Good smear peice, but I think you forget to mention how Ron Paul kills puppies with his bare hands and grinds there bones to make bread.

Thanks for your opinion. Unfortunately your article points to at best 1% of his support. How about looking into other campaigns and reporting on some of there shining supporters and give us the facts on them! It would be nice if people would actually focus on the man's ideas (without one's personal twisted interpretation) If you want people to take you seriously, think about posting a seriously lagitament article. Facts speak louder than one sided searches to discredit a genuine candidate inwhich his track record speaks for itself in it intirity. Not just just excerpts that go towards supporting your personal opinion. Either state all the facts or consider yourself discredited.

This is not an attack it is just a reference to the basis of true Journalism as it was defined.

Very shoddy hitpiece. I'm sure since you went out of your way to find the racist comments in Paul's newsletter that you know he didn't write them and he apologized for their publication. As for the donations, please. Corporate insiders and adventageous movers-and-shakers donate to all the big candidates and this is far more maligning to our country's fabric than a couple neo-nazis who happen to want to be left alone by the federal government.

Very disappointing piece.

This article was writen with great distaste for Ron Paul and his suporters. His actions merely represent his interpretation of the Constitution. If one will take a minute and examine why he has chosen a side to a particular issue, you will discover his beleife in that issue and then understand why he took that stance on the perticular issue. Ron Paul does not favor to any Supremesy or racial groups. He only accepts campaign contributions from individuals. Not beleiving in every thing I see on television, I reserched every candidate runing for President and found that I will be represented the best by Ron Paul. I found out where he stands on the issues and why at www.ronpaul2008.com You can take a look for yourself and see what you think.

Stop promoting this filth. Ron Paul is not a racist. He supports the constitution and liberty--for all. If you attack him you are attacking the constitution. You need to wake up to the fact that Ron Paul is going to be President--no matter what the media thinks. We the people want Ron Paul. He has already raised over 9.2 million. Just wait until Dec. 16th--Vegas oddsmakers estimate over 6 million in one day. The media will be panicking. Stop slandering Ron Paul.

It seems to me Dr Paul wants to limit the ever-encroaching Fed Govt. I like the idea, and *many* others do, too. The fact that some fringe groups like it as well doesn't seem like a big deal, unless, of course, you hate the message of restored personal liberties he espouses. In that case, anything will do to smear him. Be it brothel owner, white supremacists, etc.

If you're conservative, such smears look like shooting oneself in the foot. Do you want to help, or do you just care for increased readership?

In any case, please read Ron Paul's positions on 'Issues' (like on his homepage), and then provide constructive criticism of them. (Unless that would attract serial killers to this blog and the attendant publicity).

Cheers,
A

I'm not sure if attacking a candidate based on his supporters is a right idea. The man is principled and there is a reason behind his stands. Please research them completely first before writing about them. Your article feels like you researched and found what you wanted to find. You judged beforehand.
The kinds of complaints about Paul
1) he won't distance himself from 911 truthers
2) he won't distance himself from anti-jew people
3) he won't distance himself from supremacist people

The reason he won't is fairly obvious. The more he goes on defensive, the more there'll be smear attacks and ill-researched prejudiced articles. Better yet for all people, go to his web-site and see HIS OWN statements on his stands.

Why stop at the smear add you keep running over and over again?? Why not add;

that Paul is also involved with slave trade of young kids;
that he dances naked at night with chicken blood covering his body;
that he supports child molesters and prostitution;
that he smokes crack in the gutter with his crack addict friends; that wants to blow up with Whitehouse;
that he runs a sweatshop for Asian kids under 6 years old;
that he has his own pornographic websites.
that he burns crosses on his lawn daily and has a Swastika tattooed behind his neck and wears a white sheet and hood when he gets cozy at night.

Hmm, let's see, anything else we can come up with to smear him? I am out of colorful smear tactics. Anyone else?

Guys. Paul has attracted a lot of unfavory supporters. That's not his fault. No blame attaches to him for it.

However, he has repeatedly passed on opportunities to distance himself from the extremists who have flocked to his banner. Just a few simple, public statements as simple as a clear statement that he doesn't think the government was involved in the 9/11 attack, and he'd be in the clear. But he won't do it, because he thinks that the money coming in from the extremists might somehow propel him into the White House.

It's great to have money coming in to your campaign, but if the money is tainted and you're a person of integrity as Paul claims to be, then you don't take it. Paul takes it, so doesn't that make his claims of integrity a lie?

dave

Let's hear about Hillary's Chinese friends.

So I guess its guilt by association. Even Ron Paul is not associated or has not invited endorsements from any KKK, White Supremacist, and Neo-Nazi Supporters. Now if there are some who wish to provide cash donations to Ron Paul's campaign then that's there lost. I wonder since I'm an African American does that make me an Uncle Tom or a radical Black Panther operative? Paul hasn't openly protray folks like Obama and who has hosted an event with Donnie McClurken who has said some very homophobic statement. Even worse Rudy Guiliani who has accepted an endorsement from Pat Robertson the same guy who was on the fore front with Jerry Falwell accusing the attack on 9/11 and Katrina Hurricane as the result of America's tolerance of homosexuality and secularism. Now why is Ron Paul recieving such sentiments when he doesn't endorse the views of those who claim he does. I wonder if I was to create a forum/site expressing deep hate for Jews and whites or maybe even religious fundimental hatred towards a certain religious group and add a link to Rudy, Mitt or Hillary Clinton's campaign site would the same backlash happen? Of course not because anyone with sense would ride it off as some wacko's view and not the view of the majority. It seems these same articles like the one on American Thinker are only being expressed online and not on cable or national TV because they can tell the difference. I haven't seen any hatred in my local ron paul group of 257 folks here in Miami, while online i know there are some who take a discussion way over the line (and some who just commenting look for a reaction from bloggers) so I wonder are you equating the views of a minority to represent the majority? Now I may not agree with paul on everything but that doesn't mean my opposing views are Paul's.

Is this the best you can do? The media must be getting desperate--you are now trying to defame ron paul because of his supporters. Nice try. The MSM should go back to the "Ron Paul can't win" slogan. It worked for a while until we raised 4.3 million on 1 day.

Dave,

Are you familiar with the classic trap question...

Have you stopped beating your wife?

Demanding that Ron Paul address this crap is the political equivalent.

I'm more interested in all the candidates' contributions from big business. Any info on that?

When you write "...Paul and his supporters have mastered the art of the internet candidacy" and "...Paul has some very nasty white supremacist friends", are you deliberately trying to make an effort to paint him as a racist or you are simply don't give a rat's arse about proper English structure.
So on-line he has some supporters but in his spare time he hangs out in his backyard with "nasty white supremacist friends". We can see your bias from afar. You're not fooling anyone.

Dave~

I dont' think he needs to or should. For one it's a distraction to the campain, but also doing so sits in judgement of supporter's beliefs which is inconsitant with his libertarian stance. Morover, anyone can find people to dislike in someone's doner rolls. I think his knowing they're just human people acting on thier sovrein minds, and letting it be without "playing politics" reflects actual integrity, and I dare say Grace.

A more interesting and usful medea artice would mention who are the unsavory doners on the other canditate's lists? Bet'ya there's lots... & that they're all the same ones on each list to boot!

Har, har, har. Go pound salt.

Ron Paul is not a racist. This is the classic smear article. I will never visit this website again.
RonPaul2008.com

Re comment by 'dave'
I think you need to read Ron Paul's stance on issues before expecting he'd use 'every opportunity' to distance himself from his supporters. And how is this money 'tainted'? If I (for example) believe in polygyny, would my money be tainted? Would it satisfy you, if he gave 1% of his contributions to charity to cover any possible miscreant who gave to him? How much time/effort is required in this?

If you're really a Giuliani, Clinton, Romney, Obama, etc. supporter, OK, but please keep your (perceived) dirt to yourself.

