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Knightskye
04-18-2010, 06:17 PM
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/reckoning-with-ron-paul/86919/


No sooner did Congressman Ron Paul emerge in one of latest opinion polls as neck-and-neck with President Obama in 2012 than he came in for a new round of critical postings on the internet.

True. Whenever he seems like the slightest threat (ie, after getting 10% of the Iowa caucus in 2008), he gets mud thrown at him.


But in the dozen or so conversations we’ve had with Dr. Paul over nearly 30 years, he has never voiced views that we would call racist or anti-Semitic. On the contrary, we have heard a tone altogether different.


Where are Ron Paul’s critics in that fight? It is one thing for Dr. Paul’s critics keep a lookout for signs of bigotry. It is another for high-minded critics to go missing in the fight for sound money, which, after all, is another moral issue. We are now in a period in which the dollar has collapsed to less than 1,000th of an ounce of gold, but a quarter of what it was worth at the start of, say, George W. Bush’s presidency and but half of what it was worth when, say, the Democrats acceded to their latest leadership of the Congress. It is a catastrophe that hurts all Americans, of all races, and imperils our civil society.

They don't like his foreign policy. If his message gains power in Washington, there could be a shift in foreign policy. Therefore, they have to use anything they can, no matter how small or imagined, to try to stop him.

Chester Copperpot
04-18-2010, 06:20 PM
Operation: STOP RON PAUL!

dude58677
04-19-2010, 06:52 AM
The article was actually defending Ron Paul from by quoting his critics and then disputing them.

AdamT
04-19-2010, 07:05 AM
We need more articles like this. Discredit all the racism charges and be done with it.