You’ve got to love Ron Paul. The libertarian congressman from Texas has always been the odd one out. Nobody has ever taken him seriously – and, considering his ideas, quite logically so.
Although every rational commentator finds it more than appropriate that Paul is pretty much ignored by the mainstream media – or was ignored by them – Paul himself sadly disagrees. He has pumped millions into Iowa, hoping to win this non-contested state; he’s airing attack ads aimed at Newt Gingrich, accusing his rival of “hypocrisy,” and his little minions are swarming all over the Internet in an attempt to sell his libertarian gospel to voters.
When you’re begging the media for attention, chances are they will eventually give it to you.
And that took Paul somewhat by surprise.
When he was asked by CNN about his racist email newsletter, Paul simply tore off his microphone and walked away, arguing that this was the umptiest time they asked about it, and that he had had enough.
Paul got testy at this point and responded “I never read it, I was aware of it ten years after it was written…CNN does this every single time.”
Borger asked rhetorically whether the repeated questions were “legitimate.”
Paul finished off the exchange with “When you get the answer, it’s legitimate you take the answers i give,” then he removed his microphone and left.
Well, dear congressman, guess what? You’re running for president. You’ve got to explain just about every single thing you ever did – or other people did in your name. The fact of the matter is that you made close to a million dollars off of your newsletter in 1993 alone. You can say you “read it occasionally,” but only the extremely naive would actually take your word for it. Especially because you failed to distance yourself from the racist content of these newsletters, until you were forced to do so by those darned, critical journalists.
The funny thing? Instead of “teaching the media a lesson,” you’ve actually taught observers all they need to know about you. Thanks, I guess.
Wow – Seriously? I plead all readers to watch the entire interview and make their own judgement.
Did CNN Unfairly Edit The Ron Paul Walk Off Interview? Watch The Uncut Interview
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The unedited version makes Ron Paul look even worse, giving him time to advocate his ridiculous foreign policy positions.
As for the newsletters, it looks like his story has changed yet again.
Now he did read some of them, but just not the ones being cited.
Naturally that begs the question of the content of the ones he did actually read.
And he is playing this new card of contending that the content is only incendiary because it is being reported on. That means he thinks the content is acceptable as long as nobody makes an issue out of it. If the media stops asking about will he change his story once more and endorse the content?
Also while he repudiates the racist content, he still wants to support the investment parts. Of course those also contain some serious nonsense, including your random conspiracy theories.
Then there is his continued curious ignorance over how much he made on them. Did he never file taxes for the newsletters? Did he never file his personal taxes? He is already insisting he is a terrible business manager, now he figures adding being a terrible financial manager will make him look better? I’m not seeing how that is a particularly good strategy given he is running on reforming government spending, but it obviously makes sense to him somehow.
Sometimes settling for a hatchet job is better than volunteering to step into a bear trap.
Too many ex-CIA and military intelligence veterans are coming out supporting Paul’s foreign policy. Must be so truth to it.
Appeal to authority and appeal to the masses are both logical fallacies.
By that standard, we should also completely accept that AGC is real, and elect Manbearpig to save us all.
Of course that leaves begging both the actual qualifications of the authority you are appealing to as well as the actual mass it is.
You gotta love PJM, slinging non stop Ron Paul hate ever since the Congressman started pummeling their boy Newt. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year full of GOP Establishment horrifying Ron Paul wins state by state! All of PJM’s fav candidates just blew their chance to get on the Virginia ballot. Major Establishment fail!
I think Ron Paul will assure Obama’s re-election (Heaven forbid) even when he does not get the nomination.
Here’s the scenario:
Paul gets a decent vote total, State by State. He knocks at te convention door, or the MSM does it for him.
Choose your ending:
(A) Paul is rejected. His supporters wit out the election, or he goes third-party.
(B) Paul is accepted. His supporters have a big say on the platform. The moderates vote for Obama.
And the US becomes Europe.
Please tell me why I’m wrong. Please?
Sit out.
Paul would steal a lot of votes from Obama, unlike Gingrich or Romney.
Unless Ron Paul is running against Triumph the Insult Dog, I can’t see him stealing a lot of votes from anyone.
“You’ve got to love Ron Paul.” No I don’t. He’s right about a lot of things, including that size and scope of our government is completely out of control and beyond the limits set in the Constitution. But his isolationist foreign policy and his temperment, as displayed in his reaction to CNN’s questioning of the racist content of a newsletter put out in his name for his financial benefit, are unacceptable in a candidate who will have to face our Glorious Leader and his minions, including the MSM. I’m sorry Ron Paul will be leaving the House after his current term, but I have no regret that he won’t be the Republican Presidential nominee regardless of how well he may do in the “Hawkeye Cauci,” as Rush calls the Iowa election festivities.
Why? Obama never did.
This idea, that there so much hidden about Obama is the basis for all the stink of fear at PJ Media. All those commentors saying he’s a secret communist Islamist working to destroy western civilization!!!!
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Heh, imagine the conspiracy theories on the left if Ron Paul wins!
His grades, medical, travel records are indeed behind lock and key, but Stanley Kurtz – an actual scholar – brought to light what the MSM refused to touch, and it’s pretty much worst-case scenario. As we are seeing now.
That’s right, Obama never did.
And that has worked out so well, why it would be simply inconceivable not to do it again.
For many of us we are the baby boomers and can see the minds eye video the whole era. All the wording in those letters were morally acceptable for the time. It was a different era. I have seen the changes in federal govt. involvement and a push from msm all for a good and righteous cause of equality. back in the time this was totally acceptable wording by all. We are the ones that have changed into the way we think today. People seem to leave out the era’s earlier moral way of mindset. It was in the process of moral change slowly over the years. Now we’re beating up somebody because of old words. think about it, who’s fault it really is. Ours. Blame go’es to ourselves.
