United Liberty
It’s Time to Grasp Some Reality
Tue, 06/19/2012 - 10:20am | posted by Ron Davis
I saw this post over the weekend, and I’ve wrestled over whether or not to do this, but I can’t be silent. There are a lot of readers here who also read Daily Paul, and a lot of you aren’t going to like this, but something needs to be said. Here goes:
Ron Paul won’t be the GOP nominee this year.
I know the convention isn’t until later this summer. I know there are unbound delegates. I know there’s a law suit trying to unbind delegates. I know you believe he’s going to win, but he’s not.
Don’t misunderstand me, either. I don’t enjoy admitting this. I really wanted him to win. I’ve shared before how he’s singlehandedly responsible for making me care about politics. I’m a big fan, but it’s time that all of us grasp the reality that he’s not going to be our nominee.
Now we’re in this critical point in the campaign season. We can admit defeat and press forward for liberty, or we can be the crazy people in the corner with ridiculous law suits and fuzzy math. Let’s not be the crazy people. Pressing forward for liberty is the right choice to make.
Working for freedom for some might mean biting a lip and following Rand Paul in his endorsement of Mitt Romney. For others, it’ll mean supporting Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate on the ballot. But no matter which path you need to take, take it. Don’t be the crazy guy in the corner counting “what if” delegates and trying to convince people that your math is right.
Ron Paul has reached us with his message. This liberty movement sparked by the message of freedom will go on. Paul’s presidential campaign, unfortunately, will not. It’s time we all grasp that reality.
Math doesn’t remake the GOP. Voting for Gary Johnson or Mitt Romney won’t do anything either.
Becoming a delegate for Ron Paul or a precinct or country or state GOP chairman will make a world of difference however because it is long overdue that those positions were occupied by principled liberty lovers.
That can’t be accomplished by giving up or “being realistic”. Bees can’t technically fly either. It is a good thing they do not know this or we’d all starve to death. Thank God for the crazies.
the writer says; Ron Paul has reached us with his message
Indeed he has. Ron Paul Quotes:
“If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.” - Ron Paul, 1992
“Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.” - Ron Paul, 1992
“We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.” - Ron Paul, 1992
“only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions”
“If you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example).”
Ron Paul makes me SICK
It’s a free country.Ron Paul is free to think/believe whatever he wants. If he thinks the color of his skin makes him ‘superior’ to others, that’s his right. The problem is, he’s a coward, now denying his past which is well documented. If you are a Racist, vote for Ron Paul. If you’re not a racist, don’t fall for his propoganda B.S.
Read. Learn. THINK. Decide for yourself. More than a dozen sources @ this site:
http://www.realchange.org/ronpaul.htm
Ron Paul says he didn’t make Racist comments. Ron Paul is a Coward. When asked directly, he didn’t deny making the racist comments when he was running as a Libertarian. He responded with; “The quotes were taken out of context”. In fact, they weren’t. The comments spoke for themselves. Loud and clear. It was only when he was trying to gain a foothold in the Republican Party that he started claiming it wasn’t him, it was a “Phantom” writer.
It’s hard for him to deny responsibility for a publication called “The Ron Paul Survival Report”, edited by Ron Paul.
Starting in 1984, Ron Paul published a series of related newsletters, called the Ron Paul Political Report, Ron Paul Freedom Report, Ron Paul Survival Report, etc. He had over 100,000 subscribers at one point and is said to have made over a million dollars a year. (Subscriptions cost $100 a year for a magazine usually 8 pages long.)
Over nearly 20 years, the newsletters published a bunch of hateful and inflammatory racist, anti-gay and conspiratorial columns. You can read 50 of the originals on this website. Warning — it’s pretty raw stuff.
Paul and his supporters claim that he moved to Texas, the newsletters stayed in Washington, and he was too busy to even look at the 8 page newsletter that earned him a million dollars a years. (So much for Texas straight talk.)
There is direct evidence that he’s lying. Renae Hathaway, Paul’s former secretary who still supports him, says that Paul was a very hands-on owner of the newsletters: “He always got to see the final product. He would proof it.” (Another longtimeemployee, Eric Rittberg, confirms that he saw Ron Paul proofing, editing and signing off on the newsletters.)
Even if you take Ron Paul at his word, he couldn’t manage a staff of 10 without them suddenly printing extreme racist progaganda FOR TEN YEARS. I just don’t believe him.
“Wait, this one Web site I saw says Ron Paul personally read and approved everything that went into every one of the newsletters bearing his name, so if something racist were said in there, he MUST be a racist! To prove it, I will post IN ALL CAPS, as this lends IMMEDIATE CREDIBILITY to myself and my opinions WHICH ARE OBVIOUSLY CORRECT!!!”
Maybe pull your head out of your nether-region, read a book or two, and gain a little knowledge about the situation before you plop down in front of the computer in your Mom’s basement. Dr. Paul has offered free healthcare to poor minorities for years, opposed the “war on drugs” as another government vehicle to target minorities, opposed the death penalty as being weighted disproportionately toward executing minorities. These allegations have been discredited far and wide, notoriously by the head of the Austin, TX NAACP, a 20-year acquaintance of Dr. Paul who publicly defended him from these slanderous racist claims.
No modern politician has anywhere near the credibility of standing up for the rights of minorities, or for personally making a difference in minority communities.
I suppose that when the worst things opponents can bring up about a politician are things other people said in a newsletter he publishes (publishes, not edits) you’ve found your man. Misbegotten troglodytes like the esteemed Colorado Brian can keep their heads in the sand, but more and more Americans everyday are waking up to the organized campaign of minimization and slander being perpetrated against Dr. Paul by both political parties and the mainstream media.
Sic semper tyrannis.
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