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Statement from fmr. Ron Paul staffer on Newsletters, Anti-Semitism
Written By : Eric Dondero

Fmr. Senior Aide, US Cong. Ron Paul, 1997 – 2003
Campaign Coordinator, Ron Paul for Congress, 1995/96
National Organizer, Draft Ron Paul for President, 1991/92
Travel Aide/Personal Asst. Ron Paul, Libertarian for President
1987/88

I have been asked by various media the last few days for my comments, view of the current situation regarding my former boss Ron Paul, as he runs for the presidency on the Republican ticket.

I’ve noticed in some media that my words have been twisted and used for an agenda from both sides. And I wish to set the record straight with media that I trust and know will get the story right: conservative/libertarian-conservative bloggers.

Is Ron Paul a “racist.” In short, No. I worked for the man for 12 years, pretty consistently. I never heard a racist word expressed towards Blacks or Jews come out of his mouth. Not once. And understand, I was his close personal assistant. It’s safe to say that I was with him on the campaign trail more than any other individual, whether it be traveling to Fairbanks, Alaska or Boston, Massachusetts in the presidential race, or across the congressional district to San Antonio or Corpus Christi, Texas.

He has frequently hired blacks for his office staff, starting as early as 1988 for the Libertarian campaign. He has also hired many Hispanics, including his current District staffer Dianna Gilbert-Kile.

One caveat: He is what I would describe as “out of touch,” with both Hispanic and Black culture. Ron is far from being the hippest guy around. He is completely clueless when it comes to Hispanic and Black culture, particularly Mexican-American culture. And he is most certainly intolerant of Spanish and those who speak strictly Spanish in his presence, (as are a number of Americans, nothing out of the ordinary here.)

Is Ron Paul an Anti-Semite? Absolutely No. As a Jew, (half on my mother’s side), I can categorically say that I never heard anything out of his mouth, in hundreds of speeches I listened too over the years, or in my personal presence that could be called, “Anti-Semite.” No slurs. No derogatory remarks.

He is however, most certainly Anti-Israel, and Anti-Israeli in general. He wishes the Israeli state did not exist at all. He expressed this to me numerous times in our private conversations. His view is that Israel is more trouble than it is worth, specifically to the America taxpayer. He sides with the Palestinians, and supports their calls for the abolishment of the Jewish state, and the return of Israel, all of it, to the Arabs.

Again, American Jews, Ron Paul has no problem with. In fact, there were a few Jews in our congressional district, and Ron befriended them with the specific intent of winning their support for our campaign. (One synagogue in Victoria, and tiny one in Wharton headed by a well-known Jewish lawyer).

On the incident that’s being talked about in some blog media about the campaign manager directing me to a press conference of our opponent Lefty Morris in Victoria to push back on Anti-Jewish charges from the Morris campaign, yes, that did happen. The Victoria Advocate described the press conference very accurately. Yes, I was asked (not forced), to attend the conference dressed in a Jewish yarlmuke, and other Jewish adornments.

There was another incident when Ron finally agreed to a meeting with Houston Jewish Young Republicans at the Freeport office. He berated them, and even shouted at one point, over their un-flinching support for Israel. So, much so, that the 6 of them walked out of the office. I was left chasing them down the hallway apologizing for my boss.

Is Ron Paul a homo-phobe? Well, yes and no. He is not all bigoted towards homosexuals. He supports their rights to do whatever they please in their private lives. He is however, personally uncomfortable around homosexuals, no different from a lot of older folks of his era.

There were two incidents that I will cite, for the record. One that involved me directly, and another that involved another congressional staffer or two.

(I am revealing this for the very first time, and I’m sure Jim Peron will be quite surprised to learn this.)

In 1988, Ron had a hardcore Libertarian supporter, Jim Peron, Owner of Laissez Faire Books in San Francisco. Jim set up a magnificent 3-day campaign swing for us in the SF Bay Area. Jim was what you would call very openly Gay. But Ron thought the world of him. For 3 days we had a great time trouncing from one campaign event to another with Jim’s Gay lover. The atmosphere was simply jovial between the four of us. (As an aside we also met former Cong. Pete McCloskey during this campaign trip.) We used Jim’s home/office as a “base.” Ron pulled me aside the first time we went there, and specifically instructed me to find an excuse to excuse him to a local fast food restaurant so that he could use the bathroom. He told me very clearly, that although he liked Jim, he did not wish to use his bathroom facilities. I chided him a bit, but he sternly reacted, as he often did to me, Eric, just do what I say. Perhaps “sternly” is an understatement. Ron looked at me directly, and with a very angry look in his eye, and shouted under his breath: “Just do what I say NOW.”

The second incident involved one or two other staffers many years later at the BBQ in Surfside Beach. I was not in direct presence of the incident. But another top staffer, and I believe one of our secretaries, was witnessed to it. This top staffer adores Ron, but was extremely insulted by his behavior, I would even say flabbergasted to the point of considering resigning from his staff over it.

“Bobby,” a well-known and rather flamboyant and well-liked gay man in Freeport came to the BBQ. Let me stress Ron likes Bobby personally, and Bobby was a hardcore campaign supporter. But after his speech, at the Surfside pavilion Bobby came up to Ron with his hand extended, and according to my fellow staffer, Ron literally swatted his hand away.

Again, let me stress. I would not categorize that as “homo-phobic,” but rather just unsettled by being around gays personally. Ron, like many folks his age, very much supports toleration, but chooses not to be around gays on a personal level. It’s a personal choice. And though, it may seem offensive to some, he has every right in my mind to feel and act that way.

Finally, let me make a couple observations. The liberal media is ferociously attacking Ron this morning, on everything from the Newsletters to his various PACs. I’m amused at how off-base they all are. If they are looking for something that went un-explained after many years, it’s the Nadia Hayes incident from the end of the presidential campaign in 1988. I personally am still a little ticked off by this, and surprised that nobody has ever followed up on it. In brief, Nadia was Ron’s longtime business/campaign manager in the 1980s. On the very last day of the presidential campaign, attorneys, accountants, and even Nassau Bay police dept. investigation officials stormed into our campaign office, sealed everything off, rushed us campaign staffers into the storeroom (literally), and for hours on end ruffled through the entire campaign records, file cabinets, and other papers.

Lew Rockwell and Burton Blumert were there too. We were greatly surprised by this. Nadia was eventually convicted of embezzlement and went to jail for 6 months, plus had to pay $140,000 in restitution to Ron.

There were rumors at the time, and long thereafter, that Lew and Burt had pinned it all on Nadia, and that they had their own reasons for the “coup.” For years afterwards, Rockwell, and Blumert had complete control of Ron’s enterprises through Jean McIver and (former JBS/Jesse Helms fundraiser) David “James” Mertz of northern Virginia.

It was easy to pin it all on Nadia. She lived extravagantly, and her husband who owned a boat repair business in Clear Lake, had recently had some serious financial problems.

Nadia never resurfaced, and was never heard from again.

I will attest, that when campaign consultant Tony Payton died of heart failure, in 2002 I believe, I specifically asked Ron if I could look Nadia up, and contact her to let her know that her longtime friend had died, and he reacted sternly to me, expressing that he did not want me to do that, and if I did, there would be serious consequences. I was shocked. And this was one of the reasons I eventually left his staff.

On one other matter, I’d like to express in the strongest terms possible, that the liberal media are focusing in on entirely the wrong aspects regarding controversies on Ron Paul.

It’s his foreign policy that’s the problem; not so much some stupid and whacky things on race and gays he may have said or written in the past.

Ron Paul is most assuredly an isolationist. He denies this charge vociferously. But I can tell you straight out, I had countless arguments/discussions with him over his personal views. For example, he strenuously does not believe the United States had any business getting involved in fighting Hitler in WWII. He expressed to me countless times, that “saving the Jews,” was absolutely none of our business. When pressed, he often times brings up conspiracy theories like FDR knew about the attacks of Pearl Harbor weeks before hand, or that WWII was just “blowback,” for Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy errors, and such.

I would challenge him, like for example, what about the instances of German U-boats attacking U.S. ships, or even landing on the coast of North Carolina or Long Island, NY. He’d finally concede that that and only that was reason enough to counter-attack against the Nazis, not any humanitarian causes like preventing the Holocaust.

There is much more information I could give you on the sheer lunacy of his foreign policy views. Let me just concentrate on one in specific. And I will state this with absolute certainty:

Ron Paul was opposed to the War in Afghanistan, and to any military reaction to the attacks of 9/11.

He did not want to vote for the resolution. He immediately stated to us staffers, me in particular, that Bush/Cheney were going to use the attacks as a precursor for “invading” Iraq. He engaged in conspiracy theories including perhaps the attacks were coordinated with the CIA, and that the Bush administration might have known about the attacks ahead of time. He expressed no sympathies whatsoever for those who died on 9/11, and pretty much forbade us staffers from engaging in any sort of memorial expressions, or openly asserting pro-military statements in support of the Bush administration.

On the eve of the vote, Ron Paul was still telling us staffers that he was planning to vote “No,” on the resolution, and to be prepared for a seriously negative reaction in the District. Jackie Gloor and I, along with quiet nods of agreement from the other staffers in the District, declared our intentions to Tom Lizardo, our Chief of Staff, and to each other, that if Ron voted No, we would immediately resign.

Ron was “under the spell” of left-anarchist and Lew Rockwell associate Joe Becker at the time, who was our legislative director. Norm Singleton, another Lew Rockwell fanatic agreed with Joe. All other staffers were against Ron, Joe and Norm on this, including Lizardo. At the very last minute Ron switched his stance and voted “Yay,” much to the great relief of Jackie and I. He never explained why, but I strongly suspected that he realized it would have been political suicide; that staunchly conservative Victoria would revolt, and the Republicans there would ensure that he would not receive the nomination for the seat in 2002. Also, as much as I like to think that it was my yelling and screaming at Ron, that I would publicly resign if he voted “No,” I suspect it had a lot more to do with Jackie’s threat, for she WAS Victoria. And if Jackie bolted, all of the Victoria conservatives would immediately turn on Ron, and it wouldn’t be pretty.

If you take anything from this lengthy statement, I would hope that it is this final story about the Afghanistan vote, that the liberal media chooses to completely ignore, because it doesn’t fit their template, is what you will report.

If Ron Paul should be slammed for anything, it’s not some silly remarks he’s made in the past in his Newsletters. It’s over his simply outrageously horrendous views on foreign policy, Israel, and national security for the United States. His near No vote on Afghanistan. That is the big scandal. And that is what should be given 100 times more attention from the liberal media, than this Newsletter deal.

Eric Dondero, Publisher
LibertarianRepublican.net

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  • http://www.facebook.com/maine.halyard Maine Halyard

    I guess it is impossible not to make a few enemies when one is in politics. I just did a quick google search, and another take on this that shows Eric Dondero seems to have a longstanding agenda against Ron Paul exists in another publication, Reason, in May of 2007:

    http://reason.com/blog/2007/05/22/ron-paul-on-9-11-and-eric-dond

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Candy-Smith/100002801678910 Candy Smith

      Funny, all he did was take up for Wrong Paul but you don’t realize it.

    • Anonymous

      It does cast a pall of doubt on this post. But a “longstanding agenda” seems to to be showing a bit of Kool-Aid drinking on your part.

  • Ctangemann

    Can you say “Benedict Arnold?”

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Candy-Smith/100002801678910 Candy Smith

      LOL! All he’s doing taking up for Wrong Paul.

      • Tonythebrain

        You seriously think that? Wow, watch out for those sheers.

  • Bill Dalasio

    This seems a fairly straightforward assessment.  I’d note one particular comment, “Ron was “under the spell” of left-anarchist and Lew Rockwell associate Joe Becker at the time…” This is the sort of thing that seems a pattern with Paul.  I don’t want a President who has a habit of falling under the “spell” of various gurus.

    • aelf held

      Like Newticles®?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Knight/100000088685384 David Knight

      The phrase “falling under the spell” might make you question the objectivity of Eric Dondero. 

    • Anonymous

      It’s like Joe Stalin falling under the spell of Adolf Hitler, signing the Ribbentrop Pact and supplying the invasion of Europe. What’s next, falling under Barry Bambam’s spell and getting to be Secretary of State Surrender to Islam for splitting the Repub’s vote?

      • Bill Dalasio

        That’s absurd.  Ron Paul is not Joseph Stalin.  

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

        Adolf was Jewish, who taught him.

    • Anonymous

      It’s like Joe Stalin falling under the spell of Adolf Hitler, signing the Ribbentrop Pact and supplying the invasion of Europe. What’s next, falling under Barry Bambam’s spell and getting to be Secretary of State Surrender to Islam for splitting the Repub’s vote?

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

      You mean the Israeli and antiAmerican gurus, then you’re right, he does not have a habit of doing that. But we American and U.S. loving people knew this wave nazi and antsemi attack would come when we say, no foreign aid and no more blood letting from Americans lives. Now we are getting the Israel to Palestinian treatment. Stomp, stomp, stomp. Funny how their tactics are so much like their middle east cousins. American money for Americans first. American lives for this country only. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Candy-Smith/100002801678910 Candy Smith

    When you say “half Jewish”…that’s like saying “half Baptist”. Judaism is a religion, while racists cosnsider it a race. Either you’re Jewish or you’re not. There have been cases where Jews leave Judaism and join the Nazi party. I imagine you’re one of these types if you think Wrong Paul isn’t a racist and anti-Semite. Wrong Paul put his name on a Newsletter, and it’s hard to imagine that he not only had no idea what was being written in it, but never bothered to read it. Anyone who is “anti-Zionist” is really an anti-Semite. You failed to mention Wrong Paul’s ties to the John Birch Society…which is an basically the KKK in a tuxedo. Nice attemot trying to cover for Wrong Paul, but it didn’t work. When you wrote that part about Wrong Paul not wanting Hitler to save the Jews and act like it was out of isolationism rather than anti-Semitism, you must have written that with your tounge jammed firmly in your cheek. Well, you can go back to your self loathing now.

    • http://twitter.com/sj660 sj660

      No.

      Half-Jewish a common term used by Jews, even though anyone born to a Jewish mother is halakhically Jewish, especially who is in an intermarried family.

      You can be anti-Zionist and not an antisemite too, but it’s just that the modality of most antisemitism today is expressed through anti-Zionism. But in Paul’s case it is.

      He clearly thinks the world should have stood by even more than it did during the Holocaust. No country would take the refugees. Yes, the war ultimately stopped the Holocaust, but only after 6,000,000 had died. Now Paul suggests that we uproot Israel. Does he suggest we bring the Israelis here?

      Of course not. He thinks we should just standby and let another 6,000,000 Jews die, while, of course, fully protecting the “liberty” (whatever that means) of the rest already here.

      If that’s not antisemitism then we need a new word for whatever “passively allowing genocide of Jews” means.

      • Bill Dalasio

        But in Paul’s case it is.

        For crying out loud.  The guy who knows him, has argued with him and is pointing out how bad his views are is saying he isn’t an anti-semite.  Why try to read the guy’s mind when the people who’ve interacted with him say, no he isn’t?  The guy can have foolish, short-sighted views without malice.

        • aelf held

          “But I have Jewish/Black/Gay friends.”

          Been there, heard that, didn’t believe it then, don’t believe it now.

          • Bill Dalasio

            But Paul isn’t the guy claiming this.  It is a guy criticizing him, who has run against him for his seat claiming this.  If Paul were anti-semitic, Dondero would have every reason to expose him as such.  He explicitly denies it.  I’ll take that over the logic of “Everyone who takes some set of political positions must be anti-semitic.  Paul takes such positions.  Ergo Paul is anti-semitic.”

        • Bob D

          Agree 100%. David “bomb Iran” Frum is the one Dondero is referring to in having his words twisted to make Ronbo sound like a racist. I never thought much of Dondero because he is a warmonger and an enemy of Ron Paul. But he has shown with this article he is an ethical warmonger.

        • john s

          Because his argument is not convincing. I doubt there can be any moral argument that saving the jews was none of the US’ business unless the jews were less than human. The suggestion that Israel is not worth the trouble must also be based either on jew hatred or on the belief that the US has no obligations to it’s friends and allies (which i think sums up Mr Paul’s policies and which, in my opinion will result in the US having no friends or allies left in the world). Take your pick.

          • Bill Dalasio

            But, again, your argument is a circular one:  
            “No one can can hold these views unless they are a bigot”
            “Wait, Ron Paul holds these views and he’s not a bigot.”
            “Yes he is.”
            “How so?”
            “Well, he holds these views.”
            That’s an absurdity and I would hope you would be smarter than that.  The fact is that there are genocides and attempted genocides happening all the time that the U.S. doesn’t intervene in.  The question of whether we have an obligation to devote our blood and treasure to rectify atrocities that don’t directly involve our citizens is one where plenty of non-anti-semites have come down against intervention.

      • Captainshays

        I believe that the Lord protects the Jews/Israel not the United States. If you want to belive otherwise because you have no faith that will be up to you

    • Bob D

      Hey candy, semite is a race not a religion. check the bible. in using anti semite anti zionist and Judaism interchangably you are defeating your own arguement. 

      • Anonymous

        Actually, Semite is not a race. Arabs and many smaller groups are also Semitic, but many Jews would chafe at the idea that they are all the same race. Semite simply describes a language group. Jews can be members of any race. This is because people from any area can join the Jewish religion.

        • Anonymous

           ”This is because people from any area can join the Jewish religion”

          Not according to the marriage and citizenship laws of Israel.

          • john s

            Not true, the prosciption does not prevent palestinians from taking up the jewish faith, (though it would be bad for them in palestinian lands) it prevents them from gaining israeli citizenship by doing so (esp through marriage). There is no Israeli law against conversion to judaism.  However, if you would like to discuss the myriad laws and punishments for people in arab countries who do business with, or sell land to Israelis just let me know.

          • Anonymous

            Why are Israelis so mean to the African Jews, who want to settle in Israel? They are Jews. why won’t Israel allow them thier lawful right to move into Israel?

    • Anonymous

      Errr..Jews consider Jews a Race, as well. Want a gadjillion examples?

    • Captainshays

      I know a lot of Birchers and NONE of them are anti Jewish, anti Israel, racist in ANY way and I am proud to know those people. They are ALL the patriots that we should be.

  • http://twitter.com/lesterhalfjr Chris Hadrick

    I’m impressed with this because the author isn’t using the newletters to piggyback his other problems with Paul the way some oithers are. At the same time, his characterization of paul’s foreign policy is much less nuanced than his other descriptions. Most people understand that the Treaty of Versailles was a driving factor in the rise of Hitler and the inevitability of WW2, it’s not a conspiracy theory!

    and Paul suggesting Afghanistan was going to lead to Iraq ended up being prescient. In fact, the reason Paul is out there at all probably has most to do with his being against the Iraq war which has been a 10/10 on the disaster scale disaster. Dondero is also somewhat negligent in presenting himself as simply more hawkish than Paul. I’ve read his blog and he is very very hawkish. I read one column where after which he engaged in a debate with a commenter that had him egging the guy on and insulting him for being a “pussy” or something. His tone was nothing like this particular column.

    Like many republicans he disagrees with Pauls foreign policy. No law against that. 

    • http://twitter.com/sj660 sj660

      This article doesn’t really “get it” for reasons you’ve begun to talk about.

      The problem with the newsletters isn’t whether you or I or someone else disagree with them, or whether they are a figment of the liberal media’s imagination (they aren’t). The problem is that these writings are an electoral disaster whether you think they should be or not.

      The author may have no problem with the newsletters and may disagree with Paul’s foreign policy, but he has it just about exactly bass ackwards when it comes to what matters in a general election.

      If you are looking to make a statement—and at this point, I’m not sure what that statement is, exactly—then just look past all of this stuff. If you want to win, forget Paul.

      • http://twitter.com/lesterhalfjr Chris Hadrick

        doesn’t seem to be affecting him in the polls much.

        • guest

          When you go Ron you don’t go back…

          • aelf held

            Not without some fairly strong psychotropic meds. Paranoid schizophrenia is a bitch-kitty to manage.

          • http://www.vitaminlawyer.com/ Ralph Fucetola JD

            Again, inappropriate comment to accuse Ron Paul’s supporters of needing psychiatric intervention. This is the mind-set we saw in the never-to-be-lamented former USSR, where psychiatry was misused to suppress unorthodox views.

            see:  http://www.HealthKeepersOath.org

          • http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

            And, there we go with a Ronulan proclaiming any opposition is like the bad old Soviet Union.

            But, yeah, Ralph, you Ronulans do need some sort of psychiatric intervention, preferably meds. You’re all fanatics about Paul. For goodness sakes, he’s a frigging politician. You should reserve that type of fanaticism for your wives and children.

  • Ruprecht67

    This says he’s wacko on foreign policy and pretty much everyone already knows that. If you like Ron Paul you’ve mentally processed that and it won’t change your mind. There really is nothing here.

    • http://twitter.com/sj660 sj660

      Right. What is here is a window into the mind of someone who thinks that just because they aren’t personally offended by the newsletters that no one else will be. Quo vadis, “liberty”?

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  • Jonathan Bowen

    Eric Dondero was fired by Ron Paul. Eric Dondero then ran against Ron Paul and got trounced. Eric Dondero’s real name is Eric Rittberg. Eric Dondero obviously has an agenda so take his comments with a grain of salt. The spelling and grammatical mistakes don’t help his credibility.

    • http://twitter.com/lesterhalfjr Chris Hadrick

      it’s a generally positive article though.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Knight/100000088685384 David Knight

      Thanks for pointing out motivation.

    • fredgues

      Very interesting to know it.  And Ron Paul will make a big hit in Jan . He is the one .

    • Nathaniel Lack

      Challenge him on his facts or lack thereof. Challenging his credibility based on his spelling is ludicrous. Unless you can prove what this guy has said as patently false or if he did NOT have the jobs he says he had and the access to Paul he says he had, then his word is better than any of yours.

      • Gajalocke

        go ahead and believe a lie and be damned.

      • G-mat

        Mr. Nathanial “Ron-Paulista” Lack – RP called Bachman a Muslim hater without proof. I see no challenge from the Ron-Paulistas. Like the pot calling the kettle black, only us non-Ron-Paulistas know the truth. You’ve been in denial your whole life.

      • G-mat

        Mr. Nathanial “Ron-Paulista” Lack – RP called Bachman a Muslim hater without proof. I see no challenge from the Ron-Paulistas. Like the pot calling the kettle black, only us non-Ron-Paulistas know the truth. You’ve been in denial your whole life.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

        I say ignore him other than pointing out him lying about his name. We should not have to waste resources addressing what he has voided. Our response should only be “How much truth can a man who lies about his name, say?” We should not help this miserable kind by letting in any of the stench he’s pumping out escape–let him keep it inside his pants.  

      • D-Mat

        Then again, I wanted to vote for him until I discovered the newsletters. In the end I’m just staying home this upcoming year. 

        • Annwkingsley

          Perhaps you should work on your consistency, one of Ron Paul’s best attributes. The newsletters were an expose of truth, not racism. If Whites continue to allow other Whites to persecute them as Racists for telling the truth then we as a society are totally lost. When I looked up Martin Luther King on the internet in response to the claims made in the Newsletters, I discovered much to the shame of my country and its many streets named for Martin Luther King, that Martin Luther King was a total fraud. I’m with Thom Thurman, we need to introduce bills everywhere to rename all of those streets. It is embarrassing to our nation to maintain the status quo.

          This made me believe that all of Dondero’s supposed expose is garbage.

      • Thediscernists

        There’s no way to deny or affirm what this guy is saying. You are all just doing one or the other based on what you want to believe.  I prefer to let a man condemn himself with his own words and actions. Not what someone else says, or writes. None of us will ever know what these guys are like behind closed doors. We only have their public record. Paul has made very clear his beliefs through a very consistent public record. Based on this, intelligent people will decide whether or not to support him.

