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(The Atlantic) Obvious That racist Ron Paul newsletter that Ron Paul says he never authored, strange how he originally defended what it said and didn't say he didn't write it   (theatlantic.com) divider line 332
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Lost Thought 00
2011-12-20 12:53:58 PM
I guess this means that Paul is officially the new frontrunner, now that the media has decided to destroy yet another candidate.
 
sprawl15
2011-12-20 12:54:37 PM
RON PAUL doesn't hate Jews, he's just the only one brave enough to point out that Jews aren't in the Constitution.
 
whidbey
2011-12-20 12:54:59 PM
Dr. Paul

Can we please stop calling him that?
 
Cletus C.
2011-12-20 12:55:48 PM
Know what else he didn't write? The Bible. I have proof.
 
duffman13
2011-12-20 12:57:05 PM
This isn't a repeat from december 2007.
 
whidbey
2011-12-20 12:57:11 PM
Sullivan said "Polls show that only about 5 percent of people with dark-colored skin support the free market, a laissez faire economy, an end to welfare and to affirmative action,"

tha HORROR.
 
Philip Francis Queeg
2011-12-20 12:58:31 PM
Lost Thought 00: I guess this means that Paul is officially the new frontrunner, now that the media has decided to destroy yet another candidate.

Yes, it is awful when the media reports on a candidates own words. Why do they insist on reprinting what the candidates actually say?
 
Headso
2011-12-20 12:59:01 PM
Lost Thought 00: now that the media has decided to destroy yet another candidate

yeah, it's all the media's fault that they are reporting stuff these candidates did.
 
TofuTheAlmighty
2011-12-20 12:59:05 PM
Ron Paul is one of our cherished defenders against tyranny by the federal government. Oddly, he's also one of the biggest proponents of tyranny by state government.
 
AKTurkey [TotalFark]
2011-12-20 12:59:48 PM
sprawl15: RON PAUL doesn't hate Jews, he just the only one brave enough to point out that Jews aren't in the Constitution doesn't hate Muslims.
 
Genevieve Marie [TotalFark]
2011-12-20 12:59:48 PM
Lost Thought 00: I guess this means that Paul is officially the new frontrunner, now that the media has decided to destroy yet another candidate.

Honestly, it's a shame they have to bother. There are few things on earth that irk me more than finding out that someone who is ostensibly a normal, sensible person supports Ron Paul.

I have to assume that they just... haven't actually researched him in any real way.
 
whidbey
2011-12-20 12:59:59 PM
duffman13: This isn't a repeat from december 2007.

Yeah, but RON PAUL is.
 
Hank Rearden
2011-12-20 01:00:14 PM
I'm voting for Ron Paul in the primary.

Liberty above all else.

biatches.
 
ourbigdumbmouth [TotalFark]
2011-12-20 01:00:30 PM
Well It's about time they put this out. Just wait until they find out Romney's a Mormon.
 
Garble
2011-12-20 01:00:34 PM
Ron Paul is not racist! He just says and believes racist things!!!
 
shamanwest
2011-12-20 01:02:29 PM
TofuTheAlmighty: Ron Paul is one of our cherished defenders against tyranny by the federal government. Oddly, he's also one of the biggest proponents of tyranny by state government.

I can beat up on my brother but Big Brother better not beat up on my brother.
 
ourbigdumbmouth [TotalFark]
2011-12-20 01:02:51 PM
I'm not going to fault the guy for hiring Andrew Dice Clay to write some articles. Dudes funny
 
Philip Francis Queeg
2011-12-20 01:03:27 PM
Hank Rearden: I'm voting for Ron Paul in the primary.

Liberty for white christian males above all else.

biatches.

RON PAUL fixed that for you.
 
Hank Rearden
2011-12-20 01:03:56 PM
Garble: Ron Paul is not racist! He just says and believes racist things!!!

And you're a complete angel. I'm sure.

Freedom means saying what you want.

Suck it.
 
Ken at Popehat [TotalFark]
2011-12-20 01:04:11 PM
I like Ron Paul on a number of issues, even though he's too much a federalist libertarian rather than a civil libertarian for my taste (civil libertarian: "the government has no business jailing you for being a homosexual." Federalist libertarian: "the federal government has no business jailing you for being a homosexual. That's the job of the states.").

But this issue is devastating for him, I think. Much of being the President is picking the right people and supervising them adequately. Under the most generous interpretation of the newsletter incident, Paul picked nutjobs to write under his name without conducting due diligence, then failed to supervise them. That doesn't inspire confidence in his executive abilities.
 
whidbey
2011-12-20 01:04:19 PM
Genevieve Marie: There are few things on earth that irk me more than finding out that someone who is ostensibly a normal, sensible person supports Ron Paul.

I have to assume that they just... haven't actually researched him in any real way.

