There are plenty of hit pieces out there on Dr. Paul and it seems to me an unnecessary distraction to impute an attack where none exists.

However, you only choose for yourself. You don’t get to choose with whom they associate. They get to choose to associate with whomsoever they please, or it ceases to be a free country. They get to say whatever kind of idiotic things they wish, even if those ideas repel you, or it ceases to be a free country. Some would say that the free country ceased rather a long time ago.

Ron Paul has not endorsed these people. And, if he gets campaign contributions from them, good. I can think of a lot worse things that such people might do with their money.

The truth of a big tent is, it has a lot of people under it. If it is big enough to get Ron Paul to the White House, the Revolution is going to have a bunch of unsavory people around the edges. Some are going to be more religious than thee or me, some are going to be more pro-Life than thee or me, some are going to be more self-sovereign than thee, some are going to be inclined to want a smaller government for “bad” reasons.

I don’t care. I want a much, much smaller government. I want fewer taxes taking less from me. I want monetary policy to be made on sensible, free market principles. I want free trade. I personally don’t think the border issue is that big a deal. I don’t mind immigrants coming here to work. I don’t think Paul is perfect on every issue. So what?

What are my choices? It isn’t like there’s a sovereign individual candidate.

You don’t want to be associated with people like the idiots at Stormfront? Fine. Don’t be. But, does that mean you have to support a candidate who is worse in some way than Ron Paul? Then you would become the foolish one.

Get a grip. Other people are going to join the Ron Paul Revolution whether you like them or not. You ought to like them joining, and more of them, if you want to win.

You see, the problem I have is that I don’t want to be associated with people like the idiots at Stormfront.

I would suggest you not endorse them then.

Ron Paul hasn’t.

Tens of thousands of Americans are doing the same.

Paul said that educating a future generation to understand freedom and planting the seeds of individual liberty are more important than this campaign.

If the excitement generated by his message is any indication of our future, I would say we have finally found a bright spot!

Paul makes Limbaugh, Hannity, Bush, Clinton, and Rudi Tuti all look like uneducated and unprincipled, ideological whackos.

She has a right.

This is the kind of carp the other campaigns want you talking about instead of staying focused and on task.

Out of the millions of Ron Paul supporters there are some racists….from what I can tell Ron Paul is at a further distance from his bad supporters than the other guys are. So why are you applying your smear job of a article unevenly? Not a very balanced article.

I’d say a lot of the neo-Nazi and other groups just like the fact that American taxpayer dollars wouldn’t be spent to subsidize Israel anymore. As strongly as I _disagree_ with their motives, the financial result is still non-intervention. Israel is a sovereign nation that has every right to defend its existence and its borders, but PAYING FOR IT isn’t America’s job. They have at least a hundred nukes and one of the strongest military presences in the region. I say they’re a country that can fend for itself. I don’t like my tax dollars funding Israel’s abuse of the Palestinian people any more than I like to subsidize obscenities like corporate welfare for the oil & energy industries. If anyone is supported by racists FOR RACIST REASONS, it’s the politicians in the pocket of AIPAC, the JRC, and so on.
And before anyone tries to claim my views are anti-semitic I’ll have you know I have MANY Jewish friends I respect very much, my boss is a Jew, and I _strongly_ support Israel’s right to exist as a country – but not its lobbyists’ feeling of entitlement to welfare money from MY taxes.

I hear ya on that, to some extent. It’s hard to deny that often with a change in skin color or ethnicity comes a change in culture. The fact that I’m white ranks low on my list when it comes to classifying myself.

I’m human. I’m an American. I’m a Deist. I know that the only real difference between me and a starving African kid is the geographic location of my birthplace. I got lucky. Give that same kid the opportunities that I’ve had and he’d probably be much further ahead in life than I am. This cracker is admittedly half-idiot. I can understand why supremacist or “pride” groups exist though. Put me in the “weed pride” and “human pride” groups. The government needs up ease up off and leave people to lead their own lives. The more they try to force prescription pills and Government Health Care down my throat the more likely I am to become more extreme in my “weed pride” views. The more innocent people who go to jail over this War on Drugs the more likely I am to hate the War on Drugs and those who perpetrate it.

I just, I dunno, try to at least understand where the “pride” folks come from with their anger. I think that’s the key in addressing the issues in the most peaceful and logical manner. Put EVERYONE on equal footing in the eyes of the law, then there is absolutely no excuses for the bullcrap that some groups pull.

Besides, if Stormfront hates black people so much then why would they support a guy who is going to decriminalize and release from prison thousands upon thousands upon thousands of black people who’ve been imprisoned by a racist War on Drugs? Why would they support Ron Paul? They just want to be left alone. He’d alleviate a large amount of the stress and anger which fuels supremacist movements.

Because no political campaign can afford to allow itself become so decentralized that any nutcase can promote his own agenda using the candidates name, which is what’s happening here.

Actually, the girl didn’t do that. She was promoting Ron Paul’s agenda. Yes, she pointed out the parts that related to her agenda, but she actually did a pretty good job of staying on message. She didn’t put a single word in his mouth.

Book list from Ron Paul recommended reading for Giuliani:
- Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer
- Dying to Win, by Robert Pape
- Blowback, by Chalmers Johnson
- 9/11 Commission Report
- 1984, by George Orwell

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“Because no political campaign can afford to allow itself become so decentralized that any nutcase can promote his own agenda using the candidates name, which is what’s happening here.”

That would be happening if Paul was still getting no air time on any of the major networks, which isn’t the case any more. The more exposure he gets, the less this will be a problem because Paul has disassociated himself from the racists and his platform only coincides with theirs on the issue of immigration.

Beyond that, the only connection between Paul, the truthers and the racists is that none of them particularly seem to like big government, which is common ground with the libertarians as well. Should Paul abandon that message so he can alienate all the voters you don’t like? And frankly the blog world is the only place I ever see this Ron Paul = racism argument brought up…why on earth would you even consider it newsworthy?

As for Paul’s view on racism, I think he explained pretty clearly why he isn’t racist and why he doesn’t go out of his way to demonize opposing points of view on the topic in this article he wrote for Lew Rockwell after the Imus incident:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul381.html