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"Why would one want to read racist garbage?"

I read the Ron Paul article just so that I could point out the flaws in his rationale. It really is disgusting how so many liberals and paleocons have become such staunch opponents of Israel. Plus they absolutely deny that Jewish/Zionist is a race. Some even consider Zionism to be a form of racism that was carried out against Arabs.

Ron Paul, by the way, does have a real following here at freerepublic so some people don't want to hear anything that may make him look bad. Personally, I had no problem posting the June congressional resolution that condemned anti-Semitism (mostly about Israel) and pointing out that Ron Paul and Democrat Cynthia McKinney were the only two members of congress to vote against it.

anti-semitism resolution posted at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1488230/posts

Many thanks for your clarification, Susannah. I too am often disheartened to see the following of R. Paul and P. Buchanan on this forum. Just bring up our aid to Israel --- the country to which Ronald Reagan referred as "our only strategic asset in the Middle East after the fall of Iran" --- and all h-ll breaks loose. Those American Zionists (read Jews) tricked Congress again! These FReepers somehow NEVER once bothered by our $130B/year spending on defending Europe or $30B/year we spend in Korea and Japan. But $2B to Israel is somehow surely a result of a conspiracy.

Those FReepers overlook also that paleo-"conservatives" like Buchanan have their own agenda. Buchanan is yet to name any non-English/Scottish (he has to include himself, otherwise he'd omit Scottish too) immigration into U.S. that he considers successful. It's not only the Jews for him: all "minroirites" are inferior somehow. And yet he too has a following here on FR.

I've put "conservatives" in quotes when referring to paleo-conservatives because some of them went to such extremes in opposing the present-day America that they aligned themselves with the Left. Buchanan's ideas about economics, for instance, are anti-free-trade and anti-corporate --- the current slang for anti-capitalist. He for (i) small-business ownership under government regulation/control/ownership of big business and (ii) racial purity. This is exactly the platform of the German Nationalist Workers Party (Nazis). It's hard for me to refer to this socialist as a conservative. But he too has a following here on FR.

Thank you again for your informative post, Susannah.