And then when Austin’s NAACP President, and African American, comes to the Defense of Paul.

Kucinich is my #1 choice, but Edwards is #2. Obama #3.

Paul does not care about the working class. He is the very embodiment of all that is wrong with the Republican Party and conservatism in general: Peoples’ lives are not to be put to the whim of the market.

146. No rational liberal would call libertarians racist. There is no basis for the claim.

What a liberal could say is that libertarians don’t consider racism a real problem, and no matter how you’d try to slant it, that would be correct.

Sorry.

I don’t like how hillary has voted, FOR the patriot act (twice) FOR the war in Iraq (twice, or more) , SHE SHOULDD”NT EVEN BE RUNNING.
The best ticket possible, or feesable would be the Obama/Kucinich ticket. Or the more unlikly Kucinich / Obama ticket.

RONPAUL2008

You seem to misunderstand what Jim Crow was about. It was the bigoted South’s reaction to Reconstructionism coupled with awful racism. They implemented laws and regulations enforced by redneck cops and attack dogs. That is nothing short of tyranny and is entirely different than the right of a human being to make private decisions and make private statements however idiotic they might seem. I may not like Howard Stern, for example, but I fully support his right to use filthy language and host racy shows as long as it does not violate another’s rights. Ron Paul is not for Jim Crow, nor am I. And he still has my support.

You guys want some REAL dirt on Ron Paul?!?

Check it out!

That’s it. Game over. We got him now fella’s, the skeletons in Ron Paul’s closet have been exposed!

Comment by Abe

His goal of repeal of 1964 Civil Rights Law attracts racist nutjobs.

Comment by Abe

Then you don’t know much about the Libertarian Party, do you?

Part of the Libertarian Party Platform is repeal of the 1964 Civil Rights Laws. Now what do you think ended Jim Crow?

One more time, from the Libertarian Party Platform:

Section I, Part 18. DISCRIMINATION

Consequently, we oppose any government attempts to regulate private discrimination, including discrimination in employment, housing, and privately owned so-called public accommodations. The right to trade includes the right not to trade — for any reasons whatsoever.

http://www.rkba.org/libertarian/lp/platform.1992

What is your proof that Paul was the “leader” of KKK types? His anti-big government positions attracts nutjobs. So does GWB’s big government and war. The New York Times had to retract their story when they allowed some loser Stormfront white supremacist to make up a lie that Paul supported him. In 10 terms of Congress, Paul has never advocated racism or government Jim Crow. He has criticized affirmative action, which is meant to compensate Jim Crow, but I don’t fully agree with affirmative action because it has unintended problems for minorities who want to succeed on our own merits. Opposing affirmative action is not Jim Crow or racist. Paul even voted for MLK day to be declared a national holiday. Would the KKK do that?

He is the leaders of the nut jobs. You are sadly mistaken my friend. In 1988 Ron Paul ran for president on the Libertarian Party Platform. A huge part of theat platform calls for repeal of Civil Rights Laws, and a return to Jim Crow. Paul was not “flirting with KKK types in the past”, he was the national leader of them.

Go ahead and vote for Ron Paul, but make sure you know what you are supporting first.

That being said, I’m very disappointed by the newsletters and the garbage espoused by them. But I refuse to withdraw my support for Ron Paul, who is the only candidate on either side of the aisle who will end this racist war killing thousands of Middle Eastern civilians and the racist War on Drugs hurting our inner cities. Paul will end the empire that imposes American democracy by force on third world countries.

I am grateful for Ron Paul’s taking “moral responsibility” for the firing of the ghostwriter. I think he needs to come out stronger and openly denounce the writer who was fired for his vitriolic garbage.

Now as for anti-semitism, too often the neo-cons use this slander for anyone who criticizes the troubling policies of Israel on Palestinians or our military and financial support of that State.

If Ron Paul flirted with these KKK types in the past, there is nothing he espouses or fights for today that would make me believe he supports any type of Jim Crow or racial disenfranchisement. The knee-jerk reaction to the ugly comments in the newsletters have surprisingly made strange political bedfellows from the neocons who hate Paul and his anti-imperialism with the Left who bash Paul for his conservatism but can offer no one better to reduce the size of the American empire.

This Hispanic supports Ron Paul. Just because a few nut jobs lurk in the Ron Paul Revolution doesn’t mean you won’t find similar wackos in other campaigns. Take the TNR writer for instance who is an open Giuliani supporter. TNR openly supported Italian Fascism in 1927.

I don’t know, but showing up and yelling at us for being “losers” and then saying “think for yourselves!!” while really (apparently) meaning “think exactly like ME!” is not going to help encourage me to vote for their guy.

Oh well.

Comment by jw307505

It is part of the Libertarian Party Platform. Libertarians are very specific about this:

Section II., Part 6 MONOPOLIES

We therefore call for the repeal of all “anti-trust”
laws, including the Robinson-Patman Act which restricts price
discounts, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act.

http://www.rkba.org/libertarian/lp/platform.1992

Hmm. Okay. You aren’t willing to state that you think for yourself? That’s rather frightening. At least to me.

It reminds me of the scene in Monty Python’s _Life of Brian_ where the crowd shouts “YES! WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!”

That doesn’t give me much confidence in your judgment – nor does it increase my interest in the candidate you have staked a claim in, or on.

But I have the impression you don’t care what I think – which makes me even less interested in anything you have to say. I hope that makes sense.

Bye now – you don’t seem to wish to think very clearly, which makes you not worth arguing with …

Comment by jw307505

The same place I got the information that Ron Paul wants to repeal Civil rights Law and return to Jim Crow, from the Libertarian Party Platform.

http://www.rkba.org/libertarian/lp/platform.1992

See, you don’t know Paul’s agenda. It’s not your fault. He has been hiding it.

I would love to see where you got that information.

“And just who do you think Ron Paul is serving with his goal of repealing all anti-trust laws, including the Sherman Act of 1890 and the Clayton Act of 1914? His goal is a return to the Robber Baron Era, and freedom for the multi-national corporations to enslave us all.”

I would also love to see the source of that information. Have we reached the point where the candidate that is running in personal freedoms/The Bill of Rights, is actually trying to enslave us all? Call me crazy, but I think the ability to do what you want with your life, money and the ability own firearms is the opposite of enslavement.

“So you are saying these things _did not appear_ in officially sanctioned Ron Paul publications then? Your abusive and only semi-literate post does not answer my question. So far no one who still likes RP has answered that simple question.”

I will not dispute that these quotes came from a publication which bore the name of Ron Paul. I am no arguing that. But I am arguing that those words were not his own.

“Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.

The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.”— Ron Paul

“Who is doing your thinking – you, or your blind allegiance to a chosen candidate?”

You don’t know me, so I can’t expect you to be able to comment on my allegiance. I do no not agree with Dr. Paul on all issues. His stance on abortion being one of the big ones. I am simply making an argument, forgive me if it was abusive, that the timing of all this coming out is beyond suspect. Everyone who understands our political system knows immediately it is meant to have a political gain, and in my opinion it did. I am not saying Dr. Paul will be elected, and ovbiously, since my vote has not been cast, no one has my allegiance. But the ideas of personal freedom and a government’s power being contained by the constitution, and that it be in the interest of the people, not corporations or foreign interest or anything else, are ideas that should unite the electorate, not be cast out as crazy.

Hopefully that cleared up my opinion, as my previous post was rather argumentative and more of a rant.

Who is doing your thinking – you, or your blind allegiance to a chosen candidate?