Or they actually believe that sh*t, that the states should have the "right" to discriminate against skin color, a woman's right to choose an abortion, homosexuals, etc...
 
apeiron242
2011-12-20 01:04:20 PM
Hank Rearden: I'm voting for Ron Paul in the primary.

Liberty above all else.

biatches.

Nice trolling, Mr. Rearden.
 
Rapmaster2000
2011-12-20 01:04:35 PM
I think I read the same stuff every other day on Drudge last summer.

Crackas is wildin'!
 
mediaho
2011-12-20 01:05:10 PM
Lost Thought 00: I guess this means that Paul is officially the new frontrunner, now that the media has decided to destroy yet another candidate.

The MediaTM doesn't have time to destroy any of them before they implode themselves. Mercury has a longer half-life than any of those clowns. I'm pretty sure the GOP is just using 2012 as a chance to purge their undesirables. It has yet to be seen if the undesirables are the lunatic religious fringe or the responsible grown ups.
 
Ken at Popehat [TotalFark]
2011-12-20 01:05:15 PM
Hank Rearden: Garble: Ron Paul is not racist! He just says and believes racist things!!!

And you're a complete angel. I'm sure.

Freedom means saying what you want.

Suck it.

Is it your position that "freedom" means the right to say things without social consequences, such as people concluding that you're a choad?
 
eiger
2011-12-20 01:05:30 PM
Hank Rearden: Garble:
And you're a complete angel. I'm sure.

Freedom means saying what you want..

I doubt Garble is running for president.
 
qorkfiend
2011-12-20 01:05:46 PM
Ken at Popehat: Under the most generous interpretation of the newsletter incident, Paul picked nutjobs to write under his name without conducting due diligence, then failed to supervise them. That doesn't inspire confidence in his executive abilities.

qft
 
Hank Rearden
2011-12-20 01:06:01 PM
Philip Francis Queeg: Hank Rearden: I'm voting for Ron Paul in the primary.

Liberty for white christian males above all else.

biatches.

RON PAUL fixed that for you.

Cute.

See you on the breadlines, asshole.
 
mediaho
2011-12-20 01:06:10 PM
Hank Rearden: Freedom means saying what you want.

And reaping the consequences.
 
whidbey
2011-12-20 01:06:32 PM
Hank Rearden Add Favorite User Quote 2011-12-20 01:06:01 PM

0/10
 
Frank N Stein
2011-12-20 01:06:33 PM
Philip Francis Queeg: Hank Rearden: I'm voting for Ron Paul in the primary.

Liberty for white christian males above all else.

biatches.

RON PAUL fixed that for you.

I wasn't aware that Ron Paul wanted to abolish the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments.
 
sprawl15
2011-12-20 01:07:17 PM
Ken at Popehat: But this issue is devastating for him.

I would have thought introducing legislation that unconstitutionally tries to overturn the 14th Amendment would have been devastating to someone who caters to the Constitutionalists. Shame.
 
AKTurkey [TotalFark]
2011-12-20 01:07:25 PM
whidbey: Dr. Paul

Can we please stop calling him that?

I prefer "Dr. Paul, medicine woman man."
 
blackminded
2011-12-20 01:07:29 PM
Hank Rearden: I'm voting for Ron Paul in the primary.

Liberty above all else.

biatches.

I voted for RON PAUL in the 2008 Michigan GOP Primary because the MDP dun goofed and invalidated the Dem primary. Considering voting for him again here in VA.
 
SpectroBoy
2011-12-20 01:07:37 PM
whidbey: Can we please stop calling him that?

Why?

After earning a Doctor of Medicine degree from Duke University's School of Medicine in 1961, Paul completed his medical internship at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He then served as a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force from 1963 to 1965 and then in the United States Air National Guard from 1965 to 1968.

Sounds like a doctor to me. A doctor who served his country.
 
Hank Rearden
2011-12-20 01:07:44 PM
Ken at Popehat: Hank Rearden: Garble: Ron Paul is not racist! He just says and believes racist things!!!

And you're a complete angel. I'm sure.

Freedom means saying what you want.

Suck it.

Is it your position that "freedom" means the right to say things without social consequences, such as people concluding that you're a choad?

Ahh yes...

Because only the status quo needs a 'nice guy', rather than someone who's got a voting record against needless wars, the patriot act, sound money, and an end to the drug war.
 
whidbey
2011-12-20 01:07:51 PM
Frank N Stein: Philip Francis Queeg: Hank Rearden: I'm voting for Ron Paul in the primary.

Liberty for white christian males above all else.

biatches.

RON PAUL fixed that for you.

I wasn't aware that Ron Paul wanted to abolish the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments.

Maybe you should look into it a bit more closely, then.
 