      • Thediscernists

        There’s no way to deny or affirm what this guy is saying. You are all just doing one or the other based on what you want to believe.  I prefer to let a man condemn himself with his own words and actions. Not what someone else says, or writes. None of us will ever know what these guys are like behind closed doors. We only have their public record. Paul has made very clear his beliefs through a very consistent public record. Based on this, intelligent people will decide whether or not to support him.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t completely agree with Dondero.  He is entirely too dismissive of Ron Paul’s contempt for the civil rights of anyone who is not male, white, straight and conservative.   If Paul’s desire to repeal the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 were acted, we would return to racial segregation in the U.S.  Nor is referring to black people as “animals” exactly unbiased.  Ron Paul IS a racist.  It doesn’t require referring to people by the n-word as Dondero seems to think.

      But, saying he is discredited because he eventually left Paul’s employ is ludicrous.  In fact, it sounds like Dondero put up with a very unpleasant employer for a very long time.   The article should be considered on its substance, not the fact Paul and Dondero eventually parted ways.  

      • Nibarger John

        Lol….bull. he is agaisnt special interests or categorixation. He is for real individual liberty and equality

      • Gajalocke

        you are brainwashed by this satanic article and writer so go ahead and believe the lies and be damned.

      • Mmreesul

         I remember being a child in the Maryland suburbs of DC when the civil rights legislation came to be…  Not that I knew that at the time, or understood —  only that suddenly, a handful of black children started attending a previously mostly white elementary school.  But they had about an hour long bus ride to get to and from the school each day, and suddenly had to make new friends in a strange place. 

        It may be that people of that day opposed the actual legislation which imposed government solutions, while still supporting corrections to wrongs from voting to employment, compassion for those in need, and improving the futures of all…  just not “as done by government” programs. 

        None of the children had a voice about their play time being taken away by bus rides or being so far from family and friends as little kids.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t completely agree with Dondero.  He is entirely too dismissive of Ron Paul’s contempt for the civil rights of anyone who is not male, white, straight and conservative.   If Paul’s desire to repeal the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 were acted, we would return to racial segregation in the U.S.  Nor is referring to black people as “animals” exactly unbiased.  Ron Paul IS a racist.  It doesn’t require referring to people by the n-word as Dondero seems to think.

      But, saying he is discredited because he eventually left Paul’s employ is ludicrous.  In fact, it sounds like Dondero put up with a very unpleasant employer for a very long time.   The article should be considered on its substance, not the fact Paul and Dondero eventually parted ways.  

    • AaronHorvitz

      Who cares? He puts R. Paul at the same time and place as known racists during a long time span. We should see soon if these associations are now verifiable. If so, the campaign is dead and sunk. He will be proven a liar.

    • Jwden123

       Your accusations don’t hold water. He worked for a very unpleasant man for years and left when he had enough.  You don’t have any facts to refute anything he says and your comment about spelling is ridiculous.  So who has the agenda? It sounds to me like you do.   

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GDXMFXL33U4VV43VYUYL4QKHXE Orion1

        The Judenpresse is sucking it up, eh Jwden?

      • Aurelius_va

        if RP was so unpleasent for so long then why did eric work for him for so long?  why not quit and follow your political goals with someone that fits your ideals more?

        this guy is nothing more than a disgruntled ex employee.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EP3GFSQFJQOYJ5DGWM4RCEAOZI Cecil

      @749e96fb306d823c7106946d29c0d4ea:disqus If you are referring to his Race to validate his lack of veracity based on his article, I think everyone here should take what you say as a grain of salt.  And while we are on the subject of Race, if you represent your Race as having a better argument of others, you did a lousy job.  Next time, apply some thought process to you’re comments before expressing it. 
      Dondero, regardless of your prejudice of him, made some valid points and expressed Paul’s version of 9-11 that most American’s (although not openly), express the same views and why not?  The constant wave of US Policies that don’t reflect some sort of thought process would encourage people to believe in such conspiracies-even if one doesn’t exist. Iraq-wether you believe it was justifiable or not, was a mess from the start.  I don’t know too much about Dondero or what his issues are-outside of his article, but he spoke up, made some points and made it clear what were the positive and negative relationship in regards to Ron Paul, from the very beginning.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

        Even a grain of salt gives it too much weight.  He’s farting and want to see who smells it.  His full name ends in E…D…Rittberg.  He’s lying about his own name–where’s the truth when he can’t admit to what he is–people who uses propaganda disrespect the people they are trying to push it on–that’s all of us.  Someone should put him in a glass bubble and let him inhale his own farts. 

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1316111692 Wolfman Jones

      So, Dondero/Rittberg is yet another Jew talking trash about Ron paul. The international Jew bankers and Jews heads of international war profiteering corporations are really running scared this time, and digging DEEP!!!

      • 12

        blaa blaa do you foam out of your mouth when you talk, the fact this cancer called Ron Paul even got as far as he did is amazing

      • 12

        blaa blaa do you foam out of your mouth when you talk, the fact this cancer called Ron Paul even got as far as he did is amazing

      • 945call

        Thanks for this post.  I’m now certain of what I had suspected; you represent a significant portion of Paul’s support.  Racist and anti-Semite!  I don’t think he should be elected dog catcher.

        • RonPaul2012

          Mmmmm…maybe Wolfman Jones might be throwing out “racist & anti-Semite comments”  to paint Ron Paul with the same brush?
          Look at the man’s record and read his book, “End the Fed.”

        • Jfca440

          I am sure he wont be elected dog catcher….that is a job for you!

  • Gelica8

    Very nice damage control.  Nicely done.  To have a longtime aide write a defense of my character would have been my thought too.

    So, what if this article is true?  What then does this say about Paul’s leadership abilities?  If he can’t control a newsletter that is put out in his own name, can he take charge of the country?  I think not.

    • http://profiles.google.com/dwobjector Dave Otto

      With friends like this who needs enemies? If you read this as a defense of Paul you’re already a Paul acolyte. For a detractor or anyone simply neutral the praise here is of the damning variety.

  • AirborneDhampir

    I would like another source, please, that reliably quotes Ron Paul as saying that Israel needs to be uprooted. So far I haven’t found one.

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  • http://profiles.google.com/dwobjector Dave Otto

    I’m curious about Eric’s reflexive bashing of the liberal media. By far the harshest criticisms I hear are coming from establishment Republicans. I know that’s inconvenient to the libertarian narrative but it happens to be true.

  • obijuan

    When did you join the army so you could serve in Iraq or Afghanistan (and presumably the upcoming war with Iran to protect Israel)?

    • aelf held

      Just quit beating around the bush and use the stupid term ‘chickenhawk’.

      You know you want to.

  • Anonymous

    I’d contend that the newsletters are a problem because they illustrate the same intellectually pathetic conspiracy-mongering that Mr. Dondero details, e.g., Ron Paul’s view that maybe the CIA physically executed the 9-11 attacks.  Like most 9-11 Truthers, Ron Paul did not claim certainty; he was, as the Truthers like to say, “just asking questions.”

    Here’s something that about which we can claim certainty: 
    Ron Paul is a whackjob.

    Here’s Paul quite sympathetic to the idea of a Congressional investigation to see if the USA executed 9-11:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d91a13Yr3oQ 

    Here’s Ron Paul praising Bradley Manning as a “true patriot.” Manning, for those who can’t place the name, is the alleged traitor who leaked literally thousands of American military & diplomatic secrets, getting both Americans & our allies killed:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8pbSCT2SE6U

    It’s an embarrassment to the Republic Party – and to the libertarian movement – that we let a Left-wing, Israel-hating, conspiracy-mongering, Lew Rockwell-following, 9-11 Truther freak get this far, before cutting him down by simply telling the truth about him.

    • Bill Dalasio

      Ron Paul is a whackjob.

      (sigh) Yes and no.  And that’s the problem.  At a hundred thousand foot level, Ron Paul makes some very valid points.  Spending is and has been on a track that’s going to lead to bankruptcy.  The U.S. is at risk of being militarily overextended.  The federal government has taken too big a role.  The Fed’s interventions have been problematic, to say the least.  These aren’t points that we can afford to afford to ignore much longer and, honestly, most of the other candidates seem bound and determined to get by with only paying them lip service or ignoring them entirely.  I don’t think it’s just happenstance that a whackjob is polling near 20%.

      • Anonymous

        There are 1000 people in public life – some of them political candidates, e.g., Gary Johnson – who are libertarians without being intellectually & emotionally stunted *ucked-up freaks like Ron Paul.  There are great many classical liberals in American life; in academia, in journalism, as politicians, etc.  All the way from Richard Epstein to some of the better writers at Reason magazine to radio talk show hosts across the country to the former governor of New Mexico, etc.

        Ron Paul contributes nothing, except Left-wing conspiracy-mongering & hatred of Israel and – more importantly – hatred of America.  Yes, if you seriously entertain 9-11 Truth – as Ron Paul does – then you hate America, not just its government, because you think that the entire system is corrupt, and that the American citizenry are either complicit in the corruption or are sheep who would let such a thing happen.

        And Ron Paul supporters are demented cultists, a teensie bit more rational than LaRouchies, which isn’t saying much.

        • Bill Dalasio

          Perhaps there are a thousand such people.  Gary Johnson, the only other one seeking the Republican nomination, was squeezed out of the debates.  How well has that worked out?  Now the whackjob (and you don’t need to convince me that Ron Paul isn’t the right guy to be President) has gained the status of “truthteller” and is garnering the support of a lot of people who recognize that the course we’ve been on is unsustainable.  This time around, it isn’t just the demented cultists backing the guy.  The man is pulling in 20% support.  Are you going to tell me that 20% of the Republican electorate are demented cultists who hate America?  And what percentage of that 20% do you think are going to turn around and vote for Romney?  For Gingrich?

          • Anonymous

            Nationally, Ron Paul is getting around 12 percent support (see the latest Gallup tracking poll: 
            http://www.gallup.com/poll/election.aspx .) In Iowa, where Paul has polled the best, he peaked at a little above 20%, but his most recent trajectory is downward, and IMHO, he will continue downward – both nationally & in Iowa – as more people discover his 9-11 Truthiness, why he admires Bradley Manning, etc.  Additionally, it’s important to remember that those supporting Paul in the Iowa polls need not be Republicans; in, e.g., the InsiderAdvantage poll, over 50% were Independents & Democrats, who are permitted to register Republican 5 minutes before they caucus for Ron Paul 
            (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2011/InsiderAdvantag
            e_IA_1218.pdf .)

            So Republican support for Ron Paul has been overblown; it will likely be at Bachmann/Santorum levels in a couple weeks.  And the remaining Paul supporters on our side – who stay steadfast even after they know what we know about him – will indeed be psychologically damaged cultists.

            Ron Paul will not have a big electoral impact.  But Libertarians should hate him, because he will have a significant cultural impact in discrediting the doctrine.

          • Captainshays

            NOT ONE of Ron Paul’s supporters will vote for another statist, corporatist globalist war mongering Republican with his finger on the trigger for another war. Very few if any of the anti war americans who voted Obama into office will either. VEry few of the largest demographic, the independants will support one of your so called Republicans.
            Meanwhile Ron Paul has the largest support from Independants.of any other Republican. The largest support among the military than ALL the other Republicans COMBINED nearly multiplied by THREE. A higher support from non whites than ANY other Republican.
            The largest support among those 18-25 and 25-40 than ANY other Republican. That said, I cannot think of ANY Republican in my 52 years that has had as much inspired support from the young as Ron Paul has and STILL the establishment cronies actually criticize him for that support. They claim that it’s the Democrats who are trying to throw the election yet ignore that no Democrats want to support the other candidates. They say Ron Paul’s supporters are a bunch of young rabble rousers yet NONE of their establishment progressives running against him get the support of the young voters.
            And they keep saying he is “unelectable”. I guess it depends on which election we’re talking about. If it’s the GOP nomination he has less of a chance. If it’s the general election against Obama he has about as good a chance if not better than ANY other Republican.
            My take? If they don’t nominate Ron Paul they DESERVE for more yers of Obama and they won’t get ONE Ron Paul supporter to support their establishement candidate. You say that we’r eonlu polling at 12%. Do you guys really think you will win against Obama without us? LOL YOU deserve to lose. YOU did it to yourselves.

          • Anonymous

            Nationally, Ron Paul is getting around 12 percent support (see the latest Gallup tracking poll: 
            http://www.gallup.com/poll/election.aspx .) In Iowa, where Paul has polled the best, he peaked at a little above 20%, but his most recent trajectory is downward, and IMHO, he will continue downward – both nationally & in Iowa – as more people discover his 9-11 Truthiness, why he admires Bradley Manning, etc.  Additionally, it’s important to remember that those supporting Paul in the Iowa polls need not be Republicans; in, e.g., the InsiderAdvantage poll, over 50% were Independents & Democrats, who are permitted to register Republican 5 minutes before they caucus for Ron Paul 
            (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2011/InsiderAdvantag
            e_IA_1218.pdf .)

            So Republican support for Ron Paul has been overblown; it will likely be at Bachmann/Santorum levels in a couple weeks.  And the remaining Paul supporters on our side – who stay steadfast even after they know what we know about him – will indeed be psychologically damaged cultists.

            Ron Paul will not have a big electoral impact.  But Libertarians should hate him, because he will have a significant cultural impact in discrediting the doctrine.

      • aelf held

        A non-functional clock is right twice a day.

        Doesn’t mean I’d buy it.

        • Bill Dalasio

          Yes, but that non-functional clock seems to be telling the right time when the others aren’t.

    • Joeonth

      Ron has said theres no evidence for 911 truth. No one has died because of manning. Do you think the gulf of tonkin Or fast and furious are still conspiracy theories? Its always good to investigate and ask questions. If you trust your government blindly, no matter what country you live in, the i think it would be helpfull to read more history books.

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  • Youwantthenewsletter

    The only thing I’ve ever heard that I disagreed with Ron on, was “voting for the authority to go after Al-Quada” bit because it always seemed ingenuine and anti-his integrity. I hope the media does pick this up because it sheds light. Also any one who thinks conspiracy is a bad word doesn’t dig deep enough.

  • Gopgrl15

    If a man hates Israel he is an anti Semite. Sorry but rationalizing Pauls opion of Israel won’t help him. He’s a racist and a homophobe. Everything written here as an explanation proves both points.

    • Goodwitz

      actually, expressing opposing views on the racist, highly militarized, and oppressive state of israel is not anti-semetic.  im jewish and i too think that the state of israel is a disgusting war machine that in the end profits the american military industrial complex.

      • Hoosierteacher

        Oppresive?  The only democracy in the middle east?  The one that grants rights to muslims citizens that muslim countries won’t grant to jewish citizens?  The one that suffers attacks aimed at citizens?  Is it oppressive to live surrounded by neighbors that agreed to a UN charter, only to call for the destruction of Israel later?  The country that has been repulsing invasions for years?  Your ignorance of middle eastern history is telling.

        • Concord

          He is not Jewish, lots of Anti Israelis – leftists or Muslims – pretend to be Jewih while attacking Israel so they would sound much more reliable

          • Bob D

            You mean like jews drop the -owitz and -berger suffix to their name and then claim to be non-jews in support of Israel? 

      • Johnpark98

        if you are really Jewish you must have the Stockholm syndrome. I pity you, for you don’t know history and that your sort are the first to be butchered by the enemy you grovel to. check stalin and the jewish communists..

      • John S

        Thats because you are an idiot who doesn’t know anything about Israel and who uses words he does not fully understand. Also, you choose not to read actual history, instead preferring to stew in your own hippy juices. See? I can spout propaganda and insults as well as you do. By the way, none of my family is jewish, I just support Israel because i have some sense.

        • Anonymous

          Oh please. You are COMPLETELY transparent, Ari. You aren’t folling ANYONE.

    • Anonymous

      You are a racist and a homophobe, and judging by your choice of icons, you are stupid, slutty bitch as well.

      • Girly girl

        And being a sick misogynist gives you the right to condemn others’ irrational hatred how?

        • Anonymous

          Don’t let me stand in your way… go ahead with your irrational hatred.  It’s just good to know you admit it.

        • Anonymous

          Girly – see how the Jews are going into full hissing and spitting mode, at the very idea of America pulling their fangs out of our necks?  Vicious and nasty, and calling all kinds of irrelevant names? Their masks are slipping…

    • Fail Police

      So much FAIL.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aaron-Brown/100001755983920 Aaron Brown

      Bahahahahahahaah. Gopgrl…..I am American…and Jewish….not a homophobe…nor an anti-Semite…and don’t like Israel’s government nor ours. FAIL.

      • john s

        American, and Jewish…and an idiot? What are the odds eh?

      • Lior1s

        try moving to syria or egypt instead maybe you will feel a little better

    • Anonymous

      Most Jew are NOT Semites. Aravs are genetic Semites. Considering the way Jews treat ACTUAL Semites – Palestinans, Syrians, etc – Jews are the very WORST Anti Semites on Earth.

      Now let’s discuss a REAL issue – the deeply racist and sociopathic hatred that Jews have always held towards Gentiles. Anti Gentilism is the REAL issue.

      • Concord

        Having a busy day commenting anti Semite shit like yourself ah?

        Why won’t you just kill yourself or better, go into Ron Paul’s ass?

        • Anonymous

          Oh piss off. You are just in a snit because Americans, like 109 nations before, are wising up to the plunder of this Naton wrought by the self-Chosen. Why don’t YOU just kill yourself, and spare some poor Muslim the trouble? Go visit your Daddy in Hell.

        • fg

          Concord sounds like a top class spirit !! Sorry , can’t help that.

      • john s

        Yeah, maybe we ought to just let the arabs wipe em out eh palmer? Or do it ourselves? They deserve it after all the carnage and world wars they have started!  The posters on this thread amply demonstrate the ugly strain of crazy hiding behind Ron Pauls movement. I never knew there were so many antisemites hiding in the american woodwork.
           Cloak yourselves in patriotism and rationalism and defending the constitution all you want, a lot of you are just plain old jew haters. Sad really. Ron Pauls rise is actually just the prelude to Barack Obama’s second act. Sadly, as long as so many republicans are willing to defend the old wing nut, you might be better off with the devil you already know.

        • Anonymous

          Take your valium, Ari. You’re way past due. FYI – since old Barry Sotoero is COMPLETELY kosher re: the money behind him – you ough to be happy at the prospect of 4 more years…

        • Anonymous

          Take your valium, Ari. You’re way past due. FYI – since old Barry Sotoero is COMPLETELY kosher re: the money behind him – you ough to be happy at the prospect of 4 more years…

  • Tonythebrain

    I’m sorry, I just don’t believe most of what you said. I don’t agree with Ron Paul on everything, but many of the things you said are either showing of a bias, or wantonly ignorant.

    “He is however, most certainly Anti-Israel, and Anti-Israeli in general.”

    Then why did he go against the grain of his Party and stick up for them publicly when they bombed Iraq’s weapons facilities? He almost single-handedly refused to admonish Israel. Seems like a perfect time for someone “anti-Israel” to kick them when they were down and everyone else was kicking them. I can site more examples but I have too many points to attack.

    “Ron Paul is most assuredly an isolationist.”

    Except “isolationism” has a definition you seem to either not know of, or ignore. It has three distinct parts to it…noninterventionist foreign policy, closed-border anti-immigrant policy, and anti-free trade protectionism in favor of tariffs. You need ALL THREE to meet the definition of isolationism. Like the liberal media you seem to want to say so much about, you ignore the denotation for connotation. If you do advocate for all three things, you are not an isolationist. I’s like you to notice that Pat Buchanan is a paleoconservative; they are isolationists. They meet all three criteria. I’d also like you to notice most of the other Republican candidates are 2/3 isolationist (want closed borders, or more closed, and protectionism in regards to trade; anti-free market stands). So, quite obviously Ron Paul does not fit the definition of isolationism in 2/3 of it’s meaning, only 1/3; noninterventionist foreign policy. His denials of being “isolationist” are for good reason; anyone with a cursory knowledge of what it is, can see he isn’t. 

    “Ron was “under the spell” of left-anarchist and Lew Rockwell associate Joe Becker at the time, who was our legislative director.”

    Left-anarchism is anti-free market, anti-capitalist in general. You must ignorantly be confusing your terms with “left libertarian”, which is a pro-market form of anarchism. Agorists are left libertarians, and no less free market advocates. Being a left libertarian in the United States in America is NOT the same as being a “left-anarchist”. Left-anarchism comes in forms like Chomsky-esque syndicalism, socialism, and communism. It is NEVER pro-market, which of course Rockwell, Becker, and Ron Paul are. Also, Paul is not an anarchist (I wish he was, as a market anarchist). He very much believes in the state, as described in the Constitution (which I disagree with for philosophical reasons I won’t get into here). But trying to associate Ron with left wing anarchism is either a smear, or an accidental admission of philosophical ignorance. I understand to the average person who hasn’t studied philosophy in-depth (and I include those whose entire education on the matter has been in institutions, even of higher learning) the terminology can be confusing, especially regarding the much-unexplored philosophies of left and right anarchism (which as descriptives themselves make no sense, largely, because most anarchists do not believe “left” and “right” even exist; that they are only economic positions, not philsophical ones, and therefore set up false dichotomies in ethical perception), but nonetheless the terminology is being misused here. Joe Becker is NOT a left-anarchist, he is a market anarchist, aka a left libertarian. I mean, it’s like calling classical liberalism (the philosophy universal to both of America’s founding factions/Parties) a form of modern day “liberalism”…it certainly has no relation other than the word “liberal”. Murray Rothbard was an Austrian economist, and simultaneously an anarchist…that doesn’t make him a left-anarchist, nor does it make his adherents today left-anarchists. You simply used the word “left” incorrectly…or as a buzzword in the classical propaganda method.

    “If Ron Paul should be slammed for anything, it’s not some silly remarks he’s made in the past in his Newsletters.”

    You say “he’s made”…but HE didn’t make those remarks, a ghostwriter did. You seem to be doing what the very liberal media you complain about keeps doing…aserting he wrote them himself, and had knowledge of them at the time. It’s been throroughly checked out that 99% of the articles in these newsletters were not racist, homophobic, or anti-Israel. The minority that were, did not get read widely (as the internet was not widespread yet), and therefore weren’t widely discovered or brought to Paul’s attention for sometime. So, you mischaracterize the situation, perpetuate an assertion without basis, and make inference in yet another propaganda model; guilt by association. Logically, his acting editor and the ghostwriter whom the editor approved are responsible. If indeed you are libertarian, you must believe in personal responsibility.

    But at this point I doubt you are “libertarian” in the definition of the philosophy that I know (which includes small government statists/Constitutionalists like Paul, and market anarchists like myself).

    Everything else you said, until backed up by others, will remain simple anecdotes of someone who is a disgruntled former employee, seems to like interventionist foreign policy (and misdefine noninterventionism as isolationism), and conflates left-anarchism with market anarchism (left libertarianism). You in all these mistakes showed a serious inability to sway me into believing you are a credible source of information. And, btw, I’m quite open-minded about Paul…as I already do not see him as “the answer” to everything, or even right on every issue. I have serious problems with him myself. But I am not convinced the things you’re saying here are true…and I’m not convinced somehow that he is “isolationist”, “anti-Israel”, “homophobic”, the author of the articles in those newsletters, or under the sway of leftist anarchists.

    What I believe, thus far, is that you know a lot less about what you’re talking about than you seem to think you do.

    • Tonythebrain

      typos:

      I can cite* more examples but I have too many points to attack.

      If you do not* advocate for all three things, you are not an isolationist. I’d* like you to notice that Pat Buchanan is a paleoconservative; they are isolationists.