We CARE about the MAN, not his supporters!


And back to the original article:
Lots of little money from lots of people versus a lot of money from a few? You are NOT serious on this one, are you? RP doesn't accept any corporate/lobbyist money, period. Think about it. It's a Good Thing®

Hey Brian Middleton just thought I let you know ROn Paul has denounced the 9/11 Truthers like Alex Jones and others who claims that the government planned the attack on the towers. He mentioned it months back on Fox News when they questioned him for going on the show and he stated great points about addressing all media heads even though he doesn't agree with them on everything even with fox news. But yet your right even when he defends himself people like SJ Reidhead they don't look at all sides they just report what another says without doing fact checks. It's just basically a hit piece. But no i do not believe paul is avoiding questions about those types of supporters he has addressed the issue and i know he will continue to. All we can do is keep the comments comming correcting these folks and keep our info accurate

Who are these people that wnat to ruin this great country. They put this article on and dismiss any real facts. They smear and lie. They are the haters of the free people. Must be spoon fed all thier lives then set out to diminish the middle class in the United States.

Ron Paul - " A great American Statesman. The next president of the United States!!!!!!!!!

Check out this piece on Paul. The only true choice.

From Ron Paul's website..

This is a nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities.

The collectivist mindset is at the heart of racism.

Government as an institution is particularly ill-suited to combat bigotry. Bigotry at its essence is a problem of the heart, and we cannot change people's hearts by passing more laws and regulations.

It is the federal government that most divides us by race, class, religion, and gender. Through its taxes, restrictive regulations, corporate subsidies, racial set-asides, and welfare programs, government plays far too large a role in determining who succeeds and who fails. Government "benevolence" crowds out genuine goodwill by institutionalizing group thinking, thus making each group suspicious that others are receiving more of the government loot. This leads to resentment and hostility among us.

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than as individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism.

The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence - not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.

In a free society, every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty.

Umm...
You have to do some "Quality Piece" that will stick!
This is "OLD" and it ain't gonna cut it. Sorry...

Why not write about Giuliani's unsavory endorsers? Or are you worried (rightfully so) that you'll end up "sleeping with the fishes"?

"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society. Federal bureaucrats and judges cannot read minds to see if actions are motivated by racism. Therefore, the only way the federal government could ensure an employer was not violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to ensure that the racial composition of a business's workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judge's defined body of potential employees. Thus, bureaucrats began forcing employers to hire by racial quota. Racial quotas have not contributed to racial harmony or advanced the goal of a color-blind society. Instead, these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife...."

I stopped reading at this point. If you seriously believe that this statement is racist, that tells me that you not only have a reading-comprehension problem, but you were also just grasping at straws to try to find something, anything, to try to smear Dr. Paul. Give it up, the man lives by his principles and he can't be bought. He scares you republicrats to death, doesn't he?

If this is your best shot, y'all are gonna lose BIG in '08!!!

I think you need to read Ron Paul's stance on issues

I imagine I'm more familiar with Paul's issue positions than anyhone else commenting here. I campaigned for him in 88, worked for the LP in that same era and have run for office as a Libertarian candidate. I've also donated money to Paul's congressional campaigns.

before expecting he'd use 'every opportunity' to distance himself from his supporters. And how is this money 'tainted'? If I (for example) believe in polygyny, would my money be tainted? Would it satisfy you, if he gave 1% of his contributions to charity to cover any possible miscreant who gave to him? How much time/effort is required in this?

So you're saying that multiple marriage is equivalent to racism? Sorry, don't buy it.

The Paul campaign has a real problem and this article brings it out, even if it's a bit inflammatory.

Paul's viability as a national candidate is genuinely damaged by the public perception that his followers are a bunch of kooks and fanatics.

If it was just a few crazies out there, Paul could brush it aside, but because it is so many extremists and so many different brands of extremists, it distracts from his campaign and his message and needs to be addressed.

If you're really a Giuliani, Clinton, Romney, Obama, etc. supporter, OK, but please keep your (perceived) dirt to yourself.

Not particularly, actually. I'd be a Paul supporter were it not for his unconstitutional stand on separation of church and state and the unsavory coalition of lunatics who have flocked to his banner.

And back to the original article:
Lots of little money from lots of people versus a lot of money from a few? You are NOT serious on this one, are you? RP doesn't accept any corporate/lobbyist money, period. Think about it. It's a Good Thing®

Got to agree with this. Paul's done a great job with grassroots fundraising.

Dave

@gao xia en

The chron article is talking about big PAC donations from Texan firms, and at the end mentions how Ron Paul hasnt received any.
Then the opensecrets link is the actual details on his donations.

Cheers.

This was good for a laugh, shows the socialists that have worked so hard for so long to undermine our freedom are getting scared. Can't wait to see the slime piece "on an expose of the anti-immigration movement", I'll be howling!

"...Williams is in part responsible for the extreme numbers of "meet-up" individuals who have registered for Paul."

Yes... Williams and his goofy friends. That is his 'part' The other 'part' of the people "responsible for the extreme members of "meet-up" individuals who have registered for Paul" are the 60,990 (or so) other people. This pathetic attempt at trying to smear Ron Paul by second-hand association with his supporters is logically fallacious in the first place. Even more outrageous is the personally offensive, but rather poorly made, insinuation that people such as this "Williams" in anyway accounts for anymore than such a small fraction of Paul's support as to be inconsequential. I am sure that a sex-offender or two (or more, who knows) supports Hilary Clinton for president. Does this mean anything? I don't have to answer that.

This article has made me furious. It has also inspired me to re-double my efforts to get Paul elected. Ron Paul 2008!

It is so transparently obvious why people with hateful, virulent messages donate to a rising star--for the press. These neo-nazi, white supremacist types are not getting a voice through Ron Paul. It's reporters like you that are giving racism a voice. Think. Stop the Smears.

Yea these Ron Paul smear freaks call themselves out for crying out loud. In reality, they don't know what the hell else to say lmao.

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Dave,

Ron Paul is running as a Republican. Not a libertarian. If your concern is for the purity of Libertarianism why not focus on its virtues, and whatever libertarian candidate the LP party fields? Why reinforce, like a mantra, that the electorate is incapable of making an informed decision? Have you such a low opinion of the electorate?

Thanks for responding, Dave.

I respect your knowledge of the candidate.

I do feel though that in my 20+ years in this country no-one of the politicians had said anything that would possibly be helpful. And now I hear it from RP. I'm actually excited by it, and I talk to whomever I can about it.

You may be right that the public perception may get formed by articles like this rather than by a group of unpaid supporters waving signs by the freeway in the freezing weather, but I think he's still the best that was offered.

Do you perhaps have a personal issue with RP? (Like unpaid wages, or something of the sort?) Why did you stop campaigning for him? Are you of a racial minority and he'd hurt you?

I think many US citizens have an issue with the FedGovt in one way or another, so all could be classified as 'fringe'. What are we to expect next: Khmer Rouge supports RP? (and BTW, I think it's only in the US where govt forms ask your racial affiliation - this would be considered racist anywhere else)

Regaards,
BC

Gee, that's funny. All the nice people I meet at meet-ups to distribute campaign lit door-to-door, and I never suspected for an instant that they're all Nazis. Gee, they come from all walks of life and seemed like genuine Americans to me. And I never knew that somehow some Nazi was the reason I signed up on the Meetup site in the first place.

We've all been deluding ourselves! We thought it was our concern for the constitution and the bill of rights, and crashing currency bringing another depression, and one single man speaking honestly, whose words have the ring of truth.

And all this time it has been mind control from Nazis! How can I stop this? Should I get a tin foil hat? Is that how you avoided the mind control? Oh, no, the mind control is making me respond to a hit piece online! Help me! Help me!

