Thanks very much. I see that you went to a lot of trouble to research. Unfortunately, over the years, he has chisen to associate with Stormfront and recently has stated that Iran is not a threat. I think Paul is a foreign policy disaster.
As to the Stormfront and David Duke, how many of us would deny that institutionalized racism and discrimination against christians, western civilization, and descendants of ethnic europeans has been legalized over the years through the use of political correctness (a marxist tool).
It has been in your face in Obama's and Clinton's administrations, but behind your back under Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. Slowly and steadily we have moved from rewarding hard work, and talent to rewarding sexual orientation, non-christian religion, atheism, non-european ethnicity, non-white color of your skin. Rewarding following has been replaced by PC based, crony based selective enforcement of the law.
The MSM would smear anyone against Political Correctness as racist, xenophobic, homophobic, by implication aligned with all the policies of the Stormfront, etc.
If you read Paul on Duke, Paul was against both forced segregation and forced integration.
As to foreign policy I'll use the example of Israel.
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From the same
Interview:Newsmax: Some object to your policy of cutting foreign aid to Israel.
Ron Paul: I have objected to all foreign aid. I define foreign aid as taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries. We just can’t keep doing this. We don’t have the money anymore.
Stop and consider America’s policy:
We give $3 billion a year to Israel in loans; and we give $12 billion or more in assistance to Israel’s self-declared enemies. Some of these are countries that say they will drive Israel into the sea.
Add foreign aid to Israel's enemies to the fact that ultimately spent spent invaluable human treasure in the form of death & disability of our finest to set up Islamic Republics based on Sharia in Iraq and Afghanistan, then continuing necon foreign policy, aided and abetted the Moslem Brotherhood in Libya and Egypt - how does any of this help Israel?
I took the time to write because we are in DEEP trouble and it's disturbing to see ideas summarily dismissed because they are advocated by people that have been quite successfully smeared by the marxist MSM. Paul, Keyes, and Tancredo come to mind.