"Angry White Man" the real Ron Paul

[MilesColtrane]

Excerpts from a rather long article in The New Republic yesterday by James Kirchik.

www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca

Ron Paul used to be in the newsletter business.

The article quotes some of the shocking, insane racism and homophobia published under his name.

Kucinich needs to distance himself from this ugly nutjob.


"Paul's newsletters have carried different titles over the years--Ron Paul's Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report--but they generally seem to have been published on a monthly basis since at least 1978."

-snip-

"What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics."

-snip-

"In the early 1990s, a newsletter attacked the "X-Rated Martin Luther King" as a "world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours," "seduced underage girls and boys," and "made a pass at" fellow civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy."

-snip-

In 1990, one newsletter mentioned a reporter from a gay magazine "who certainly had an axe to grind, and that's not easy with a limp wrist." In an item titled, "The Pink House?" the author of a newsletter--again, presumably Paul--complained about President George H.W. Bush's decision to sign a hate crimes bill and invite "the heads of homosexual lobbying groups to the White House for the ceremony," adding, "I miss the closet." "Homosexuals," it said, "not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities."

[ORDagnabbit]

1. er...I think you're spreading false info....wasnt this already discreditted?

its not as bad as the obama email I have to keep sending people to snopes to debunk...

[MilesColtrane]

3. The article was posted yesterday.

I hadn't heard anything about this prior to reading it.

[wuushew]

2. All Republicans are racist and misogynist

I don't see how Ron Paul is any worse than the other candidates.

Why should I single Paul out for criticism when the end results of his foreign policy match my own desires, albeit through different means?