Friday, December 23, 2011

Last Call

And The New Republic sticks a fork in Ron Paul.  The fork is labeled "racist douchebag" but it's tastefully lettered, and there plenty of citations of other various bigotries besides racism from Ron Paul's publications, including gay-bashing, antisemitism, and just plain tinfoil idiocy.

Highlights of the collection:

A Special Issue on Racial Terrorism” analyzes the Los Angeles riots of 1992: “Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.”

The July 1992 Ron Paul Political Report declares, “Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,” and defends David Duke. The author of the newsletter—presumably Paul—writes, “My youngest son is starting his fourth year in medical school. He tells me there would be no way to persuade his fellow students of the case for economic liberty.”

The September 1994 issue of the Ron Paul Survival Report states that “those who don’t commit sodomy, who don’t get blood a transfusion, and who don’t swap needles, are virtually assured of not getting AIDS unless they are deliberately infected by a malicious gay.”


The October 1992 issue of the Political Report paraphrases an “ex-cop” who offers this strategy for protecting against “urban youth”: “If you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example).”

The January 1988 Ron Paul Political Report approvingly cites Dr. William C. Douglass, who “believes that AIDS is a deliberately engineered hybrid” developed at a World Health Organization experiment conducted at Ft. Detrick. Douglass has long been a fringe medical guru, and today claims that “smoking can help you live longer!!!”

The November 1992 Ron Paul Survival Report defends chess champion and Holocaust-denier Bobby Fischer, saying that “the brilliant Fischer, who has all the makings of an American hero, is very politically incorrect on Jewish questions, for which he will never be forgiven, even though he is a Jew. Thus we are not supposed to herald him as the world’s greatest chess player.”

Here's the thing, Paul's had this particular load of nitroglycerine in his luggage for years, in several cases well over decades.  How was he able to get re-elected in Texas as a Congressman every two years with this?  These are not new, people.  Ron Paul's been an asshole for a very, very long time.

It's the people on the left that support Paul that I don't get.  You have to overlook all of this atrocious, foul vitriol before you even get to his policies or positions, and you have to do so through either staggering ignorance or agreement with him.

Not only do I think Ron Paul is suspect, but the people telling me to support Ron Paul have no business being listened to for advice.

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