The Larch
2011-12-20 01:08:23 PM
There's a RON PAUL thread on the Politics page? That's impossible! The politics page is only for the candidate who is leading the polls in Iowa!

[checks polls]

Wow, RON PAUL is leading "anybody who isn't Romney" polls in Iowa right now, and Rush Limbaugh is talking about Jeb Bush as the great white hope of the Republican Party this year. That's just amazingly stupid. I'd almost feel sorry for the Republicans, but I find myself laughing too hard.
 
whidbey
2011-12-20 01:08:48 PM
SpectroBoy: whidbey: Can we please stop calling him that?

Why?

After earning a Doctor of Medicine degree from Duke University's School of Medicine in 1961, Paul completed his medical internship at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He then served as a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force from 1963 to 1965 and then in the United States Air National Guard from 1965 to 1968.

Sounds like a doctor to me. A doctor who served his country.

You mean he USED TO BE A DOCTOR, don't you?
 
shamanwest
2011-12-20 01:08:51 PM
Philip Francis Queeg: Hank Rearden: I'm voting for Ron Paul in the primary.

Liberty for white christian males above all else.

biatches.

RON PAUL fixed that for you.

You know what? Let every one of the idiot Paulites vote for him. But first, they need to take a look at everything Paul talks about, not just the bits they like. They need to look at all of it and ask themselves, if enacted would things honestly be better. Honestly. If they still want to vote for him then fark them. They get what they deserve.

/Ron Paul is to liberty what Paul was to Christianity.
 
qorkfiend
2011-12-20 01:09:06 PM
blackminded: the MDP dun goofed and invalidated the Dem primary.

I gotta ask: How the fark did that happen?
 
Corvus
2011-12-20 01:09:16 PM
Ken at Popehat: I like Ron Paul on a number of issues, even though he's too much a federalist libertarian rather than a civil libertarian for my taste (civil libertarian: "the government has no business jailing you for being a homosexual." Federalist libertarian: "the federal government has no business jailing you for being a homosexual. That's the job of the states.").

That's called being a CONFEDERATE. I like how that is a bad word now so people just call themselves libertarians instead of a confederate which they actually are.
 
AKTurkey [TotalFark]
2011-12-20 01:09:42 PM
blackminded: Hank Rearden: I'm voting for Ron Paul in the primary.

Liberty above all else.

biatches.

I voted for RON PAUL in the 2008 Michigan Virginia GOP Primary because the MDP dun goofed and invalidated the Dem primary. Considering voting for him again here in MI VA.

ftfm
 
Hank Rearden
2011-12-20 01:10:33 PM
Corvus: Ken at Popehat: I like Ron Paul on a number of issues, even though he's too much a federalist libertarian rather than a civil libertarian for my taste (civil libertarian: "the government has no business jailing you for being a homosexual." Federalist libertarian: "the federal government has no business jailing you for being a homosexual. That's the job of the states.").

That's called being a CONFEDERATE. I like how that is a bad word now so people just call themselves libertarians instead of a confederate which they actually are.

And what is so bad about being against a giant federal bureaucracy?

I'm sorry, but DECENTRALIZED systems ALWAYS work better than top-down.
 
ourbigdumbmouth [TotalFark]
2011-12-20 01:10:48 PM
We really can't judge Paul for this. If we do then you have do the same for all of Obamas racist newsletters. All the people he hung out with.

We can't judge.
 
cubic_spleen
2011-12-20 01:10:57 PM
How surprising that a Randroid appears in a Ron Paul thread.
 
whidbey
2011-12-20 01:11:13 PM
shamanwest: You know what? Let every one of the idiot Paulites vote for him. But first, they need to take a look at everything Paul talks about, not just the bits they like.

And what incentive do they have to do that?

Beer and free pizza?
 
Corvus
2011-12-20 01:11:50 PM
One thing is probably most GOP voters don't make much of his past racists statements and seem to look the other way about him making them and lying about them, but if he was to get the nomination this will sink him.
 
Frank N Stein
2011-12-20 01:11:54 PM
whidbey: Maybe you should look into it a bit more closely, then.

Hmmm. Nope. Nowhere is he espousing doing those things. I'm beginning to think you guys are just making shiat up
 
Genevieve Marie [TotalFark]
2011-12-20 01:12:18 PM
whidbey: Genevieve Marie: There are few things on earth that irk me more than finding out that someone who is ostensibly a normal, sensible person supports Ron Paul.

I have to assume that they just... haven't actually researched him in any real way.

Or they actually believe that sh*t, that the states should have the "right" to discriminate against skin color, a woman's right to choose an abortion, homosexuals, etc...

Exactly. Because somehow denying civil rights is TOTALLY OK as long as it's state governments and not the federal government doing it. Because that's exactly what this country was founded on.

Sigh.
 
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