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A former congressional aide to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has written a piece slamming the presidential hopeful's foreign-policy views, calling them "pure lunacy" in an online post on the conservative website Rightwingnews.com. The long piece by former aide Eric Dondero alleges awkward treatment by Paul of gays and Jews, but saves its strongest criticisms for his policy positions. "It’s his foreign policy that’s the problem; not so much some stupid and whacky things on race and gays he may have said or written in the past," he writes. Dondero writes that Paul does not believe Israel should exist, that the...

The excellent Ron Paul is to face a challenge for his Congressional District - Texas CD 14. Despite Dr Paul's important contributions to American politics, it is one which I hope will succeed. Ron Paul has been a Republican Congressman for most of the last 20 years. He took some time out of Congress to run for President as the Libertarian Party candidate in 1988. He is known by the (mostly) affectionate nickname of "Dr No", because he votes against almost everything. That's a useful role. Firstly, because most federal projects are misguided or not authorised by the Constitution, and...

Eric Dondero, a former Ron Paul staffer, is declaring against his former boss after last night's debate embarrassment, where Mr. Paul appeared to blame 9/11 on U.S. foreign policy. Good morning, I am making this announcement on my favorite website RedState.com. Many of you here have urged me to take this course. And now, after last night's GOP Presidential debate, I've decided to move ahead with my plans. I have spent the early morning scanning the major political blogs, and news sites. It's unanimous. Ron Paul got slammed by Rudy Giuliani last night for suggesting that we - the United...