    • Gerry

      “Left-anarchism is anti-free market, anti-capitalist in general. You must ignorantly be confusing your terms”

      Either that, or he used his terms precisely. There are people in Paul’s inner-circle who are left-anarchists. 

    • http://twitter.com/Joshuapundit Rob Miller

      Yeah, Ron Paul’s no Jew hater! Just ask the neo-Nazis over at Stormfront who are raising money for him and have his logo on their site.

      Paul even endorsed Cynthia McKinney, a blatant Jew hater when she ran for president in 2008.

      Ron Paul offered up an amendment in Congress back in February to cut off all aid to Israel and only Israel. According to a number of analysts including Jane’s, that would have cost the US between $10 and $15 billion based on what we would have to replace in weapons sales, joint technology projects, and the cost of training, troop deployment  and facilities use.

      As far as I’m concerned, Ron Paul obviously wants Israel to disappear – and that makes him anti-semitic as far as I’m concerned, as well as unpatriotic and not particularly bright.

      • Anonymous

        Stating the obvious is a waste of time with Pauliacs, nazis, communists and muslims.

      • Bill Castler

        YOU Are Anti Gentile and Anti Christian
        Jews Declared War ON Germany-London Times Headline 1933
        6 million didnt die in a 2 car Garage by use of Bug spray.
        Israel and Zionists are Kvetching knowing the Gravy train welfare to IsraHell will STOP with Ron paul, as it should, as our Founding Fathers directed. Its over for you, ZIonist Thug Apartheid practionerers.

        • Igabc4u

          You have just made yourself the poster child of Ron Paul supporters – you loon!

        • Jwden123

          My Gawd. I have read some foolish commens on this blog, but youtake the cake. What a certified moron.
          So I guess the Jews killed 6 million Germans?  Idiot.

          • Anonymous

            Errhhhh ….shall we have a go at the Morgenthau Plan? How about Holodomor?

      • ThomM

        I just checked out the stormfront site. I found two threads about R.P. and no logo. Want to try again?

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

        Here goes you guys go again, against all people that will not serve your ideals–stomp, stomp, stomp on those who will not give you their life and money. Pound, pound, pound. Name calling, calling, calling. FYI–many Jews are voting for Ron Paul too, but they can’t say it openly because they’ll also get pounded by you antiAmerican. It is fitting I label you antiAmerican from all immigrants that love this country first. Paul speaks about using foreign aid to help Americans–all Americans (though I hope the American Indians get more of a share) and you bitch about anti-You. Paul speaks about no more American lives sent off the bleed and die for foreign goals in foreign country and you are against him–because Americans dying in support of Israel is a must for you antiAmericans. How many Israelis died in all American wars fought in the Middle East? How many Israelis died for Americans anyway? How many? Paul said he’ll get rid of the Feds (created by antiAmerican Jews) that ruined our economy and you’re against him because, why? When was the last time the people in Israel gave foreign aid to the U.S.? China did a better job at that and look where it got her–ouu, the scare tactics begin; now she’ll be the next Iraq because a war is a good way to get rid of our debt. Another situation involving money, I wonder who are the people behind that? The Feds have been funneling money to Israel and the  rabbit hole is deeper than any ocean and you’re against stopping that? Your name calling don’t fit us, but your antiAmerican views do it you! Please leave this country you so hate and live in the one you love more. AMERICANS, all the immigrants want to fix this country first–blood sweat and money shall be bleed and used here first. You racial-centered antiAmerican people should get the fuck out.

      • francis

        “Ron Paul offered up an amendment in Congress back in February to cut off
        all aid to Israel and only Israel. According to a number of analysts
        including Jane’s, that would have cost the US between $10 and $15
        billion based on what we would have to replace in weapons sales, joint
        technology projects, and the cost of training, troop deployment  and
        facilities use.”

        Huh… You realize those “sales” are actually the US government sending 10-15 billion to Israel, which then uses it to buy it’s weapons from us? It’s US taxpayer money that’s being redistributed to the military contractors that finance political campaigns….

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

      Thank you Tonythebrain for bringing this topic back on track–I wonder if the distraction above was intentional? Eric knows a lot less more–He doesn’t even know his last name which is E…D…Rittberg–or does he; who’s he trying to fool–himself?

  • Princeliberty

    I’m impressed with how his is basing this on nothing but his own word and most it clealry goes the public record.  Such as Paul actually voting for the authorization to use force against Afghanistan and his public call for a declaration of war.    Gutter alley slander. 

  • http://twitter.com/FilmCriticOne Math Matters

    This guy is stupid.  Ron’s  Paul should be crucified NOT for his stand  on Israel, it is much worse than  that.  Ron Paul believes in his bones that states are the real creature  that has rights, not people.   He believes that states should have the  right to have slavery, for example.  It was wrong for states to be forced to give up slavery.

    No, he does not believe slavery is good, or from God,  or any of the other crap the South screamed from the rooftops in 1860.   He says he is against slavery. 

    But states should not be forced to stop slavery.  

    That alone, by itself, show the man is a lunatic. A foul, evil bastard.

    • Joeonth

      I’ve researched Paul for some time now and never saw anything about slavery being a states right. His comments about the civil war are that it would have been cheaper to buy the slaves than fight a war, not about slavery being a states right. Please provide a link. The bill of rights overrides states rights.

    • GERALD GIBSON

      That is interesting you say that… because just the other day on Jay Leno show Ron Paul specifically said, “States dont have rights… people do”… it is funny how people make up non-sense and then believe it.

    • Anonymous

      This is TRASH.   What a looney, bunch of crappola. You are a foul evil bastard.

  • Tonythebrain

    Yeah…lol..I looked you up “author”. You seem to be the one who is bigoted, and NOT a libertarian at all:

    http://wredlich.com/ny/2011/01/eric-dondero-and-the-myth-of-the-pro-defense-libertarian/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Frank/100002494833204 Mike Frank

    As the senior admin for http://www.HermanCainForums.com now that Herman has suspended his campaign our forum hereby endorses Ron Paul for President 2012, you can read our full written endorsement on the Herman Cain Forums home page.

    • Anonymous

      So you’re a admin guy for a web forum that is not affiliated with any campaign, and people should what you think because….?

      Can I start a blogspot blog and make a splash by “endorsing” someone too?

      • Anonymous

        Yes, you could, but you are probably too lazy to actually do it.

    • aelf held

      Why do you hate America?

  • Roger Snowden

    So, he hates Israel but doesn’t hate Jews. Yet, Michelle Bachmann detests Islamist / Fascist terrorists.

    According to Ron Paul that must mean she hates Muslims.

    By his own logic, that makes Ron Paul anti-semitic.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HWFNYMOHNFQO63ZYTBBHL37J5M VictoriaL

      This guy is a liar. Ron Paul was the only one that defended Israel when she bombed Iran’s nuclear plants. Here’s some info on the author: 
      http://wredlich.com/ny/2011/01/eric-dondero-and-the-myth-of-the-pro-defense-libertarian/

      • http://twitter.com/volgeek Tim Jaggers

        While I can certainly see Paul defending Israel’s right to do so as a sovereign country doing what is necessary to defend itself, that doesn’t change the fact that as a supporter of the Palestinians, he is supporting their desire for genocide of the Jewish people. The fact that he is also willing to be nice to American Jews in an attempt to gain their support simply makes him even more evil.

        • FG

          And the genocide of Palestinians by Israel ?

          • http://twitter.com/Joshuapundit Rob Miller

            If the Israelis were actually committing ‘genocide’ against those people who identify themselves as ‘Palestinians’ ( in other words, if the Israelis had reacted to them the way the Arabs treated the Jews in the areas they controlled after 1948) we wouldn’t even be talking about the ‘Palestinians’ now.

            Actually, in terms of who has killed the most ‘Palestinians’ that would be Jordan, around 1970 during Black September.

            Get real. OK?

          • John S

            get a dictionary, you don’t know what genocide is.

          • Jwden123

            So the Israelis are the one firing  rockets daily into their own country?  It’s very sad to read the comments of the anti-semites here that don’t even beleive Israel has the right to defend itself.

            You people would be right at home wearing brown shirts and swastikas. 

      • Johnpark98

        Iran? ha ha ha
        get your facts straight mister.

      • Jellynoel

        Israel bombed Iran’s nuclear plants?? Try Iraq’s!

        • Anonymous

          Dont expect to much from the void in a pauliac’s head!

    • Anonymous

      LOL… this is the kind of wacky, goofy, CRAZY logic that makes good seem evil and vice versa.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aaron-Brown/100001755983920 Aaron Brown

      Paul, just like every voluntaryist and libertarian worth his/her salt, detests coercive nation-states of all stripes, whether black, blue, brown, etc. It has nothing to do with Israel or Jews per se. Grow up.

      • john s

        Sooooo, there have never been any libertarians in charge of the US then, since if ever there was a coercive nation state it is the USA. It isn’t necessarily maturity you lack, it is perspective. Paul’s stance on Palestine has nothing to do with libertarianism, since Arab states in general are the antithesis of personal freedom. It is, instead based on a deepseated antisemitism coupled with the moral cowardice of caring for americans first and only.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aaron-Brown/100001755983920 Aaron Brown

      Paul, just like every voluntaryist and libertarian worth his/her salt, detests coercive nation-states of all stripes, whether black, blue, brown, etc. It has nothing to do with Israel or Jews per se. Grow up.

    • Gracemonger Digfilier

      Arabs are Semitic – so what does that make you?

  • http://twitter.com/twaek Aaron

    The contradictions in this fable invalidate it.  This is a long time opponent that tries to make a moral, principled OB-GYN seem like Clint Eastwood from Gran Torino.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HWFNYMOHNFQO63ZYTBBHL37J5M VictoriaL

    Don’t believe this garbage, here is an article about the author. It appears he’s not at all libertarian: 
    http://wredlich.com/ny/2011/01/eric-dondero-and-the-myth-of-the-pro-defense-libertarian/

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  • Anonymous

    Can’t figure out if you are defending him or attacking him with this piece. I know one thing. After reading this I will not vote for Ron Paul.

  • Gerry

    Eric, any opinion or knowledge of Daniel McAdams?

  • http://www.vitaminlawyer.com/ Ralph Fucetola JD

    Ron Paul’s strongest position is his refusal to go along with the US ruling elite’s consensus-interventionist foreign policy.

    This is where he attracts support from the old, non-interventionist right and the anti-imperialist left.

    It’s his foreign policy positions that are the real threat to the current white house occupant and a most powerful reason to support him. Ron Paul 2012!

    • aelf held

      The man (and I use the term loosely) is pushing the 9/11 truther line.  He’s unfit to be Commander in Chief.

      • The Gibbs

        Can you present more info on this? He only says we invited the attacks due to the blowback from our interference. I’ve never heard him suggest that Bush knew about 9/11, helped orchestrate, and/or ignored warning signs it would happen so that he would have all the fear he needed to go to afghanistan/create patriot act.

      • The Gibbs

        Can you present more info on this? He only says we invited the attacks due to the blowback from our interference. I’ve never heard him suggest that Bush knew about 9/11, helped orchestrate, and/or ignored warning signs it would happen so that he would have all the fear he needed to go to afghanistan/create patriot act.

      • http://www.vitaminlawyer.com/ Ralph Fucetola JD

        AELF, the insult is inappropriate.

        I suggest the level of your analysis is flawed, as there are a number of careful thinkers, including at least one retired Maj. Gen. who is concerned that we do not know the truth about 9/11, or the level of involvement (or at least malign neglect) of elements in the intelligence apparatus.

        We had better all become 9/11 Truthers if we are to preserve what is left of our Constitutional Republic.

        Kudos to Ron Paul for daring to question the orthodoxy of the moment.

        • Anonymous

          Carry on, trufer, now tell us about your hollow earth theory…

          • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1316111692 Wolfman Jones

            Learn to spell!

      • Bill Castler

        The Entire world KNOWS Israel and CIA was behind 911.
        The President of Italy and US Army War College Director Alan Sobrosky both state Israeli Mossad were behind the attacks, NYPD arrested 150 israeli Mossad agents caught celebrating and high fiving the First Attack!

        Odigo, an Israeli company, gave a 2 hour forewarning to its WTC employees. Either they were psychic, OR they were in on it.
        Bagel Nazis repent.

        There will be peace in the Middle East when Zionist Jews are in Orange jumpsuits cleaning the toilets of the Palestinians living in the Gaza Concentration Camp.
        USS LIBERTY-Never Forget.

        • A.

          Wow! I believe this is what genocide is all about.

        • Igabc4u

          USS Liberty – a tragedy. How many Islami radicals have killed Anericans over the last 50 years you idiot?

          • Anonymous

            The UUS Liberty was a “tragedy”? WRONG. It was a deliberate, vicious, typically MONSTROUS attack, on an American patrol ship, by DESPICABLE Israel, trying to incite a war with Egypt. The Israelis knew EXACTLY waht they were doing. They KEPT shooting  the American sailors, trying to flee the burning ship. The “US” Government has covered up this OUTRAGE for decades, This monsttous betrayal and treachery alone proves the absolute perversion and subversion of US policy by Israel abnd their operatives. The US government should have NUKED every inch of Israel, for that attack.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

            Igabc4u: I think the killing started after the 50′s when we WENT OVER THERE. How many Israelis died for any American causes? Stupid is what stupid believes.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

        RFucetola: I concur. What I prefer you not include was this portion: “What’s important here are not some regrettable comments in a twenty-year-old newsletter.” I think such non-factual and baseless reiterations should have been left out. Repeating a false lie can still find ways into simple minded. Paul was a Congressman during the period of alleged comment, no Congressman would go unnoticed for such remarks; and why hadn’t this complaint come out in 2008 or anytime before–wouldn’t they want to use it against his run for Congress. Things of no merit should not be tolled along to breathe into the Susceptibiles; it should have been allowed die where it was spawned.

    • Me

      So support his campaign by mailing in a check.  Or you could save the cost of a stamp and just flush the money down the toilet. LOL

      • http://www.vitaminlawyer.com/ Ralph Fucetola JD

        Whoever “Me” may be, many of those of us who don’t hide behind the anonymity of the internet, “mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor…” to the restoration of the Constitutional Republic. That effort is never wasted.

        Just as the “Old Right” of Mencken and Taft led to the Taxpayers Movement of the ’70s and ’80s, which led to the Tea Party and beyond, Ron Paul’s decades of effort have already remade the political landscape.

        Consider the extraordinary leadership he’s shown on the issue of restoring Constitutional Money, with 320 members of the House cosponsoring his Audit the Fed bill — and how even the watered-down version that passed Congress exposed the Fed’s, was it, $14T off-the-books bankster bailout. Or consider his leadership in the ’70s when we regained our right to own gold bullion coins.

        Right now, his Monetary Reform Bills could stop the headlong rush to hyperinflation and national bankruptcy.

        Ron Paul is our generations’ Taft and Goldwater rolled into one…

        Which is why I say Ron Paul 2012!

        You might want to check out http://www.OathKeepers.org

        Pay attention! Despite the crazed efforts of right-wing neocons and left-wing neocons alike, there is a real rEVOLution brewing in this country.

        No one this side of the Pearly Gates is perfect, but in Dr. Paul, warts and all, we have a real champion who means to restore the Constitutional Republic, and that’s enough for me.

        • john s

          sigh. Again the righteous cry : “those of us who don’t hide behind the anonymity of the internet”. Give it a rest. Pinning your real name to lunacy does not make it sane. If there is a crazed effort going on right now it has rEVOLution and ‘oathkeepers’ all over it. Enjoy your 10 percent of the popular vote and another 4 years of Dr. Obama.

          • http://www.vitaminlawyer.com/ Ralph Fucetola JD

            Yes, righteousness has everything to do with it. Let’s see where we are on election night 2012.

          • Anonymous

            Better get a passport for a third world country free of Obamunists and Pauliacs…

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

            I only know two groups of people would do not support Ron Paul, the cowards and the antiAmericans. Cowards because the truth is too much to scary to handle, so the cuddle in their emotional safety nets; antiAmericans because everything Paul says, including his foreign policies, support and sustain American lives and here livelihood.

        • Anonymous

          Yes, you pauliac scumbags revived the nazi party…mohamed sending his thanks too…hope your granddaughter get stoned to death!

          • http://www.vitaminlawyer.com/ Ralph Fucetola JD

            One of the first rules of polite internet communication is that everyone boycotts the first person who screams “Nazi” or “Communist” or whatever.  This is called “Godwin’s Law” – http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if.html

            Goodbye.

          • Jwden123

            How about “fool”. That pretty much discribes you.

          • Anonymous

            Thanks for that excellent website!

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

            Oh, come on Ralph it’ll get dull without a little comedy here are there. At least we are defending ourselves, we didn’t provoke. These fingers in the snakes butt did (forgive my associating snakes with these what goes down my toilet people).

          • Captainshays

            Works for me Ralph!!

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

            Oh wow, look at the idiots who believe third numbers written together has any meaning other than the crap someone made them to believe. 13, 13, 13 you then. You must be antiAmerican Jews, only you sausage from the ass would call anyone and anything that does not support antiAmerican-Israel and the Jewish way, a nazi. It seems like you pin heads, stuck your needles in the wrong place making you see the whole world from only for-Jews or nazi perspective. Take the needle out of your eyes so you can see the 999 retards you really are. Insults deserve the same, don’t give it if you can’t take the pain.

          • Anonymous

            More nonsensical gobbledygook from nazi pauliac petards!

        • Captainshays

          Ralph,

          Thank you Sir, for being an oath keeper. I just hope you guys all hold to it if or when the time comes. I pray for you and Ron Paul.

  • Anonymous

    2007:

    “Reason: Your former staffer Eric Dondero is challenging
    you for your House seat in 2008.

    Paul: He’s a disgruntled former employee who was
    fired.”

    End of story.

    • Anonymous

      OR Isreali Firster Jew, adding his 2 shekels, in the 100% Koser Media, doping EVERYTHING they can to try to discredit the AMERICAN that will end their whole sale plunder of the USA

      • Anonymous

        Tell us more about how America is enslaved to the Jews. I like to hear from Ron Paul’s base.

        • Anonymous

          You have a computer. Look up “AIPAC”/CFR/the ownership of “The Fed” – and all the craven statements of “political candidates” slobbering all over Israel. Oh gosh – WHERE to begin? Let’s start with this gem:
          Representing Hillary Clinton’s campaign in a March 17, 2008 United Jewish Communities forum in Washington, Ann Lewis was quoted as saying “The role of the president of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel. “.[1] Lewis is Barney Frank’s sister…..
           

          • john s

            ha ha! Fell right into that one didnt you?

          • Anonymous

            Hahaha. Yup. I “fall” into real world events, and facts, quite often. Hahaha.Are you one of those guys Israle pays, to try to “shape opinion” on the’Net? Wow. If you and your boyfriend Thor are what they are hiring these days…well…it’s just sad.

          • Anonymous

            Hahaha. Yup. I “fall” into real world events, and facts, quite often. Hahaha.Are you one of those guys Israle pays, to try to “shape opinion” on the’Net? Wow. If you and your boyfriend Thor are what they are hiring these days…well…it’s just sad.

          • Anonymous

            Hahaha. Yup. I “fall” into real world events, and facts, quite often. Hahaha.Are you one of those guys Israle pays, to try to “shape opinion” on the’Net? Wow. If you and your boyfriend Thor are what they are hiring these days…well…it’s just sad.

          • john s

            More laughter! Yup. It is all a well financed jew conspiracy.Funnier yet: I get paid to reply to wing nut antisemite conspiracy nuts! I still remember my interview for the position, President Bush himself did the interview in 2001 from a building with a beautiful view of the twin towers…. But seriously folks, just because someone disagrees with you it doesn’t mean they are being paid for it.  A word of advice: the whole jew conspiracy thing is best left to left wing nut jobs, they do it better and no one expects anything better from them.

          • Anonymous

            This must be the new “strategy” – “Don’t believe your EYES – beleive what I tell you”. cause “The Fedsky”/Goldman Sachs/Bernie Madoff/AIPAC/The Jewsi Republican banning Paul from debate”- none of those things exist. Right? Is this the new tack?

          • Anonymous

            Oh – yes – 9/11/01 – Those Dancing Isrealis” NEVER appeared oon Israeli TV. And the USS Liberty attack was done by Al Quaida, and the KNAAAAZEEES. Yup. It’s not “crazy Jewish Conspiracies” – it’s all right out in the open these days.

        • Anonymous

          Pauliac is synonym with nazi, period!

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  • aelf held

    His newsletter, his views.  Can’t have it both ways – Paul defended his newsletter for years, so his sudden disavowal of responsibility won’t fly.  We already have a president who blames everyone else for his failures – why promote another irresponsible coward?

    • Captainshays

      Sudden? He disavowed the content of those few letters YEARS ago when he first found out about them

  • srk

    if you live in iowa and vote for this man, you are an idiot!

    • Me

      I had a local Paul-bot tell me he is voting for the old loon on “principle”  I told him I hoped he would be happy with the result, 4 more years of obama.

      • Anonymous

        I am unlikely to vote for Paul.  However, the threat of “4 more years of Obama” doesn’t cut if for me.  The lesser of two evils is still evil.  I am sick of being given the choice.

        What you CAN say about Paul is that he the only candidate up there that is likely to attempt to do what he is campaigning on.  Can he cut $1T in spending first year?  I doubt it, but it would be REALLY interesting to see a POTUS actually try.

    • Captainshays

      If you live in Iowa and you DON”T vote for this man than you’re an idiot. If you live ANYHERE and you value your freedom, prefer peace over endless and unnecessary wars and want your children to grow up debt free than you have NO THER CHOICE but RON PAUL

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  • Paulboth

    I am confused, you say that the one thing you want people to take from this, is the fact that he didn’t want to vote to invade Afghanistan. He DID in fact vote for it. So, I am inclined to use Ron Paul’s record in judging him. 

  • http://southernbeale.wordpress.com/ Southern Beale

    Ron, like many folks his age, very much supports toleration, but chooses not to be around gays on a personal level. It’s a personal choice. And though, it may seem offensive to some, he has every right in my mind to feel and act that way.

    Umm … yeah, so did the Confederacy. The South figured out a solution to this, it was called Jim Crow laws. This kind of discrimination is something both Ron and Rand have both been on record saying they think every business owner “has the right” to support should they wish. Because, free hand of the market and all. Right.

    And once again we have the unbearable intellectual lightness of the Libertarian mind. Thanks for playing, Ron. You’re done.

    Oh, and you know what else? All of this “hey, nothing to see here, lots of old people were racist cranks and homophobes” just doesn’t wash with me.  Because millions of people of what you called “Ron’s era” were NOT racist cranks and homophobes, too. So, there’s that.

    Ron Paul is not presidential material. Hell, he’s not even worthy of the House of Representatives. Glad to see his ship sink and maybe some of the Ronbots around here will finally stop hammering his signs up on every reachable piece of public property.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aaron-Brown/100001755983920 Aaron Brown

      The North was just as much, or even more racist than the South. Implicitly you are saying that the “Civil War” was about slavery. Hate to break it to you, what you were taught in 3rd grade is bunk. 

      Paul has time and again said that he viewed the Crow laws as illegal and unconstitutional. You’re getting very emotional, would you care to back up your accusations with logic and source quotes…you know, evidence?

      • Anonymous

        Completely false.   There were about 4.5 million black people in the U.S. in 1860.  Four million of them were slaves in the South.  The rest were either free in the North or the middle states.  

        And, the major reason for the Civil War was indeed slavery.

        Paul’s followers tend to as ignorant as they are bigoted.  

        • Bee

          I think you just revealed your own ignorance and willingness to swallow  the poor public education we get in America. The civil war was absolutely started for economic reasons, and I question whether or not you learned anything beyond a middle- or high-school level textbook.

          • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.juhl Bruce Juhl

            Economic reasons! LOL — I guess that is correct when you consider the southern agri-business economy in current dollars was a 2 or 3 Trillion dollar industry  that relied heavily on slave labor! Yes, southerners and pro-confederates spoke up about states rights, and the right of Federal nullification and state secession at length, and they were constitutionally correct in a lot of ways, BUT, the reason behind all of that posturing in the South, was to protect their labor force as-is to maintain business profitability. So the reasons for the Civil War were many and complex, but one of the most important and primary reasons was the South wanted to preserve slavery as long as possible for their lucrative Cotton trade. That economic fact cannot be over-looked if one wants to understand the core causes of the Civil War.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

            So both the south and north were fighting for their own economic reasons and you are “LOL” at what exactly?

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KTSTXIVQ7PW3LNS5KGGW5CY7LY belle

          Did you go to public school? Lincoln hated black people, thought they were inferior and stupid. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died in the Civil War for Lincoln’s grotesque views and unconstitutional actions. Get a clue.

          • whatashame

            Lincoln didn’t “hate” black people! He wanted to free the slaves. He talked about not wanting to give up the privilege white men had, and he had debates with a quack who said that Blacks were inherently inferior to whites because genetics. He was still more of a supporter of equal rights than any President before him, so you can take your idiocy, and shove it.

          • http://www.facebook.com/warner.hyde Warner Raymond Hyde

            If the north hated slavery so much, Why did they supply ALL of the slave ships ?? There was not a single slave ship from the south, Every one came from north east states…

            If Lincoln was such a fan of the slaves, Why did he say time and time again that he would leave them in slavery if it meant saving the union??

            W

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/JJohn-Suprise/100000498684384 JJohn Suprise

          Sophlady, you would probably be amazed to learn that there were BLACK People in the South who owned SLAVES!!!

          Google It.

          HooDeeHoo!

          • Krooked73

            don’t forget…it was black Africans that sold their own people into slavery. hmm, forgot that one, Sophlady, didn’t you.

          • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.juhl Bruce Juhl

            Actually it was Muslim Blacks in Africa selling non-Muslim Blacks from other Tribes to slavers. Again, what does that have to do with why the South seceded from the Union?

          • Anonymous

            And Jews ran the slave trade out of Rhode Island. Research the DeWolf family.

          • Americanproblems

            lol when was this ever about black vs. white? I thought her comment was about slavery and North vs. South.

          • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.juhl Bruce Juhl

            So did many Cherokee Indians. Whats your point?

        • Krooked73

          oh my…learn your history. wow.

        • Nathan Scott

          Sooo explain why virtually every other country on earth ended slavery without a civil war?

          It’s called the fugitive slave laws.  People in the north who helped and harbored escaped slaves could be punished criminally.  Remove those laws and slavery dies in 20 years.  it’s pretty fucking hard to usefully enslave a person without giving them at least some freedom.

          It’s been said before, buy giving people the illusion of freedom makes the far more productive (our current government).

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

          I’m not a bigot nor ignorant–and you point against Paul is specifically what?  The author of this article’s full name is E…D…Rittberg–he can’t even tell the truth about his name. Major reason for the civil war was to release the slave so they can work in developing industries in the north. Because if the north was against slavery, they would have stopped the practice much earlier in history, not at a time of convenience. Same reason why you bought into your ignorant is the same reason why some, maybe you too, believe going into Iraq was to free the Iraqis. Do you believe that? Wake up. With this sound argument, you should look into Ron Paul again, a non-presupposed mind and try to reason out the truth before it is once again too late. We live in a free society with trapped minds. Freedom is not in the walk–it’s in the thought.

    • Anonymous

      Sorry, bud.  Not liking (fill in your protected minority) is not illegal in this country.  Choosing not to associate with them isn’t either.  Acting on your dislike is what is illegal.

      Judge the man on what he does.

      One of the memorable people from my childhood was loudly and profanely anti-Black.  He didn’t use “Black”.  However, he was quietly generous (to the point of financial jeopardy) of his time, money and resources helping members of that community.  You had to know him very well to find out how much he did on the QT. He would look at me sheepishly and explain that “Mr & Ms So & So are having a tough time.  How these people are treated just isn’t right, I try to help where I can.”  Five minutes later he would be off on a rant.

      It would have been better if the words matched the actions, but I learned to look at what people do, not what they say.

    • http://www.vitaminlawyer.com/ Ralph Fucetola JD

      Beale, i suggest you read a bit about Libertarians before you think that any of us, including Ron and Rand would ever do anything but condemn Jim Crow laws!

      We do not want government, any government, telling us with whom we can do business or with whom we can have social relations; that’s what the Jim Crow laws sought to do. They used the power of government to enforce the prejudices of temporary local majorities.

      That is rather different philosophically from believing that individuals have the right to discriminate in their private dealings and government should not intervene.

      While today that view may no longer be the current majority view, holding such views has nothing to do with believing in the Constitution and the principle of the equality of all before the law.

      Whether one agrees with the majority on the Supreme Court as to exactly what is “public accommodation” and what is “private association” or not, seems to be a matter of debate among people of good will, and I am sure the Pauls are among such people.

      It is issues like Interventionism (what the Founders called “Foreign Adventures) and the existence of Deficit Spending via Fiat Currency that will shape the immediate future.

      These are the issues that matter most and on these issues, the current White House occupant and the various varieties of neocons vying for the GOP nomination haven’t a clue…

      This country is sick and needs a good doctor.

    • Anonymous

      Ummm Southern Squeal – care to commnet on the Black on White crime rates, and the financial and structural status of Detroit, MI, East St Louis, MO., and Tuskeegee AL? How about Elizabeth NJ?

    • FrequentPoster

      Sorry, bud.  Not liking (fill in your protected minority) is not illegal in this country.  Choosing not to associate with them isn’t either.

      What does legality have to do with it?

    • FrequentPoster

      Sorry, bud.  Not liking (fill in your protected minority) is not illegal in this country.  Choosing not to associate with them isn’t either.

      What does legality have to do with it?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Panken/537608199 Andrew Panken

      Jim Crow laws were always illegal if you simply read the Constitution and are not libertarian in anyway.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Panken/537608199 Andrew Panken

      Jim Crow laws were the problem and Ron Paul was totally against them. Jim Crow laws forced those who disagreed with these laws to discriminate against blacks.  It was the great liberal Woodrow Wilson who increased segregation in Federal offices when some of his southern Federal appointees found black women working right next to white women.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Panken/537608199 Andrew Panken

      Jim Crow laws were the problem and Ron Paul was totally against them. Jim Crow laws forced those who disagreed with these laws to discriminate against blacks.  It was the great liberal Woodrow Wilson who increased segregation in Federal offices when some of his southern Federal appointees found black women working right next to white women.

  • Anonymous

    Here is a comment that this moron posted on Libertarian Republican.net:

    “We take the Islamist threat to our civil liberties quite seriously. Geez, call us nuts, but we just don’t want our wives/girlfriends to be forced to wear an ugly black burqa from head to toe.

    Texas El do you have a wife or girlfriend? (And no, the sheep in the farm field on the other side of the road that you bone every other day doesn’t count.) “Read it for yourself if you want:

    http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2011/11/ron-paul-on-fox-news-3rd-party-run.html

    This guy, Eric Dondero is a real scumbag.  If he doesn’t agree with you, he will accuse you of anything, including beastiality.

    Don’t trust anything this Liar has to say.

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  • Me

    “As a Jew, (half on my mother’s side)”

    LOL. I always love when that is used. It is right up there with “Some of my best friends are black.”

    • Martin Hale

      Maybe fifteen years ago I was dating a Russian woman.  Early on, she told me “I’m half-Jewish”.  She’d get so mad at me when I’d ask whether it was her right half, left half, top half, bottom half, front half or back half which was Jewish. 

      • Me

        At my local papers website there is a loon who only rants about two things. The first is about how local LEO’s falsely accused him of a crime stole and used his credit cards, are watching him now.  The other is to go on and on about “International Banker Families” (code for “Jews”).  And every now and then he reminds everyone that family members on his mothers side are Jewish.  LoL.

      • fg

        F Great reply !! LOL

    • Bob D

      No it isn’t. Using the term “Antisemetic”  rather than “antijewish” is the Zionists’ way of making a religous arguement a racist issue. Arabs are semites as well. So its a racial issue when you want it to be and a religous issue when you want to present a moving target.  

      • john s

        You have that backward: folks use the term antizionist or attacks on ‘Zionists’ as a way to hide their attacks on Jews in general. Make no mistake, attacking Jews is racism, as well as religious persecution.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Knight/100000088685384 David Knight

    So Ron Paul believed a “conspiracy theory” that the Bush administration would use 9/11 to attack Iraq? Well, events have proven it was no conspiracy. Ron Paul was right and Eric Dondero wrong. 

    Paul also said they would use 9/11 as an excuse to take away our civil liberties. Right again.

    And as to whether the failed foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson and the punitive measures the allies enacted against Germany after WWI contributed to rise of Hitler, that’s the mainstream opinion, not revisionist history. Eric Dondero doesn’t seem to be able to learn much from history.

    • Martin Rheaume

      Exactly, I was shocked that he used that as information to discredit Paul, when it’s exactly what they did.

    • Martin Rheaume

      Exactly, I was shocked that he used that as information to discredit Paul, when it’s exactly what they did.

    • Nathaniel Lack

      Even a broken clock gets it right twice a day. Ron Paul was not genius making such a prediction. Most observers believed that Bush was looking for an excuse to finish what his dad started. – especially after Saddam attempted to assassinate Bush Sr. while on a trip to Kuwait.

      • pel

        So why does Dondero puts “invading” in quotes then if it was a common point? Obviously he is not among those “most observers” you mention.

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

          His name is E…D…Rittberg. 

      • pel

        So why does Dondero puts “invading” in quotes then if it was a common point? Obviously he is not among those “most observers” you mention.

    • Nemo

      Nice way to twist the facts so your belief system does not blow up on you David.

      Ron Paul does not believe that the US would use 9-11 to attack Iraq, Ron Paul believes that the US directly effected 9-11. 

      He believes that the US created the HIV virus.  He believes FDR did not prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Ron Paul can take over Jesse Ventura’s conspiracy theory show when “The Body” retires.

      Dondero didn’t say that Woodrow Wilson’s policies did not lead to the rise of Hitler, he said that “WWII was just “blowback,” for Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy errors, and such”. 

      Blowback? Hitler’s beliefs would have existed regardless.  The mere defeat of WWI was enough to tip the population into Hitler’s warped view of the world.

      And WWI did not have its seeds in American foreign policy.

      • Marlene Bakken

        If you read Dr. Mary’s Monkey you’ll find that the U.S. did indeed create the AIDS virus in a lab in New Orleans and unleashed it in the Caribbean in a failed effort to kill Castro.  In those days they didn’t care about that population.  THAT effort involved Lee Harvey Oswald, NOT the Kennedy Assassination.  He had nothing to do with that.

      • blacknblue2

        I think you need to take a few history lessons on pre-WWII.  There were policies that did lead to the ability of Hitler to gain control of the German people.  Foreign policy works both ways and the USA isn’t always on the correct path.  Vietnam was an example of foreign policies that went bad. 

        There is a lot of proof that there was some type of voluntary lapse in intelligence that allowed the planes to bomb Pearl.  It was the only way the USA would get involved in the war.

        AID’s – have no idea on that one but it isn’t outside of the world of science to create bad things.  “Dec 20, 2011 – European scientists have created a deadly strain of the bird flu, and now want to publish the details of exactly how they did it,”Red pill – blue pill — the choice is yours.

    • blacknblue2

      Agree.  Until realizing the entire WMD was not true I was a supporter of the actions.  Then I started thinking about our constant mis-steps in the middle east and the death of our soldiers.  Dying in wars that do not protect us.

      Then came the Patriot Act and yes I read it.  Nasty piece of law.

      Then came the TSA and now the TSA wants to expand.

      Recently there is that little piece of law that may be able to place citizens under control of military law.  Yes I did read the clauses and they are written very ambiguously.

      It is easy to bend the standing of Ron Paul and it is what the main stream politicians and media are doing at the moment. 

      It is tough to stand on Constitutional basis because there are times it doesn’t play well in Peoria.  But it is the piece of paper that allowed us to be the most free nation in the world and at one time had the greatest economy in the history of mankind.

      What is killing all of it isn’t Ron Paul’s Constitutional ideals it is the main stream Republicans and Democrats.  We are as a nation, finished.  There are far too many people that are addicted to their particular Party politics and in their zeal to control are willing to throw liberty to the wolves.

      • Captainshays

        Blacknblue2,

        Beautiful and spot on words my friend and fellow patriot! Bravo

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

      His full name is E…D…Rittberg–he can’t even tell the truth about that.

  • Marty Simmons

    I appreciate your candidness, however, take issue with your assertion that swatting a gay man’s hand away because he doesn’t like gays doesn’t make him homophobic. It most
    certainly does in my opinion

    • john s

      exactly.

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  • Jay

    Donerdo, you do recall that you were fired by Ron Paul and also attempted to unsuccessfully to challenge Ron Paul for his congressional seat, right?

    No sour grapes though. You are entirely objective and accurate.

    • Nibarger John

      So he claims to be libertarian but supports Perry? That’s a red flag and contradiction….no libertarian or real conservative would support rick exec order perry

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

      His real name is E…D…Rittberg–he can’t even tell he truth about his name.

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    Ten years later …….. we are still there       

    Afghanistan the graveyard of Empires     
    looks like he was right again                        

  • Anonymous

    If the first half of this is supposed to be a defense of Paul, then Ron needs a new bunch of defenders.  There is nothing positive for Paul here, this is an out and out attack.

  • Anonymous

    If the first half of this is supposed to be a defense of Paul, then Ron needs a new bunch of defenders.  There is nothing positive for Paul here, this is an out and out attack.

  • http://twitter.com/URRUdesign Republic Underground

    a very clever hit piece by a former staffer that has a Neo-Con foreign policy and wants to offensively attack other countries in this crusade against “terror”

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  • Martin Rheaume

    ”
    He immediately stated to us staffers, me in particular, that Bush/Cheney were going to use the attacks as a precursor for “invading” Iraq. ”

    Are you actually using this to discredit his foreign policy views? That’s exactly what they did. He comes off as looking prescient. 

  • Martin Rheaume

    ”
    He immediately stated to us staffers, me in particular, that Bush/Cheney were going to use the attacks as a precursor for “invading” Iraq. ”

    Are you actually using this to discredit his foreign policy views? That’s exactly what they did. He comes off as looking prescient. 

  • Anonymous

    Thank God we have this clown speaking on behalf of Ron Paul. 

  • Anonymous

    Thank God we have this clown speaking on behalf of Ron Paul. 

  • Anonymous

    If Ron Paul doesn’t get the GOP nomination…..and he has no chance at that….he might be the ideal candidate to unite Hamas and The PA

  • Anonymous

    If Ron Paul doesn’t get the GOP nomination…..and he has no chance at that….he might be the ideal candidate to unite Hamas and The PA

  • Walt235

    Sounds like a fucking joo! Round them up and exterminate them once and for all!

  • Walt235

    Sounds like a fucking joo! Round them up and exterminate them once and for all!

  • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

    Heh, this really brought out the Paul worshipers, amazing how zealous they are and dedicated to the cause of a politician.

    • Anonymous

      Reminds one of Democrats, dunnit?

    • Captainshays

      It’s not about Ron Paul. Our cause is not Ron Paul. We just share the same cause as he does.

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  • densely

    Rpn Paul acts like a bigot and acts like a homophobe, but he doesn’t say bad things about Hispanics or gays so he’s OK.  Do I have that right?

  • Bobspirit56

    I am in total agreement with Dr. Paul on his foregn policy issues.  Israel is way more trouble than it is worth, and their influence in our government in not acceptable.  Afghanistan war was a lie from the start.

    Dondero has zero credibility, and has probably been well paid to join the hit parade against Dr. Paul.

    Anyone else noticing that for every stupid hit piece there are hundereds of us speaking up?

  • john smith

    Wow, I’m sure the motive behind the article is as dishonest as the content.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WTA5TCI3FUIHWAJUM6PKUZ3DUY Mojomurphy

    “Ron, like many folks his age, very much supports toleration, but chooses not to be around gays on a personal level. It’s a personal choice. And though, it may seem offensive to some, he has every right in my mind to feel and act that way.”

    I reckon he can do whatever he likes in his personal life, but if he is a congressman or president he is a manager in charge of hiring and firing decisions, and clearly RP should not be given that kind of power over people’s lives.

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  • http://twitter.com/Winston80 Winston

    Ru Paul is a looni kook. Shame on GOP.

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  • Adolf

    Eric Rittberg (like many zionists changed his name, to Dondero) got fired by Ron and ran against him only to humiliate himself.

    The only ones that profited on 9/11 was Israel and America is finally waking up, it’s time to stop spilling blood for Israel as the zionists laugh all the way to their banks.

    • Concord

      For an anti semite like you, i hoped for more intelligence. He said that his mother is Jewish so how could his father name be Jewish too?
      And as for you nickname .. Adolf .. well
      You and your Hitler Ron Paul can go to hell.

  • Concord

    Eric Dondero you’re a low life…

    If you knew all that about Ron Paul, why the fuck did you work for him for so many years?

    You’re trying to give no importance for the newsletters that proves that he’s a racist, homophob, and anti Israeli. But even if he didn’t write them, you said in the past that he read and approved them..

    And to think that you’re half Jewish listening to his thoughts about the Holocaust … well you’re as shitty as he is.

  • Anonymous

    Not lunacy at all,  If we do not stop the endless Bush wars,  America will be isolated and eventually attacked.  It’s time to mind our own business, bring all the troops home, defend our borders, and stop warmongering. 

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  • Libertarian Pacifist Feminist

    I wonder if Eric’s wife has been mugged and beaten up AGAIN? What was it 3  times in a year? 5 times? But then Eric is the master of the tall story – and his wife??

  • Anonymous

    Ummm….Rittberg - I may have missed this, and perhaps a genius like you can point out to me where, EXACTLY, in the US Constitution, or any of the Founding Documents,the sole rasion d’etre, of the tax-paying citizenry of the USA , is to send every penny to a foreign natio, and to expend the blood of the young, decade after decade, in the service of a foriegn nation, fighting and dying for wars that serves THAT Nation? I know Rabbi Ovadia Yosef thinks that the only reason the Goy exist is to serve Jews – but missed that concept, in the US Consitution.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think that FDR anticipating Pearl Harbor is a ‘conspiracy’.. it’s pretty well-known.

  • Chuck

    Great response.  I’m not quite certain you understand the definition of homophobic though.

  • k22

    Ron Paul was the type of “Conservative” who 70+ years ago passed laws preventing Jews from coming to the US and at the same time opposed a war with Nazi Germany, people like him either wanted the Nazis to commit a Genocide or were indifferent to it, just like now people like him will be more then happy to cut off Israel and let the Muslims finish what the Nazis did, if Jews hate Ron Paul it is because they know they have good reason, one just has to see all the conspiracy theorists and the rabid Jew Hatred coming out of the Ron Paul camp, Ron Paul is the #1 enemy to the Jews

    • Anonymous

      Thanks for saying so.

    • http://twitter.com/lesterhalfjr Chris Hadrick

      ridiculous. libertarians are more open on immigration than most of the right and left,

    • http://twitter.com/lesterhalfjr Chris Hadrick

      ridiculous. libertarians are more open on immigration than most of the right and left,

    • http://twitter.com/lesterhalfjr Chris Hadrick

      ridiculous. libertarians are more open on immigration than most of the right and left,

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-McPherson/626658797 John McPherson

    Do any other libertarians disagree with Ron Paul’s foreign policy?  I thought non-intervention was a core belief of ours?

  • peejay

    Bill White sed paul eets with nasis at a tie restrant, and bill white is healf jooish and half nazi so he caint lie. i found this cause i like jonah goldberg and his mooma,which is theone wat found the jism dress.
    i think you is,all morons fir loving al kaida paul who is also an alien gonzales loving. and luvs bradlee maannind wgose qyeer as blases.
    thank god for all u ferdom

  • Dondero Due Diligence

    That RP hasn’t taken out a restraining order on Dondero by now shows his tolerance.

    Dondero has posted literally thousands, if not tens of thousands, of comments on website after website about RP over the years.  The guy’s at best an obsessed groupie. 

    Do some due diligence on Dondero.  Read the horrific, sometimes hateful & borderline violent things in older comments sections on any number of websites Dondero himself has said to people who even begin to question him.

    That the MSM would take someone like Dondero’s word as gospel about anything is what’s truly “outrageiously horrendous.”

  • Sheri

    Wow! You make him sound like a guy we want in office. I am not anti-semite either but i am anti-Israel, and the only way US can go back to being a soverign nation is by having a man in office who is anti-israel enough to leave Israel well alone to take care of itself. Yes, the creation of israel was a bad idea, as the republican party at the time warned us, but  now that we helped build it and fund it and arm it, let’s please acknowledge we have done more than our share, and just leave them to take care of their own.

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  • ESN Gent

    This is how much I believe this: 0.00000000000%

  • Johndough1984

    I love how he pretends that FDR’s foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor is a conspiracy theory… hell, its not even contraversial anymore among historians… what an ass!

  • http://www.clubvalenciacf.blogspot.com SlickR

    Well this just confirms he is not a racist and that he was pretty much right about 9/11 and Bush wanting to attack Iraq.
    As far as Israel goes he supports Palestine which is not really that big of a deal. A lot of countries and pretty much the majority of people all over the world are sick and tired of the special treatment Isreal is getting while Palestine is getting trashed.

    I’m not in support of any of those, I just think there out to be deal done between Palestine and Israel on peace.

    Just don’t bring your problems and propaganda all over the world.

    Heck anyway they solve this is better than what it is now.

  • Bob Dok

    Interventionism and policy of preemptive war is only desired when you have status of power,when you are without that you are dependent on power of argument.So …it is actually temptation to use power when you miss the argument emended in this doctrine.
    American exeptionalism is actually embeded power in government to disregard rights with use of force.All this can be pleasant until you get totalitarian and extremist in office.Than all these policies and laws become easy instrument of the totalitarian system.USA is republic based on principles of French revolution,not an empire with electable emperors and imperial decrees which trash equality,liberty and fraternity of others.Ron Paul is libertarian and by definition is not a racist.CNN has run smear campaign because clear polite asking of CNN that Ron Paul stop running Serial Hypocrisy ad in Iowa.Obviously Newt is CNN preferred candidate for which they care.But behind stage is actually carving the piece of young black vote to stay with Barack Obama.Behind this operation motive , actually is forcing young Americans to divide on elections by racial belongings.

    • AMSilver

      Wow, I don’t even know where to start with your post.  American exceptionalism (learn how to spell) has nothing to do with government force, it has to do with the idea that people in this country are free to be exceptional, as opposed to having a government that regulates their every move.  The USA is a republic, but was founded with the exact opposite ideas from the French Revolution, which came after, by the way.  The American Revolution was about freedom for the individual, the French Revolution was about group rights, which is about as far from individual freedom as you can get.  The American Revolution, once it had overthrown British Rule, resulted in a peaceful, orderly society that followed the rule of law.  The French Revolution, once it had (peacefully, by the way) obtained self-governance from their monarchs, went on a mob driven murderous rampage where hundreds of thousands were killed for bogus crimes against the State.  There’s nothing like reading the psychotic, uneducated ramblings of Paul supporters to make me reconsider my support for him.

