My last post before the Iowa results are final.

5 Comments

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   Arthur Gilroy on January 2, 2012 at 3:54 pm

   A little cogitation instead of gobbling (dis)infomation?

   Please.

   AG

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     Oui on January 2, 2012 at 7:25 pm

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     Peaked too early!

     It’s the sharp downward turn that’s worrisome for Tuesday’s result, although Ron Paul will score higher that polls indicate due to excellent groundwork and sufficient funds. He may drop to 3rd place end result.

     "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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   nalbar on January 2, 2012 at 5:58 pm

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9-FOLG-iA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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   ishmael on January 2, 2012 at 6:12 pm

   If anything, Ron Paul’s vision is most achievable at that point where the US would be considered “through”. Still, I hope he wins even though his poll numbers have sagged a bit in Iowa as people have become more exposed to his baggage.

   You’ve said Ron Paul’s ideas have never been tried before and if only we tried them that would lead to better outcomes for all. Obviously, I’m talking about his economic ideas.. discussion of which you have ducked all throughout the last few weeks. Because there’s really nothing you can say to convince “progressives” that Paul’s economic ideas won’t expand the distance between the 99% and the 1% and reduce our standard of living.

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   Oui on January 3, 2012 at 6:30 am

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   “You never know what is in someone’s heart or when they might have a change of heart. It’s not that Ron Paul necessarily has any antipathy for black people. It’s that he’s managed to become the figurehead for neo-confederates, and leave the strong impression that he is a fellow-traveler with Klansmen, Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and white nationalists of all stripes. He never disavows their support. He always gives them just enough of a wink and a nod to keep them onboard.

   While there are plenty of things that Ron Paul says that I agree with, you cannot lie down with a dog and not get fleas.”

   I call this character assassination by association. One thing is for sure, racism and bigotry is infested in American culture through genocide of Indians, slavery, property ownership, Confederacy, so-called religious right of all faiths. The basis of Ron Paul’s political career has been the Constitution, anti-taxation and IRS, property and equal rights. All fringe elements of both parties, the Tea Party loyalists and the wide-bag of “liberitarians” contain racism and express their support for Ron Paul. On the other end, there are plenty of Afro-americans who are vocal about their candidate as Republican nominee for President. Ron Paul did not write the racist articles of the so-called Newsletters as I have documented before. Various articles came from a great number of ghost writers who gave Ron Paul financial support to make another run for the Senate. In 1996 Ron Paul had already made many enemies in the Republican establishment: Newt Gingrich and George H. Bush. Indeed, he had support from a Pat Buchanan and Jesse Helms’s fundraising machine. Ron Paul has distanced himself on many occasions from any and all racist writings in the Newsletters. If that isn’t sufficient and no one has come forward with a direct quotation from his political speeches since 2001, what can he be accused of? I disagree fundamental ly on the economic stance of his liberitarian views. A close associate of Ron Paul made this statement about him:

   “I know Ron personally, and have for nearly 30 years. He served on our board of trustees in the 1980s. I can vouch for what Julie says here. There is not an ounce of racism, sexism or any other invalid, reprehensible or inappropriate “ism” in the man. He maintains the highest standards of character and integrity.” — Lawrence W. Reed, president, Foundation for Economic Education.

   Another interesting take on Lawrence Reed and political history on the Constitution and Equal Rights parties …

   “Loco Focus” – Turn on the Lights

   Democrats in New York City were scrapping over how far to extend Jackson’s war against the federally chartered national bank at a convention controlled by the city’s dominant political machine, Tammany Hall. (He had killed the bank in 1832 by vetoing its renewal.) When the more conservative officialdom of the convention expelled the radical William Leggett, editor of the Evening Post, they faced a full-scale revolt by a sizable and boisterous rump. The conservatives walked out, plunging the meeting room into darkness as they left by turning off the gas lights. The radicals continued to meet by the light of candles they lit with matches called “loco focos” (Spanish for “crazy lights”).

   With the Tammany conservatives gone and the room once again illuminated, the Locofocos passed a plethora of resolutions. They condemned the national bank as an unconstitutional tool of special interests and an engine of paper-money inflation. They assailed all monopolies, by which they meant firms that received some sort of privilege or immunity granted by state or federal governments. They endorsed a “strict construction” of the Constitution and demanded an end to all laws “which directly or indirectly infringe the free exercise of equal rights.” They saw themselves as the true heirs of Jefferson, unabashed advocates of laissez faire and of minimal government confined to securing equal rights for all and dispensing special privileges for none.

   The “Declaration of Principles” the Locofocos passed at that January gathering is a stirring appeal to the bedrock concept of rights, as evidenced by these excerpts:

   • The true foundation of Republican Government is the equal rights of every citizen, in his person and property, and in their management.
   • The rightful power of all legislation is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all the law should enforce on him.
   • The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society, we give up any natural right.

   The convention pronounced “Hostility to any and all monopolies by legislation,” “unqualified and uncompromising hostility to paper money as a circulating medium, because gold and silver are the only safe and constitutional currency,” and “Hostility to the dangerous and unconstitutional creation of vested rights by legislation.”

   Cartoon on the occasion “Death of Locofocoism” in 1840

   Presidents Martin van Buuren and later Calvin Coolidge incorporated the ideas of Equal Rights.

   1981 – Racism and bigotry in the United States

   1981 – Dismantling the Commission on Civil Rights

   "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."