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‘Occupy’ protesters interrupt Ron Paul: ‘Why do you hate gays?’
As part of their promise to “go big,” protesters with the 99 Percent movement have been interrupting campaign-related events all over Iowa in the week leading up to the nation’s first major presidential candidate selection contest, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul was not given an exception. During a rally with…
National Organization for Marriage attacks ‘radical’ Ron Paul with Iowa ad
Making good on its threat to target Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R), the New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage has released an advertisement in Iowa that brands him a “radical” who is unwilling to defend traditional marriage. “There’s five days left,” Brian Brown, president of NOM, told the New York…
Stormfront founder: Ron Paul’s views ‘coincide with ours’ on most issues
Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) received an unwanted endorsement on Tuesday when Don Black, the founder of the white nationalist group Stormfront, told The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur that he supported Paul’s presidential candidacy. Paul has recently been plagued by racist, hate-filled newsletters that were published under his name.…
Poll: Ron Paul poised to win Iowa caucuses
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), once labeled nothing more than a “gadfly” by a former Bush strategist, has emerged as the GOP’s leading candidate in the crucial Iowa caucuses, the first post-Christmas poll to be published this year has found. With the nation’s first primary vote just six days away, Paul…
Ron Paul: The Manic Pixie Dream Candidate
There's a temptation for progressives to entertain Ron Paul as a serious alternative to Obama, primarily because Ron Paul is very, very serious about getting rid of a couple of major federal programs that progressives tend to hate: namely, our War on Some People's Terror and our War on Some…
Former staffer: Ron Paul ‘wishes the Israeli state did not exist’
Former Ron Paul campaign and Congressional staffer Eric Dondero issued a statement to Right Wing News today denying that his former boss is racist, homophobic or anti-Semitic as part of a larger attack on what Dondero terms Paul’s “isolationism” and his position on the war in Afghanistan and the state…
Merry Christmas!
I'll be spending my holiday doing my taxes, because my idea of "day off" is "day off of doing my job to get shit done that I wouldn't otherwise." Also, eating enchiladas and watching "Kill Bill". All of which means, no blogging. (Though I can't seem to pry my ass…
Ron Paul blames ‘ghost writers’ for racist newsletters
In an apology for racist newsletters that went out under his name twenty years ago, GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s campaign issued a statement on Friday acknowledging that Paul had been guilty of a “lack of oversight” and should have paid more attention to the “ghost writers” who were responsible…
Occam’s Razor, Ron Paul edition
Okay, so Rachel Maddow did a segment on Ron Paul's newsletter and the outrageous racism he spewed from it for years: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The evidence is straightforward: These racist rants were signed by Paul, in a newsletter that claimed to…
In ad for newsletter, Ron Paul forecast ‘race war’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A direct-mail solicitation for Ron Paul’s political and investment newsletters two decades ago warned of a “coming race war in our big cities” and of a “federal-homosexual cover-up” to play down the impact of AIDS. The eight-page letter, which appears to carry Paul’s signature at the end,…
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