  • k22

    I find it funny that piece of Crap Ron Paul thinks the US went to Europe to save the Jews, no the US went to Europe to stop Hitler and to help France and England, because of pieces like crap Ron Paul who passed laws and worked hard to prevent Jews from coming to the US, the Nazis killed 6 million Jews

    the Ron Pauls of the world can not die fast enough

    • Janet

      Not a Paul fan, but in the wake of some death threats made against Paul by radical Zionist groups, I have forwarded your death threat against a presidential candidate to the Secret Service.
      Lies and media distortions are bad enough, but your Irgun style mafiosas better stop the threats.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=201000782 Sassan K. Darian

        You’re an idiot. He made no such threat.

      • Concord

        Oh Janet, get a life ..

      • k22

        death threats, you are funny Janet, if you want to see death threats go and visit Stormfront and Vanguard News Network, 2 websites full of Ron Paul supporters who openly talk about how there should be a “real” holocaust

        Those are death threats

  • Reuvenboruch

    Thank you for your honest & candid remarks….. There are about 2,000,000 Devoted jews in the US who are steadfast supporters of Israel & about 25,000,000 Evangelical Christians who will NOT vote for a candidate who shows the Disdain for Israel that Ron Paul has demonstrated.

    • Anonymous

      And they are ALL Fifth Columnists subversives, wholly guilty of TREASON.

  • Mlhblues

    This is getting too easy now. This is like the fifth hit piece to be released today. Every piece attracts people to check out Dr. Pauls’ message. I know some Jewish people. They are smart and nice. I catch a vibe from visiting the Jewish temple that they operate to influence. That’s just my feeling. I mean what are Jews scared of? All I know is I saw an american girl bulldozed over while defending a Palestinian mans family and home. I don’t care about any countries policy if they do that. That kind of stuff us what I wish to see Dr. Paul abolish in our own policy. Jews own the Fed. Jews own most major media outlets and tv networks. This writer is seeking is 5 minutes of fame and was no doubt paid well for this, “candid, behind-the-scenes, pseudo-authentic, inside-look”, into Ron Pauls’ mind. B.S.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=201000782 Sassan K. Darian

      lol another anti-Semite. Please keep it up Ron Paul supporters!

    • Disgusted, powerless Jew

      And you’re an anti-semitic whack-job. “Better” how?

    • Anonymous

      They are afraid of being found out. A Paul presidency would restore sound money. It would sotp thwe wholesale plunder of the USA, by the Israeli Firsters. They are going APESHIT over the prospect of a restoration of a Constitutional American Republic. America for Americans. Instead of being Israel’s whipped BITCH,. I have been accused, by this one wingnut calling itself “John S’ of  get this – “hiding behind the Constitution”. Because I simply think that we did FINE as a Nation, when we abided by the rules set forth by the US Constitution. Jefferson told us to stay out of foriegn affairs. Think howe much healthier we’d be , as a country, if we still had our own manufacturing, provided our own energy, ad did not expend TRIILIONS of forieng wars that have destroyed our wealth, and our good name. and – WORST OF ALL – the death of thousands of yung Americans, and foreigners, who never posed ANY harm to us. Soem other Jews is her accusing Paul of “being the type of person that caused the Holocaust”. it’s isulting, and outrageous - and they are SO deranged they can’t  even see how they come across. .

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=201000782 Sassan K. Darian

    UNBELIEVABLE…what a scum Ron Paul truly is and the threat he poses to humanity itself.

  • http://www.kratomplants.com/ Kratom

    Every person has a right to be homophobic just as every person has a right to ridicule homophobic people.

  • Dondero Due Diligence

    http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/28/giuliani-is-not-a-libertarian/

    Ahh, well there you go Thane. You’re quoting an Asshole-tarian like L. Neil Smith. You lost me as soon as I saw that jerkoffs name pop up. He ain’t no goddamned Libertarian. He’s some Pot-bellied Anarchist Mountain Man Sci Fi freakoid living in Colorado.
    And while we’re on the subject WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU ANYWAY??
    I’ve never run into your ugly ass on the petitioning trail for the Libertarian Party or libertarian efforts like property rights and marijuana legalization.
    Who died and left you boss? Who appointed you “King of the Libertarians” able to decide who is and who is not “really a Libertarian.”
    If that distinction belongs to anybody, it belongs to the workhorses of the Libertarian movement like me, Scott Kohlaas, Bill Redpath, Jake Witmer, Aaron Starr, Bruce Cohen, Aaron Bitterman, Phil Blumel, Tom Walls, and other Libertarian Stars.
    Not to dumbfuck lazy-asses like you who wouldn’t know a clipboard if it hit you upside your ugly-ass head.
    Comment by Eric Dondero — March 30, 2007 @ 8:58 pm

    Hah. Government power my ass.
    Let me ask you something Kevin. Do you personally know anybody who even knows anybody who has ever been snooped on by the Feds?
    I don’t.
    It’s a totally arcane, fringe issue that effects virtually Nobody.
    The only people is does effect is that asshole College Professor from the Univ. of Tampa who was caught spying for Al Quada, under the guise of “Charitable donations to good, upstanding Palestinian Relief Organizations” and others like him.
    I say good! We need to be spying on asshole American-hating Immigrants like that.
    Come to think of it, we don’t even need a trial for them. Deport their ugly asses IMMEDIATELY.
    You seem to be totally unconcerned with the threats this Nation faces from Islamo-Fascism.
    It’s one thing to be concerned about civil liberties. Quite another to be willing to let your fellow citizens die at the hands of people who want to convert us or kill us, just so some schuck Islamo-Fascist spy posing as a mild mannered college professor “keeps all his rights.”
    Comment by Eric Dondero — April 1, 2007 @ 8:39 am

     
     

  • Anonymous

    The comments on this thread, and everywhere else, FULLY reveal the righteousness of Paul’s campaign, and life history. Most Jews – not all – but most – are going into full meltdown mode, and are gettng nastier by the second, simply because Paul thinks and acts in the interest of America. Paul does not believe that America’s sole reason to exist is to serve every whim and wish of Israel. Read the comments. Here, and elsewhere.

    • k22

      my hatred of Ron Paul comes from the fact people like him caused the Holocaust, and people who support him are largely these white supremacist blame the Jew conspiracy pieces of crap

      • Anonymous

        “People like Ron Paul caused the Holocaust”? Wow. You are getting better all the time. Question? What was the Balfour Declaration?  The Treaty of Versailles? Who were (and are) the Krupps, and Warburgs? Who did they fund? What ethnoic organization DECLARED war on Germany, in 1933, and where were they, when they did this? What the name of a company that supplied pectin to the German Army, and who owned that company?

        What did Rabbi Yosef say, that got him into a smidgen of trouble?

        • k22

          haha, who declared war on Germany? are you talking about that headline by a british paper after the Jews proposed a boycott of German goods after the Germans began taking measures against the Jews to drive them from Germany, are you talking about that?

          • Anonymous

            Yes. That headline. Did the event happen, or not? Now comment on all those other things, as well.

          • k22

            yes, after the Germans began practicing anti-semetic actions to drive the Jews from Germany, Jews around the world proposed a boycott of German goods, for the rest of your crap, I either do not care or am unwilling to argue with pieces of crap like yourself

          • Anonymous

            I’m not crap. YOU are. Answering questions about rather easily verified FACTS gets embarrassing fast, doesn’t it?

          • Anonymous

            I’m not crap. YOU are. Answering questions about rather easily verified FACTS gets embarrassing fast, doesn’t it?

          • Anonymous

            Yes. That headline. Did the event happen, or not? Now comment on all those other things, as well.

          • Anonymous

            Can you tell me why powerful wealthy Jews funded Hitler?

          • k22

            haha you are typical of the Ron Paul shit stains, wealthy Jews funded Hitler, you are funny

          • Anonymous

            Haven’t you, or any of the other Jews here, calling Paul, and his supporters, EVERY name in the book, begun to appreciate that the nastier, and more irrelevant your insults get, the more normal people are beginning to see you for what you are? 

            Did wealthy Jewish inter-related families fund and promote Hitler’s rise, or did they? You should really drop the Holocaust schtik. It’s getting REALLY old. And very transparent. See – I was never interested in WWII at all. Not until 9/11/01. I began to do a lot of research. So have other people. One bit of info led to another. Shall we discuss the  number of Jews that worked FOR the Riech? How about the number of Jews in Germany before WWII – and the numbers AFTER?

            You are making the most ridicuous and offensive comments aobut Ron Paul, and his supporters. I know why you and your fellow boychicks are doign this – but plenty of folks don’t. But you keep sayng things like “People like Ron Paul caused the Holocaust”. You keep that up.  I am for Constitutional US Government. I follow Jefferson in ALL Things. This is what makes me an American. I am SICK of my country being looted by YOURS. I am SICK of my young fellow Americans coming back fomr YOUR wars maimed, mutilated, on encased in a coffin,.I am SICK of YOUR Congressional/.Senate  operatives cutting deals witrh China (Woo hoo! Barbara Boxer, Jane Harmon Diane Fienstien HELLO). I am SICK of American technology being brokered to China, an every where else, by Israelis. I am SICK OF YOU. So are more and more Americans. By the second. With or without Ron Paul

          • Anonymous

            Haven’t you, or any of the other Jews here, calling Paul, and his supporters, EVERY name in the book, begun to appreciate that the nastier, and more irrelevant your insults get, the more normal people are beginning to see you for what you are? 

            Did wealthy Jewish inter-related families fund and promote Hitler’s rise, or did they? You should really drop the Holocaust schtik. It’s getting REALLY old. And very transparent. See – I was never interested in WWII at all. Not until 9/11/01. I began to do a lot of research. So have other people. One bit of info led to another. Shall we discuss the  number of Jews that worked FOR the Riech? How about the number of Jews in Germany before WWII – and the numbers AFTER?

            You are making the most ridicuous and offensive comments aobut Ron Paul, and his supporters. I know why you and your fellow boychicks are doign this – but plenty of folks don’t. But you keep sayng things like “People like Ron Paul caused the Holocaust”. You keep that up.  I am for Constitutional US Government. I follow Jefferson in ALL Things. This is what makes me an American. I am SICK of my country being looted by YOURS. I am SICK of my young fellow Americans coming back fomr YOUR wars maimed, mutilated, on encased in a coffin,.I am SICK of YOUR Congressional/.Senate  operatives cutting deals witrh China (Woo hoo! Barbara Boxer, Jane Harmon Diane Fienstien HELLO). I am SICK of American technology being brokered to China, an every where else, by Israelis. I am SICK OF YOU. So are more and more Americans. By the second. With or without Ron Paul

          • Anonymous

            Can you tell me why powerful wealthy Jews funded Hitler?

          • Anonymous

            Can you tell me why powerful wealthy Jews funded Hitler?

      • Anonymous

        “People like Ron Paul caused the Holocaust”? Wow. You are getting better all the time. Question? What was the Balfour Declaration?  The Treaty of Versailles? Who were (and are) the Krupps, and Warburgs? Who did they fund? What ethnoic organization DECLARED war on Germany, in 1933, and where were they, when they did this? What the name of a company that supplied pectin to the German Army, and who owned that company?

        What did Rabbi Yosef say, that got him into a smidgen of trouble?

  • http://www.facebook.com/jeffreyilevin Jeffrey Levin

    This statement from a former Ron Paul staffer, who repeatedly calls his former boss “clueless” isn’t a strong endorsement of his candidacy to say the least.  The way Ron Paul characterizes  the existance of the State of Israel as a costly nuisance in the Middle East and counter to American interests is disturbing.  I question how Ron Paul’s foreign policy world view differs from the widely derided wold view of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. 

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  • http://www.facebook.com/iconic.freedom26 Iconic Freedom

    the credulity by which people just give over to a person who has no evidence other than “private” conversations that can be neither confirmed nor denied, is remarkable.

    has no one questioned why the “former staffer” didn’t come forth in other elections?  didn’t come forth at every opportunity to discredit Paul if these issues were true issues?

    is it not logical that someone with such powerful information to discredit a candidate wouldn’t have come forth shouting from the highest hill?

    if you’re already looking for reasons in your own self-interest to not vote for Paul, then I’m sure you’re salivating at this story.

    what is the self-interest of the former staffer along with his timing?  who is he supporting?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Dahl/100000085080318 David Dahl

    Eric Dondero is lying because he was fired by Ron Paul.
    Loser!

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  • Chosen People … of Hell!

    Is Dondero just another Chosenite Israel-Firster protecting the Federal Reserve i.e. Jewish Counterfeit Printing Press?
    YES HE IS, in the opinion of many people.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=201000782 Sassan K. Darian

      lol another Ron Paul nut. Keep it up Paultards. :)

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  • Anonymous

    Thank you, Eric.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you, Eric.

  • Parind Vora

    Sad…..If this was actually more than a small fish who is aggrandizing because he  actually was not privy to the information that Dr. Paul had because he was a sitting US congressman.

    Mr. Dondero, this is a bridge you probably did not want to burn.  As more & more of these desperate attacks come from left/right field……more & more people will be supporting Dr. Paul. 

    Because in truth,  If he really did not matter then nothing would need to have been said.

  • Parind Vora

    Sad…..If this was actually more than a small fish who is aggrandizing because he  actually was not privy to the information that Dr. Paul had because he was a sitting US congressman.

    Mr. Dondero, this is a bridge you probably did not want to burn.  As more & more of these desperate attacks come from left/right field……more & more people will be supporting Dr. Paul. 

    Because in truth,  If he really did not matter then nothing would need to have been said.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BKCST2TNM6R43DRJOP3Y2OIG2Y Emma

    While I disagree with Paul’s anti-Israel feelings, I note that aside from cutting off foreign aid to Israel, a Paul foreign policy would do nothing to harm it.  And I suspect that a cut-off of U.S. government aid would result in all of it, and more, being replaced by donations from U.S. Jews and conservative Christians.

    I am definitely uninterested in the U.S. attacking — or even helping Israel to attack — Iran. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BKCST2TNM6R43DRJOP3Y2OIG2Y Emma

    While I disagree with Paul’s anti-Israel feelings, I note that aside from cutting off foreign aid to Israel, a Paul foreign policy would do nothing to harm it.  And I suspect that a cut-off of U.S. government aid would result in all of it, and more, being replaced by donations from U.S. Jews and conservative Christians.

    I am definitely uninterested in the U.S. attacking — or even helping Israel to attack — Iran. 

  • Blackdogma1

    Eric, while I do like your insight as his employee, I think your timing
    is bad, and that you’re being very selfish here. You should know better
    than to post private conversations and personal opinions thinking that
    it will be taken into the correct context by the media’s smear campaign.

    What really bothers me is that you come out with this information when Ron Paul’s campaign is at its peak and most vulnerable, after all his supporters have worked so hard to push for him. Being a RP supporter the past 12 years, you don’t care about this?

    You betray Paul’s personal trust and try to sabotage his campaign because you disagree with foreign policy; Obviously not concerned with anything and everything else that’s going on. No candidate is perfect, but what they have to offer is what matters. If he’s uncomfortable, that’s one thing. But he offers equality in individual rights, and that’s the bigger message you never fully realized in your article, but hinted at. You took the wrong angle.

    Very short-sighted, very naive, very inappropriate. You obviously failed to listen to any of the good things he had to say or failed to mention them completely… for some reason.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BKCST2TNM6R43DRJOP3Y2OIG2Y Emma

    Yes, we have had libertarian presidents. Their names were Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.  After 20 years of such presidencies, the opposition party, the big-government Federalists ceased to exist and this produced “The Era of Good Feelings”.

    The last libertarian president was Grover Cleveland.  One of his best known sayings — regarding the welfare state — was that “the people have a duty to support the government, but the government has no duty to support the people”.

    • Anonymous

      Madison supported a national bank, protective tariffs, internal improvements, and a standing army. Jefferson favored extreme restrictions on personal liberty, including laws that would castrate people for sodomy. Referring to them as libertarians is anachronistic.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/thurane Thurane Aung Khin

    Mitt Romney is a Democrat Liberal/Statist/Big Government/War Mongering/Flip-Flopping/NeoCon/Rhino/CFR-Bilderberg-TriLateral Commission Globalist running for the GOP Presidential Nomination.Ron Paul is a Fiscally Conservative/Socially Liberal Constitutional Libertarian with racist newsletters from his past 22 years ago running for the GOP Presidential Nomination – BOTH are flawed men, to be sure. But Ron Paul is still the BEST Libertarian/Republican choice for President of the USA regardless. The time for American Liberty and Constitutional Freedom has come, and Ron Paul is the ONLY man positioned to bring it to us at this time in American history.

  • Ron Paul Hater

    This reminds me of when the Jewish homosexual Sasha Baron Cohen made a pass at Paul and was rebuffed. A disgusting smear to keep the welfare bucks flowing to Israel while Americans starve. How low can Jews like Donderoberg,Goldberg, Gloria Bolgen, and The Weakly Standard go? I hate Paul for suporting gay marriage, but it shows how vicious and dishonest Jews are towards their enemies. No decency at all. I mean, I hate Paul too, but Jews ban him from their debate and lie about just to keep American tax money flowing to their welfare state. below I saw that one guy got reported to The Secret Service for making death threats against Paul. All for money.

  • Ron Paul Hater

    This reminds me of when the Jewish homosexual Sasha Baron Cohen made a pass at Paul and was rebuffed. A disgusting smear to keep the welfare bucks flowing to Israel while Americans starve. How low can Jews like Donderoberg,Goldberg, Gloria Bolgen, and The Weakly Standard go? I hate Paul for suporting gay marriage, but it shows how vicious and dishonest Jews are towards their enemies. No decency at all. I mean, I hate Paul too, but Jews ban him from their debate and lie about just to keep American tax money flowing to their welfare state. below I saw that one guy got reported to The Secret Service for making death threats against Paul. All for money.

  • Ron Paul Hater

    This reminds me of when the Jewish homosexual Sasha Baron Cohen made a pass at Paul and was rebuffed. A disgusting smear to keep the welfare bucks flowing to Israel while Americans starve. How low can Jews like Donderoberg,Goldberg, Gloria Bolgen, and The Weakly Standard go? I hate Paul for suporting gay marriage, but it shows how vicious and dishonest Jews are towards their enemies. No decency at all. I mean, I hate Paul too, but Jews ban him from their debate and lie about just to keep American tax money flowing to their welfare state. below I saw that one guy got reported to The Secret Service for making death threats against Paul. All for money.

  • Anonymous

    “…that was reason enough to counter-attack against the Nazis, not any humanitarian causes like preventing the Holocaust.”

    Another argument devoid of reason because it ignores the Holodomor.

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  • Anonymous

    RP’s foreign policy is no more lunacy than W’s was, but it is far less harmful to America.  Time for the GOP to get its act together and jettison the neocons

  • http://twitter.com/Winston80 Winston

    Ru Paul is a jackass.

  • http://twitter.com/Winston80 Winston

    Ru Paul is a jackass.

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  • http://profiles.google.com/normy11 David Norman

    I have zero idea if this guy is credible or not, but the antisemitic rants in some of these comments from Paul supporters sure isn’t helping your candidate look better than this.

    • Captainshays

      David Norman, I am the biggest Ron Paul fan in the world. I have his autographed picture right here above my desk and I have to say that I totally agree with you. I sometimes wonder if they really are Ron Paul supporters or if they are fakes tryingt to make him look bad

  • guest

    Oh look, another “unless you’re blowing up the foreigners you aren’t conservative” hatchet piece against Ron Paul.  Maybe Israel should learn to take care of itself, rather than rely on America to keep bailing them out of every situation they get in to.

    So sick and tired of the Neo-Cons thinking that we need to have our fingers in everyone else’s pie.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is a neo-nazi and use the exact same “code” of speech that muslims and nazis use:

    “He is however, most certainly Anti-Israel, and Anti-Israeli in general.
    He wishes the Israeli state did not exist at all. He expressed this to
    me numerous times in our private conversations. His view is that
    Israel is more trouble than it is worth, specifically to the America
    taxpayer. He sides with the Palestinians, and supports their calls for
    the abolishment of the Jewish state, and the return of Israel, all of
    it, to the Arabs. ”

    This disgusting Ronpauliac is nothing but a mouth piece for conquering Islam;
    “The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. Theodore Roosevelt.”

    • Captainshays

      I wonder what Ron Paul’s anti Israel angle was when he was the only NO vote to condemn Israel when they attacked Iraq’s nuclear facility? He must have had something up his sleeve right?

  • Anonymous

    Mr. Dondero,

    First of all, thank you for your extensive commentary. While you are offering serious allegations, I am taking you at your word. If it turns out you have a motive, such as being a disgruntled ex-employee, that would be revealed. I personally find your words credible.

    I am absolutely not backing Ron Paul for one reason. I disagree with him on foreign policy. He is ok with Iran getting nuclear weapons. I am not. That is policy, and I disagree with him.

    However, I must take issue with your defense of Dr. Paul against some charges of bigotry. Until I read your column, I actually said Dr. Paul was not an anti-Semite. I said that he favored cutting off all foreign aid to everyone, which was a consistent position I disagreed with but certainly not anti-Semitic.

    (I am a Jewish Republican, and heterosexual. My dad is a Holocaust survivor.)

    Wishing that Israel did not exist is anti-Semitic. There is no way around it. Supporting that all of Israel be returned to the Arabs is anti-Semitic. The fact that he did not use slurs like the K-word is irrelevant.

    I never thought he was a homophobe, but to say that he is from a different generation is not sufficient. The Old South had to change because it was racist. To refuse to use a gay man’s bathroom or to shake a gay man’s hand is homophobic. The fact that he did not use the F-word is irrelevant.

    Regarding black people, just because he never used the N-word does not mean he escapes the charge of racism. However, with this group you did not provide anything that rises to the level of racism, so that charge has not been proven.

    So he may not be anti-black, but he is anti-Jew and anti-gay.

    Again, until I read your column I defended him. Your own words have convinced me that with regards to Jews and gays, he does have bad intent and malice in his heart.

    The discussion absolutely should be about issues such as his foreign policy views. However, solely based on your column, Ron Paul’s views should be considered anti-Semitic.

    Respectfully,

    Eric Golub
    aka eric @ the Tygrrrr Express

     

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  • JoeBritton

    Look folks. If Paul goes down and follows Gingrich who is already down, all we will be left with is Romney, who just might beat Obama. Then what. That’s why I am supporting Obama Republicans.

    • Martin Hale

      It’s a Festivus miracle!  You’ve found a crowd in which your brand of doctrinaire ‘crazy ‘n cranky’ blends right in.  You should ask Mr. Hawkins nicely to invite this crew in more often to keep you company, yes?  Though I have to say, you don’t stand out as much in this crowd.

  • JoeBritton

    Look folks. If Paul goes down and follows Gingrich who is already down, all we will be left with is Romney, who just might beat Obama. Then what. That’s why I am supporting Obama Republicans.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Watson/100000138336774 Ron Watson

    ron Paul is a racist anti-semite loony whose foriegn policy would be very bad.  too bad he is right on the economy

  • minsky

    I expected this. It’s time we realise who exactly we are up against. Ron Paul represents a movement that is revolting against a status quo that has been expanding its power since WW2. I expected nothing sort of assassination, that is, if the media didn’t shoot him down before he became a real threat. 

    This is the end of the Ron Paul campaign in my opinion. There is absolutely no way that the the largest banks in the world would tolerate their most  profitable exploits being curtailed after so many decades of free reign. 

    Foreign policy plays a role in this too. Israel has a stranglehold  over US domestic and foreign Policy. Not a single debate goes by without the mention of Israel, Hamas, Palestine etc. 

    Now if you actually understood Ron Paul’s campaign, it becomes obvious that his position on Israel is no different to what the incumbent prime minister of Israel think, the so called strong man of the Likud party. 

    So why is there such a revolt against Ron Paul’s position on Israel? My guess is that it’s more to do with military contractors than the sovereignty of Israel. The good people of Israel and Palestine are just pawns in the game of money making. 

    On closing, it really saddens me that we came this close. Ron Paul 2012 is over. 

