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More Deranged, Racist Ron Paul Newsletters Released by TNR

Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:07:51 pm
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul continues to evade responsibility for the ugly, deranged newsletters he sold for many years; recently he claimed that "only 8 to 10 sentences were offensive," out of all these newsletters. This, dear readers, is what is commonly known as "an outright lie." And today The New ...

Romney Has Commanding Lead in South Carolina and Florida

Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:49:05 am
It's looking more and more like the nutty right wingers who've been rabidly attacking Mitt Romney for being a RINO (and worse) are going to have to hold their noses and vote for him: Romney way up in Florida. Mitt Romney's in a strong position to win this weekend in ...

Major SC Newspaper Endorses Jon Huntsman

Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:28:25 am
South Carolina's The State newspaper is now endorsing Jon Huntsman in the Republican race. It's as if conservatives are playing "Wheel of Fortune;" every week they spin the wheel to see which of these interchangeable candidates is going to be the new kid on the block for a few days. And please ...

Mitt Romney Wins New Hampshire Primary

Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:07:00 pm
NBC News is calling the New Hampshire primary for Mitt Romney, followed by Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman. The results so far: Romney - 36% Paul - 25% Huntsman - 17% Gingrich - 11% Santorum - 10% Perry - 1% Some obvious conclusions: it's all over for Rick "Evolution's Just a Theory" Perry, and Newt Gingrich's bizarre ...

Ron Paul Said 'MLK is My Hero' - But His Newsletters Tell a Very Different Story

Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 8:25:59 pm
While watching Saturday night's Republican debate, my jaw hit the floor when Ron Paul, asked a question about his now-infamous newsletters, said: "One of my heroes is Martin Luther King." My amazement stems from the fact that in December 1990, Ron Paul's official newsletter contained the following paragraphs: He was ...

GOP Clown Car Warms Up in New Hampshire

Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:40:54 pm
Well, it's been more than three weeks since the last GOP debate, and I'm sure you've been missing these events as much as I have, so this weekend you're going to be treated to two (2) GOP debates: tonight at 9pm ET, and tomorrow morning at 9am ET (that's right, ...

The Return of the Attack of the 2012 Iowa Caucus

Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:17:23 pm
It's too close to call yet, but if Ron Paul wins tonight, Iowa evangelicals will have voted to legalize pot.

Santorum Bubbles Up As Iowa Polls Show Very Close Race

Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:12:34 am
The Iowa Caucus is now basically in a three-way tie, with Rick Santorum rising. The Republican caucus in Iowa is headed for a photo finish, with the three leading contenders all within two points of each other.  Ron Paul is at 20%, Mitt Romney at 19%, and Rick Santorum at ...

Ron Paul Angrily Denies Being 9/11 Truther, But...

Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:48:20 pm
In this clip, ABC's Jake Tapper asks Ron Paul about a report that he believes in 9/11 conspiracy theories, and Dr. Paul goes ballistic. Video Ron Paul's angry denials should be weighed against his regular appearances on the Alex Jones radio show, since Jones is one of the loudest, most deranged 9/11 ...

Ron Paul: AIDS Patients Are 'Victimizing Innocent Citizens'

Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:38:06 pm
Ron Paul has been running like a scared rabbit away from his racist newsletters, because he knows that ugly, overt racism has become political poison. But there are some kinds of bigotry that still play well with the conservative base. Soon there will come a day when haters like Ron Paul ...

Ron Paul Denial Watch: Only 'Eight To Ten Sentences' Were Offensive

Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:08:04 pm
Anyone who's actually read the infamous Ron Paul newsletters knows how dishonest the Crazy Uncle is being here: Ron Paul Downplays Newsletters : Only 'Eight To Ten Sentences' Were Offensive. Ron Paul on Thursday downplayed the fringe aspects of his old newsletters, saying on an Iowa radio program that the ...

Mitt Romney: I'd Vote For Ron Paul

Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:08:28 pm
Mitt Romney takes the concept of "party loyalty" to a ridiculous extreme, and ends up saying Ron Paul would be a better President than Barack Obama. What a beautiful example of absurd cognitive dissonance. Romney, of course, is being the archetypal cynical politician here; he only said this because he knows ...

Stormfront Founder Says White Supremacists Thought Ron Paul Was 'One of Us'

Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:54:46 am
Don Black, head racist of the hate site Stormfront, makes it clear that for many years Ron Paul appealed directly to the white supremacist subculture: Stormfront Founder Don Black Says White Supremacists Thought Ron Paul Was 'One of Us'. Ron Paul posing with Don & Derek Black at the 2007 ...

