The Ron Paul Newsletter controversy is a textbook liberal Smear Campaign

[bobbyw24]

A racist these days is all too often really just a conservative winning an argument with a liberal. It should come as no surprise, then, that the most principled conservative in the GOP race is being assailed and viciously smeared as a racist because of the content of a newsletter written 20 years ago which he credibly denies writing or having any knowledge of, and has repeatedly disavowed as contrary to his own views.

The racist smear is a common and favorite tactic of big-government liberals and their collaborators in the mainstream media. In 2009, with the tea party movement in full swing, members of the mainstream media did everything they could to assail these patriotic conservatives as racists, searching desperately at every tea party event for any wayward protest sign that might have racist content that could be used to assassinate the character of an entire national grassroots movement. The media even went so far as to fabricate a racial confrontation between tea party protesters and Democratic members of Congress, but it was nothing more than a smear and a lie.

The tea party movement didn’t have anything to do with race: it was about fiscal policy, monetary policy, systemic problems with our legislative process, and the proper nature and role of government. Tea party protesters were all about diminishing the size, role, and influence of an out-of-touch, out-of-control, out-of-solutions, and out-of-money federal government. They were right. And just like the tea parties, Dr. Ron Paul’s life, message, and record as a 12-term U.S. congressman have absolutely nothing to do with race.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/26/the-ron-paul-newsletter-controversy-is-a-textbook-liberal-smear-campaign/#ixzz1hfML2jqy

[sailingaway]

Except I do believe it was Rovian, wasn't it? It first came up when Ron Paul was trying to go back to Congress in Texas against A Dem incumbent. The GOP got the Dem to switch to GOP, George W Bush endorsed him (as Governor, at the time) and Ron won anyhow because the people in his district knew him. Now, bringing it all up again in 2008 and since then, I agree is a liberal smear job by liberals such as those at Reason and the New Republic and the Trotskyites at the Weekly Standard.

I also notice the DC couldn't just print a pro Paul article they had to add a lead in with a link to a hit piece. I wonder if they will link to this positive one from all hit pieces they are running.

[Zydeco]

It really is interesting, isn't it? Ron Paul, in 40 years of public life, has never spoken or written a sentence that can be considered racist. And yet he is being smeared -- whether successfully or not remains to be seen -- as a racist nonetheless. Take quotes out of context, hold him responsible for the views of 1% or less of his supporters, anything -- it's the Spencer Ackerman strategy.

But if you're Bill Kristol or Martin Peretz and you open advocate killing hundreds of thousands of innocent brown people in a country -- that's not racist, that's "conservative."

For now.

[flybeech]

Those old newsletters are nothing more than the Tiger Beat magazine for Paulies. They are desperate to find anything that discredits Ron Paul, since he can no longer be ignored. TPTB must stop him at any cost, including the integrity of their media arm.