There. I just put on a tin foil hat that says NEO on it. Took a Valium and washed it down with moonshine. I no longer need to suffer paranoid delusions about people dying in preemptive wars, people sneaking into my house and searching without warrants, monitoring all my communications, arresting me and making me disappear, or that stupid, mindless inflation that keeps stealing my sustenance out from under me faster than I can keep up, always going on, and on, and on, and I can't raise my income faster than prices, and it never stops.

I'm cured. No more mind-waves from Nazis turning me into a Paulbot spamming automaton. I'm ready for my National ID Card with an RFID chip now. I promise to rat on my neighbors for anything they do. I will stand in line and shut up. Bring on the Amero, lets make people pass a patriotism test to make sure they are loyal to the North American Union. Maybe if I get a lobotomy, I won't have to wear this tin foil hat around, having people snicker at me (I'll turn them in for that, you know).

Thanks for curing me.

--TaxSlave--

Ron Paul is a ALL around good guy, Freedom is Love, Understanding and Tolarance. Life is short why make it a lie. Peace Sells

The 99% of the Ron Paul supporters who are not 'nazis' are rightly insulted. There is a double standard in the media that is becoming more and more obvious.

We are not allowed to take the minority of Muslims who want to kill Americans and use it to generalize all Muslims. We're not allowed to take the few dozen Jewish neo-cons in our government that are viciously pro-war against countries like Iran (countries that did no direct harm to us) and say that Jews want wars. And so too we should not be allowed to tarnish a group who, perhaps more than any other political movement, desire peace and friendship with all nations (not supremacy as this article implies).

I feel like we should make a point by encouraging Don Black to donate $1000 to Rudy Giuliani and then we'll watch you in the mainstream media say... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

I always believed the media was bad. But now I think this country would be better off without the MSM at all (just keep the Internet and perhaps C-Span and PBS). Cause then the people who are easily manipulated would just stay at home on election night and the smart people would prevail.

Whether or not Ron Paul gets the nomination, you in the MSM have made at least one enemy for life.

Its funny that theres a banner saying "Personal attacks are NOT allowed." This article is a personal attack on Dr. Paul's supporters. No one can attack Dr. Paul personally.

He appeals to all walks of life, regardless of their personal choices, because Dr. Paul supports your freedoms! If your neighbor wants to hate someone (without harming them, I might add) then that is their right! I hate the writer of this article but I wouldn't hurt him over it. Make sense? You can hate anyone as long as you don't infringe on their Constitutional liberties of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

After reading this article the one thing I come away with is that Ron Paul is not a racist. As noted, he advocates the goals of "racial harmony and a color-blind society." Even if the author disagrees with him about how this is best achieved, certainly this is a commendable goal. I don't consider any of Ron's comments quoted here to be "racially insensitive," but even if they were, that is hardly an accusation that would keep me from voting for someone. Also it is odd that supporters of Ron Paul are offered as evidence of his racial insensitivity, without any evidence being offered that those supporters are racially insensitive. It can hardly worry me that he is endorsed by Pat Buchanan, Howard Phillips, and Chuck Baldwin when I have voted for all three of those men in the past. I agree with the Ron Paul for President campaign and David Fredesso writing in National Review that Ron does NOT have a moral obligation to disavow donations from people whose views he may not disagree with. I find it refreshing to have a candidate who does not pander to political correctness. I will be disappointed in him if he does return the money, but even that won't keep me from voting for him.

Yawn. This non-issue is ancient. Still, how often would it have been written abut had the donation gone to Romney, Rudy or one of the other business-as-usual clones?
It is hysterically funny that Dr. Paul is so marginalized and cast off as a footnote, yet someone poured through all his supporters looking for a story. That in itself is the real story.
Fortunately for the "mainstream" war mongers representing the 22% of Americans who want to remain in Iraq, every one of their contributors has been of tremendous moral character, and without a bigoted thought--the media has double checked that for us and found not one wanting of ethical purity.

I'm starting to wonder if these "smear" pieces weren't actually created to have the opposite effect. Perhaps SJ Reidhead is actually a RP supporter who is attempting to catch readers with a provocative headline, only to be made to look foolish by the commenter's. Who knows?

In the event that you (SJ Reidhead) ARE actually trying to smear Dr. Paul. You can forget it. You are wasting your time. This is not about Dr. Paul or his supporters, it's about the message. It's about freedom and it's about liberty, and it's about time. Even IF Dr. Paul were to lose his bid for the presidency, it doesn't matter! As you will see, we've already won.

Everyone has strange supporters. Why does the media focus on Ron Paul at this time? They or others do not want him for President so this is their means of discrediting Ron Paul. Mind you, Fox40 TV aired the Republican debate and ran a cell phone poll to see who the viewers wanted for President. Fox40 also selected a panel of supposed generic Republicans. That panel did not show much support for Ron, so when they saw the cell phone poll favoring Ron Paul 2 to 1, their conclusion was that the cell phone poll was to be regarded as flawed. Fox40 didn't even allow for the possibility that Ron Paul could have so much support. Fox40 clearly showed their bias, and so it is here. We see what you're up to!

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Wow this ia heck of an irrational hit piece. It says to me that Ron Paul is steam rolling forward and will probably win the GOP nomination. Looks like someone really has it out for the constitution though. Since we're on the subject of radicals why didn't you mention the Clintons recieving support from known terrorists? What about the non traditional Republicans like Giuliani and Romney why did you mention La Rasa's or Arab supremacy groups' involvement with them and with Hillary? La Rasa is a latino supremacy and extremist group that routinely make trips to the white house to fight for amnesty for illegals and the abolishment of the concept of the rule of law in America. So Please lets not play pretend as if radicals supporting certain candidates is a new thing. Hillary has actually depended on it in the past.In a country where there is freedom of thought you're bound to come across things you don't like but then you first need to understand the concept of liberty to understand that.

Hear-hear!

It is polarizing, isn't it?

;-)

Just to set the record straight. SJ Reidhead totally manufactured the statement that Will Williams is responsible for the large number of Meetups. Mr Williams has voluntarily setup one Meetup of his own accord and without needing permission from the campaign. Each Meetup is setup and paid for by the organizer themselves and is not in anyway associated with any other Meetup or the official campaign committee. All that is needed to setup a Meetup is $20 on a credit card. Meetup is a private company not in any way associated with the campaign. The campaign does not oversee the meetup organization in anyway. The campaign just doesn't have any authority over Mr Williams. They can't even "fire" him as a meetup leader since the campaign never "hired him". The author of the article doesn't provide any evidence to support the contention that Will Williams is a leader in the Meetups except that he is the leader of his group not any others. Obviously, the author is just attempting to smear Ron Paul by building Will Williams into a "Great Leader" of the Meetups. Why doesn't he just state that the idea of restoring our constitution is racism. Instead of smearing a whole campaign with the charge of racism based on a few bad apples.

Let me summarize by collecting words from your post:

KKK, White Supremist, black men, racial, racist, tawdry, assault, extreme, nasty, neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic.

I don't think I got all the emotionally charged adjectives, but the list seems to be representative.

Please read www.RonPaulLibrary.org to get the real positions of Dr. Paul (along with the proper context of some of the "quotes" provided in this article). Don't let incorrect, misleading, and emotionally charged rhetoric decide for you.

BTW, if you really want to know why it's no big deal that certain "extreme" people have donated to Ron Paul's campaign then you need to understand the basic tenants of liberty:

"The Philosophy of Liberty" Watch the YouTube and then tell me how it is that you disagree with the campaigns decision...

Reagan didn't return the KKK donations either, was he racist?

LOL - You guys just LOVE to fire up us RON PAUL supporters.

All you're doing is spreading the flames though.....you can't put out a grease fire with water.

RP2008!

Here people is a beginning website of the use of propaganda and it's history.