  • louis smith

    He never met a voting Jew he didn’t like. Ron Paul is anti-non-voter-semitic.

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  • Anonymous

    Only those present would know if Dondero tells the truth or not, but it all sounds rather fantastic to me. The guy tried to unseat Ron Paul in his congressional district, and lost. And now we hear these revelations in the 11th hour of the Iowa caucus campaign? Spends days campaigning with gays, but then suddenly refuses to shake one’s hand? Would not have fought in WWII, even after Pearl Harbor? Bullshit. This is a hit piece. I’m voting RP.

    PS. Good luck with that website of yours, Dondero. Maybe now you can sell some adds on it.

  • Anonymous

    I will say one thing, his view on the US using 9/11 as an excuse for Iraq has been proven time and again, the rest is rather shocking.

  • Anonymous

    Wow! I thought the Paul people were organized when it came to comments! But the Zio-fascist organization on display here is art! They even pose as Paul supporters and write crazy anti-semitic crap to discredit them! Now *this* is cyber war!

    • 123

      haha, you are funny if you think they are “posing” as Paul supporters

      One has to read one of the many neo-nazi websites or conspiracy websites to see the mentality of the average Paul supporter

  • Anonymous

    Of course this guy has zero credibility….he declared he would run for congress against Ron Paul back in 2007….why didn’t all of this stuff come out back then?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705981775 Curtis Morrison

    I’m impressed by your candor.
    A slight footnote on your implication that the US entered the war to prevent the holocaust, though. That’s historically inaccurate. The US, nor most of the world, was even aware of the holocaust until after the war. It was so unacknowledged, in fact, that when Eichmann was dragged to trial in Israel from Argentina, most of the world was outraged.

  • Just

    In reaching this conclusion, the district court relied heavily on Oklahoma’s evidence calling into question the integrity of certain non-resident circulators, including Eric Dondero Rittberg.   Oklahoma presented evidence that during his career as a professional circulator, Rittberg:  (1) falsely claimed to be a resident of Colorado;  (2) failed to register as required in Missouri before circulating petitions in that state;  and (3) was part of a four-person team of non-resident circulators in Montana who unlawfully attested to signatures gathered outside of their presence and engaged in “bait and switch” tactics.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lagunabeachonline Oliver Clothesov

    what is your agenda here scumbag? is this all the dirt you have? are you finished yet? so what if he didnt want to use a gay bathroom in 1988 and he had some part of a letter in 1996? you can’t do any better? he wasn’t exactly driving Mary Jo Kopechne home, now was he? 

    RON PAUL 2012

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  • Pete Smith

    Umm, it’s a well known fact at this point the FDR knew that Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor. Historians have proven this with documentation. As well, Ron Paul is not alone in believing that Israel has been a thorn on our backside long enough. Millions of us agree. And this has nothing to do with being against the Jewish faith or anything else. It has to do with taking care of our people first.

    • http://twitter.com/sasss31 sassss

      MAYBE hours before, not weeks before. Ron Paul is simply a scumbag who felt that Hitler was doing the right thing killing millions of innocent Jewish civilians.

      • Captainshays

        Yeah maybe. And maybe Ron Paul eats the heads off of live chickens too and doesn’t even bother to pluck their feathers off first.
        Now I am on par with your ridiculously ill informed statement about Ron Paul feeling that Hitler did the right thing.
        Check under your bed before you get in it. There might be a monster there. Check your closet too. Oh me. Oh my

  • http://twitter.com/Winston80 Winston

    Ru Paul is an anti-American communist

    • Anonymous

      Really? I though he was an apolitical drag queen. I think you are lying though. Ru Paul would never get such nice clothing, and wigs, and cosmetics in a dreary Commie dump.

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  • Sanderson13

    Doesn’t Congress declare war? Or is it too quaint an idea to expect a President to act constitutionally and allow troops to be sent to war only when the Congress, which represents the will of the American people (you know, the people who actually fight the wars), declare war?

    On a philosophical note — and I am both a Jew and a Ron Paul supporter — should we send troops to war to protect any group from slaughter? And if we should, how should we decide which groups to save, and which to let be killed?

    The Holocaust happened because the German people allowed Hitler to use the state to eliminate or oppress individual liberties. Ron Paul supports policies which are nearly always the antithesis of such an occurrence.

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  • Angry former Paul cheerleader

    This is not the first time his anti Israel feelings have been known. This is a distraction from the fact that he was associating with racists. Look at the line up including the creators of neo nazi websites? There was a time that these Arian nation fags were locked up as enemies of the state during world war II and after. Here Ron Paul attracts them in droves and takes donations from them. These are facts he admitted to and his associated on this article prove it further. It’s purely anti American.

  • Angry former Paul cheerleader

    This is not the first time his anti Israel feelings have been known. This is a distraction from the fact that he was associating with racists. Look at the line up including the creators of neo nazi websites? There was a time that these Arian nation fags were locked up as enemies of the state during world war II and after. Here Ron Paul attracts them in droves and takes donations from them. These are facts he admitted to and his associated on this article prove it further. It’s purely anti American.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Pad-Dar/100002515504977 Pad Dar

    Ron Pauls FOLLOWERS are the Jew haters, imo.

    • 123

      they are not Jew haters, they are people who think the Jews are beneath them, that Jews are the people you can kill or you can blame for your problems one has to look at Stormfront or Vanguard News Network and to see how much they love Ron Paul

      This goes beyond Israel, any Jew knows that Ron Paul is their enemy

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Pad-Dar/100002515504977 Pad Dar

    Ron Pauls FOLLOWERS are the Jew haters, imo.

  • Donna Garner

    “Ron Paul and Obama –
    Dangerous Men”

    by Donna Garner

    12.26.11

    http://libertylinked.com/posts/9163/ron-paul-and-obama—/View.aspx 

    Ben Barrack has posted a
    very incriminating piece on Ron Paul: 

    http://barracknow.blogspot.com/2011/12/ron-paul-letter-from-1993-makes-911.html

     

     

    The type of phrasing in the letters signed by Ron Paul
    in 1993 is the very same type of language that he spews right now. It will be
    very hard for him to convince the public that he did not make such statements
    as, “Martin Luther King, Jr. is a world-class philanderer.”  

     

    Ron Paul has always been unstable. I have followed him
    for years. He has never been considered by his fellow Congressmen as a leader
    because of his far-out Libertarian views. For those people who think Ron Paul
    would make a good leader for our country, let’s take a look at what kind of a
    leader he has been in Congress.

     

     

    According to non-partisan GovTrack.us ( http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400311
    ), “Ronald Paul has sponsored 421 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 418 haven’t made it out of committee and 1 were
    successfully enacted.” (This site appears to be quite current because it
    tracks bills filed as late as Oct. 20, 2011.)  

     

    Since 1997 to the present time, Congressman Ron Paul
    has only been able to build the required support for only one of his bills to
    pass.  Even worse, only three of his bills have even made it out of
    committee. This record demonstrates a startling lack of leadership on his part
    and reveals how little trust his fellow Congressmen have in him.  His
    record also explains why he has been nicknamed “Dr. No.”  

     

    It is obvious that Ron Paul does not have the ability
    to build support from both sides of the aisle.  He certainly could not
    unify our country behind his ideas, many of which have been called just plain
    “wacky.”

     

    What Ron Paul has done to build campaign support is to
    co-opt a segment of society who knows a great deal about the social media
    network but very little about history – young people who have graduated in the
    last ten to fifteen years from our  public schools.

     

    Believe it or not, whenever I would begin to teach A
    Tale of Two Cities to my high-school English students, I actually had to
    stop and make sure my students knew that London and Paris were cities and not
    countries; and then I had to show my students where these cities were located.
    Now these students are out in society, and I believe many of them have been
    easily fooled by Ron Paul because they have no solid historical background.

     

    Hopefully with the advent of new Social Studies
    standards (TEKS) in Texas (starting with the ninth grade class this year) and
    with Texas’ influence on textbooks used in other states, radical political
    candidates such as Ron Paul will lose their core supporters as time goes on. As
    more students study for twelve years fact-based American history, fact-based
    world geography, fact-based world history, and fact-based economics/government,
    they will develop a stronger understanding of America’s position in the world
    and will realize that isolationism and appeasement are not possible nor safe.
     

     

    Case in point: It is not a coincidence that right
    after our U. S. drone mysteriously came down in Iran and Obama debased himself
    and our nation by begging for Iran to return it to us, the Iranians began to
    flex their military muscles by indicating they may shut down the Strait of
    Hormuz.  This is the Strait through which more than one-third of the
    world’s seaborne oil supply passes and is a “chokepoint” – a narrow passage to
    the open sea for oil tankers from the petroleum-exporting Persian Gulf
    countries.

     

    If our public schools do a better job of preparing the
    present and future generations of students, the future voters will be much
    better prepared to evaluate candidates on their ideas and how they would
    realistically play out if implemented.  

     

    As for now, we just have to keep trying to “teach”
    voters that Obama and Ron Paul are both dangerous men, have very similar views
    of America’s position in the world, choose to blame America for 9/11 instead of
    the Islamist terrorists,  and think by appeasing the enemy we can all sit
    down and “play nice.”  It is impossible to appease an enemy such as Iran
    whose sole, stated purpose is to wipe Israel and the United States off the map.

     

    Quotes from Matt Barber, 2.21.11 – Ron Paul’s
    Presidential Dance – Cute But Unstable:

     

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/21/making-the-case-for-and-against-ron-paul/?page=all#pagebreak

     

     

    Putting aside for a moment Mr.
    Paul’s leftist policies on a variety of social issues, ranging from
    his unwavering support for newfangled “gay rights” – to include open
    homosexuality in the military – to advocacy for across-the-board legalization
    of illicit drugs, he demonstrated that he has a dangerous, fundamental
    misunderstanding of the threat posed to every American citizen by radical
    Islam. This alone disqualifies him for serious consideration as our future
    commander in chief.

    Mr.
    Paul is many things, but conservative is not one of them. He’s
    a died-in-the-wool libertarian. That’s one part conservative, two parts
    anarchist.

     

    Quote from Michele Bachmann, debate, 12.15.11: 

     

    “With all due respect to Ron
    Paul, I think I have never heard a more dangerous answer for
    American security than the one that we just heard from Ron
    Paul. … I’ll tell you the reason why, the reason why I would say
    that is because we know without a shadow of a doubt that Iran will take a nuclear weapon, they will
    use it to wipe our ally Israel off the face of the map, and they stated they
    will use it against the United States of America. Look no further than the
    Iranian constitution, which states unequivocally that their mission is to
    extend jihad across the world and eventually to set up a worldwide caliphate.
    We would be fools to ignore their purpose and their plan.”  (Taken from “Michele Bachmann for
    President” by Donna Garner, 12.16.11: http://educationviews.org/2011/12/16/michele-bachmann-for-president/
    )

     

    Donna Garner

    Wgarner1@hot.rr.com

     

     

  • Donna Garner

    “Ron Paul and Obama –
    Dangerous Men”

    by Donna Garner

    12.26.11

    http://libertylinked.com/posts/9163/ron-paul-and-obama—/View.aspx 

    Ben Barrack has posted a
    very incriminating piece on Ron Paul: 

    http://barracknow.blogspot.com/2011/12/ron-paul-letter-from-1993-makes-911.html

     

     

    The type of phrasing in the letters signed by Ron Paul
    in 1993 is the very same type of language that he spews right now. It will be
    very hard for him to convince the public that he did not make such statements
    as, “Martin Luther King, Jr. is a world-class philanderer.”  

     

    Ron Paul has always been unstable. I have followed him
    for years. He has never been considered by his fellow Congressmen as a leader
    because of his far-out Libertarian views. For those people who think Ron Paul
    would make a good leader for our country, let’s take a look at what kind of a
    leader he has been in Congress.

     

     

    According to non-partisan GovTrack.us ( http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400311
    ), “Ronald Paul has sponsored 421 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 418 haven’t made it out of committee and 1 were
    successfully enacted.” (This site appears to be quite current because it
    tracks bills filed as late as Oct. 20, 2011.)  

     

    Since 1997 to the present time, Congressman Ron Paul
    has only been able to build the required support for only one of his bills to
    pass.  Even worse, only three of his bills have even made it out of
    committee. This record demonstrates a startling lack of leadership on his part
    and reveals how little trust his fellow Congressmen have in him.  His
    record also explains why he has been nicknamed “Dr. No.”  

     

    It is obvious that Ron Paul does not have the ability
    to build support from both sides of the aisle.  He certainly could not
    unify our country behind his ideas, many of which have been called just plain
    “wacky.”

     

    What Ron Paul has done to build campaign support is to
    co-opt a segment of society who knows a great deal about the social media
    network but very little about history – young people who have graduated in the
    last ten to fifteen years from our  public schools.

     

    Believe it or not, whenever I would begin to teach A
    Tale of Two Cities to my high-school English students, I actually had to
    stop and make sure my students knew that London and Paris were cities and not
    countries; and then I had to show my students where these cities were located.
    Now these students are out in society, and I believe many of them have been
    easily fooled by Ron Paul because they have no solid historical background.

     

    Hopefully with the advent of new Social Studies
    standards (TEKS) in Texas (starting with the ninth grade class this year) and
    with Texas’ influence on textbooks used in other states, radical political
    candidates such as Ron Paul will lose their core supporters as time goes on. As
    more students study for twelve years fact-based American history, fact-based
    world geography, fact-based world history, and fact-based economics/government,
    they will develop a stronger understanding of America’s position in the world
    and will realize that isolationism and appeasement are not possible nor safe.
     

     

    Case in point: It is not a coincidence that right
    after our U. S. drone mysteriously came down in Iran and Obama debased himself
    and our nation by begging for Iran to return it to us, the Iranians began to
    flex their military muscles by indicating they may shut down the Strait of
    Hormuz.  This is the Strait through which more than one-third of the
    world’s seaborne oil supply passes and is a “chokepoint” – a narrow passage to
    the open sea for oil tankers from the petroleum-exporting Persian Gulf
    countries.

     

    If our public schools do a better job of preparing the
    present and future generations of students, the future voters will be much
    better prepared to evaluate candidates on their ideas and how they would
    realistically play out if implemented.  

     

    As for now, we just have to keep trying to “teach”
    voters that Obama and Ron Paul are both dangerous men, have very similar views
    of America’s position in the world, choose to blame America for 9/11 instead of
    the Islamist terrorists,  and think by appeasing the enemy we can all sit
    down and “play nice.”  It is impossible to appease an enemy such as Iran
    whose sole, stated purpose is to wipe Israel and the United States off the map.

     

    Quotes from Matt Barber, 2.21.11 – Ron Paul’s
    Presidential Dance – Cute But Unstable:

     

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/21/making-the-case-for-and-against-ron-paul/?page=all#pagebreak

     

     

    Putting aside for a moment Mr.
    Paul’s leftist policies on a variety of social issues, ranging from
    his unwavering support for newfangled “gay rights” – to include open
    homosexuality in the military – to advocacy for across-the-board legalization
    of illicit drugs, he demonstrated that he has a dangerous, fundamental
    misunderstanding of the threat posed to every American citizen by radical
    Islam. This alone disqualifies him for serious consideration as our future
    commander in chief.

    Mr.
    Paul is many things, but conservative is not one of them. He’s
    a died-in-the-wool libertarian. That’s one part conservative, two parts
    anarchist.

     

    Quote from Michele Bachmann, debate, 12.15.11: 

     

    “With all due respect to Ron
    Paul, I think I have never heard a more dangerous answer for
    American security than the one that we just heard from Ron
    Paul. … I’ll tell you the reason why, the reason why I would say
    that is because we know without a shadow of a doubt that Iran will take a nuclear weapon, they will
    use it to wipe our ally Israel off the face of the map, and they stated they
    will use it against the United States of America. Look no further than the
    Iranian constitution, which states unequivocally that their mission is to
    extend jihad across the world and eventually to set up a worldwide caliphate.
    We would be fools to ignore their purpose and their plan.”  (Taken from “Michele Bachmann for
    President” by Donna Garner, 12.16.11: http://educationviews.org/2011/12/16/michele-bachmann-for-president/
    )

     

    Donna Garner

    Wgarner1@hot.rr.com

     

     

  • Donna Garner

    “Ron Paul and Obama –
    Dangerous Men”

    by Donna Garner

    12.26.11

    http://libertylinked.com/posts/9163/ron-paul-and-obama—/View.aspx 

    Ben Barrack has posted a
    very incriminating piece on Ron Paul: 

    http://barracknow.blogspot.com/2011/12/ron-paul-letter-from-1993-makes-911.html

     

     

    The type of phrasing in the letters signed by Ron Paul
    in 1993 is the very same type of language that he spews right now. It will be
    very hard for him to convince the public that he did not make such statements
    as, “Martin Luther King, Jr. is a world-class philanderer.”  

     

    Ron Paul has always been unstable. I have followed him
    for years. He has never been considered by his fellow Congressmen as a leader
    because of his far-out Libertarian views. For those people who think Ron Paul
    would make a good leader for our country, let’s take a look at what kind of a
    leader he has been in Congress.

     

     

    According to non-partisan GovTrack.us ( http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400311
    ), “Ronald Paul has sponsored 421 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 418 haven’t made it out of committee and 1 were
    successfully enacted.” (This site appears to be quite current because it
    tracks bills filed as late as Oct. 20, 2011.)  

     

    Since 1997 to the present time, Congressman Ron Paul
    has only been able to build the required support for only one of his bills to
    pass.  Even worse, only three of his bills have even made it out of
    committee. This record demonstrates a startling lack of leadership on his part
    and reveals how little trust his fellow Congressmen have in him.  His
    record also explains why he has been nicknamed “Dr. No.”  

     

    It is obvious that Ron Paul does not have the ability
    to build support from both sides of the aisle.  He certainly could not
    unify our country behind his ideas, many of which have been called just plain
    “wacky.”

     

    What Ron Paul has done to build campaign support is to
    co-opt a segment of society who knows a great deal about the social media
    network but very little about history – young people who have graduated in the
    last ten to fifteen years from our  public schools.

     

    Believe it or not, whenever I would begin to teach A
    Tale of Two Cities to my high-school English students, I actually had to
    stop and make sure my students knew that London and Paris were cities and not
    countries; and then I had to show my students where these cities were located.
    Now these students are out in society, and I believe many of them have been
    easily fooled by Ron Paul because they have no solid historical background.

     

    Hopefully with the advent of new Social Studies
    standards (TEKS) in Texas (starting with the ninth grade class this year) and
    with Texas’ influence on textbooks used in other states, radical political
    candidates such as Ron Paul will lose their core supporters as time goes on. As
    more students study for twelve years fact-based American history, fact-based
    world geography, fact-based world history, and fact-based economics/government,
    they will develop a stronger understanding of America’s position in the world
    and will realize that isolationism and appeasement are not possible nor safe.
     

     

    Case in point: It is not a coincidence that right
    after our U. S. drone mysteriously came down in Iran and Obama debased himself
    and our nation by begging for Iran to return it to us, the Iranians began to
    flex their military muscles by indicating they may shut down the Strait of
    Hormuz.  This is the Strait through which more than one-third of the
    world’s seaborne oil supply passes and is a “chokepoint” – a narrow passage to
    the open sea for oil tankers from the petroleum-exporting Persian Gulf
    countries.

     

    If our public schools do a better job of preparing the
    present and future generations of students, the future voters will be much
    better prepared to evaluate candidates on their ideas and how they would
    realistically play out if implemented.  

     

    As for now, we just have to keep trying to “teach”
    voters that Obama and Ron Paul are both dangerous men, have very similar views
    of America’s position in the world, choose to blame America for 9/11 instead of
    the Islamist terrorists,  and think by appeasing the enemy we can all sit
    down and “play nice.”  It is impossible to appease an enemy such as Iran
    whose sole, stated purpose is to wipe Israel and the United States off the map.

     

    Quotes from Matt Barber, 2.21.11 – Ron Paul’s
    Presidential Dance – Cute But Unstable:

     

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/21/making-the-case-for-and-against-ron-paul/?page=all#pagebreak

     

     

    Putting aside for a moment Mr.
    Paul’s leftist policies on a variety of social issues, ranging from
    his unwavering support for newfangled “gay rights” – to include open
    homosexuality in the military – to advocacy for across-the-board legalization
    of illicit drugs, he demonstrated that he has a dangerous, fundamental
    misunderstanding of the threat posed to every American citizen by radical
    Islam. This alone disqualifies him for serious consideration as our future
    commander in chief.

    Mr.
    Paul is many things, but conservative is not one of them. He’s
    a died-in-the-wool libertarian. That’s one part conservative, two parts
    anarchist.

     

    Quote from Michele Bachmann, debate, 12.15.11: 

     

    “With all due respect to Ron
    Paul, I think I have never heard a more dangerous answer for
    American security than the one that we just heard from Ron
    Paul. … I’ll tell you the reason why, the reason why I would say
    that is because we know without a shadow of a doubt that Iran will take a nuclear weapon, they will
    use it to wipe our ally Israel off the face of the map, and they stated they
    will use it against the United States of America. Look no further than the
    Iranian constitution, which states unequivocally that their mission is to
    extend jihad across the world and eventually to set up a worldwide caliphate.
    We would be fools to ignore their purpose and their plan.”  (Taken from “Michele Bachmann for
    President” by Donna Garner, 12.16.11: http://educationviews.org/2011/12/16/michele-bachmann-for-president/
    )

     

    Donna Garner

    Wgarner1@hot.rr.com

     

     

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  • Stop the Power Addicts

    Here we go with another attack from the political elite.  this was an outstanding attempt with the elites trying to use some “eyewitness” testimony.  The attacks will never stop.  the power elite will never willingly let Ron Paul take their power, their prestige, their money, or their privilege away.  Don’t believe the garbage that the wealthy and political connected class will throw at Ron

    • Anonymous

      Wait, so a former staffer is “elite” but a sitting Member of Congress with a well funded major presidential campaign and a large fervent national political base is not part of the “power elite”?

  • Yoyo

    Ron Paul NEEDS to learn American history and the Constitution! The first war ever fought was the Quazi War with France, which was undeclared – done by a founding father no less named, John Adams. He also signed the Alien and Sedition Acts that make the the Patriot Act look like child’s play. The founding fathers wanted foreign entanglements, but just one of them, George Washington as President, prevented Alexander Hamilton from allying with Britain or Jefferson from allying with France against Britain. In fact ,James Madison changed the phrase to declare war in order to allow the president the freedom to use the military help the nation without having to ask Congress during an invasion ( which could take three months of travel time to get then together then!). Please please Ron Paul, learn your American History

    • Captainshays

      YOYO,

      Ron Paul needs to learn history? Our founders wanted entanglements? Where id YOU learn history from Pep Boys auto Parts stores?

      Learn from the founding fathers themselves.

      John Quincy Adams on U.S. Foreign Policy
      (1821)
      October 2001
      And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and
      learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of mutation and
      aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the
      inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts
      disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind?
      Let our
      answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence
      as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature,
      and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of
      nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often
      fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom,
      of generous reciprocity.
      She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to
      heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal
      justice, and of equal rights.
      She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century,
      without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while
      asserting and maintaining her own.
      She has abstained from interference in the
      concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she
      clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.
      She has seen that
      probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European
      world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right.Wherever
      the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there
      will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.But she goes not abroad,
      in search of monsters to destroy.She is the well-wisher to the freedom and
      independence of all.She is the champion and vindicator only of her
      own.
      She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her
      voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
      She well knows that by once
      enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of
      foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication,
      in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and
      ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
      The
      fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to
      force….
      She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no
      longer the ruler of her own spirit….
      [America's] glory is not dominion, but
      liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but
      the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her
      Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of
      mankind would permit, her practice.
      When John Quincy Adams served as U. S.
      Secretary of State, he delivered this speech to the U.S. House of
      Representatives on July 4, 1821, in celebration of American Independence
      Day.

