Posted on 05/17/2007 7:08:13 PM PDT by tpaine
The Ron Paul Smear Campaign
Doug Kendall
By now, it is painfully obvious to most people in the freedom movement that Republican presidential hopeful, Ron Paul, has been targeted for elimination—by his own Party. The politically-connected elite within the Republican Party, along with allied organizations and operatives, are working overtime to make sure that Ron Paul is burned at the stake for daring to speak the truth and defy the Good Ol' Boy system.
In all honesty, Dr. Paul should have known that he would be set up in the second debate—after he scored so high in poll after poll, following the first debate—and after he made it clear that he would not tow the neo-con, police-state, Giuliani-style "war" on terror line. Everyone from Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, so-called "conservative" news websites and columnists, and even local talk radio shows have done everything in their power to define Ron Paul as a "nut-job," "dope," and "moron," calling for his removal from the debates because his views are supposedly "dangerous" for the country.
Glenn Beck even went so far as to repeatedly label Ron Paul a "libertarian"—because there is always some kind of negativity associated with it, when Beck uses it—and then used that as a vehicle to beat up on Libertarians, in general, masterfully trying to kill two birds with one stone.
It's very telling, and very sad, watching these elitists attempt to exterminate those who favor increasing freedom by reducing the size and scope of government. The latest and most sickeningly obvious attempt to discredit Ron Paul, called "Big Outrage," is coming from Fox News.
Fox News anchor, John Gibson, recently stated that the second presidential debate got a little "spicy" after "Paul suggested that the US actually had a hand in the terrorist attacks." He even went so far as to attempt to link Paul to the 911 Truth crowd and Rosie O'Donnell—whose picture they flashed, twice, during the five-minute segment, along with the tagline, "ROSIE O'DONNELL STRONGLY BELIEVES IN 9/11 CONSPIRACY THEORIES." Gibson said that the 911 Truth movement has "infected people like Rosie O'Donnell, and one in three Democrats, and many other Americans—evidently, including Congressman Ron Paul." To make matters worse, he brought columnist and Fox News contributor, Michele Malkin, into the segment and said he would have expected to hear something like this from the Democrat debates. In perfect neo-con newsperson style, Malkin stated, "Ron Paul really has no business being on stage as a representative of Republicans," apparently because of the 911 Truth "virus." She then went on to further drive the point about 911 Truthers being mainly democrats, and mentioning something about a mental illness that typically affects people on the Left, called "Bush Derangement Syndrome."
I have lost no love on Democrats, either, but anyone who is even remotely familiar with Ron Paul knows that Malkin's attempt to link Paul to Democrats is laughable. If you look closely, you will see that Ron Paul's statements had nothing to do with the 911 Truth movement, but Fox News is spinning it in that fashion.
In so many words, Paul stated the obvious and basically repeated the findings of the 911 Commission's report:
Meddling in the affairs of others often fosters animosity and a desire for retaliation, and we would never allow other countries to do to us some of the same things that the US is doing to them—and it amazes me to see the scores of people who cannot seem to grasp those facts. The 911 Truth movement seeks to discover whether or not the Bush Administration had foreknowledge about, or actually had a hand in, the September 11th attacks—and that has nothing to do with Ron Paul's statements. 911 Truth deals with conspiracy, but Ron Paul spoke of consequences from our brand of foreign policy—two very different things.
Being an anarcho-capitalist, I do not care for government—small or otherwise—but Ron Paul is a step in the right direction, and he is certainly the most freedom-oriented and fiscally responsible candidate in the Republican stable—and it says a lot about the Republican elites who are using character assassination techniques to discredit and silence him, instead of debating the issue.
Karl Marx would be proud.
During a radio interview, Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) once said, "The hallmark of the Republican Party has always been freedom," but everything I've seen lately further confirms that his statement couldn't be further from the truth. I've always known, but this is just icing on the cake.
I've heard Republicans invite Libertarians to join the Republican Party, to work within a bigger, established Party, but this situation should serve as a warning to Libertarians, and any other freedom-loving types, that you should resist the temptation. Freedom has no place within the Republican Party (or the Democrat Party).
Doug Kendall is the host, scheduler & Webmaster of The Dangerous Doug Kendall Show. Listen to live streaming of the show at www.DangerousDoug.net.
The Iranian police state has completely metastasized, while the government does not enjoy popular support, it really doesn't need it.
This would divide the entire ME ideolgically.
The ME is already quite ideologically divided. That's why they keep blowing each other up in Iraq every day.
That is why it is “the long war”
Pull out and let the Sunni and Shia slaughter each other and the Persians and Arabs slaughter each other and the Kurds and the Turks slaughter each other.
And let the Saudis and Iranians bog the entire ME down with the typical proxy war that is the national pastime of these nations.
If anything emerges out of the ashes that looks vaguely threating to our nation, nuke it glowing. Jacket with cobalt if need be.
He seems to be targeted for elimination by the liberals in his party.
And give al queda a new base in the rich lands of the fertile crescent. Mesopotamia.
Ya think they had haven in Afghanistan?
Iraq is like a palace in comparison. Oil revenue, arable lands, water.
Eff that
It is highly unlikely that the tiny minority of sunni foreign fighters within the iraq's sunni minority will take over the country.
In fact, they will have to work very hard to stay alive during the Iraqi civil war.
As I said, if anything threating emerges from the ashes, well that's why Uncle Ed Teller blessed us such wonderful toys.
I thought their home ground was Saudi, Egypt, Pakistan, etc.
Muslim terrorism's home ground is the middle east. - Iraq is in the middle of the middle east. It is 'good ground' for the fight. - Our ground.
When will be building a democracy (which will elect islamists) in those nations?
"Building democracy" is a political slogan; -- get over it.
Hmmm sounds like a constitutionalist thang to me.
A federalist constitution.
Gotta go see yall later. good debate I for one am not ready to give up
In my book, someone who thinks the U.S.'s actions caused 9-11 is a turd and a nutbag, and anyone who follows that turd is loony. Maybe you give all that root causes talk some credence; I don't. And I don't care to know his position on anything else if he holds such repugnant views on what I consider the most important topic for a President.
Amen, that's what I like to hear. Teller also pushed SDI - and we should be much more strongly pushing its progeny to couple with the use of said toys (if our hand is forced).
If that’s so, WHY ARE WE YET THERE? We won, we need to come home and get out of Iraq.
Paul, nor anyone that can read his actual positions "thinks the U.S.'s actions caused 9-11".
Now run along.
Primary objective done. Now secondary objectives.
It's very discouraging to see that the most pro-Constitutional candidate, Ron Paul, get smeared the most on the most pro-Constitutional Internet forum.
He is in the race to talk about the real issues that are being ignored by all of the other candidates with the lone exception of Duncan Hunter, and even he doesn't talk about limiting the size of the federal government and spending as Paul does, with a record to back it up.
He is also forcing the other Pubbies to at least acknowledge the Constitution.
bingo
It's even more discouraging to see supposedly pro-Constitutional FReepers disregard the mans totally Constitutional stance, just because he's confused about our position in Iraq.
He’s not confused- he’s deluded into thinking that America will be better off if we ignore the Islamo-fascists who want us DEAD!
I usually see teenage girls using the word "whatever."
As for you asserting Paul doesn't think "U.S. actions caused 9-11" as I asserted, here's his actual words from the other night (2:25 into the video):
Have you ever read about the reasons they attacked us? They attacked us because we've been over there.
Now, why don't you explain that.
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