I once flirted with the idea of attending CPAC a few years ago. It sounded like an interesting event. Then the CPAC straw poll went for Ron Paul. DING. Instantaneous change in plans.
How anybody can attend to him and support him is beyond me. Is it just that he supports legalizing drugs or something like that? Losers.
Do the same ambush to the Obumbler. You will get the same reaction.
Amazing how the press wakes up when the rethuglicans are running, but go to sleep when the demeocraps are doing the same.
Yes, I hate both parties, and am wishing for a third. And Paul ain’t it.
Isn’t “I lent my name to a newsletter but never read it” just about as bad as “I attended Rev. Wright’s church regularly for 20 years but never listened to the sermons.”?
SO
Either Rep. Paul is being dishonest, or he is an idiot.
-Dishonest, in that those were his views at one time. Now that it’s political poision, he’s pretending he had nothing to to with it. But, if he really didn’t, well…
-Idiot! He is in politics. He knows his views are not exactly popular. So, he lends his name and reputation to be used unvetted? Neither he nor his associates take the time to see what is actually written? How stupid can one be?
Either way, this is NOT the man to reform our system.
Don’t like Ron Paul? Fine, just make sure he wins enough delegates to keep Romney and Gingrich from getting the nomination then. At the convention, we can draft Huckabee as a consensus candidate, nominating Rand Paul as Vice President and promising Ron Paul his choice of Treasury Secretary or FED chairman. Romney gets Commerce, and Gingrich gets State. Bachmann needs to challenge Boehner for the Speakership.
I like Rand Paul. Scary thought ain’t it?
Exactly how far does the nut fall from the tree?
There is some weird crap going on in DC, and getting weirder every day.
“I like Rand Paul. Scary thought ain’t it?” Yes Andrew, because the neocons and PJM haters can’t claim Rand wrote some racist pamphlets with rhetoric of the kind that routinely wound up in Frontpagemag and other perfectly respectable rightist outlets twenty. Nor does Rand apologize for what happened to Iran’s elected president in 1953. No, Rand avoids all of those pitfalls, unlike his Dad, and just starts smacking down the endless war crowd chomping at the bit to attack Iran with ‘We-can’t-afford-it. What part of that do you not understand?”.
Of course by the time Rand gets to run in 2016 Obama will have defeated the RINO Romney, gold and silver dealers will be barcoded, and the dollar will be toilet paper. But at least PJM and the Establishment whore D.C. ‘conservatives’ will get four more years to hang around and blame it all on Obama and never on themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE30TH6Y7cI
Merry Christmas PJMers. Any candidate, any man can be defeated.
But a movement based on an idea whose time has come, however, is invincible.
The quicker Ron Paul gets yanked off the national stage as a Republican the better. The fact that he is taken seriously by a certain segment of the GOP lends credence to the concern that some minorities have that the GOP is still for whites only. The GOP candidate will need every vote to win in 2012 and that means some minority voters. The guy is a nut and hurts the cause.
Not only is Ron Paul a conspiracy theory-promoting whackjob who keeps a tinfoil hat in his closet on stand-by, he’s a racist and a homophobe. And his supporters behave like members of a cult. If he offers you kool-aid, do yourself a favor and “just say no.”
Can’t say I’m too scared of a homophobe; simply because the word “homophobe” is such a childish attempt to win an argument before it happens.
Yep. And, note the inconsistency; language has been taken captive, “gay” is their preferred term, and NOT homo-(anything). Except of course when it’s time to hurl epithets, then “homophobe” spits out better than “gayphobe.”
Maybe the alleged kid in the shower room with the coach is relieved to hear that he wasn’t really assaulted by a “pedophile,” but only temporarily utilized by a “minor attracted person.”
It’s interesting that while both of you are comfortable supporting a homophobe for president, neither of you rushed to defend Paul’s racism or his tin-foil-hat conspiracy theories.
Don’t know that much about Ron Paul or Rupaul, for that matter…but I do know that when a culture starts circling the drain, people given to extremes are what float to the surface.
ROFLMAO
Poor Ron Paul…..his tinfoil hat didn’t save him from the Evil CNN Reporter.
Must be an Alien Conspiracy….
“The fact that he is taken seriously by a certain segment of the GOP lends credence to the concern that some minorities have that the GOP is still for whites only.” Geez have you people checked the CNN poll showing Ron Paul attracting more minority support than Newt or Romney (who hails from one of the whitest religions in the country despite the LDS nice ad campaign)? Of course not, that would get in the way of the talking point that Ron Paul, to quote the Attack Waaaaaaaaaaaaatch ad, is ‘a big raaaaaaaaacist!’
I see the local Ronulan trolls have apparently completely alienated both friends and family, since they seem to have spent most of Christmas Eve and Christmas here defending their Secular Savior.
Must be a sad and lonely existence, and one that I’d not wish on any fellow human being.
Argument 1: “I like him, but there is no way he could win because no one else will vote for him”
Instead of voting for Obama light(Newt, Romney), why don’t Republicans just run Obama? Hell, that way when we have another bog government disaster Americans can blame the progressive movement instead of the GOP….Like they did for the housing mess.
Argument 2: “he’s an isolationist and I don’t like his foreign policy.”
Ron Paul: Not an Isolationist but a Non-Interventionist
http://tinyurl.com/6tk85kg
Along this line, if you don’t want a war with Iran, don’t like seeing our troops dying building public bathrooms in Afghanistan, don’t like all that big government billion dollar payoffs that we are handing out to 3rd world s@*tholes so they can arm terrorist, don’t like the US funding the insurgencies that are killing our troops in these meaningless wars, don’t like the US putting al Qaeda(and the like) into power and in charge of countries….Ron Paul is definitely not your guy.