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Ron Paul on MLK, Jr.’s Legacy of Freedom
BUSINESSWIRE.COM ^ | 20 JANUARY 2008 | RON PAUL STATEMENT

Posted on 01/20/2008 10:20:44 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Edited on 01/20/2008 11:17:40 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: bcsco

lol. thank you


41 posted on 01/21/2008 8:39:13 AM PST by Vanbasten
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To: lormand

Maybe you are right about the majority of his support (since I’ve read of their funding by moveon.org)

I really do know a couple of his supporters that are conservative, and apparently very deluded.


42 posted on 01/21/2008 8:41:34 AM PST by Vanbasten
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To: Vanbasten

My daughter was all for him when she heard he wanted to get rid of the IRS. That was until I informed her of everything else he wants to do, and of all his accomplishments in his 20 years in congress.


43 posted on 01/21/2008 8:44:58 AM PST by John D
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To: rineaux

Yeah, a lot of Americans, including you, are nut jobs.

Did you think we would reply “no.”

Idiot.


44 posted on 01/21/2008 8:46:54 AM PST by rwfromkansas
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To: Vanbasten

Paul will stay in to disrupt the Republican primaries until the day he declares that he is starting his third party run.

Of course Paul will tell everyone that this was not his plan from the beginning. He will say that he just got the idea that morning over coffee. The people, he will explain, are insisting on a third party run. He owes it to the founding fathers.

The fact that he weakened the Republican party by sabotaging the debates and the entire process will be just a happy coincidence. Worst part is that his minions will pour another glass of koolaide and nod their bobble heads before getting to work.......And Hillary will be in the White House for 8 years.


45 posted on 01/21/2008 8:48:24 AM PST by Martins kid
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
Ya know what I've noticed about these people that claim RP is a Nazi, monster, child rapist, member of the KKK etc etc...Many seem to be part of the established, big government, party insider, business as usual ruling class, open borders types.

Anyone ever notice it's the same people that show up on every single RP article ranting and raving, calling this guy a nazi, demanding that RP is all of the above and he just doesn't matter, he's a waste of time etc....Yet they show up on every single RP thread...

This repeated pattern is very clear.

Very odd, IMO.

46 posted on 01/21/2008 8:48:37 AM PST by dragnet2
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I think Paul allowed his true feelings about King to be published in his newsletter in the 1980’s


47 posted on 01/21/2008 8:50:25 AM PST by Martins kid
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; All

Of course, IN HIS OWN NEWSLETTER, he attacked King instead of praising him.

“We are supposed to honor this ‘Christian minister’ and lying socialist satyr with a holiday that puts him on a par with George Washington?” the Ron Paul newsletter asked under an entry titled “‘Dr.’ King.”

“What an infamy Ronald Reagan approved it!” another newsletter comment read. “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”


48 posted on 01/21/2008 8:51:07 AM PST by rwfromkansas
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To: dragnet2

Wow - you fit that Ron Paul paranoid profile really well.


49 posted on 01/21/2008 8:52:10 AM PST by Martins kid
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To: logician2u

Read your sainted Ron Paul newsletters from the 1980’s or are you so brainwashed that you don’w want to know the truth about Ron Paul????


50 posted on 01/21/2008 8:53:41 AM PST by Martins kid
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem

</I>Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record:

He has NEVER voted to raise taxes.
He has NEVER voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has NEVER voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has NEVER voted to raise congressional pay.
He has NEVER taken a government-paid junket.
He has NEVER voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
*************************************************************************************

Has he ever done anything except blame America for all the problems in the world, vote to cut the funding our troops need to survive and win the WOT, and submit earmarks for wild shrimp?


51 posted on 01/21/2008 8:54:49 AM PST by rideharddiefast
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To: Martins kid
Even if he was not actively running the newsletter - he had a responsiblity to control anything that has his name on it. That means he accepted staff or writers with this viewpoint. He didn’t fire them. He allowed them to continue.

You acknowledge that Paul was not actively running the newsletter and in the very next breath chastise him for not firing anyone? Don't you find those statements contradictory?

Do you know what the arrangement was that Paul had with the newsletter? Did he even have the power to hire or fire anyone? Did he have any editorial oversight of it/them?

I don't take cries of, "Racist!" from the Dems very seriously. I don't see why I should start taking them seriously from the Repubs.

52 posted on 01/21/2008 8:54:54 AM PST by ksen ("For an omniscient and omnipotent God, there are no Plan B's" - Frumanchu)
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To: logician2u

Amazing . . .

That just reinforces my decision not to watch Faux News.


53 posted on 01/21/2008 8:55:54 AM PST by ksen ("For an omniscient and omnipotent God, there are no Plan B's" - Frumanchu)
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To: rineaux
Paul has over 120K and going this am. 257 new donors as well.

Moveon is working overtime.
54 posted on 01/21/2008 8:56:16 AM PST by rideharddiefast
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To: Martins kid
Your post is typical of what I was referring to. Very confrontational rant. And I wasnt even posting to you. lol I've read all your posting, and most of these others before, and I know you and other party hacks think everyone outside the insider party group are paranoid, nuts, nazis, wacko's, and whatever else you guys can come up with.

I'm TOTALLY for smaller, downsized government, secured borders, employer sanctions that hire illegals, death penalty, pro-second amendment, as a matter of fact, I want several million federal non-military government employees eliminated from the government payroll. Should have been done years ago.

And some government geek like you comes along and suggests I'm paranoid

Too funny.

55 posted on 01/21/2008 9:03:18 AM PST by dragnet2
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To: Martins kid

Exactly, good post.

They say they are standing on principle, but the end result and reality of the situation is that due to their actions a socialist will be elected. If these supporters truly believe Paul’s economic philosophy, they cannot allow that to happen.


56 posted on 01/21/2008 9:03:28 AM PST by Vanbasten
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To: ksen

Ron Paul’s name was on that newsletter and he had a responsiblity to monitor what was being published and to take his name off the newsletter if he did not agree with the contents. But nooooooo, Paul did not. He let it go on carrying his name. Would you allow someone to start a newsletter and call it the “ksen newsletter” and put stuff in it that you did not believe?

I smell a rotten fish and it is wrapped in the Ron Paul newsletter.


57 posted on 01/21/2008 9:05:52 AM PST by Martins kid
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To: dragnet2

You list your idealized Ron Paul platform but you have forgotten a few things - earmarks for wild Texas shrimp and other special interests in Texas -

You have forgotten the conspiracy theories and the blame America first attitude on 9/11. You would walk out of Iraq just as it looks like we are successful and let the deaths of all those who have fought there be in vain.

You would let an incompetent wacko be in charge of our national security when he can’t even control a newsletter that bears his name.


58 posted on 01/21/2008 9:14:37 AM PST by Martins kid
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To: Martins kid
your idealized Ron Paul platform but you have forgotten a few things - earmarks for wild Texas shrimp

Shrimp?

Thanks for the laugh.

59 posted on 01/21/2008 9:19:46 AM PST by dragnet2
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To: Martins kid

Theres about 4 statements in the newsletters that would come anywhere near the classification of ‘racist’ and that would have to be using a measuring stick borrowed from Al Sharpton. This stuff would only be classified as ‘racist’ or anti-semitic by folks who equate lack of support for Affirmative Action as racism or lack of support for Israel as anti-semitism. Its really a non-story unless your intent is too smear a great America and the only real hope for freedom and prosperity in the 2008 presidential field. Raw, ugly greed for power is at the root of these attacks, not a sincere interest in truth.


60 posted on 01/21/2008 9:20:53 AM PST by ToryNotion
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