Oh, you can attack Ron Paul and smear him, but no one is allowed to attack you. Great. This piece is obviously written from a bias point of view and someone who is afraid of losing his government checks.

FAIL

You can't have it both ways. You have ignored the fact the US military is the largest campaign donor to Ron Paul. The US Army, US Navy, and US Air Force combine to be his biggest support base by far in financial terms.
Now you want to focus on klansmen and other idiots as his base of supporters. This can only be true of you are saying the US Military are composed of racists and biggots. Are you ready to make that connection, becasue it makes little sense to go after minority contributors and ignore the majority contributors.
On the same subject, you should write an article about the frontrunners majority contributors. Clinton with Goldman Sachs and Guiliani with Elliot and Associates. These people have been part of every scandel from the current mortgage crisis to Enron to everything else. They have ruined our economy.
I challenge you to write the story of the major campaign contributors to the politicians running in 08. If the minor contributors warrant a story, then the major contributors warrant ten stories. Good Luck with the research. Open secrets.org is a good start.

Why not write an article about how soldiers and priests and peace loving individuals love him? He's the favored candidate among soldiers.....

Weird how you chose to cover the KKK instead of what a country at war really cares about.

It is encouraging to me to see that most people see this article for what it is.
A political hit peice. Yellow journalism. propaganda. Smear campaign. corporate media spin.
Ron Paul 2008!

What an insightful piece you have written. I've never heard this "news" from any other "source". I applaud your investigative prowess although, you should have mentioned that he is in fact THE Grand Poobah of The He-Man Black, Woman, Jew, Kitten, Baseball, Apple-Pie, Gay Haters Club. Just a little more digging and you would have uncovered this fact. He wants all old people to lose their Social Security as well. He also tried to get the endorsement of a brothel owner, I'm not sure if he got it though. Did you hear that he's spamming emails? And all of his support comes from 3 white supremacist teenagers in their parents' basement. I'm glad I could help.

Ron Paul 08!

Was your blog designed by a retarded 8 year old on acid? Good Lord, what a mess of a site.

"Williams is not the only white supremacist, KKK, or neo-Nazi supporter Ron Paul has. He is supported by David Duke and Pat Buchanan."

So which exactly is Pat Buchanan? Could you please point to you source that he is a member of the KKK, a White supremesist or a neo-natzi?

has any RP supporter here addressed the question of Paul's interpretation of the separation clause - ?

if so I missed it in this flood of defensive praise

is it a non issue - or would we see him work for changes in law - ?

Smearing i see - if this is all you got, thats fine. Take a look at the other candidates, and you'll get lost in their closet . The title is misleading, and frankly wrong. It would be like if i put "Hillary Clinton and her Zionist, Oil greedy, and special interest friends." Have some humility, and change that title - there are no friends involved, and you're only hurting his name and dumbing down your credibility as a journalist.

"Ron Paul has some very nasty white supremacist friends" - How is this a valid statement?

This is entirely untrue. Ron Paul has supporters from all walks and races. Even the ones we dislike. Next time just photoshop RP standing in front of a nazi flag and your smear job will be complete. I pray for more informative and less biased articles.

As a African American I take great offense that you wrote such a smear article about this decent and patriotic man. He is no raciest, I have met him face to face and he has a big heart and is welcoming of all races. He has a message of FREEDOM, so that means anyone can donate to him, including a few kooks. Whatever there message, they still have a right to say it.
I am voting for Ron Paul!

Ron paul is far from a racist.

you're just scared of the man and his message!

Did you know that Hof donated $2300.00 to the Clinton campaign this past summer? Of course you didn't because the media wouldn't try to tarnish her by reporting it.

For all those PaulBots who sit all day and night in front of a computer screen with 2 minute interval refreshes on google searches to go out and be first in line to comment any where their hero is mentioned, please please get a life.

Read the FEC quarterly reports, the numbers and the names are there they are simple to cross reference.

I follow the money close because of what I do and get weekly auto updates to spreadsheets for all the candidates and then auto search the names across the net just to see what turns up.

Facts are facts and you are not allowed your own.

Damn you PaulBot fools can even do such a simple thing as sort out the registered donations by zipcode and see where all the real money is coming from.

Hell half of your donations don't even hit because anything under 200 doesn't register at all.

Look at the zip code distributions and map them out.

Most are coming from pure blue areas, you are being shilled and fooled to believe you have something when someone is only pulling your chain and working you like a puppet.

What a sorry bunch that cant even figure out they are being tooled for the entertainment of the far most wacko left.

Wana talk about supporters?
Ghouliani has mobsters, and pedophiles on his payroll.
Clinton has former black panther in her "Friends" list

Ron Paul had a few Neo-Nazi's donate to his campaign without solicitation. They donated online where there is no question on the form that says "Because of my past my donation may be controversial"

Excuse me if I am not impressed by the "Connection" that you imply

ohh yeah I forgot
Ron Paul's tears cure cancer, sadly he will never cry. Ever

Sick Sick hit piece! You scum at BC Politics have really outdone yourselves this time. Julius Streicher would be proud.

Obviouly this Nazi/Paul thing is a yet another shrill attempt by the real Nazi-lovers out there to scare the more ignorant of conservatives into being frieghtenned of the one candidate least likely to act like Hitler. It's a sweet ploy if you're into treachory.

See you in Hell, BC Propaganda.nut.

Ron Paul brings Americans of every persuasion, race, gender, age, economic group, ideology, interest and profession together because his message is one of liberty.

People like the writer don't understand what that means. They talk the talk, but they haven't actually lived it. They think freedom is whatever they approve of or endorse and it's not, it's called tryanny. Americans have had enough of being told what to think, what words we can or cannot use, what to enbrace, what to celebrate, who to bomb, who to be intolerant towards and waht's acceptable and I don't think that a hundred thousand articles like this shabby smear piece will do anything but fire up that base.

KEEP WRITING, HACK, I CAN SEE THE FLOP SWEAT FROM HERE!!!

Troll, I think Ron Paul has written articles about religion that have been misinterpreted. He wrote that the "secular left" as he calls it has attacked religion to eliminate it from public life. He wrote that he thinks the founding fathers were religious men who wanted a small government so religion would lead people instead. But he has not written anything to my knowledge that would lead me to believe he wants to change the First Amendment establishment clause. He would presumably uphold the Constututional separation of church and state but not advance policies that shun religion from the public.

For me personally, I think people trying to remove Moses artwork from court houses doesn't understand law history and that he was an historical figure who brought law to the people, as did Confucius and others who are represented in the Supreme Court building. I don't think tax dollars should finance faith based initiatives (like they do under Bush) but removing a statue to make a point is sending the wrong message, that people need to eliminate religion. And I'm an agnostic. I don't think we need to ban Christmas Carols or say Seasons Greetings instead of Merry Christmas. All blown out of proportion for the sake of political correctness. When was the last time politics were correct anyway, other than Ron Paul, of course.

I live in Europe.
We all look in dismay to what USA has become, we all can see the path of self-destruction your country has taken, WITH the blessing of your media (and people like you).
Unjust wars based o lies, making every day new enemeis, loosing allies, torturing suspects, suppression of freedom and guarantees, fnancial and economic disaster (well on it's way).

The only Candidate that makes any sense in USA is Ron Paul; I wish we had a man like that over here.

Terrible smear article. Not even elequently written. How did you manage to land this job? And besides that matter, how do you manage to breath?

You Bots think 4.2 mill in a day is some kind of validation that you got it right and the country is in a wave behind you.

Oh please I know Walmart stores that do volume like that.

Country wide you pull in 4 mill in a day after talking about it for how long?

Drug dealers in San Jose are laughing at you because they kicked in just to watch the fun.

Check the one day totals for Jerry Lewis from a real country wide deal.

You should have pulled 10 to 12 mill each hour if you were for real and not just spam postings to throw any internet poll to cheat and get the result you wanted.

