Orcinus: The clearing view of Ron Paul

[chascarrillo]

The clearing view of Ron Paul
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

-- by Dave

Well, we've been saying all along that Ron Paul's presidential campaign -- which is charged up enough with very public xenophobia as it is -- is attracting white supremacists and other extremists in large droves because, largely, that's who Ron Paul is.

Clearly, more people are coming to realize this, thanks in no small part to Jamie Kirchick's superb reporting in The New Republic last week on Paul's long history of publishing newletters riddled with racism, homophobia, and conspiracy-mongering. Kirchick has a follow-up this week with even more newsletters, and as he observes at the TNR blog:

At this point, it seems that the only people still defending Ron Paul are the openly bigoted or the comically credulous. For the former, the revelation that Paul had (at best, negligent at worst, complicit) involvement in the publishing of and profiting from paranoid and bigoted newsletters for over two decades neatly confirms the reasons why they had chosen to support the Texas Congressman presidential campaign in the first place. For the latter, no amount of evidence will ever convince them that “Dr. No” is anything less than some saintly, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” caricature.


Now comes the revelation that one of Paul's organizers in Michigan -- a man he's seen posing with in the photo below, located on the michigan4ronpaul.com site -- is also a notorious neo-Nazi and Klan organizer in that neck of the woods.

More: http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/01/clearing-view-of-ron-paul.html

[Ian David]

1. Stop it. Stop it right now. All of you.

Don't bash Ron Paul.

DON'T!

Let the Paultards waste their time and money on the crazy dead-end candidate who at least speaks against the occupation.

[chascarrillo]

3. I'm not going to stay silent in the face of racism.

Sorry if that upsets you.

[Ian David]

4. I'm just saying, wait until the Primary. n/t

[madrchsod]

2. keep running ron

give the republican party the shits...ya they created the climate for these guys to flourish...