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Ron Paul Is Crazy. Admit It.
sfweekly.com ^ | 12/26/2011 | Peter Jamison

Posted on 12/26/2011 9:17:36 AM PST by TBBT

Congressman Ron Paul grabbed the lion's share of headlines among GOP presidential candidates last week, and not just because he is the latest improbable figure to challenge the inevitable nomination of Mitt Romney.

The conservative Weekly Standard ran a rehash by writer James Kirchik of an article he wrote for the New Republic in 2008 that collates, to deadly effect, the astoundingly bizarre, racist, and anti-Semitic comments Paul broadcast in a series of newsletters he published for two decades. Paul implausibly claims the newsletters (written in the first person and bearing his name) were produced by others, but it really doesn't matter. The time has come, as Kirchik helpfully reminds us, to recognize Paul for what he is.

He is not -- as some disillusioned moderates and media pundits like to believe -- a refreshing, small-government Republican with a healthy distaste for Wall Street and foreign adventurism. He is a clinically paranoid (and likely bigoted) conspiracy theorist. And you don't even have to cite his newsletters to prove it.

I paid some attention to Paul's 2008 campaign, because at the time I was assigned by my newspaper to cover two of his biggest fans: Ed and Elaine Brown, a pair of New Hampshire tax cheats who engaged in a months-long standoff with the U.S. Marshals Service over the couple's refusal to pay federal income taxes. The Browns believed they lived on a sovereign enclave atop a hill in rural Plainfield, N.H., stockpiled scary weapons, and threatened violence against any federal agents who came on their property.

You would think a presidential aspirant would want to distance himself from such wackos. Not Paul, who declared in a videotaped interview that the Browns were "heroes":

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: morethorazineplease; paul; paulnuts; paultards; ronpaul; spotthelooney
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To: ChocChipCookie
Ron Paul’s support is growing across the board, not just among Republicans. If he should go third party, he would take voters from both Dim and Repubs,

He would not take any Republican votes. No Republican would vote for someone who blames 9/11 on America. Republicans do not think a person who rails against earmarks takes more than any candidate running. Republicans do not want our military destroyed. Republicans do not want open boarders. Most Republicans do not want gays in the military.
I do not see any threat to the Republicans if the surrender monkey runs third party.
81 posted on 12/26/2011 12:16:10 PM PST by John D
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“As far as I can tell, Paul is the only candidate in at least a generation in either party, actually attempting to accurately interpret the Constitution of the United States of America.”

You just made your case for appointing Paul to the Supreme Court. I have to say that would be interesting.

You are not the arbiter of who can “accurately interpret” the Constitution. The Consittution does not require interpretation by a President. It only requires being upheld as written.

Dr. Paul is right where he needs to be, where he can vote against wasteful spending. His foreign policy is suicidal, and he likes to hint that Bush brought down the Towers.

He is impossible to take seriously.


82 posted on 12/26/2011 12:16:10 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (....The days are long, but the years are short.....)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Perot handed us clinton...on a silver platter.


83 posted on 12/26/2011 12:44:56 PM PST by FrankR (What you resist...PERSISTS!)
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To: Pappy Smear

Sorry but Paul is nuts, the others simply stupid from time to time and none want to surrender to our enemies...


84 posted on 12/26/2011 12:47:36 PM PST by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: driftdiver
"Ron Paul is the only guy who cannot beat BO."

Perhaps he needs to change his brand of soap. ;-)

85 posted on 12/26/2011 12:50:51 PM PST by verity (The Obama Administration is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: verity
naw...it's his foreign policy that stinks...
86 posted on 12/26/2011 12:55:10 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: TBBT

Okay, okay! I admit it.


87 posted on 12/26/2011 1:13:17 PM PST by pallis
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To: Sprite518
Newt will not win because Independents do not like him.

Where do you get that idea?

The 20% of GOP primary voters who support Romney are mostly registered Republicans, claiming to be "moderates", but just as commie left as their fellow Democrats.

Independents who voted for TEA Party Republicans in 2010 are more conservative than the Romney commies, and these conservative Independents outnumber the entire bloc of registered Republicans.

88 posted on 12/26/2011 1:30:40 PM PST by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

RPaul was one of the five treacherous Rs voted to repeal DADT. He thinks homos in the military is a good thing.

Fie on him.


89 posted on 12/26/2011 1:34:29 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: TBBT
Men are from Mars, Women from Venus and Paul from.....

bizarroWorld

90 posted on 12/26/2011 1:54:56 PM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet (l)
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To: FrankR

If Bush and his merry band of RINO’s hadn’t selfishly gotten in the way of Perot, Clinton would have lost.

But no...

:D

Equally valid criticism...

Perot was right.


91 posted on 12/26/2011 1:59:30 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("FREE TRADERS": Self-loathing Americans)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Perot was a kook, just like Paul, who said all the things the radical right wing wanted to hear, and bled off enough votes to hand it to clinton.

It was the worse mistake I ever made, and I voted for him too. Learned my lesson...don't be taken in by wild-eyed kooks.

It seems you're a "right" (read: correct) fighter, who has to be "right" no matter what...so, I'll end this debate by opting out and letting you be "right".

Nevertheless...Ron Paul is still a tinfoil hat wearing kook...
92 posted on 12/26/2011 2:03:03 PM PST by FrankR (What you resist...PERSISTS!)
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To: Designer
Ron Paul is neither a conservative or a republican.
He is a Libertarian KOOK
93 posted on 12/26/2011 2:18:19 PM PST by RBK
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To: Designer
Ron Paul is neither a conservative nor a republican.
He is a Libertarian KOOK
94 posted on 12/26/2011 2:18:57 PM PST by RBK
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To: Designer
Ron Paul is neither a conservative nor a republican.
He is a Libertarian KOOK
95 posted on 12/26/2011 2:19:14 PM PST by RBK
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To: Designer
Ron Paul is neither a conservative nor a republican.
He is a Libertarian KOOK
96 posted on 12/26/2011 2:19:22 PM PST by RBK
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To: RBK

I’ve been counting.

Your posts were the 32,726th, and 32,727th time the word “kook” has been tossed at Ron Paul on FR today.


97 posted on 12/26/2011 2:21:45 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("FREE TRADERS": Self-loathing Americans)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

About 967273 times too few if ya ask me.

Until it gets through the thickest skull it bears repeating.


98 posted on 12/26/2011 2:36:02 PM PST by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

You dont count too well either


99 posted on 12/26/2011 2:37:22 PM PST by RBK
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To: RBK

Lol yeah I saw that.

I don’t count too well, true enough. I’m blaming this one on my mouse though.


100 posted on 12/26/2011 2:38:31 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("FREE TRADERS": Self-loathing Americans)
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