I keep reading here that Ron Paul is a bigot, a racist, and a nutcase

In most cases, no one is giving examples of what makes him so.

Could the people who know what makes Ron Paul a racist and nutcase please elaborate for those like me who don't know very much about him, other than he's very much outspoken against Bush and the war? Thanks in advance.

White supremacy.

A few more words: no govt spending for social programs
or for people who are needy or under-represented.

It really isnt fair.

I can judge them for it. He doesn't have to cash the check.

in fairness, his view of government is that it should be limited and financially responsible.

He does recognize that many people are dependent on government today, and that is unlikely to change.So he is not in favor of pulling the rug out from all social safety net.

So he would prefer to cut spending on military adventurism abroad, and then focus on balancing the budget in terms of domestic programs.

All Paul for President threads should be removed from Democratic Underground.

:)

She was friends with one of Paul's daughters in high school.

He is not a racist. He does have many Libertarian views that lefties would (and should) opposed. As far as showing him respect anyway, as my wife puts it, "Which is worse, a Republican who says he wants to eliminate the Department of Education, or a Republican who says he wants to leave 'no child behind' and then destroys education?"

"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action,"


“Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal,”

“we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.”

""We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such."

"What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?"

"By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government"

http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1996_1343749

:sarcasm:

to end federal Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and welfare, and who wishes to close the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the EPA, FEMA, the CIA, the FBI, the IRS, and the Federal Reserve.

He also believes "that the Bible is the infallible, inerrant word of God and thus it is not the role of God-ordained civil government, at any level, to feed, house, clothe or educate anybody." And he wants to teach creationism in schools.

about African-Americans that were out and out racist quite a few years ago. More recently- in fact presently- he's feeding xenophobia with his comments about illegal aliens from Mexico and SA. In addition, he's taken money from one of the leading white supremacists and refused to return it. The guy he took money from is the owner of Stormfront.

Wanting to amend the constitution to declare that life begins at conception is pretty nutty. I can't imagine anyone here would disagree. He also is against corporate regulation, opposed to OSHA and the EPA.

"The right of an innocent, unborn child to life is at the heart of the American ideals of liberty. My professional and legislative record demonstrates my strong commitment to this pro-life principle.

In 40 years of medical practice, I never once considered performing an abortion, nor did I ever find abortion necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman.

In Congress, I have authored legislation that seeks to define life as beginning at conception, HR 1094.

I am also the prime sponsor of HR 300, which would negate the effect of Roe v Wade by removing the ability of federal courts to interfere with state legislation to protect life. This is a practical, direct approach to ending federal court tyranny which threatens our constitutional republic and has caused the deaths of 45 million of the unborn."

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/life-and-liberty/

Taking away the right of choice. Women must be too ignorant to decide
what to do with their own body. If that is the truth than every woman
in the US needs a handler.

Kucinich was a loyal anti-choicer up until he started running for president.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1649

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3711130&mesg_id=3751697

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3711130&mesg_id=3712054

And this is a very long blog piece about him from Orcinus

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/11/dark-side-of-paul-phenomenon.html

Advocates for withdrawl from NATO and the U.N.

Opposes NAFTA and the WTO on the grounds that it regulates trade TOO much...

Opposes birthright citizenship

Has pledged to NEVER raise taxes, advocates doing away with the federal income tax...

Advocates for funding the federal government using excise taxes and tarriffs...

Advocates abolishing most federal agencies...

Advocates abolishing the Federal Reserve...

Advocates abolishing all forms of welfare...

Opposes all forms of Gun Control...

Pro-Life...advocates the overturning of Roe v. Wade...

Favors allowing workers to opt-out of Social Security

Advocates jury nullification...

As to his racial views...here is an op-ed he wrote in relation to the race riots in L.A. follwoing the Rodney King beating




He is attractive to some on the left because he opposes an interventionist foreign policy, the war on drugs, and would make definition of marriage a state matter...

it's in the Constitution.

Ron Paul: Strictly in favor of the Constitution, except for when it defends minority rights.

In addition to all his foibles listed above, he wants 'that old time religion' in all schools, most public schools abolished in favor of home schooling, the mandated immunizstions for the common childhood diseases: Polio, tetnus, typhoid, diptheria, whooping cough and the like to be eliminated. This from a doctor. Must have gone to a Texas school to get this sort of background.

Those childhood immunizations have kept generations alive since they first became available in the late 30s/early 40s.

His support not only comes from the skinhead types of stormtrooper, but also from the megachurches in his part of Texas.

Someone mentioned L. LaRouche...yeah, RP is in the same mold.

RP is a Liberty Libertarian Fundie who wishes to impose HIS brand of insanity on the rest of us.