL
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Has Tom Lizardo resigned as Ron Paul's Congressional Chief of Staff?
From the Editor... I'm very reluctant most times to post Blog posts as lead stories for LR blog. But I'm making an exception this time, due to the importance of the matter, and the continuing hour-by-hour nature of this story.
Reason Magazine Hit&Run Blog:
Jesse Turner | January 18, 2008, 2:04am | #
Why didn't Reason report that Lizardo is the FORMER chief of staff for Ron Paul? He departed his position last week and rumor has it that he is threatening to sue for severance pay.
I don't want to judge whether he is being truthful, but the above facts give it a different twist.
*Note - Jesse Turner was a Libertarian Party candidate for Congress in Tennessee in 2002, and is a frequent commenter on the Reason Blog.
Tom Lizardo has served as Ron Paul's Chief of Staff for his Congressional office in Washington, DC since Paul was first elected in November 1996.
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Ron Paul's Chief of Staff, on Lew Rockwell
David Weigel | January 17, 2008, 7:33pm
I just had a conversation with Tom Lizardo, Ron Paul's longtime congressional chief of staff, who wanted to say this on the record:
Last week, a statement was prepared by Ron Paul's press secretary Jesse Benton, and approved by Ron Paul, acknowledging Lew Rockwell as having a role in the newsletters. The statement was squashed by campaign chairman Kent Snyder.
I've called the Paul campaign to see what, exactly, the statement said.
UPDATE, 7:53: Jesse Benton responds:
I respect Tom Lizardo, but he does not work for the campaign and has no authority to comment on campaign business.
Yesterday Julian Sanchez and I published our own findings on Rockwell.
Absolutely, those neocon Likudniks are everywhere. Makes one long for the simplicity of the Klan.
Who was the individual who was associated with Ron Paul at one time, and who’s come out with anti-Paul remarks that Paul supporters here poo poo, making the guy out to be a loony? For some reason I associate Tom Lizardo’s name with that.
Likudniks? Please elaborate.
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