      I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had
      a right to inter-meddle in the internal concerns of another; and that, if this
      country could, consistent with its engagements, maintain a strict neutrality and
      thereby preserve peace. George Washington – Letter to James Monroe, August 25,
      1796

      Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate
      peace and harmony with all. …The nation which indulges toward another an
      habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave
      to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it
      astray from its duty and its interest. George Washington – Farewell Address,
      September 17, 1797

      Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all
      nations, entangling alliances with none should be our motto. Thomas Jefferson –
      First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

      If there be one principle more
      deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should
      have nothing to do with conquest. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Letter to William
      Short, 1791

      We certainly cannot deny to other nations that principle
      whereon our own government is founded, that every nation has a right to govern
      itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its
      own will. Thomas Jefferson – To Thomas Pinckney, December 30, 1792

      Europe, by her arms and by her negotiations, by force and by fraud, has
      extended her dominion over them all, Africa, Asia, an America have successively
      felt her domination. The superiority she has long maintained has tempted her to
      plume herself as the Mistress of the World, and to consider the rest of mankind
      as created for her benefit.*
      Alexander Hamilton on Colonialism, The
      Federalist Papers 1787

      My ardent desire is to keep the United States
      free from political connections with every other country, to see them
      independent of all and under the influence of none. George Washington (Letter to
      Patrick Henry, October 9, 1795)

  • http://www.facebook.com/matt.tanous Matthew Tanous

    Dondero’s a disgruntled former employee of Paul’s who was FIRED.  He then got crushed by Paul in the 2008 congressional election.  I’d say he has a bit of a reason to stretch the truth to make Paul look bad.

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  • Elim

    Why was Dondero fired? Anyone know?

  • Facts

    The Republican Party as a whole is trashing America’s future.  I disagree with libertarians generally and Ron Paul specifically on many issues.

    That said, there are comments here that claim to be pro-Paul and also comments that are anti-Paul that completely incorrect.

    First of all, attacking Jewish people generally because some (not all or even a majority) of the persons in power are Jewish is absolutely bigoted. If those of you stating this believe you are supporting Paul’s cause by doing so, it is precisely the opposite.

    Second, how is Ron Paul’s position on WWII any different from that of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, either in words or deeds?

    1. FDR promised in 1940 not to launch war unless the US was attacked.

    2. For over two years after WWII broke out, the US continued to block
    Jews and others attempting to escape the Holocaust from entering the US,
    while providing oil and parts for weapons to Germany.
    3. Even when Japan attacked the US, the US didn’t declare war on Germany; Hitler declared war on the US.
    4. Even after Hitler declared war on the US in 1941, the US did not make stopping the Holocaust its top priority; the US most of its efforts in 1942 and 1943 fighting Japan, with the European landing in…Italy, not where the big concentration camps were.
    5. Most of the concentration camps were actually liberated by the commies from the Soviet Union, a fact of geography perhaps, but still a fact.

    Though I disagree with Ron Paul–I believe that the Holocaust was a fully justifiable reason to intervene–Ron Paul’s position is similar to what FDR both said and did in WWII.

    • Anonymous

      You’re mostly right in your list of facts, and I share your disagreement with isolationism but on point 4, FDR from the beginning of the war made fighting Germany the USA’s top priority.

  • AmericanhistoryReality

    Oh and one more thing… Ron Paul and your supporters..Please stop with the revisionist American history! This is just one of a hundred examles, and it’s getting annoying! We did not intervene in World War Ii, because of the Holicaust. The United States of America was attacked at Peatl Harbor by the nation of Japan. Japan was an ally of Germany, and then Germany subsequently declared war on us. Ron Paul needs to stop revising history! The Holicaust had nothing to do with it! This is not even High School level people, and your man is in Congress!

    • Anonymous

      You’d better learn to read, or develop some reading comprehension. Ron Paul is not the one trying to revise history.

  • Chriss221

    Most libertarians, are, to most regular folk, scary. They are of the type that never do well with women… Precise nonsense, speed-talking, tireless bore… These rings the bell with all who are not them… They are the ones always looking for justifications to explain their frustrated hatred.

    In a word, yucky.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TMNLQEFW4DLIBS5V6CFU6DOVW4 bmull

      And most regular folk, to libertarians, are sheep.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TMNLQEFW4DLIBS5V6CFU6DOVW4 bmull

    Likes Jews, hates Israel. I fail to see the problem. The question of whether the US would have had a moral obligation to intervene solely to prevent the Holocaust, at a cost of half a million American lives is debatable. Bill Clinton made a somewhat similar decision that the Rwandan genocide was not worth any American lives. We should be more concerned that Netanyahu has more power in the US than Obama does. He need only ask and Congress will provide him a veto-proof majority for whatever he needs. Obama’s main role is to appease him so that Obama does not get humilated.

    • Master Raceblahblah

      Now this comment reflects the height of intelligence and knowledge in America.  The tiny little nation of Israel, that is about the size of New Jersey has the Congress on lock down?.  Who is this joker?  Are these the kind of comments that come from the, “superior master race” hahahahah!   Wow dude. No wonder your kind got it’s ass kicked in World War II.  If I listen to any more Aryan nation fags, holocaust revisionists and wierdos exclaim that Israel controls the US, which any normal person without mental problems, would realize is just insanity, I’m going to go insane.

  • Theropingeffect

    Eric Dondero is a commenter on Hit & Run who is considered a conservative troll. Eric Dondero is often faked with strawman comments by other commenters.Wikia

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  • carl menger

    Thank you for a mostly fair piece, Mr. Dondero.

    You Wilsonian-progressive foreign policy goals are dead wrong, but you didn’t make this personal.

    Unless your REAL ax to grind is with Lew Rockwell…

    THAT should be your next article…

  • carl menger

    Thank you for a mostly fair piece, Mr. Dondero.

    You Wilsonian-progressive foreign policy goals are dead wrong, but you didn’t make this personal.

    Unless your REAL ax to grind is with Lew Rockwell…

    THAT should be your next article…

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  • Anonymous

    Being against nation-building, endless occupations, throwing money at dictators and international espionage is crazy? Being pro free market, open diplomacy, and transparent government is crazy? Sod off, Dondero, we don’t need your brand of neoconservative authoritarianism that put us 15 trillion in the hole.

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  • Mary Jones

    Eric –
    You are a shameless liar.
    How is it that Dr. Paul managed to endure his friend Kent Snyder?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/flaKISSfan Erich John

    how is it not being an AIPAC congressional organ grinder monkey makes someone anti semetic? israel is not one of the united states, so why are we suppose to defend it …

  • http://www.facebook.com/flaKISSfan Erich John

    how is it not being an AIPAC congressional organ grinder monkey makes someone anti semetic? israel is not one of the united states, so why are we suppose to defend it …

    • Anonymous

      Because it’s our ally.  Because it’s a normal decent humane democratic country, part of the First World and Western Civilization, throughout its existence under threat from alien undemocratic Third World non-Western regimes, usually aligned with the Soviets and now with terrorism.

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  • Anonymous

    So much for Mr. Honest.  So much for Mr. Always votes his principles.  Ron Paul voted for the war in Afghanistan t to save his miserable political career.  And to this day has the gall to talk about “undeclared wars” when he voted for one.

    For the record I strongly support the war.

  • http://twitter.com/Brandon2469 Brandon

    Eric Dondero is right! Stop wasting time on some stupid outdated newsletters that Paul STOPPED PUBLISHING A LONG TIME AGO (over a decade ago, to be exact) and focus on his RECORD as a Congressman!  His RECORD is what matters, not some newsletters that he really didn’t act on.  Look at the WHOLE MAN, not just some newsletter.

    Should we let the possibility that he’s “racist” deep down prevent us from supporting him despite ALL ELSE that makes him a good candidate? I think not! That would be politically correct bullshit.  I HATE PC nonsense.  How does him supposedly having some ‘racist’ inclinations deep down that he DOES NOT EVER EXPRESS IN PUBLIC affect YOU personally (or America)?  Did Ron Paul suddenly turn into a DIFFERENT PERSON overnight the moment these newsletters came out?

    Gimme a break…  People are blowing this way out of proportion, and it just gives race-baiters, PC a-holes and establishment politicos ANOTHER easy reason to hate him.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KTSTXIVQ7PW3LNS5KGGW5CY7LY belle

    Another hit piece on Ron Paul disguised as journalism. As a Jew, I am sick of Jews who promote Israel at the expense of the American people. Who want to send my and their money to foreign countries for nothing. And don’t hand me that irrelevant reply that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. The US government has supported a lot of non-democratic countries so that statement is meaningless.

    Ron Paul 2012.

    • 123

      you are not a Jew, no Jew would ever side with this cancer that is Ron Paul

      Just another Ron Paul idiot posing as a Jew

  • Patellez

    Plain and simple; Ron Paul is to wacky!! I Will not be voting for him, that’s for sure.

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  • Nibarger John

    I must take this statement of accounts related to israel with serious reservations. If you go back and look at Dr. Paul’s position in the 80′s when israel bombed iraq nuclear facilities..Dr Pa supported israel going against the gop and reagan as well as the UN.
    This is just 1 example. His record speaks louder than all the anecdotal rhetoric.

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  • grippicam

    I would like to see other sources to these accusations.  It is easy to take one man’s statements as fact, but when that man has ample reason to lie, and to try and discredit that individual, then without sources, or evidence to back those accusations, it is simply not credible.  I would hope that anti Paul accusers, and Supporters, would do their due diligence before making such ridiculous claims.   Without at least something, anything solid to back this up, I am forced to call it what it is.  One disgruntled ex-employee who has every reason to lie.

  • elmagno

    Wow. Honest commentary.

  • http://blog.billsamuel.net/ BillSamuel

    If there’s a scandal, it’s that Ron Paul failed to vote his conscience on Afghanistan. He’s generally not been a political opportunist, and giving in to threats from staff members was certainly not his finest moment. It also means he can’t say he was right all along when now a large majority of Americans agree we should never have attached Afghanistan. And of course Paul was absolutely right that Bush would use9-11 as an excuse to attach Iraq, even though Iraq was not involved. Strange that Dondero attacks Paul for being right!

    • Freemenow

      Excellent points, Bill. Obama used Special Forces to bring down Osama with no bloodshed and minimal cost. Could have/should have happened instead of the Afghan war that cost far more lives (American, allies and Afghan) than 9/11. But Bush & the NeoCons had another agenda. 

      I agree with Paul – that kind of military aggression is absurd. He should have voted against it. NOT getting involved when masses of people are being slaughtered, as with Hitler or Rwanda, is equally absurd.  

    • Captainshays

      Dondero didn’t tell the entire story. Ron Paul had a bill on the House Floor to uphold the Constitution and declare war. Well to be exact to invoke the portion of Article I section 8 clause 11 that says “Write Letters of Marquise and Reprisal” which was placed in their to deal with non uniformed enemies like Pirates and terrorists. That is what Jefferson used to go after the Barbary Pirates. THAT is why Ron Paul was reluctant to support the authorization to go into Afghanistan. Not because he didn’t want to get bin Laden. He simply wanted to do it according to the Constitution

  • grippicam

    Here is who this guy really is.  
    “Eric Dondero is a disgruntled former staffer who was fired for performance issues,” Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said in an emailed response to Hotsheet responding to the column. “He has zero credibility and should not be taken seriously.”  Those are facts.  He was fired for performance issues, and now, he has seen an opportunity for get revenge, and I would speculate make some money in some sort of book deal, or side compensation for his story.  believe what you will. As for me, I want Facts, no hearsay.  as Jonathon stated in an earlier post, he even tried to run against Paul and got destroyed.  He has every motive to lie.  This would be the same as taking something Ron Paul says as fact against another candidate, without doing any research at all.  would any Newt, or Romney, or other candidate supporter do that.   I think not.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-McElroy/100001281755133 David McElroy

    Ron Paul is right on foreign policy. He is not an “isolationist” as critics claim, but a “non-interventionist”, which alarms the defense industries and banksters profiting from wars. As for Israel, that nasty parasite was founded by David Ben Gurion, who cut his political teeth as one of Lenin’s Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution. At Israel’s founding ceremonies in 1947, Ben Gurion announced “Israel was created to advance the cause of International Socialism.” Israel is a fascist police state that has infiltrated the highest levels of US government with dual citizens and people like Bernie Madoff. Israel would cheerfully enslave or kill us for its own profits. Paul is quite right, cut them off from US aid. If God really supports the atheist/agnostic Jews, as they claim, Israel doen’t need us!

  • Markstein53

    the anti semites loe ron paul its veru easy to blame the jews and its extremely popular fot the  last 3000 years, so why not blame all the problems in the middle east on israel.

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  • Krooked73

    Eric. You are a liar and a sell-out!

  • Mykola

    Yea, but Paul’s voting record is awesome. That’s the most important reason behind my support for him. His personal issues are his and I could care less. To me the voting record says more than anything else.

    Ron Paul 2012

    • Millieann

      The enemies of world peace would run rampant, because they would know he would twiddle his thumbs and do absolutely nothing about it.

  • Anonymous

    I am confused, since when did we enter WW ll to save the Jews? As I remember, they declared war on us first.

    • Millieann

      Yes, I do vaguely recall something about the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor.  And were we supposed to just let Hitler take over all of Europe, including Britain?  Did we think we would be safe if he did?

      If Paul were President, our enemies would run rampant because they would know he absolutely would not retaliate.

      • Anonymous

        If Hitler finally over ran The USSR, then the UK, he would have had the industrial, manpower and naval resources to attack the USA directly or at least establish a presence in the western hemisphere using one of the Germanophilic South American countries as a base. As well as develop long range jet bombers and multi stage missiles to attack us with impunity from the air. A mere 7 U boats in 1942 almost shut down east coast coastal shipping

        • Millieann

          Yup, tis true.

    • SFO

      Morrisminor,

      You’re correct, as I need not tell you. Mr. Dondero’s “recharacterization” of history was amusing to those who know their history, but you were right to point it out for those who don’t.

  • 12

    why does it seem all the shit stains in the USA seem to have a love affair with Ron Paul

  • http://www.vega.com Vega – NY Liberal Honey Badger

    Who are all these people?

  • 123

    the Ron Paul losers are the ones who 80 years ago had a role in the Holocaust by passing laws to prevent Jews from coming to the US as well as working hard to prevent a war with the Nazis while working hard to prevent the US from taking in the refugees

    Now the Ron Paul losers want the US to cut off Israel so the Muslims can finish the job

    • Anonymous

      It was actually the Democrat hero, Franklin Roosevelt, and his gang who did all that. FDR actually refused permission to dock and sent a ship loaded with Jews back to Europe (and certain death).  May he rot in Hell! Please get your facts straight.

      • Captainshays

        Actually it was more Wilson’s fault for pushing for the 14 points at the treaty of Versallis which gave rise to Hitler and caused WWII. Anyway FDR didn’t want to enter WWII to save the Jews either. MOST Americans didn’t. IN fact we entered WWII because Japan attacked us.
        Ron Paul’s policies are the same as the founders and Wilson wouldn’t have been elected in a perfect Ron Paul world

  • Tomadachi65

    I cannot believe Mr. R. Paul is an isolationist. I believe he just doesn’t believe in taking on actions not in our constitution and not supported by a majority of Americans. I don’t believe we are the savior of the world. That is GOD’s job and he did not delegate that responsibility to any person or nation. I would be willing to walk where-ever I had to go and push someone in a wheelchair at the same time if it meant not having to rely on foreign oil. You are wrong about Ron. He is a very hard man to understand in our liberal society.

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  • Anonymous

    4 REASONS Ron Paul won’t win.
    #1. He’s not a made guy. Either you’re DEM or GOP..
    #2. He’s ignorant to the financing that runs the US&A

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  • http://www.facebook.com/starwayindustries Scott Stubbs

    If we were to follow the “money” and consider what “agenda” is behind each candidate, please consider: 
    Saudi Aramco controls FOX ,Gingrich and Santorum. Romney is the Republican Wall Street working on behalf of Goldman Sachs. Rick Perry works for Texas Big Oil agenda and is one of Bilderberg’s candidates. Bachmann is husband is exec Hearst Media and close ties with Jewish Community. 
    If Money influences an agenda, and is self evident to the problems in American Politics today, thanRon Paul is the only real candidate. The corporate media would want you to believe that “Restoring Freedom” is a whacky idea. And the defense complex would want you to believe that sending troops home is an unsafe idea. The truth is America is slowly becoming a Police State controlled by corporations that have no interest in the freedom of our country. They engage in fear tactics and repetition through everything you hear and see to insure that there agenda is the one you believe in and any different view is considered not credible or crazy. I am 100% certain that if you allow the media to persuade you that Ron Paul is unelectable, crazy, ugly, old, or a racists that he will go independent and one of the other republican nominees will face Obama’s 1B and will insure his victory when Paul runs independent and splits the vote. Ask yourself if Ron Paul was president and restored freedom in your life, made government smaller, lit a Fire at the Fed Reserve, and sent troops home from senseless wars would it change your life for the better?

    • 12

      shut up you diot

  • http://www.facebook.com/MikesAutoRepair Brandon Johnson

    This has already been discredited and is not factual.

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  • Bad Man

    Your grammar is embarrassing.

  • Bad Man

    Your grammar is embarrassing.

  • http://twitter.com/BobKincaid BobKincaid

    Very interesting details.  I do, however, disagree that opposing basic liberties for persons of different color or sexuality is merely “silly.” It’s pernicious and hateful and runs contrary to every tenet of “liberty” I can think of.  How can one be a proponent of “liberty” while a signficant segment of society goes begging for it?

    • Millieann

      He did not say that Ron Paul is racist whatsoever.  He said just the opposite.  However, homosexuals are hardly a “significant segment” of society, since they represent only about 2 percent of society.  It is not hateful to point out the dangers and unhealthiness of homosexual practice.  Check with the CDC for details on that.  You won’t get it from the mainstream media.

  • http://twitter.com/BobKincaid BobKincaid

    Very interesting details.  I do, however, disagree that opposing basic liberties for persons of different color or sexuality is merely “silly.” It’s pernicious and hateful and runs contrary to every tenet of “liberty” I can think of.  How can one be a proponent of “liberty” while a signficant segment of society goes begging for it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Panken/537608199 Andrew Panken

    It’s communists ranting against small government all over this page.  They’re scared Ron Paul will cut off their government contracting benefits to their buddies in the domestic and military sectors.  Slash all government spending to these government contracting, welfare queens.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Panken/537608199 Andrew Panken

    It’s communists ranting against small government all over this page.  They’re scared Ron Paul will cut off their government contracting benefits to their buddies in the domestic and military sectors.  Slash all government spending to these government contracting, welfare queens.

  • Bad Man

    Your punctuation and cohesion are atrocious. You actually have a college degree? Impressive.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1316111692 Wolfman Jones

    Maybe the Jews should fight and pay for their own insane wars, instead of getting America to do the majority of the fighting and paying for their wars!

    • 12

      what war has the US fought for the Jews

      and I might agree with this, the Jews put in plenty of money but hardly ever get anything back, you almost never hear of Jews sucking the welfare or anything else, but I assure you they put plenty of money in

      How about let the Jews keep their money and they can write the checks themselves

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1316111692 Wolfman Jones

    Why can’t Israel fight its own wars, instead of getting America to fight and pay for all their insane Middle East Wars?

  • Ron Paul is for Liberty

    You sold your soul to the devil! You should be ashamed of that bribe you received.

    • Anonymous

      I believe it was 30 pieces of silver…

  • Ron Paul is for Liberty

    You sold your soul to the devil! You should be ashamed of that bribe you received.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BSGOPYKKFLI42KBAIR4YYQLQIY Tobe

    Wow, who’s the liar when you can’t even tell the truth in your name, Mr. Rittberg. 

  • D-Mat

    Great article Eric and it validates what I’ve always thought about Ron Paul all along. I’m sure the Ron-Paulistas here will bash you but this is the truth the Ron-Paulistas ignore and rationalize. When the rest of the world disagrees, we’re idiots. I’m glad to see the truth coming out, exposing him for who he really is. A career politician who votes to maintain power and uses those he despises for political gain. Yea, a real honorable man… that’s sarcasm Ron-Paulistas!

  • D-Mat

    Great article Eric and it validates what I’ve always thought about Ron Paul all along. I’m sure the Ron-Paulistas here will bash you but this is the truth the Ron-Paulistas ignore and rationalize. When the rest of the world disagrees, we’re idiots. I’m glad to see the truth coming out, exposing him for who he really is. A career politician who votes to maintain power and uses those he despises for political gain. Yea, a real honorable man… that’s sarcasm Ron-Paulistas!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Beesh-Asis/100002115974847 Beesh Asis

    Listen to this nitwit… he doesn’t know shita bout shit!  Another backward racist moron!  I’m just going to let him kill his ownself no need for good educated people to do it for him. hahahha. Go cut that mullet while your at it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Beesh-Asis/100002115974847 Beesh Asis

    Listen to this nitwit… he doesn’t know shita bout shit!  Another backward racist moron!  I’m just going to let him kill his ownself no need for good educated people to do it for him. hahahha. Go cut that mullet while your at it!

    • Anonymous

      spoken like a true pauliac…now go jump in the lake, you retard!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000755430729 Larry Johnstone

    I do not believe you, Eric, you lie a lot by claiming unverifiable accusations no one has ever heard come from the mouth of RP.

    Who is not bashful in speaking up for what he believes.

  • Mmreesul

    I appreciate this sharing.  I have been so very, very hopeful about Ron Paul and the good he could bring our nation.  If not he, who then?  I so wish he could re-consider some of the foreign policy stances you mention.  I want non-militarism, and yet I want a strong defense.  I do believe some humanitarian causes or issues are too important to turn away from, yet I do not want bases all around the world.  How do we find this balance and ALSO a candidate who is so extremely correct on domestic issues…. ???

    • Anonymous

      Why on earth are you going to believe this piece of scum and his lies?

  • Mmreesul

    I appreciate this sharing.  I have been so very, very hopeful about Ron Paul and the good he could bring our nation.  If not he, who then?  I so wish he could re-consider some of the foreign policy stances you mention.  I want non-militarism, and yet I want a strong defense.  I do believe some humanitarian causes or issues are too important to turn away from, yet I do not want bases all around the world.  How do we find this balance and ALSO a candidate who is so extremely correct on domestic issues…. ???

  • AaronHorvitz

    Ron Paul has to be anti semitic, and therefore a racist.

    It has nothing to do about his choice of racial slurs, or
    lack thereof.   Racism is not about
    whether you use certain offensive language or not.  That is just an indicator.  Would you call most American comedians who
    use racial slurs on a regular basis, racist? 
    Absolutely not!  Therefore, it’s
    ultimately about the policy you would advocate, and the attitudes you have
    toward a group of people that would put them down.   Ron
    Paul would like to remove all of the Jewish people, permanently from Israel,
    and hand the entire area to a group of people living there in the minority, or Israel’s
    neighbors.   This is far worse than
    separate but equal or forcing someone to ride at the back of a bus.  It’s the whole sale destruction of another
    six million Jews!  While he may not
    realize that he is one, or his supporters may not realize they are acting that
    way when they support him, the end solution for Jews in America, Europe, Israel
    and elsewhere will be the same nonetheless. 
    It makes sense why every Neo-Nazi member and hate group supports him in
    his endeavors.  He advocates policies
    that bring us back to a time when Jews were persecuted everywhere and killed. 

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  • Stwsmi1

    just another kenite pushing for a n w o. He’s a nothing-nobody.

  • Freeusnow

    Eric makes some good points and seems honest, however I don’t agree that we should dismiss Paul’s personal attitudes and treatment of homosexuals, Blacks, Jews, women (Nadia taking the fall) and even staffers and supporters. As an individual, that’s his right.  But a Congressperson and a president have to represent ALL the people they’re elected to serve. 

