Do The Roniacs Really Know Who They’re Supporting?

You couldn’t walk a street in New Hampshire without seeing a Ron Paul sign of a Ron Paul contingent. I’ve always liked Ron Paul, ever since I interviewed him when he was the 1988 Libertarian Party candidate for president. So, I’m troubled that some unsavory information has come out concerning the newsletters he wrote a few decades ago. I posted about this recently. Now, James Kirchick at the New Republic has a more extensive look into Paul’s history, including this passage:

From his newsletters, however, a different picture of Paul emerges–that of someone who is either himself deeply embittered or, for a long time, allowed others to write bitterly on his behalf. His adversaries are often described in harsh terms: Barbara Jordan is called “Barbara Morondon,” Eleanor Holmes Norton is a “black pinko,” Donna Shalala is a “short lesbian,” Ron Brown is a “racial victimologist,” and Roberta Achtenberg, the first openly gay public official confirmed by the United States Senate, is a “far-left, normal-hating lesbian activist.” Maybe such outbursts mean Ron Paul really is a straight-talker. Or maybe they just mean he is a man filled with hate.

And this:

Another:

Think Progress has more, such as:

On David Duke: “Our priority should be to take the anti-government, anti-tax, anti-crime, anti-welfare loafers, anti-race privilege, anti-foreign meddling message of Duke, and enclose it in a more consistent package of freedom.”

On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “[A] comsymp, if not an actual party member, and the man who replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.”

On African-Americans: “I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming.”

On Gays: “Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.