Post 384 might interest you.
He needs to dissassociate himself immediately, a shame it can't be retroactive, or the Republican candidates should disassociate him, as the Dems should move on.
Ron Paul has disassociated himself numerous times from truthers....If he did it a thousand more times, you just find some excuse to smear him.
UH OH. So Ron Paul is a columnist for a white supremacist publication? It’s not just his misfortune to have these people as followers, he actually is one of them? It’s going to be a little harder for him to disassociate convincingly.
Well, I guess Trent Lott really does have something to complain about now. He lost his position of power in the republican party for a friendship while Paul is running for president as a republican.
That’s the problem with the internet: it removes any sense of proportion from life. It’s not reasonable to demand that a political candidate disassociate himself from any crackpot group that sucks up to him or tries to ride his coattails. The problem is that Ron Paul is an internet-only candidate, and these groups are internet-only activist groups. So who’s to say what group deserves how noisy of a disassociation?
My partial suggestion: association should be measured by intent. The Republican Party associates itself with Paul by inviting him to debates, something the Democratic Party did not do with Lyndon LaRouche. By appearing in those debates, the Republican candidates associate themselves with him. If Paul is truly contemptible, they have a responsibility to disassociate from him, because they have associated with him. But by associating with Paul, do they associate with whacko groups that cite or promote Paul? If it becomes clear that Paul has purposely benefited from those groups, my answer would be “yes.” For instance, if Paul cited the poll which started this thread as a justification for “being taken seriously,” or being included in debates and other polls which the mainstream candidates chose to associate with, AND there is evidence that Paul knew where his support was coming from in these polls, or reasonably should have known, then Paul needs to be exiled. I do not know of compelling evidence this is the case.