Joe Conason: The Lethal Fantasies Of Dear Old Ron Paul
http://www.nationalmemo.com/article/lethal-fantasies-dear-old-ron-paulThe Lethal Fantasies Of Dear Old Ron Paul
Wed, 12/21/2011 - 8:39am —
Joe Conason
The latest evidence of simmering racial resentment on the American political fringe showed up Monday in a Facebook post by a California man who urged the assassination of the President and his two daughters in obscene, racist language. Aside from the Secret Service, there was little reason to pay attention to this sick boob -- except that he was identified as a local political leader of the Tea Party and an avid supporter of Rep. Ron Paul, the Texas Republican who now seems likely to place first in the Iowa presidential caucuses.
To those who have followed Dr. Paul's long career as a failed presidential candidate -- whose campaigns have become a family business -- the appearance of yet another racist nutjob in his orbit is scarcely news. The newsletters that earned millions of dollars for him from gullible subscribers over the decades were often soiled with vile invectives against blacks and other minorities. He is a perennial favorite of the John Birch Society and kindred extremists on the right. He once refused to return a donation from a leader of the Nazi-worshipping skinheads in the Stormfront movement.
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Back then, his rhetorical flirtations with the White Citizens Councils hardly mattered. Almost nobody bothered to listen seriously to his urgings that America return to the gold standard, repeal the income tax and the direct election of US Senators, and erase all of the advances of the past century in protecting the public from cyclical depressions, poisonous food, water, air, and drugs, and the insecurities of poverty, old age and ill health. Most Americans still could remember when this Darwinian ideology influenced policy and knew that the nation was not better off -- except for a few robber barons -- back in the days before Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated the Progressive Era, beginning a century of reform.
On the far right, including wealthy figures such as the Koch family that once supported the Birch Society and now backs the Tea Party, there are many who share Paul's brand of political nostalgia. Kindly and gentle as he appears, Paul has always known how to sound the dog whistle that excites them, whether it was in the anti-black invective that adorned his newsletters for years, the claims that medicine served us better before Medicare and Medicaid, or the campaign against the Federal Reserve. Although Paul has occasionally disavowed his supporters on the ultra-right when political expediency demanded it, they have never abandoned him -- and they won't, because whether or not he is actually a racial bigot, he shares their disdain for the 20th century.
There is little reason to worry about the policies of a Paul administration, despite his current lead in the Iowa polls. But the rise of the Tea Party and the vacuum of leadership in the Republican Party have created a space for Paul's lethal fantasies, which if enacted would return us to the bad old days of mass poverty, rampant pollution, racial supremacy, and all the other ills that characterized the America of the robber barons.
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And this is why we must have 5 fast facts about Ron Paul tucked away in our minds when we comes across his supporters.
1. They are rabid.
2. They have an overwhelming urge to NOT make sense.
3. When presented with to the point facts on the man - they are very often shocked at his LONG HISTORY of words and behavior . . .
It's good to follow up with: R.P. Supporter - he's shown you who he is. Now believe him. 
So help me here?
So we at Democracy under ground don't like Ron Paul.
The far right doesn't like him either. [that don't attack Iran stuff killed that for him]
Not to worry he can't be elected!
He isn't the kind to change his stand and doesn't believe in wars and killing and he is the guy that pointed out the wall street stuff!
So none of the money that comes from the War Machine, or Banks is coming Paul's way.
And that media.. Which we here have complained about for years..
Is to expensive.. for Ron Paul unless he can get a bunch of normal folk to give him money he is dead in the water so to speak.
I went to the link above and no one is censoring the chat at National Memo so there where a few defenders of Paul there?
My self I am human.. love to watch ball games.. but look at my self on Sunday's and say did who won matter?
Well heck yes if it was my team...
IHU