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Well, this old JEW will be voting for Ron Paul. With this hit piece, the author reminds me far more of one real Nazi I remember as a child in Germany, who wrote articles on behalf of "the party" named Joeseph Goebbels.

When Paul says: "Racial quotas have not contributed to racial harmony or advanced the goal of a color-blind society. Instead, these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife...."

HE IS RIGHT!!!! This is not a racist statement; it is an observation that this particular social experiment, designed to impove race relations and better the lot of people of color, did not work.

When a man is attacked in this manner, I feel there must be good reason to support him. These attack pieces only draw more Ron Paul supporters.

I agree with Ron Paul, especially what he wrote about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I understand the act was designed to force people into hiring mixed races. Doesn't anyone realize that this means, they legally defined there is a difference amongst races?

I understand the intention, but the repercussions were and are much worse. Forcing someone to adapt to another's culture, in no case makes them more willing to accept it. In fact, it tends to create animosity. Which is how some of these extremists can recruit people so easily.

If these people were left alone and not forced into adapting, there would be a lot less animosity, and a lot less racism.

Now not only are we being continuously separated without even knowing it, we are sub-classified into small groups. Once we stop allowing our government officials to legally separate us, and focus on what legally joins us... we are all Americans, in support of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness we will be much better off.

-C

I love it, you [Personal attack deleted by Comments Editor] are here playing patty cake and spilling your love beads.

Flies to the sticky tape... damn I gotta go out and create 30 or 40 blogger accounts today and do a random work Paul bash just to attract all of you like crash dummies at a Detroit convention or high school reunion.

You are so very easy it is not even a challenge. [Personal attack deleted by Comments Editor]

Ron Paul has such a clean record with no skeletons in his closet. The only thing the smear machine can come up with is he is an "anti-semite".
Frankly, I think Americans are sick and tired of people labeling people as an "anti-semite". Jews are not better than any other person. Thats why the business of labeling people as "anti-semite" will backfire on them. Americans are fed-up!

JS Reidhead often reports about pro KKK groups that openly tout a white supremest philosophy. Her obsession with this movement have prompted her to openly advertise and promote sites such as Stormfront (white supremacist, neo-Nazi leaning)which she provides links to in her blogs. Reidhead's campaign to traffic possible recruits to sites such as these have earned her the respect of many of her white supremest brethren.

Spin is such a bitch isn't it? In times like these we need reporters with integrity who take some time to do their homework. Reidhead is obviously more concerned with traffic then truth. It is so easy to spin anything to make it fringe or controversial it is ashame that Ron Paul has become a target of such a smear when as so many in these comments have cleared up over and over with something called the truth. Too bad we can't hear about the other candidates failings and contributions but instead hear a rehashing of the same old bs that has been disproven time and time again.

To hell with this crappy blog.

You TV loving bull-crappers are going down.

We're going to wipe the floor with you, and the election is just the beginning.

ronpaul2008!
adios Reidhead..(is that even a name?...sounds like more BS to me)

Commentor:

Ron Paul is running as a Republican. Not a libertarian. If your concern is for the purity of Libertarianism why not focus on its virtues, and whatever libertarian candidate the LP party fields?

I wrote off the LP a couple of years ago and moved into the GOP for many of the same reasons that Paul did after 88. The LP is just not a viable national party. One problem is that Paul carries with him too much of that LP dogmatism to really be a viable candidate.

Why reinforce, like a mantra, that the electorate is incapable of making an informed decision? Have you such a low opinion of the electorate?

Look at the people they've elected. I rest my case.

BC:

You may be right that the public perception may get formed by articles like this rather than by a group of unpaid supporters waving signs by the freeway in the freezing weather, but I think he's still the best that was offered.

This article isn't FORMING the public perception, it's reporting it. The perception is formed by the RP fanatics who go all over the internet comment-bombing any post about Ron Paul and spouting a variety of scary nonsense in the process.

Do you perhaps have a personal issue with RP? (Like unpaid wages, or something of the sort?)

No, I'm not Eric Dondero.

Why did you stop campaigning for him? Are you of a racial minority and he'd hurt you?

I did mention earlier that I don't think Paul's a racist. As for campaigning for him, I was discouraged by the kinds of people his current campaign has attracted. I don't want to be associated with truthers and racists.

I think many US citizens have an issue with the FedGovt in one way or another, so all could be classified as 'fringe'.

To me, being opposed to big government only makes you sensible. If that were what Paul supporters were mainly motivated by then I'd be cheering them on.

Dave

All this shows is that EVERYONE supports Ron Paul!

GO RON GO!

Damn you fools.

Put up with control F the word search function in your browser and type in smear to match it out.

Facts are not smears, they are facts even my puppy knows that and the cat even has a clue.

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The thought of personal responsibility frightens people, these hit pieces are a testament to that. When we as a nation and a people have delegated so much of our own responsibility to Govt its the fault of the people not the power brokers in Washington.
Once a candidate emerges who is honest, and principled in his actions its not surprise people will vote for him.

You see the media and Politicians sell the American myth, when in actuality we have lost almost every edge we held in the world. Hollywood sells produces the American Spirit which is in everyone. The one thing is very apparent is that younger people haven't been hammered with false truths and a sense of hopelessness in politics yet. Its the talking head class of this country that insists they are crazy, racist, and "out of control." I would agree with that, it means you (the media, pundits, talking heads) haven't been doing you job that well if the American people are not buying your bullshit on this subject.

Ron Paul Ron Paul Ron Paul smear smear smear smear.

Hell I have crab traps in the river I am going to pick up tonight that are harder to bait than that the search engine kiddies will be here in droves.

I never knew much about Ron Paul, and truthfully never even investigated who he was or what he was saying. I've been in the Obama camp all along (anything to avoid Guliani or Clinton). But after reading this piece...and then going to www.ronpaul2008.com....I'll be voting for him. Guess that makes me, and my 24 years of Navy service, racist? *sigh* Time to get rid of meaningless talking heads (or in Bush's case, stuttering ungrammatical simpleton), and get someone into the Oval Office who will work for the American People, and not for their corporate oil buddies.

82 words on the average pro Paul comment to certify I am brain dead.

Damn guys cant you at least put up 14 page thesis papers to explain why everybody else is the AntiChrist?

Come on get it together.

That's ok,
I'm sure Obama has NO GANG BANGER supporters,
Hillary has NO CORRUPT MONEY FROM CHINA,
Giuliani has NO MOB supporters.

No Problem.

ExcuseMeForPointingandLaughing seems to be a little on edge. Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon is your comparison? Prove you wrong? the 95% Approval for Ron Paul against your insults is proof enough that the "anti-paulite" has nothing against Dr. Paul and his ideas, so they choose infantile rantings and retarded posts. You need a time-out.

To the blog owner, seriously I have to apologize for playing the games with all the fools you have managed to attract , but some how I have to believe that your are there sitting back and chuckling and saying it's worth the bandwidth.

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Sorry but it is a Sunday and it is fun to play with the warts on our society. Hey I am retired and every day is Sunday, that screws with them also.

As to the bigoted comments about black males in DC, it is impossible to believe that anyone with a modicum of integrity found these quotes without also realizing that Dr. Paul didn't write those words. They were written by a staff member who was subsequently fired.
The refusal to even hint at the truth of this matter exposes the most cowardly type of yellow journalism.

Duane

95% approval from bots isn't anything to shout for.

Don't shoot Mongo he will just get mad.

Hey, Paultergeists, you need to learn a bit more about how campaign finance works in this country. It's convoluted and crazy, but it is also very common for candidates to return donations if it's pointed out that it came from an unsavory source. All the candidates do it all the time, because every dollar in direct donations is tracked.

So comparisons with Clinton or Obama or Giuliani or whomever just highlight the fact that Clinton and Obama and Giuliani have returned donations quickly when issues were raised, while Paul held onto his for a long time.

