Posted on 12/29/2011 6:44:53 PM PST by Nachum
As his ascent grows increasingly questionable in light of scrutiny of his foreign policy stances and several-decade-old newsletters, it appears the questions about the latter have become inescapable for Rep. Ron Paul, even from garden variety political enthusiasts. Rep. Paul appeared today on Iowa’s WHO-AM with host Jan Mickelson and had to confront repeated questions on how it was possible for him not to know the content of his newsletter.
The caller initially asked, simply, how confident Rep. Paul was that the newsletters– not released while Rep. Paul was in Congress, but in the interim between his initial term and today– were representative of his views on “on taxes, on monetary policy, the Second Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, all the things that you hold dear?” The caller appeared more interested in the conspiracies about those topics in the newsletters than the racist rhetoric, of which Rep. Paul has answered questions about repeatedly. Perhaps because of this, Rep. Paul gave a lengthy answer, admitting that he wrote “a certain portion of them” on economics. He then explained:
“This was in between, it would be an investment
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This guy’s on borrowed time. If he ever really gets a footing, the Establishment is going to slice and dice him faster than Perot and Pat Buchanan (sp).
Changing his story again. Now he is going for the ‘if it makes me look good I wrote it, if it makes me look bad, it was ghostwritten’ story.
"And if you're claiming our dog bit you:
Our dog doesn't bite;
Our dog was tied up that night:
Your bite's not the shape of the bite our dog has made on people all of the earlier times;
We don't believe you really were bitten; and
We don't have a dog.
As a member of the political fringe who no one has ever taken seriously, Representative Paul has enjoyed the luxury of finding fault with everything without taking responsibility for anything. At his age, to suddenly be questioned about something he is clearly responsible for is probably very disconcerting. I can only imagine how he would be reacting if this was some other candidate trying to explain away their past action.
My fellow FRiends.
We need to be aware of something. Paul is right on the Federal Reserve and the banking and financial system in this country and on our ludicrous debt-based economy.
On all other issues, he is a whack job.
Do not be fooled.
Much of the “support” for Ron Paul that you are hearing is coming from diehard leftist Democrats who are claiming to be fed up with both parties blah blah blah but who are really trying to eff up our primaries.
Look at the candidates.
Look at their stance on the issues.
Look at their characters.
Decide who is the best candidate.
I’d didn’t write the objectionable parts.
As in, any part anyone objects to, well, that was written by somebody else...
With Paul’s rise in the polls and therefore his time for scrutiny, there seems to be a drumbeat of “good on domestic and bad of foreign’”
This only serves to give a pass on naive rhetoric. His pointing to corruption in the dollar policy as the problem is like shouting gambling in Casablanca. His solutions are so unworkable as to be laughable when he is at 3% in the polls. In double digits it is harmful.
I agree, but I believe his push to audit the Fed is an excellent idea and would shake the foundation of central banking in this country, which is the socialist banking system that is at the root of all the economic ills of the industrialized nations, so I don’t consider that “naive.”
So, to summarize...”Even a stopped Ron Paul is right twice a day”.
For some reason I am reminded of that Clinton era official who claimed he lied to his own diary.
Funny and true.
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