Ron Paul a bigoted conspiracy theorist?

Thanks to Marc Andreesen, I finally got around to reading the New Republic piece on Ron Paul’s old newsletters, which contain all sorts of bigotry and conspiracy.

A few excerpts:

  • This newsletter describes Martin Luther King Jr. as “a world-class adulterer” who “seduced underage girls and boys” and “replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.”
  • In the course of defending homophobic comments by Andy Rooney of CBS, a 1990 newsletter notes that a reporter for a gay magazine “certainly had an axe to grind, and that’s not easy with a limp wrist.”
  • The June 1990 issue of the Political Report says: “I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.”

Disturbing, eh? And there’s a ton more. Paul’s defense is that he didn’t write these newsletters and didn’t have any editorial control over them. OK fine, but they were published in your name! Despicable.

I like Paul’s straight-talk about foreign policy and his small-government message, but I’m NOT into the conspiracy theory stuff. The Federal Reserve is not responsible for all of the evil in the world.

But who to turn to? I want a candidate who believes in small government, free trade, gay marriage, non-interventionist foreign policy, and full separation of church and state.

Best (electable) options are all Republicans, but none quite fit the bill.

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    good luck finding that; though we claim to embrace the idea of diversity it seems behind the shadows we know that we are fooling ourselves into thinking it will work. This is why the cocktail platform that you have suggested will never exist unless you run yourself.
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    You need to go and check out Obama's church, then come back and talk about bigotary...

    The NewRupulic & Cato etc. are being put to task over their smear colusion of Ron Paul .

    Now, you need to start with an open mind and look at all info, especially raw facts like
    Voting Records
    Speeches & debates
    Articles writen etc.

    If you start with the intent of finding only dirt, then someone is always willing to serve it up...
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    Another thing you convinently forgot, MLK came out early and strongly for an immediate withdrawl from Vietnam. He went up against all the powers that were at the time including LBJ (Hillary's hero) and 95% of the democrats. He didn't equivocate like Obama is doing or refuse to leave like Hillary. The Republicans are worse. Who besides Ron Paul represents the MLK view of what we should do about wars we got lied into war by our leaders?

    You talk about being disturbed? What disturbs me most, though is how none of the Republicans will hold Bush accountable for his lie. A lot more despicable than anything you can dream up about Ron Paul.
 
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