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.
Confused is no path to the presidency
Do you two really believe Paul thinks he can be president?
Get a grip - the man is not delusional.
Not at all.
But it is good debate.
Not relevant, and proof of tpaine's point.
Reagan (actually George H. W. Bush) didn't send in USAEUR (US Army Europe) to tear the bloody thing down. The Germans did that on their own.
The U.S. would have immediately hit hard back at Al-Qaida mere minutes after the towers crumbled had Paul been President, instead of waiting for the UN's permission.
Oh, I get it! He’s running for President but he doesn’t think he has a chance- He’s just trying to shape the debate. Who needs to get a grip?
And who would know better why they are angry, than the people who actually are angry?
That was a no brainer, and just common sense.
i didn't hear Rep Paul saying that we should apologise to them, and neither did you.
How much more immediately do you want than we did? If you think we waited for UN approval, I refer you to the Iraq invasion.
The only smear campaign going on is by Paul and his cult...smearing their country. There’s no conspiracy here. Paul will go down in flames because he’s a nutroot, not because anyone is secretly plotting against him.
No one has to smear Ron - he did it too himself. He made himself VERY clear.
Jefferson would have put a bullet through Paul’s head.
Yes, Ron wants to TALK. He is an anti-war fanatic who believes we can reason with barbarians.
As evidenced by all of the dead bodies TJ left in his wake, right? Can’t we have a debate without going over the cliff?
Now THAT is a salient point well made.
Because Jefferson brought war to the Moslem pirates - who would not suffer an anti-war nutjob like Paul lightly.
What was the ugly blowback from the invasion of France and the Marianas in 1944? The invasion of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945?
Amazing how many people here at FR have bought into Guiliani's smear tactic.
Tpaine opens this thread with a quote from Paul,
"-- 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 --"
about which tpaine says, "it amazes me to see the scores of people who cannot seem to grasp those facts" of a "fairly simple concept."
FReeper pissant posts this to tpaine:
Who gives a rats ass why the stupid goatf****s want to kill us. We just need to kill them first.
Given that tpaine is approving of when Paul said, "Meddling in the affairs of others often fosters animosity and a desire for retaliation," you'd think that tpaine wouldn't approve of pissant's views because killing stupid goatf****s first would seem to be the "meddling" he and Paul so disapprove of. Well, here's tpaine's reply to pissant:
I've been saying that since 9/11.
Actually, well before 9/11 I was calling for personal 'hits' on terrorist leaders. If we would have been killing the individual fanatics for the last 20 years or so, Iraq would have been unnecessary.
So, he's against "meddling in the afairs of others," but also for "personal 'hits' on terrorist leaders" -- a textbook case in cognitive dissonance if there ever was one.
I didn't think you'd answer the cluebat in #120, tpaine, and I'm guessing you'll ignore this post also. Your cocky attitude in telling me to "run along" is just your mask for not even knowing what you stand for as evidenced by your endorsing contradictory ideas between your posting this thread and your reply, 14 mintutes later, to pissant.
WTF? You are blaming Rudy? It was Ron Paul that smeared America on national television. Did you watch the debate?
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