No blame attaches to a candidate for verbal support from idiots, but all candidates do and should distance themselves from that support.

If we were talking about an isolated incident, I'd agree this was a smear piece. But it's not. We're talking about a pattern of at least ten years of staffer feeling comfortable writing racist tripe under Paul's name, racist nincompoops bragging of Paul's favor, repeated snubs of Israeli leaders, and so on. Once is chance, twice is coincidence, but by this point Paul will need to be more clear than he has been about his repudiation of these nutjobs. Or he could pick David Duke as his running mate, whichever.

Kos kids don't throw money at Gravel just to laugh and point they have Ron Paul for that. [Personal attack deleted by Comments Editor]

I call; Propaganda, Yellow Journalism.

Guilt by association is a fallacy. It's use only proves that the person using the fallacy has no legitimate arguments. In her 2000 senatorial campaign Hillary Clinton recieved a donation from Aburahman Alamoudi, a supporter of Hamas and Hizbullah. According to the logic of this smear article, that donation would make her a terrorist.

As far as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 goes; is questioning the effectiveness and Constitutional validity of a piece of legislation improper just because it is controversial? The question asked is, "Did CRA 1964 end skin color discrimination and/or did it violate the Constitution?" The reality is that it didn't stop judgements based on skin color and it is undetermined if it violated the Constitution. Hatred of humans by other humans, whatever the reason, is still a major cultural problem in our society. Picking a single statement on a conveniently controversial Act of Congress and trying to correlate it to unsolicited donations from unrelated individuals highlights the shallowness of this article.

I call; Propaganda, Yellow Journalism.

This really is a shabby little hit piece, de facto trying to paint Ron Paul as a racist and closet Nazi. Who knows what motivates some people, but absolutely everything about Ron Paul's stance and long political career is unmistakably exactly the opposite of being a Nazi or fascist. Paul is perhaps something of a crank, which probably accounts for some portion of his support. There are lots of all different kinds of cranks.

You can question him for not returning donations from distasteful people, but he's not giving them anything. A National Review writer recently described his refusal to return such donations as "artless." That's about the right word - but it's in fact principled, though maybe not to YOUR personal principles. I believe it was his main campaign manager who said that racist and Nazi contributors are simply "wasting their money."

But the more interesting thing about this article are the assumptions and examples the author cites from Paul himself as supposedly damning. He makes a big point of a blockquote from Paul's dissent against renewing the 1964 Voting Rights Act. Other than an apparent and unfounded presumption that simply voting against this is proof of supposed racism, what is offensive about this extended quote?

Folks have gone on and on about this one commentary on black criminality in DC, and the author makes a hash of it here. I grant that it is incredibly inpolitic, but that doesn't make it bigoted. The main money quote there is "we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers." The proper question there: Is what he said actually TRUE.

Even such a total black demagogue as Jesse Jackson has admitted to feeling relief at realizing that it's a white guy following him down the street rather than a young black man. Is that because Jesse hates black folk, or because he knows something?

Also, I note that the author equates support from Pat Buchanan and even his magazine editor with neo-Nazis. That says more about the author than about Buchanan or Paul.

Finally, I note the extensive quote from some and such obscure guy from a Jewish Telegraph Agency. Who the hell is he? Why does Ron Paul owe this guy the time of day? That he decides to be "shocked" does not in fact constitute evidence that Paul is doing anything bad whatsoever.

I've got issues with Paul myself, but nonsense like this politically correct hit piece definitely makes me appreciate him more.

Phil

Every piece of campaign software I have ever run has come pre configured with grey blue green red and black lists.

Even software puppet names like Mary Poppins were bounced to the side for another look.

Black militants, KKK rebel rousers and political land mines were caught even before they had a chance to breath air.

But hey with Paul Bots the bar is lowered somewhere near a China searching dig if you know what I mean.

What kind of person are you? Pathetic!

The person who wrote this piece seems to me to be part of a more scary "hate" movement. She's attacking Ron Paul on what he might be thinking - the one reason to vote for him as the thought police or what these types want would be eliminated.
I see the University of Phoenix is a sponsor here. Should they need to explain to every student why they are anti-gun and funding that lobby?

Council on Foreign Relations candidates such as HILLARY, GIULIANI, OBAMA, ROMNEY, and so on have been accepting massive $300,000 contributions from PACs represented by GOLDMAN SACHS, the same firm that has been helping to orchestrate the manipulation of the US dollar, helping the dollar decline to fall steadily. This means these candidates support the destruction of your retirement and standard of living. I suggest writing a hit piece aimed at these people, instead. Ron Paul is NOT a racist.

ExcuseMe, regardless of your political views, [Personal attack deleted by Comments Editor]. Here you are, calling all the Paul supporters little kids who do nothing but sit around and google blogs, while you've been sitting here for God knows how long slinging crap while these guys have just showed up, said their piece and left.

Maybe you should go outside and take a jog, but I'd worry for the safety of the public.

The pursuit of freedom attracts people of many banners and I've seen Dr. Paul distance himself from both 9/11 theorists and racists on several occasions. I'm a 47 year old father of 3 married to the same women for 26 years and self-employed as a realtor for the last 22 years. From what I've seen I am a more typical Ron Paul supporter than the racists and conspiracy theorists that you purport to be Dr. Paul's "friends". Ron Paul supporters are citizens concerned that their government has morphed into a bureaucratic imperialistic global empire with blatant disregard for the U.S. constitution.

I read your piece. I guess your saying RP is a goose stepping white supremecist based upon the information you present?

Be more betterer.

Freedom is popular to everyone!
Restoring the constitution protects every citizen
no matter what your skin color, sexual preference, or religion. We don't want to be part of a NEW WORLD ORDER (google it)

And why, exactly, should anyone care what Daniel Siederaski has to say? He sounds about as reasonable, soft-spoken and undemanding as Al Shapton. The fact that this 'information' came from an interview with Tom Tancredo, a running opponent, might be a clue that it's a tad slanted. (Slanted being a nice word for twisted.)
1.) Ron Paul has no control over every nutball group that supports him. (Clue #2- they are not his friends.)
2.) The Nazis probably support him because they believe that he wrote those words concerning the black voter. He has already retracted that statement and said he didn't write it himself.
3.) "movement is being hijacked by white supremacist forces"? Uh, no. Sorry not true.
4.) He opposes the 1964 Civil Rights Act because it is not does not support civil liberties. It promotes civil entitlements. An example of a civil entitlement is Affiirmative Action, which is downright racist.
5.) Oh, my God! Supporters from the Constitution Party? The Constitution imagine that! Unheard of. (Well, yes, come to think of it.)
6.) Chip Berlet, wrote "Those neo-Nazis have a First Amendment right to endorse Ron Paul, but Ron Paul has a moral obligation to disavow that donation."
a.) Yikes, Chip Berlet says that Paul has a moral obligation.
a.) Why, exactly, do we care what Chip Berlet has to say?
b) Chip Berlet is a communist.

Please try to ignore Excusemeforpointingandlaughing, I know it's hard and I know this post proves my failure to do that.

I hate to lower myself to his level, but, no I don't.

"Excusemeforpointingandlaughing" is a troll who is bent on causing trouble and is personally attacking commentors on this blog even though it clearly says "Personal attacks are not allowed". He admits in one of his comments that he creates fake blogger accounts just to create havoc and insult Dr. Paul's supporters.

He is off topic on every one of his 13+ comments and obviously has nothing better to do. He is a name caller who curses continually in nearly every comment. On top of that, his comments are disjointed, unintelligent, and unresearched and add nothing to this discourse.

In my OPINION, he is probably one of the trolls putting up fake comments with fake accounts all over the blogosphere to make RP supporters look bad.

Also, in my OPINION, the fact that he states that he is retired makes me suspect he is motivated by the fear of losing his Social Security.

