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Old 11-13-2007, 08:40 AM
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Default Re: ***Official Ron Paul video thread***

Josem,

Peace.

In any event:

So I went and actually started reading the RP thread there. Even they know Ron Paul is not a white supremist. Some of them talk specifically about his libertarianism being completely at odds with National Socialism (which apparently only a few of them support? The rest seem to be vaguely angry and resentful bitter white guys of the "Well then why can't we have WHITE Entertainment Television? Huh? Huh?!?" variety).

There's about 6 months of posting from a core group of what looks to be several dozen people who like Paul for various misguided reasons. He wants to tighten boarder security because illegal immigration is overwhelming social services at gigantic cost (an issue I disagree with him on, by the way; the answer is to stop handing out money and people will stop lining up with their hands out; I gather Paul feels this is politically impossible); they want to keep the dirty brown people out. He wants to stop foreign aid; they think "Including Israel!" They're generally gun owners and he is pro-2nd Amendment. He's against hate crime legislation, so are they. There's a smattering of people who seem to know something about small government, constitutional, financial and economic issues (constitutionalism, gold standard, Fed, etc.), but it's all whacked out by TEH JOOZ! (they own all the banks and the media apparently; here I thought it was the state that handed out the licenses, turns out it was TEH JOOZ! all along).

I couldn't look through the whole thread, but they seem to either not know or ignore the fact that several of Paul's personal heroes were Jewish (OMG I lost track of how many times someone said "Jewliani" in that thread), or that he thinks they, as racists, are collectivists with a perverted worldview. In fact I didn't see anyone quote or link to anything Paul has actually *written* about anything at all. Interestingly, I did see at the very end someone say, essentially, "Dudes, you are not helping. Everyone hates you. Support someone else."

It is REALLY unfortunate from a RP PR standpoint that one of the guys that has decided to support Paul is the owner/admin of the website, as they have banner ads up (already mentioned) and have even stickied the RP thread. Ugh.

adanthar mentioned that the thread is 570 pages long. It is. However, that isn't 570 2+2 pages. It's 10 posts per page, still that's 5700 posts. However, when you contrast the 5700 posts that these few dozen people have made over six months to just one of the main grassroots Paul support sites, like www.ronpaulforums.com, which has in excess of 30,000 threads, several hundred thousand posts, and many thousands of registered users, and consider that there are multiple such sites operating, it is obvious that these guys are a tiny fraction of Paul supporters.
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