Thin to the point of gauntness, polite to the point of daintiness, Ron Paul is a 71-year-old great-grandfather, a small-town doctor, a self-educated policy intellectual and a formidable stander on constitutional principle. In normal times, Paul might be -- indeed, has been -- the kind of person who is summoned onto cable television around April 15 to ventilate about whether the federal income tax violates the Constitution. But Paul has in recent weeks become a sensation in magazines he doesn't read, on Web sites he has never visited and on television shows he has never watched. ( NY Times)
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A Red State Republican Lefty's Can Live With
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Posted on: July 22, 2007 12:34 PM, by EJGili
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http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/06/08/ron-paul-vs-the-new-world-order/
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/06/trouble-with-ron.html
Paul has some very troubling ultra-right-wing extremist rehtoric in his past, involving racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-government positions. There is no way he should be considered palatable to progressives who see an important role for government in improving people's lives.
Posted by: PhysioProf | July 22, 2007 01:29 PM
The War on Religion
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
December 30, 2003
Posted by: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD | July 22, 2007 02:08 PM
I'm sorry. Anybody in the Republican party being elected is unacceptable. It will only prolong the reign of that section of the GOP which is, bluntly, anti-American.
Posted by: The Ridger | July 22, 2007 02:12 PM
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/06/ron-paul-vs-new-world-order.html
Ron Paul is only palatable because he is a Republican who states the obvious instead of the blithering party line. He is in fact quite a far right supporter in many aspects of his political beliefs. Among them:
"Paul, writing in his independent political newsletter in 1992, reported about unspecified surveys of blacks.
"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action,"Paul wrote.
Paul continued that politically sensible blacks are outnumbered "as decent people." Citing reports that 85 percent of all black men in the District of Columbia are arrested, Paul wrote:
"Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal," Paul said."
Another gem:
"The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders� political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government�s hostility to religion. The establishment clause of the First Amendment was simply intended to forbid the creation of an official state church like the Church of England, not to drive religion out of public life.
-- From a "War on Religion" article Ron Paul wrote in December 2003 (found at Lew Rockwell.com)"
Among his supporters are David Duke. You can read all about Ron Paul right here. http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/search?q=ron+paul+
Sorry, I am not going to link to whitecivilrightsdotcom web site.
Posted by: Phil | July 22, 2007 05:56 PM
He sounds good - compared to the other Republicans. Can this Lefty live with him? Absolutely not.
Posted by: jeffk | July 22, 2007 10:51 PM
That Ron Paul is the only candidate (aside from Mike Gravel) stating the obvious about the conseqences of our foreign policy is really an indication of how corroded our political culture has become in the wake of 9/11.
I'm sure Paul is a well-meaning man, but all the good intentions in the world can't change the sheer looniness of many of his positions.
Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | July 23, 2007 12:24 AM
He's a Libertarian, enough said. Why so many Democrats like him is beyond me. (there is more to a presidential candidate than their stance on the war)
Posted by: Molkien | July 23, 2007 09:56 AM
Not to belabor the point....but just because a Republican actually admits Bush's war in Iraq is a failure is not a good enough reason to vote for him when his other positions are waaay right wing. Why not just vote for a Democrat? Why can't the Republicans vote for a Democrat they can just live with?
Posted by: Phil | July 23, 2007 04:23 PM
In my opinion, the only reason Paul has any appeal whatsoever right now is that he is not an insane *neocon* nutjob. He is an insane nutjob, just a different kind.
Posted by: PhysioProf | July 23, 2007 04:34 PM