Don't worry EMFPAL, if elected, Dr. Paul has promised not to take away your government dole and old age welfare.

I am done with you now.

P.S. Go ahead punk, call me a Paulite.

You made no attempt to understand "why" Ron Paul gets fringe support. He stands for freedom, the same freedom that legs fringe people live as citizens in the USA. Most countries don't tolerate those people. Those people see their freedom under attack. That is why they support Ron Paul.

This absolutely does not mean that Ron Paul supports them, or their ideas. The distinction is key. And thus, I see no reason why this issue should affect anyone's decision regarding Ron Paul.

So what>? Civil liberties mean freedom for all. So no matter what you believe, your individual rights are protected. White supremacist, Black supremacist, Gay supremacist, Christian supremacist, what ever group you can think of. It is irrelavent, respecting individual personal liberties is what Ron Paul is about. Dear writer, try thinking outside the box, and actully listening to Paul. It's not a Republican VS. Democrate or libertarian. It's freedom baby, a tune we can all dance to :) Time to think outside the cage.

So whatever you believe, if your American and believe in the Declaration of independance, Bill of Rights, and Constitution, the foundation of freedom anyone can support paul. Freedom freedom freedom!

As I post my comments, I read above the box, "Personal attacks are NOT allowed." Maybe you should have your writers read this first. You want to make twisted comments about a man who is every middle class and poor Americans choice for President? Are you nuts? Why do you not investigate Hillary's criminal record? Or Rudy's? Why not write about how Mitt has to PAY people to vote for him? If you do not understand how to investigate a story, why are you allowed to work for a publication? Unless their idea is to not print an true story, and to try to slander Dr. Ron Paul. WoW, it is truly interestiong to see how deep the establishment has dug its roots. Thank you for writing this story, now I no longer have to read your articles, and I will know your view pionts here at blogcritics. You will now be dismissd as FOOLS.

even if the "facts" as stated in this article were true - which they are not - the question is
"so what?"
i believe the American people are waking up to the fact that buzzwords like "racist" "bigot" and "anti-semite" are just meaningless attempts at brainwashing the public which should rightfully be ignored.
God bless the author SJ Reidhead.

SJ, your piece yesterday on Lindsey Graham was good. But judging by the comments thread on this one so far, maybe you should have quit while you were ahead!

Glenn Beck Gives to Ron Paul Campaign

That's a bigger smear on Ron Paul's candidacy than anything the author of this piece has written.

My next door neighbor is a registered pedophile.

He supports Rudy Giuliani.

Blind

Hey bro you left out the word smear.. whats up with that didn't you get the memo?

Dub Dub chicken wings or turkey breasts whats for supper tonight.

Oh got it spaghetti and meatballs somehow it seems more correct.

What this piece misses is that all of these people who have donated must be US citizens.

So pretty much Americans are a bunch of KKK white supremacist neo-nazis.

Fucking Americans!

What you paulbots don't seem to get is that someone could be concerned about this problem specifically because they support paul and want him to win. This is a real problem which will hurt him in the election and based on these comments you folks are part of the problem.

As soon as Hillary comes out publicly to apologize for throwing KKK grand cyclops Senator Robert Byrd a birthday party in the former home of Fredrick Douglass, I might start to give a crap about Ron Paul getting $500 from racists.

You also forgot to include Ron Paul's response to those "article excerpts" you so artfully dug up- he acknowledged that they were written, though not by himself, took appropriate action within his staff, assumed moral responsibility for those words having appeared in his publication, and publicly apologized. The decision to leave all this information out seems a bit strange.

The fact that the media seems more interested in donations like the one from Black...rather than the Robert Byrd (a well-known public racist and KKK member) incident I mentioned, Giuliani's relationship to Bernard Kirek, and Hillary Clinton's debacles with Norman Hsu and Peter Paul truly speaks VOLUMES.

I havent seen anything at all to make me think that Paul is a racist in the least. The fact that the media seems to want to seize on the 1% of his support that comes from unevolved morons and completely ignore the majority coming from young voters, disenchanted voters, all walks of the political and social spectrum, and his ability to stage huge rallies and self-motivated multi-million dollar fundraisers with no mainstream media support is disappointing and transparently indicative of bias.

I just heard that the Nazi White Supremacist who lives in my neighborhood donated to the Humane Society. I was shocked to find out that the Humane Society is a racist organization, but you can bet they'll never see another dime of my money, plus I'm going to spread my stupid opinion to all the other knuckleheads I know, until that cursed Humane Society is burning in Hell with Hitler.

As a member of the KKK I do not understand why these guys support Ron Paul. I'd much rather have Rudy in office passing abortion laws paying money for abortions for minorities.

I did however click on a few advertisements on your page.

So now you have been given money by me...a KKK member. Welcome to the brotherhood.

You can't attack the man so you attack the fringe supporters...

Ron Paul has stated that he DOES NOT share the opinions of these racist groups. He considers racism an ugly form of "Collectivism" and since he promotes individual liberties over collectivism he's DEFINITELY opposed to racism. It says as much on his website.

And for those trying to link him to the 9/11 conspiracy crowd he has also PUBLICLY stated that he does not think that 9/11 was an insider job, he believes it was definitely an attack orchestrated by Osama Bin Laden in part due to our poor foreign policy over the years.

He's stated these positions multiple times! But somehow these smear-mongers never seem to notice that... probably because it would interfere with the only paltry vile ammunition they can bring to any discussion.

Congratulations, S.J. Reidhead, on yet another hatchet job on Ron Paul. You know darn well that the Ron Paul campaign has expressed public disagreement with the white nationalist racial agenda, and has stated that they're just wasting their time giving him money.

However, Paul's earlier remark about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is exactly on point. Had it been left there, it would have been fine. But the Act was used as an excuse by neo-Marxist Gramscian social engineers to impose affirmative action and forced busing. They've used diversity and multiculturalism to deliberately stir up non-whites against whites by selectively exaggerating detrimental aspects of white history. Heroes like Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee have been re-invented as bloodthirsty slaveowners. The Confederate battle flag is misrepresented as a modern-day swastika.

And S.J. Reidhead, thanks to the outrage of black misbehavior in Jena, LA, my side is winning, and your side is losing. Mainstream American whites are awakening to their predicament. Do you think the sudden upsurge in noose sightings is coincidental? The noose is becoming an implicit symbol of white resistance to the tyranny of multiculturalism. Fortunately, for now, those nooses are ceremonial.

Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who can prevent those nooses from becoming operational.

This article is a bit weak on proof that there's something wrong at the top of the Ron Paul campaign. The blizzard of indignant comments tells me a lot about Paul's support. You've got to learn that every candidate is going to be criticized. It doesn't mean that the author hates and fears the almighty Paul's inevitable victory. It means that he disagrees with you. That's allowed.

If Ron Paul gets rid of the IRS, he should be made President for Life.

"Williams may also be responsible for the enormous amount of spam and comments received by anyone who dares criticize Ron Paul."

No, it's not one guy spamming comments.
It's the work of MANY MANY RON PAUL SUPPORTERS.
Just because Stormfront and their ilk agree with RP on smaller government doesn't make RP or the rest of the 99.9% of RP supporters racist, even though he'd have you believe otherwise by the idiotic thread title.

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I'm tired of the term "neo-Nazi". Unless the subject has defined himself as a neo-Nazi or invokes the memory of a Nazi - DON'T CALL HIM A NEO-NAZI! This practice makes a fallacy of one's argument.

By the way, I think Pat Buchanan is a bigot, but the last time I checked, he wasn't a "neo-Nazi", a member of the KKK or a professed white supremacist. Clearly, the author of this article has an axe to grind for Ron Paul.

BW

The government of Israel does not legally recognize marriages between jews and Palestinians and treats Palestinians as second class citizens. AIPAC, by far the most power lobby in Washington, acts as an agent for the jewish supremacist government in Israel. Should not all the other politicians in Washington be asked to give back their AIPAC money?

