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Ron Paul and Right Wing Extremists: It’s Complicated

Posted by majestic on December 26, 2011

Lew Rockwell. Photo: Mises Institute

Lew Rockwell. Photo: Mises Institute

Now that Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy is undeniably viable, no stone can go unturned in the effort to paint him as an extremist. Jim Rutenberg and Serge F. Kovalesky for the New York Times:

The American Free Press, which markets books like “The Invention of the Jewish People” and “March of the Titans: A History of the White Race,” is urging its subscribers to help it send hundreds of copies of Ron Paul’s collected speeches to voters in New Hampshire. The book, it promises, will “Help Dr. Ron Paul Win the G.O.P. Nomination in 2012!”

Don Black, director of the white nationalist Web site Stormfront, said in an interview that several dozen of his members were volunteering for Mr. Paul’s presidential campaign, and a site forum titled “Why is Ron Paul such a favorite here?” has no fewer than 24 pages of comments. “I understand he wins many fans because his monetary policy would hurt Jews,” read one.

Far-right groups like the Militia of Montana say they are rooting for Mr. Paul as a stalwart against government tyranny.

Mr. Paul’s surprising surge in polls is creating excitement within a part of his political base that has been behind him for decades but overshadowed by his newer fans on college campuses and in some liberal precincts who are taken with his antiwar, anti-drug-laws messages.

The white supremacists, survivalists and anti-Zionists who have rallied behind his candidacy have not exactly been warmly welcomed. “I wouldn’t be happy with that,” Mr. Paul said in an interview Friday when asked about getting help from volunteers with anti-Jewish or antiblack views.

But he did not disavow their support. “If they want to endorse me, they’re endorsing what I do or say — it has nothing to do with endorsing what they say,” said Mr. Paul, who is now running strong in Iowa for the Republican nomination…

[continues in the New York Times]

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  • Suddenly Spam!

    Because I’m a Troll, Neckbeard.

  • Ronniedobbs

    That march began long before Obama….

  • Jin (仁)

    Except I didn`t. I also do not find generalisations to be particularly helpful. I have no animosity towards people whom would lend their support to ron paul, but neither do i respect their sanctification / valorisation of him. The repeal of the 1964 Civil Rights act would be a racist action, because Cameron, the constitution, as it historically stands  (both in it’s codification and historical context of genocide/slavery and anti-ethnic immigrant sentiment) firmly entrenched a racial hierarchy in the US. And while no amount of amendments/qualifying amendments are ever going to culturally, socially, and legally equalise race relations, the repeal of them, is going to move it further backwards. I say this as a person of colour. That does not mean ron paul followers are “racist” but they certainly overwhelmingly skew white and right. For a purported civil libertarian, there is nothing civil nor libertarian about relagating race relations back 100 years.

  • Adaugeo

    Instead of focusing on newsletters from 20-30 years ago that he doesn’t stand behind, how about looking at his more than two decades of voting which stand for ending war, increasing liberty and freedom, and reducing the size and budget of the federal government? If you like war, enslavement, and big brother style government, vote for somebody else.

    Paul’s got my vote.

  • Camron Wiltshire

    Jin it appears you have an agenda to promote.  At least try to make rational sense when you do so.  Dr. Paul is not racist and your asking how any of Spam’s comments are demonstrably false is racist and offensive.  I too am a person of color (peach and sometimes tan ;P ) and I believe that playing the race card and presenting that Dr. Paul is racist when  he is absolutely not is completely misleading and disingenuous.  You can say whatever you want but it doesn’t make it true.  Dr. Paul would do much more to help minorities and anyone else abused by the system as it stands now.  Especially regarding the unfair exploitation of the entire judicial system (statistically proven time and again) by releasing non violent drug offenders.  He is not racist and insinuating so is racist on your part.  What does it matter that “white” and “right” support him, guess what that is most of the country.  Should we therefore not support someone simply because a majority of people of a certain “color” (white is not some monolithic group by the way, your own issues with race are belied in such presuppositions) happen to support him?  What of Obama, would it make logical sense for someone who is not a “a person of color” (by your own definition not mine) to not immediately support Obama because “people of color” do?  Wouldn’t you see the racist paradigm prevailing in that persons thought processes?   

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  • Jin (仁)

    lol, camron, i can’t even respond to your latest bullshit. you sound more like glenn beck with your reverse racism charge than st. paul. good luck with your campaign. peace, Jin

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