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Paul is called racist due to remarks made in some of his newsletters, back in the '80s, like the following (source is The Weekly Standard):

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Though particular articles rarely carried a byline, the vast majority were written in the first person, while the title of the newsletter, in its various iterations, always featured Paul’s name: Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Political Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report, and the Ron Paul Investment Letter. What I found was unpleasant.

“Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks,” read a typical article from the June 1992 “Special Issue on Racial Terrorism,” a supplement to the Ron Paul Political Report. Racial apocalypse was the most persistent theme of the newsletters; a 1990 issue warned of “The Coming Race War,” and an article the following year about disturbances in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was entitled “Animals Take Over the D.C. Zoo.” Paul alleged that Martin Luther King Jr., “the world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours,” had also “seduced underage girls and boys.” The man who would later proclaim King a “hero” attacked Ronald Reagan for signing legislation creating the federal holiday in his name, complaining, “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”

He's also famous for conspiracy theories, for example:

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In a March 2009 interview, Paul entertained Jones’s claim that NORTHCOM, the U.S. military’s combatant command for North America, is “taking over” the country. “The average member of Congress probably isn’t a participant in the grand conspiracy,” Paul reassured the fevered host, essentially acknowledging that such a conspiracy exists. “We need to take out the CIA."

I've read the article you cited. If these things are true, where ARE the journalists that should be investigating and publishing this?

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Paul alleged that Martin Luther King Jr., “the world-class philanderer

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ORIGINAL: ClassIsInSession

I never said anything about Keynes and Anarcho-capitalism being the only two schools of economics, and actually Ron Paul hails from the Austrian viewpoint. To suggest I was saying that is just intellectually dishonest.

As to returning to a gold standard, you wouldn't need to use gold, you could back it with any commodity, however, the primary thing Ron Paul suggests is that competing currencies should be allowed. There are a lot of gross generalizations from people who obviously haven't taken the time to read what Ron actually says, and he says quite a lot that is readily available.

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Hard to argue that point...but to say that he's crazy because he aspires to it (or at least, backing our money with something real....tangible)....hardly makes him a nut case as others have suggested.

Just a question. If we are on a gold standard, and a huge find is discovered in a country like Tanzania in 2009, what happens?

Tazzy, then we raise the price of everything we sell to Tanzania.
Now, after all the CRAP from Dems and Repubs I'm more than willing to try something new!
ALL of the problems we have today have been caused by D's and R's.
And all the presidents in the last 20 years have gotten worse and worse so that now we have the worst president in modern history.
Let's give Ron Paul a shot, it sounds like he has some good ideas!

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That idea worries me pops. What happens if gold floods the markets? I do have other issues with him, but this one truly just perplexes me.

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That idea worries me pops. What happens if gold floods the markets? I do have other issues with him, but this one truly just perplexes me.

Then that would be a "good" thing, anything that crashes this "global economy" is a good thing.
Of course the big corporations don't want that to happen.
Funny thing is, it wouldn't really affect the little guy just the big guys like them thus their strident defense of this "global economy."
Do you believe an insurance salesman who tells you his product is going to make your life better?
Don't believe big corporations either, they're out for their own interests not ours.
We need to throw them the hell out of Washington.

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What is it about Ron Paul? I don't know. I have noticed, however, that the sickening majority of his supporters are very focused on his liberal stance on marijuana. To the point that they really don't think about anything else. It's first and foremost on their minds. And they really don't seem to care much about any of his other policies and ideas, as long as they are able to legally get blazed. Most of them seem just a tad TOO pre-occupied with this single point for me to not be concerned about their ability to vote. Now, I don't really give a half a shit either way on that point (other than medical use, which I am entirely in favour of), but even if I did, I don't think that's the biggest thing we should be looking at as a political stance right now in this country.

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His big ideas will not involve any change in the tax favoritism and spigot to big business.

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Tell us............ how bad is 4500 young American GIs killed............over a lie(s)?

At least Paul wouldn`t have mislead us into war, like your other party leaders would have/did.

And he certainly wouldn`t have leaked a CIA agent`s ID to our enemies like your party leaders did.

There really are cock-suckers who deserve to be pissed on in public over their conduct.

Sorry...... that your delicate sensibilities are ruffled so. Not.

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Paul is called racist due to remarks made in some of his newsletters, back in the '80s, like the following (source is The Weekly Standard):

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Though particular articles rarely carried a byline, the vast majority were written in the first person, while the title of the newsletter, in its various iterations, always featured Paul’s name: Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Political Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report, and the Ron Paul Investment Letter. What I found was unpleasant.

“Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks,” read a typical article from the June 1992 “Special Issue on Racial Terrorism,” a supplement to the Ron Paul Political Report. Racial apocalypse was the most persistent theme of the newsletters; a 1990 issue warned of “The Coming Race War,” and an article the following year about disturbances in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was entitled “Animals Take Over the D.C. Zoo.” Paul alleged that Martin Luther King Jr., “the world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours,” had also “seduced underage girls and boys.” The man who would later proclaim King a “hero” attacked Ronald Reagan for signing legislation creating the federal holiday in his name, complaining, “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”

He's also famous for conspiracy theories, for example:

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In a March 2009 interview, Paul entertained Jones’s claim that NORTHCOM, the U.S. military’s combatant command for North America, is “taking over” the country. “The average member of Congress probably isn’t a participant in the grand conspiracy,” Paul reassured the fevered host, essentially acknowledging that such a conspiracy exists. “We need to take out the CIA."

I've read the article you cited. If these things are true, where ARE the journalists that should be investigating and publishing this?

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ORIGINAL: hlen5

I found some of Paul's points of view to be valid. Finding out that as late as 1992 (vs 1962) he's making racist comments totally blows his credibility with me.

(For the record, I don't think that statement would have been OK in '62, either.)

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I found some of Paul's points of view to be valid. Finding out that as late as 1992 (vs 1962) he's making racist comments totally blows his credibility with me.

(For the record, I don't think that statement would have been OK in '62, either.)

More research...those weren't his words.

How may times have you heard people tell you what you said....only to find it wasn't (even close)?

Research.  Homework.

It's the one thing that separates us from Rhesus Monkeys.This election is key.

JJ

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Gold, iron, lead, all metals, are extremely rare in the universe--which is mostly hydrogen.  This is because stars turn hydrogen into heavier elements, like metals.  Gold has a distinction of being created during supernovas.