Lumpy, ???. I and many others did address the questions. You might read the responses before attacking the people that wrote them. The problem is the liars and propagandizers that wrote this article, and all who it quoted. The problem is the not well educated, easily fooled masses that allowed themselves to hypnotized and duped by a government that cares not a whit for them. Ron Paul and his followers are the solution. Read Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine. Read Patrick Henry's speech that motivated and spurred America into fighting for it's freedom rather than lying down and dying. He talked about freedom vs slavery, and no one laughed at him or called him a nut. And thank God for that. We the people want Ron Paul for president. Is that of importance to anyone anymore?

RP a racist? NO WAY. He has Mexican gardeners, Black house keepers, and Asian concubines. Not the characteristics of a racist!

The media are giving Ron Paul a pass on all this, cause he's now bashing Bush and the War in Iraq. If Ron Paul was a real Republican, they'd be slaughtering him on all these conncections to fringe groups. But so long as he spouts the Left's line, they'll just continue to give him the attaboys.

Wait, GOP dope, you forgot the child slaves who service him at night, while his wife is in the kitchen eating aborted fetuses.

That's not funny. I worked for Ron for 12 years. He honestly does have a Black Housekeeper, and he does have Mexican landscapers at his home.

This is not a humorous response. I'm dead serious. Ask anyone who knows Paul here in Lake Jackson.

Eric Dondero, what planet are you living on? The media, at first, completely ignored him. Now they are smearing him all over the place, left and right. An example is the above misinformed and propaganda ridden article, which was, btw, written by communists. Ron Paul is the only true Republican among the lot of them. Giuliani is the most liberal, and coincidentally, corrupt, one of all. What ship did you fly in on?

Maggie - "The problem is the liars and propagandizers that wrote this article, and all who it quoted."

Why do so many Paul supporters see groups of people after their candidate? Not every criticism is anti-Paul propaganda. This sure isn't the first article to accuse a Republican of racism.

Dave, what do you mean by Paul's anti-constitutional position on religion? I have seen his proposed constitutional amendment and it basically said - the prayer (in public schools etc.) should be neither obligatory nor prohibited. Now I don't see anywhere in constitution that prayer must be prohibited in public schools. Actually, this would seem to me a natural idea based on the current constitution.

Now...you seem to imply that 30% of iowa university students are neo-nazi, truthers?? I would say it the other way round: I find socialists the same problem as truthers...maybe even bigger. Lot of them support Paul because of his war position.... which means I would be associated with socialists if I advocated Paul???

Eric Dondero, What's your point? So what if he has a black housekeeper and Mexican gardeners? If he had a white housekeeper someone would jump and cry 'racism' because he didn't use Affirmative Action while hiring. And I suppose he has Asian concubines, too? Give me a break, Dondero.

I just don't get the article. They quote Paul - and it just doesn't seem racist to me. Actually it seems very reasonable. He said he didn't write the article in 1996, but even the quoted text does not seem to be racist.

So we end up with guilt by association. Ron Paul doesn't play this game. Period. Why should he? It's your problem if you play it - not his...

Baronius - "Why do so many Paul supporters see groups of people after their candidate?" Probably because groups of people, politicians, and particularly the media have collectively ripped him apart. The main thrust of this, since he received $4.38 million in one day. Did you see Glenn Beck's horrendous tv show on CNN, suggesting that Ron Paul and his supporters are terrorists, and the US military should attack us? It was outrageous. You can view it here. http://earthhopenetwork.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=164

I don't see the point of either of these articles. Is the author not aware that in a democracy even people whose ideas you find evil and repugnant are allowed to take part in the political process? Or does she want to install some body to decide who is eligible? What will her opinion be when that body decides her beliefs are wrong and she can't take part in the process?

Exactly who did these "undesirables" vote for in '04, Bush or Kerry? Surely some, if not many supported Bush, but where were the cries then for him or the RNC to return any of that money? Don't you think these people understood Reagan's code about "states' rights"? Do you have links to your articles condemning those politicians for being supported by people you don't like?

What really baffles me is how are you just now seeing the light regarding who is in your party. Your concern falls flat.

I was wondering if we'd see Eric Dondero here. Hi Eric.

Dave, what do you mean by Paul's anti-constitutional position on religion? I have seen his proposed constitutional amendment and it basically said - the prayer (in public schools etc.) should be neither obligatory nor prohibited. Now I don't see anywhere in constitution that prayer must be prohibited in public schools. Actually, this would seem to me a natural idea based on the current constitution.

You seem to have missed that whole section about 'establishment of religion'. But as far as the prayer issue goes, I have no problem with kids praying silently and non-demonstrably at school so long as no school time or taxpayer funded resources are expended in any way. But the school prayer issue alone isn't the basis of concern over Paul's religious agenda. He's also stated that he believes that it's okay to post the ten commandments on public property, and that is a far worse violation of the establishment principle.

Now...you seem to imply that 30% of iowa university students are neo-nazi, truthers??

Actually, I didn't say one word about Iowa U. students. Did you confuse me with someone else, or are you assuming that because I'm concerned about the extremists supporting Paul I think that ALL Paul supporters are extremists? If I thought that I'd have said it, but it's a silly idea so I didn't say it.

I would say it the other way round: I find socialists the same problem as truthers...maybe even bigger. Lot of them support Paul because of his war position.... which means I would be associated with socialists if I advocated Paul???

Well, you'd be associated with them in at least some way. But as someone pointed out earlier, it's another valid criticism of the Paul campaign - that he's being funded from outside the GOP as a spoiler candidate propped up by money from the left. Doesn't bother me that much, but it's a legitimate concern.

Dave

Ron Paul vs. The Philosophically Bankrupt

After reading the name-calling and other non sequiturs from the anti-Ron Paul crowd, I am of the view that their hostility arises less from his opposition to war, or the direction American foreign policy has taken for decades, or any of the other specific programs he has criticized. What troubles them the most is that Paul has a philosophically-principled integrity in what he advocates and that, to challenge him, one must be prepared to deal with him at that higher level.

But modern political discourse long ago gave up on principles, in favor of the pursuit of power as a sufficient end. There is an intellectual bankruptcy exhibited by writers and speakers on the political "left," "right," or "middle." Competing ideas and values that once engaged the minds of thoughtful men and women have given way to little more than pronouncements on behalf of narrowly-defined political programs; the validity of a proposition no longer depends upon reasoned analysis, but upon the outcome of public opinion polls.

Ron Paul's campaign interjects an energized, principled inquiry into the political realm, an undertaking for which men and women with no philosophic center or rigorous minds find themselves woefully ill-prepared.

I M NOT A NAZI I AM NOT A RACIST--I AM A MACHO--THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH DISCUSSING THE POWER OF USA POLITICAL JEWISH INTERESTS & PACS IN THE USA--IF THEY TALK ABOUT CATHOLICS--THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT JEWISH--ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRIBA LOS MACHOS BAJO FEMINISTAS POR SIEMPRE

Hey, great job not doing your research. I'm glad to know that BC has "journalists" that fail to research before writing. The comments attributed to Ron Paul that were of a racist tone were not written by him. This has been cleared up on numerous occasions. It was written and published in his newsletter and he HAS taken the blame for it. Now, if you actually researched what the man stands for, you would know that he is a firm opponent of racism.

As for some nut job supporters, guess what, everyone has them. Hillary surely has some communists, Rudy has authoritarians and I am sure that all candidates have racists donating to them to some degree. Don't single out one man on an issue he can't control. And as for "giving the money back," why? The government takes their money and spends it, so why can't he spend it on something that will benefit this nation far more than the current system ever could, getting elected.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. Calling someone a racist is so cliche today. It means nothing. When someone has to resort to calling someone a racist it mean