Michele Bachmann's Iowa Co-Chairman Endorses Ron Paul

Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:07:07 pm
OK now, this is just getting hilarious: Breaking: Michele Bachmann Iowa campaign co-chair endorses Ron Paul. News is breaking this evening that presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s Iowa campaign co-chairman Kent Sorenson has endorsed Ron Paul, one of her rivals in the Iowa caucus race. Sorenson, a state senator from Indianola, apparently ...

Breaking! Many Ron Paul Supporters Aren't Republicans!

Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:18:55 pm
Byron York seems to believe it's news that not all of Ron Paul's supporters are Republicans, but come on; that's been incredibly obvious for years. Ron Paul lives out on the fringes where extreme right and extreme left wrap around and meet. It's incorrect to call these people "mischief voters," as ...

White Supremacist Radio Host: Ron Paul Was Scheduled and Confirmed in 2006

Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 7:13:29 pm
James Edwards, host of Tennessee's premier white supremacist radio show, The Political Cesspool, is following LGF -- and apparently, he's not a fan. But he does confirm that Ron Paul was scheduled to appear on his overtly racist show in 2006, one week after former KKK grand wizard David Duke. Unlike ...

Video: Ron Paul's 1998 John Birch Society Documentary on the UN Plot To Take Over the USA

Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 4:49:18 pm
Andrew Kaczynski has dug up yet another buried video, a 1998 John Birch Society documentary starring none other than Ron Paul -- a classic example of far right paranoia and conspiracy theorizing, as Dr. Paul calmly explains that the United Nations is plotting to take over America, create a New ...

Ron Paul's Extremist Connections Redux

Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:44:12 am
On page A1 of the New York Times today: Ron Paul Disowns Extremists' Views but Doesn't Disavow the Support. (It's more accurate to say that Ron Paul currently says he disowns these views, after promulgating them for decades.) [Don] Black of Stormfront said the newsletters helped make him a Ron Paul ...

Crazy Ron Paulian Comment of the Day

Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 3:47:53 pm
Browsing around some conspiracy-related websites and Ron Paul-related websites ... actually, that's redundant ... I discovered my favorite Paulian comment of the day at a site called “Above Top Secret,” about our post on the Crazy Uncle's scheduled appearance on the white supremacist Political Cesspool radio show: Ron Paul Was ...

Ron Paul Was Scheduled to Appear on a White Supremacist Radio Show in 2006

Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 3:44:54 pm
The New Republic has made available a collection of Ron Paul's ugliest newsletters, and if you haven't seen how bad this stuff is yet, you may be shocked. I think it's amazing and sad that this hasn't been a political problem for Ron Paul before now. The content of these newsletters ...

Ron Paul Denies Writing Letter On 'Coming Race War'

Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:58:21 am
Right on cue, Ron Paul's spokesman Jesse Benton is actually going to try to deny that Ron Paul wrote the overtly racist and homophobic direct-mail advertisement revealed yesterday by Reuters. Even though his signature is on it. Ron Paul’s campaign tells TPM that the presidential candidate did not write a signed ...

Ron Paul Raised Money by Forecasting 'Race War'

Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:32:18 pm
Imagine my surprise that more evidence of Ron Paul's long history of racism and far right fear-mongering is now coming to light. Reuters has unearthed a blatantly racist and homophobic direct-mail advertisement for the infamous Ron Paul newsletters: In ad for newsletter, Ron Paul forecast race war. A direct-mail solicitation ...

Media Suddenly Notice Ron Paul's Decades of Racist Connections

Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:20:49 am
We've been covering Ron Paul's racist past and far right connections for years at LGF; kudos to the mainstream media for finally starting to catch up: Paul's story changes on racial comments. WASHINGTON – Rep. Ron Paul has tried since 2001 to disavow racist and incendiary language published in Texas ...

Video: Ron Paul Walks Out Of CNN Interview

Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:25:27 pm
As Ron Paul's popularity has risen in polls, the media are suddenly interested in his racist, antisemitic newsletters again -- and the increased focus is obviously starting to rattle him. Today in an interview with CNN's Gloria Borger, Paul flatly denied that he wrote or even read any of the ...

Strong Evidence That Ron Paul Really Did Write Those Racist Newsletters

Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:10:44 pm
In New Hampshire today, Ron Paul denied that he had anything to do with the blatantly racist newsletters sent out by his organization in the 1990s, despite undeniable evidence to the contrary: Ron Paul Denies Writing Past Newsletters Featuring Racial Slurs. "Everybody knows I didn't write them," Paul said during ...

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