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why do you even care about Ron Paul?

he’s a non-issue in this presidential race...a conversation piece at best and if he breaks off I think he’ll carry more left wing youngsters than anything else.

race baiting on a conservative forum should be eschewed

one of the bulwarks of the NeoCon platform is a worship of MLK and the notion that anyone who questions that must be a racist

geez....how great Conervatism is today....just look at ALL our frontrunners to see how friggin great we’re doing right now..lol

the leadership of the GOP from Bush down is about as worthless as tits on a boar

Thanks, wardaddy, for confirming my statement in post #20: "For instance: We beat a dead horse because Paul won’t get the GOP nomination anyway. vs. Paul is out polling and out funding Thompson, Giuliani, etc."

You: "he’s a non-issue in this presidential race...a conversation piece at best and if he breaks off I think he’ll carry more left wing youngsters than anything else."

BTW, we're NOT race-baiting. We're discussing the obvious discrepancies between statements made out of both sides of RuePaul's mouth; whether through newsletter articles or statements such as the above. Such is fair game, and not race-baiting.

You want to support a candidate who has no problem accepting support and contributions from Truthers and racists, live with the consequences.

the leadership of the GOP from Bush down is about as worthless as tits on a boar.

LOL! Since liberals don't have a real God, they have to create one. Conservatives may admire Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, or any number of other great figures, but they don't demand that everyone bow and scrape to them. There's nothing on the right comparable to the iconization of flesh and blood human beings we see on the left.

Just look at the mandatory photos of Castro or Stalin in everyone's home or shop in their respective nations. Recall all the photos of Mao that were all-encompassing, and how his worshipful followers walked around carrying little red books so that they could consult it every waking moment. What Would Mao Do?

We haven't yet reached that level of totalitarian thought control, thankfully. But the deification of Martin Luther King is pretty close. Any negatives about the man are covered up, and if they slip out, they're rationalized. Remember when it came out that King plagiarized his dissertation? We were told that it was commonplace for black preachers in the South to borrow sermons from one another, so King probably didn't know that he was doing something wrong. Of course, that didn't explain why he had footnoted passages he had quoted elsewhere in his dissertation.

King was a complicated man. There was both good and bad about him, and after reading his speech on the Vietnam War I lean more toward the view that the bad predominated.

It's really a shame that the GOP has drifted so far to the left that it feels a need to idolize someone who supported the enemy in the Vietnam War.

I'm no Paul supporter. But I think we can condemn true racial hatred, such as the Stormfronters, without going to the other extreme and elevating MLK to the level of a god.