Comrade Wonkette, Have You Heard . . .
By Erick Posted in 2008 — Comments (14) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
That the Fourth Reich Ron Paul took money from neo-nazis and has trouble deciding whether or not to give it back?
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thing. There are precedents.
Erick,
I have to say that I am extremely disappointed in you. As someone who has tried to reasonably support Paul for his libertarian ideas, I have been as frustrated as anyone and probably more than most with drive-by spamming Paul supporters. That said, the suggestion of this post, i.e. that Paul is in any way affiliated with white supremicists, is appauling (no pun intended). If I were to scour the contribution lists of every other Republican candidate, I am certain that I could find people with whom those given candidates would rather not be associated. Politicians can't review the records of every contributor, and there will always be people contributing for the wrong reasons. You know that. Do you really want the records of every contributor to every Republican scoured for the handful of people like this? If so, you should be prepared to lose a boatload of seats with rediculous suggestions that have no basis in reality, not unlike Sen. Brownback's attack of Rep. Tancredo's pro-life credentials from a few months back or this "story". You may have intended for this to be "anti-spamming", but you're really opening up what could prove to be a Pandora's box by giving any credibility to such minutia.
A normal candidate who had received $500 from a white supremacist would take two seconds to decide to either return the donation or give it to some minority oriented charity.
“I think we are the team to beat in the NL East -- finally.” - Jimmy "MVP" Rollins, 1/23/07
People working on campaigns are busy, and different people have different levels of authority to comment on any given subject. Having worked in an organization that was involved in politics, there were things I was allowed to say and other things on which I'd have to ask about. In some cases, those things seemed like easy answers, but I hadn't been given the answers, so I couldn't immediately provide them. If my boss was busy doing all of the things his work entailed, I'd have to say, "I'll get back to you," simply because, although a given decision may seem simple, I was not in a position to offer an official response. I would expect that the same thing happened here. If white supremicists started raising money for a Republican nominee against Barack Obama, it would be rediculous to expect that the GOP nominee would spend all his time deciding from which people or groups money should be accepted.
He can return the donation. Or not. Sounds like he is doing the latter. Stupid move on his part.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman
Have you heard those "repugnant" losers also supported "normal candidate" GWB in 2000, and he refused to denounce their support (as well as the support David Duke)?
Why anyone would want money returned to the neo-nazis is beyond me. As far as I'm concerned, the less money the neo-nazis have, the better. Some might even say, the less publicity they have, the better, too.
This "Daisy ad" is getting tired and needs to be put to sleep. Transferring that donation to the Holocaust Museum would do it.
Here's how I see it: Every dollar the neo-nazis donate is one less dollar the neo-nazis have. And even the most rabid anti-RP people here can admit the man's not a nazi.
That being said, I wouldn't mind seeing him donate it to charity, although I don't think necessarily it has to be a minority-oriented one.
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. -P.J. O'Rourke
why the neo-Nazis did it. Are they anti-war? I'm not up to speed on white supremacist ideology, but I don't think there's anything in there about the Federal Reserve.
Given the ban on pimping Ron Paul, is this a ploy to draw out or enrage the supporters?
It's funny though since I consider the Ron Paul supporters rather annoying.