Ken Berwitz

Since ron paul is making something of a surge in Iowa I feel the need to blog about his past.

But since I have already done so, there is no need to re-invent the wheel.

I wrote the following commentary about ron paul four years ago.   Most of the facts remain the same, so the commentary will remain the same as well.

It is eating me alive that almost no one is talking about the sickening group of nazis and white supremacists that ron paul attracts, or the reasons they are atrracted to him.

 

Do you support ron paul? Congratulations. So does a voluminous list of nazis and White supremacists, including (but not limited to) david duke, hal turner, don black, jamie kelso, hutton gibson (Mel's looney-tune holocaust denying father) and those wonderful folks at www.stormfront.org, whose home page provides you with a convenient link to donate to the paul campaign.**

 

ron paul has never disavowed one penny from stormfront.org nor said he would refuse it. Are you comfortable with this? Is this the candidate you would support?

 

Did you know that, last year, paul voted against re-authorizing the 1965 voting rights act? Did you know that he also voted against the house resolution condemning hezbollah?

 

Did you know that, at one time, paul published a newsletter which contained overtly racist material in it which, among other things,called 95% of all Blacks in Washington DC criminals and advocated trying 13 year old Black children as adults? Years later, he claimed he wasn't the writer of that material, that someone else wrote it. But that doesn't wash; the newsletter was all of 8 pages long and went out under his own name. Even if he didn't write the words themselves he allowed them to be published under his name. You know better than to think he wasn't aware of the content of an 8 page document he'd be responsible for. Personally, I assume he wrote the racist garbage himself.

 

paul also had columns published by "American Free Press" which is put out by willis carto. Do yourself a favor; google the name "willis carto" and see who he is. If you have any decency at all, you'll be sick to your stomach. While it can be argued that carto was able to publish ron paul's material without his ok, it is also true that paul could have publicly disavowed its presence in "American Free Press". He has never done so.

 

Bottom line: There are good reasons for nazis and White supremacists to flock to ron paul. You support him and you support them and their reasons. That's how they'll position it, and they have a point.

 

If all this is ok with you, congratulations again. If not, I suggest you think harder about ron paul.

 

It would not at all surprise me if ron paul made another presidential run in 2012.  And it would not at all surprise me if the same hate groups and assorted nutcakes and freaks came running to support him again.

 

I can only hope that the information posted above is blasted all over our media so that people understand who and what he is.

 

We need ron paul about as much as we need an advanced bowel virus.  And the bowel virus would have a better smell.

Yes, Ron Paul is a very smart man.  Yes, he has some very good ideas on some issues.

But Ron Paul is also a man who has no problem wallowing in hate, and who attacts haters like dog excrement attracts flies.  That makes him so repugnant that he is beyond redemption.

When do Republicans finally, decisively, squash this stink-bug?

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**This was true in 2007.  It is not true now; at least not yet.