    I do agree with Paul that the military industrial complex, as Eisenhower put it, is controlling America’s economy and giving complete war powers to a president, as we did with Bush, is leading us to perpetual war that means big profits for a very few, poverty for the rest of us and death for far too many young Americans.

    And it REALLY ticks me off that Congressional median incomes rose from about $280,000 in 1984 to $725,000 A YEAR in 2009, while the average American’s income DROPPED from $20,600 to $20,500 the same period (WaPo 12/26/11).  I’ll vote for the candidate who proposes cutting Congressional salaries and publicly posting their income sources weekly.

  • Freeusnow

    Eric makes some good points and seems honest, however I don’t agree that we should dismiss Paul’s personal attitudes and treatment of homosexuals, Blacks, Jews, women (Nadia taking the fall) and even staffers and supporters. As an individual, that’s his right.  But a Congressperson and a president have to represent ALL the people they’re elected to serve. 

    I do agree with Paul that the military industrial complex, as Eisenhower put it, is controlling America’s economy and giving complete war powers to a president, as we did with Bush, is leading us to perpetual war that means big profits for a very few, poverty for the rest of us and death for far too many young Americans.

    And it REALLY ticks me off that Congressional median incomes rose from about $280,000 in 1984 to $725,000 A YEAR in 2009, while the average American’s income DROPPED from $20,600 to $20,500 the same period (WaPo 12/26/11).  I’ll vote for the candidate who proposes cutting Congressional salaries and publicly posting their income sources weekly.

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  • Alan Andrews

    “But after his speech, at the Surfside pavilion Bobby came up to Ron
    with his hand extended, and according to my fellow staffer, Ron
    literally swatted his hand away.”

    Well, remember what Richard Nixon said, that he’d never shake hands with anyone from San Francisco. (lol)

    Keep in mind, Paul’s a medical doctor, too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=201000782 Sassan K. Darian

    “The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.” – Theodore Roosevelt

    • Anonymous

      And the naked fakir Gandhi the wife beating pedophile caused the murder of over a hundred million Indians.

  • anonymous

    What are you hoping to accomplish? Just want to set the record straight on a good man? U Mad you’ll never be a fraction of worth as Dr. Ron Paul? U mad you got fired and dropped the -BERG out of your name? Embarrassed much? STFU and go back to your hole!!

  • Margaret

    Paul must be doing even better than we thought for the media to dig this deep and come up with this…..How much did you get for this tabloid piece?

  • Anonymous

    If Dr. Paul’s views on foreign relations are “sheer lunacy”, then it’s my kind of lunacy.

    To paraphrase Mr. Dondero:

    Let me just concentrate on one specific. And I will state this with absolute certainty: He’s got my vote!

  • Amrathelion2002

    Eric your a douchebag and a lier! you are nothing but a newt gangrese asskisser!

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F4THTVL52LOMD5G2QJZ4N6N4NY Maxwell

    Ron Paul should have fired this idiot long ago.

    • Anonymous

      Yes, with pigs like you, who need retards like him?

  • DnvPatriot

    Still what does Israel do for the United States?

    • Ally

      Too much to list.  About time you did something for us in exchange – instead of throwing money at us in order to undermine our democracy while simultaneously funding all our enemies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=201000782 Sassan K. Darian

    Ron Paul is on the side of Osama Bin Laden and Islamic terrorists.

    • Anonymous

      Funny.  The US Was allies with Osama Bin Laden in the 1980′s – funded the man and send him weapons to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. Then we killed Osama. 

      Funny.  The US Was allies with Saddam Hussein, funded him and sent him weapons to fight the Iranians.  Then we killed Saddam. 
      Funny.  The US CIA infiltrated the Iranian political process, ousted their democratically elected leader and replaced him with a western sympathizer.  Now we’re trying to kill their leaders. The US Plays every angle in these wars and we americans don’t realize where the blowback comes from. 

  • jim

    This stuff is incredible, I couldn’t vote for Ron Paul if you paid me to, after reading the comments from his lyal following.  You all do your candidate a disservice, even if he is a nut that shouldn’t even be running as a Republican.

  • Thunder

    A lot of hear-say vitriol here. How come this guy don’t tell the truth about why he left – ehmm – fired? Misconduct and illoyalty. And now he pretends to be the one that knows it all… Biased and revengeful in a sad little way. Good riddance. The Cabal does not stop at anything, scared stiff of the probability for Ron Paul to win the GOP candidacy. Time for special interests and the military-industrial complex to realize that their time to play God is up!

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PG6UYWBQOSI35ZGOO2MEP7RFMQ TellinThaTruth

    Hmmm. I like some of RP’s views on various things. His view on foreign policy makes complete sense to me. If the US wan’t in the Middle-East, ever, 9/11 wouldn’t have occurred. The only just war I can think of, as I write this, is WWII; RP’s wrong there. Though I do understand why he was against it. As for Iraq and Afghanistan; at least one of these wars shouldn’t have been waged in the first place. Some of his economic views I agree with, RP’s view on foreign aid; I don’t.

    As a black man, I can’t say those articles sporting his name are silly. Sure he can have different views than he did a decade or two ago, but a person with that kind of tie, IMO, cannot be Commander in Chief. Based on your article, I’d say at worst. he’s a grumpy old man. But the toilet issue, he should have known better; he’s a doctor for god’s sake. I really liked reading this article.

    • Anonymous

      Ah, WW II was bad too because we killed Adolf Hitler, Ronpaul secret idol!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/i.am.dan.edge Dan Edge

    Please note that Jim Peron, referenced in the above article and whom Ron Paul presumably counts among his supporters, is a documented proponent of pedophilia who was kicked out of his own country for his dangerous political views.  
    http://danedgeofreason.blogspot.com/2009/09/peron-pedophile-sympathizer.html

  • Dave Smith

    So now we have an incumbent President and aspiring Libertarian (supposedly) candidate for preesident who are both willing to throw Israel under the train. I believe it is the duty of every American Christian to support Israel and I will do my utmost to see that neither of them gets elected.

    • Anonymous

      Ron Paul does not say anything of that nature.  Quite to the contrary.  He has stated emphatically that Israel has a RIGHT to defend herself from foreign enemies.  IF Israel wants to attack Iran – then they should be able to do that – Israel should not ask permission from the US. 

      Furthermore Ron Paul has stated that we should end ALL Foreign Aid.  The US gives far more aid to hostile arab nations than it does to Israel.  If Ron Paul had his way it would mean a STRONGER Israel – not a weaker one. 

  • Dave Smith

    So now we have an incumbent President and aspiring Libertarian (supposedly) candidate for preesident who are both willing to throw Israel under the train. I believe it is the duty of every American Christian to support Israel and I will do my utmost to see that neither of them gets elected.

  • http://ericdonderowatch.wordpress.com/ Derrick

    Dondero is a very fishy character. He hate Muslims unlike Ron Paul. He said:“The big problem right now is Islam and Islamism invading our country. And if they want to continue to move in, we need to fight back. Their culture is coming here.”

    • Anonymous

      It’s natural to hate the sand monkeys of allah the ass wiping moonstone because they are invading us to kill us and enslave our children in their whorehouses.

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  • Allies

    Thanks America – First you elect Obama who undermines us internationally, gives us dodgy (faulty) weapons, tries to avoid sanctions against Iran, threatens us against taking unilateral action, all while funding our mortal enemies (PLO and Hamas), demanding we release terrorists from our prisons, and publicly declaring support for splitting Israel in two (‘contiguous Palestine state’),

    …and now there is talk of electing RP next?

    Why don’t you just nuke Israel yourself?  Same result.  At this rate it looks like the Samson option may be used in our generation.  G-d forbid.

    • Anonymous

      No, no, no, Po-Paul want free dope for all his hippie lunatic supporters, so America will be Zombie land…just take a vacation to Haiti to sample Ronpaulistan!

    • Anonymous

      No, no, no, Po-Paul want free dope for all his hippie lunatic supporters, so America will be Zombie land…just take a vacation to Haiti to sample Ronpaulistan!

  • No NWO

    In 1988 Ron Paul was publicly giving speeches decrying the racist drug war, saying the drug war was started to create the means to target minorities for arrest and imprisonment by making their drug of choice illegal.
    http://runronpaul.com/mainstream-media/new-information-discredits-racist-media-smear-campaign-against-ron-paul/

    In 1979 Ron Paul voted in support of Martin Luther King day (the ONLY time he voted for anything not authorized by the constitution), while at the same time Newt Gingrich voted against MLK day.
    http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-624

    A poll released in December 2011 found that in head-to-head election match-ups between President Barack Obama and various Republican presidential candidates, Texas Rep. Ron Paul fared best among non-white voters.
    http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/22/poll-ron-paul-would-fare-best-against-obama-among-non-white-voters/

    Ron Paul is not a racist and is being smeared as one because he is a clear threat to the political establishment, says Nelson Linder, Austin president of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
    http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/12/24/ron-paul-no-racist-naacp-austin-president/

    …. and invading Afghanistan was clearly a mistake, it has cost billions of dollars & thousands of lives.

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  • http://www.creditcarddebthelp.net/ Tyler

    Ron pauls the man.  I love his immigration policy.  I hope we can deport the illegals (and legals) for that matter.  The threat to the south must stop, now.

    • Anonymous

      If you Tyler the somber idiot knew anything about libertarianism, their first principle is that they deny ANY frontiers, so the first thing Ronpauliac would do is bulldoze all frontiers between Mexico, the USA and Canada…open a book sometime you dumb moron!

    • Anonymous

      If you Tyler the somber idiot knew anything about libertarianism, their first principle is that they deny ANY frontiers, so the first thing Ronpauliac would do is bulldoze all frontiers between Mexico, the USA and Canada…open a book sometime you dumb moron!

    • Captainshays

      Tyler. What you just described is NOT Ron Paul’s position. Maybe you should find a candidate that better suits you

  • Anonymous

    Sounds to me as if this pissy little dude “Eric Dondero” (apparently aka Eric Rittberg— what’s with that?) hit on Ron Paul and was rebuffed. Just another passive- aggressive gay guy throwing a fit when a straight guy rebuffs his advances. Silly Ron Paul for not canning him years earlier! You out of the closet yet, Eric?

    • Anonymous

      Gay? To be in German nazi circle, they HAD to be homosexuals, Ernst Roehm, Himmler, Adolf Hitler…etc……same with the KKK and the Black Muslims…Why would Ron “Adolf Hitler” Paul be any different, of course Dondero is a faggot, aren’t all nazis katamites?

  • Gary Roxene

    You can bet that Paul will be raked through it all once he gets close winning.  When I came to know of Paul I had two thoughts innitially: where has he been?  and, they will kill him if he gets close to shutting the reserve down.
    Paul is the only viable candidate period.  He is a constitutional purist who will,  with the help of those of us who believe in his direction,  put us in reverse and back us into the missing moral link.  What link you ask?  The intrinsic link between accounting and accountability. GK

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  • David Tsal

    I am not surprized by this at all. It confirms what I heard from a few speeches form the man himself. Right, he is not antisemitic, he is not against American Jews, only doesn’t mind the extermination of 6 million European Jews and supports extermination of 6 million Israeli Jews. His foreign policy is closest to that of Barack Obama. Only, it’s Barack Obama on cocaine. He is filled to the brim with crackpot conspiracy nonsense, like “Bush/Cheney wanted 9/11 and allowed it to happen” and “Jews control America” and the general “God damn America” attitude. And also filled with deep-seated prejudices and unconscious fears, like going into restrooms or shaking hands with “certain people.” Just the man to be American president. (sarcasm).

  • David Tsal

    I am not surprized by this at all. It confirms what I heard from a few speeches form the man himself. Right, he is not antisemitic, he is not against American Jews, only doesn’t mind the extermination of 6 million European Jews and supports extermination of 6 million Israeli Jews. His foreign policy is closest to that of Barack Obama. Only, it’s Barack Obama on cocaine. He is filled to the brim with crackpot conspiracy nonsense, like “Bush/Cheney wanted 9/11 and allowed it to happen” and “Jews control America” and the general “God damn America” attitude. And also filled with deep-seated prejudices and unconscious fears, like going into restrooms or shaking hands with “certain people.” Just the man to be American president. (sarcasm).

    • Anonymous

      In short Ronpauliac is a neo-nazi, period…why the fuck beat around the bush, he is no better than O’Bambam and his buddy loo-ee Farrakhan, David Duke and the KKK.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N7VOTY7WU62AHDAGWR6HBGJ64Y ThomasB

    Mr. Dondero’s comments on Ron Paul strike me as fair minded and objective.  I fail to see anything at all in his comments that substantiate the charges of racism and antisemitism that highly financed hatchet men are screaming about in the establishment media.

    Everyone has a right to his/her opinion and mine is that nobody’s perfect, and the gutless maggot from Massachusetts who is now the Republican’s front runner does no favors to Afro American racists nor to the really rabid faction of American Zionists, nor to the national interests of the US and Israel by acting as if they were perfect.

    The world in general and the US in particular is facing some of the most serious crises in the history of civilization and we need the kind of unconventional thinking that Ron Paul represents.  Much of it is wrong, but at least it directs our political discourse in the right direction.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N7VOTY7WU62AHDAGWR6HBGJ64Y ThomasB

    BASHING A CANDIDATE FOR SOMETHING HE SAID THIRTY YEARS AGO IS TYPICAL OF THE KIND OF STUPIDITY THAT HAS BROUGHT ABOUT MOST OF THE PROBLEMS THAT NOW THREATEN OUR VERY SURVIVAL.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N7VOTY7WU62AHDAGWR6HBGJ64Y ThomasB

    BASHING A CANDIDATE FOR SOMETHING HE SAID THIRTY YEARS AGO IS TYPICAL OF THE KIND OF STUPIDITY THAT HAS BROUGHT ABOUT MOST OF THE PROBLEMS THAT NOW THREATEN OUR VERY SURVIVAL.

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  • http://twitter.com/JonHuntsmanFans Nick

    And that’s why Jon Huntsman should be the GOP nominee for 2012. Great on foreign policy, great track record as a true conservative. Able to push through conservative policies without alienating the opposition while simultaneously not compromising on core principles.

  • Anthony

    I stopped reading when he began telling a story from 1988 about Ron Paul not shaking some guys hand… Okay guy.
    Eric Dondero is a creep.

  • Anne M.

    The right wing should be scared of Ron Paul. As a long-time Liberal Democrat, I can tell you that Many, Many of us will vote for him if he does win the GOP nomination or if he runs as a 3rd party candidate. We too are scared of how big the gov’t is getting and Ron Paul is the only conservative that doesn’t make us cringe. Ron Paul 2012!

  • TJLane

    I’m curious, Eric.  Did you get your 30 pieces of silver?  You damned sure have earned it!

  • Sam Mullins

    I am a born again Christian and read my BIBLE…
    My bible tells me that GOD has stated that for those that FORSAKE Israel, so shall GOD forsake THEM…

    Israel is a country that is only 110 miles long and about 10 miles wide in its narrowest part…
    ONE suitcase NUKE would totally devastate the country.

    IRAN’s president, ”ImAnutJOB” has stated openly to us, to Israel, and to the WORLD in a UN speach, that it is his stated goal to seek the destrustion of Israel and its allies, the U.S.

    Yet Ron Paul thinks its FINE if IRAN get nukes….

    As a BIBLE believing Christian, I DO NOT ! ! !

    Ron Paul thinks that it is WISE that we should close ALL our overseas military bases and NOT be involved in foreign policies of deterence of our stated and potential foreign enemies…

    Ron Paul believes in a Nevile Chamberland aproach to foreign policy, The same type foreign policy that gave Hitler, Mussolini & ToJo the footholds they need to seek expansion of their brand of terrorism and the start of World War II…

    No, Ron Paul’s foreign policy stance or lack there of would be seen by our radicalical Islamic Jihadist as a GREEN LIGHT to continue the spread of their brand of terrorism & their goal of spreading Sharia laws through a stated goal of a radical worldwide fundalmentalist Islamic Caliphate…

    • Captainshays

      Sam, I too am a Christian and I too read my bible and NOWHERE does it say that the United States is the protector of Israel. NOWHERE does the bible say that once Israel comes back into their own country will they EVER AGAIN be destroyed.
      In fact, what it does say is that God and God ALONE is the protector of Israel.
      Now, to apply to anything or anyone the attributes of the Lord is a form of blasphemy.
      So, to say or even imply that Israel would be destroyed without the support of the United States or that the USA is the protector of Israel is blasphemy.

      Not only has the Christian community been lied to by the statists of this world, but we have been divided.

      Also, the bible give us but four instances where a person could kill another and not be in violation of the Commandment that is correctly interpreted “thou shall not murder” and not be considered a murderer by God

      1) by accident

      2) capital punishment

      3) self defense

      4) defense of your loved ones.

      ALL other killing is considered murder.
      So when the government in a fallen world system controlled by the powers and principalities of the air, tell you to go into another country that has never attacked you or your country and to go kill people in that country it is murder.
      The Christian Just War Principles that Ron Paul fully supports and so did the founding fathers and Switzerland who they modeled our foreign policy after believed as the early day Christians that if there was an invading army on the border of your country and they penetrated the border then, they would do harm to you and your family. So in that case it would be justified to take up arms to defend your family.
      But the response must always be in proportion to the threat. You would not be justified in taking pleasure in the killing. You shouldn’t try to increase their suffering or torture them to death.
      If they are wounded you should tend to their wounds. If they are thirsty. Give them water. Hungry? Feed them. Out in the elements? Cover them.
      Hence, the ONLY just war is a war of self defense.

      So do you Christians who hate Ron Paul consider yourselves to be pro life and yet pro war? If yes, then why don’t you see the contradiction? Could it be that you like the rest of us have been hoodwinked by the powers and principalities who profit from war? I Mean what is our DGP these days? $16 Trillion? Whatever it is, the military industrial complex accounts for about 1/3 of it. So it’s safe to say that there a few people who have a financial interest in keeping us in a constant state of conflict or near conflict.

      They choose who we war against and why. We ignored 800,000 Rwandans hacked to death. We ignored 5 million Tibetans along with over 100,000 Chinese Christians slaughtered by Mao. I have a picture of over 5,000 Chinese Christians, men, women AND children lining both sides of a single lane road in China hanging on crosses that they were nailed to.
      We ignored 2.5 million Sudanese slaughtered and 1.5 million Indonesians BUT….BUT….BUT we sent 500,000 troops to save “our friends” the Kuwaiti’s. They said oil had nothing to do with that.

      So how many American sons is an acceptable number to come home in coffins draped in American flags to save your friends the Tiawanese when China decides to excert their sovereignty over them? After all. this is America and we stick by “our friends”.

      Are you willing to see yourself or your own son in one of those coffins? I ask EVERYONE who reads this and who is opposed to Ron Paul’s position of strong national defense and strong opposition to militarism? What is your answer?

  • Anonymous

    Now that REP. RON PAUL is a “comer” in the running for the GOP presidential nomination (but, unlikely to obtain it no matter what — because the Republican establishment doesn’t want him) — all of the roaches are crawling out of the woodwork.

    Good riddance!

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  • RonPaul2012.com

    The guy is on the payroll for 12 years and then trashes his old boss… he suddenly sees the light.  Yeah….sure.  I’m betting Ron Paul wouldn’t shake his slimy hand either. 

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  • http://twitter.com/iHwkins Ian Hawkins

    It is ridiculous to attempt to discredit Ron Paul by saying that even before the vote on the war in Afghanistan, he was convinced that the Bush/Cheney administration would use 9/11 as a pretext to attack Iraq. He clearly got that right, two years later that was used as a pretext for an unrelated war. Shows foreign policy acumen not naievety.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1493386487 Rick Casey

    Good job, Eric. Hope you got the 30 pieces of silver up front!

  • Mare650

    Regardless of what anyone claims….wouldn’t it be a good idea to establish the veracity of Eric Dondero’s accusations against Ron Paul. I think people are too quick to accept what one person says about another without checking the facts.
    It could be this Eric guy is just taking revenge against Ron Paul for whatever reason? In any event, don’t accept his statements as truth until you are certain.
    I have nothing for or against Ron Paul and don’t intend to vote for him because I’m a supporter of Michelle Bachman.
    And don’t bother correcting my spelling please if there are any errors. You should use the time instead to check out Eric Dondero’s statements.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1493386487 Rick Casey

      veracity!?!?! we don’t need no stinkin’ veracity!!!

  • Captainshays

    I Was listening to Michael Medved one day while he was talking baout our entrance into WWII. He told the caller that he would not have supported attacking Germany to save the Jews. Medved is an Orthodox Jew and a conservative. In fact my read of history tells me that over 72% of the American people opposed our entrance into that war. After all these years people still don’t comprehend that we didn’t declare war on Germany to save the Jews. We entered the war because we were attacked at Pearl Harbor.
    Whether FDR knew about the attacks is one thing. We do KNOW without a doubt that he provoked the Japanese into attacking us. But, not after first trying to convince the American people that Germany had plans to invade us through Mexico. But the people seemed to be a lot smarter back then and they knew that even at the height of the Third Reicht Germany had no more than 3 million troops in his entire force. A lot of them were tied down maintaining their conquests in Europe. Many others were tied up on the Eastern front fighting the Russians. Then they had their hands full attempting to invade Briton. Had they tried to invade the USA they would have to first get past our navy, air force, army and marines but then they would have to face 100 million armed Americans defending their families. They wouldn’t have gotten past New Jersey let alone take us over and force us to spart speaking German.
    Ever hear of “lend lease”. It was called that because after WWI the old style conservatives who opposed the progressive style of foreign policy of using our forces to “make the world safe for democracy” ( a system of govt that our founding fathers detested) they passed additional “neutrality” legislation to ensure our long standing policy of neutrality. Among that legislation was a preclusion to selling or transferring arms to countries that were at war. The only way FDR and his layers could figure to circumvent that legislation was “lend lease”.
    When he failed to get support after the false German invasion through Mexico story he then, without authorization from Congress (Article I section 8 clause 11) he arbitrarily blockaided the oil and steel going to Japan while they were involved in a bloody war against China. Japan saw that as a preemption and responded by attacking us at Pearl Harbor.
    Ron Paul’s views of foreign policy are not only in line with the old style conservatives and the founding fathers, but they are also opposed to and by the new style conservatives and progressives today and yesterday. New style conservatives are also called neocons but they really are progressives.

    • Captainshays

      These are some quotes from our founding fathers to prove that we were NEVER “isolationist” but instead “neutral” or “non interventionist”

      I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to
      inter-meddle in the internal concerns of another; and that, if this country
      could, consistent with its engagements, maintain a strict neutrality and thereby
      preserve peace. George Washington – Letter to James Monroe, August 25, 1796

      Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace
      and harmony with all. …The nation which indulges toward another an habitual
      hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its
      animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray
      from its duty and its interest. George Washington – Farewell Address, September
      17, 1797

      Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,
      entangling alliances with none should be our motto. Thomas Jefferson – First
      Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

      If there be one principle more deeply
      rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have
      nothing to do with conquest. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Letter to William
      Short, 1791

      We certainly cannot deny to other nations that principle
      whereon our own government is founded, that every nation has a right to govern
      itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its
      own will. Thomas Jefferson – To Thomas Pinckney, December 30, 1792

      Europe, by her arms and by her negotiations, by force and by fraud, has
      extended her dominion over them all, Africa, Asia, an America have successively
      felt her domination. The superiority she has long maintained has tempted her to
      plume herself as the Mistress of the World, and to consider the rest of mankind
      as created for her benefit.*
      Alexander Hamilton on Colonialism, The
      Federalist Papers 1787

      My ardent desire is to keep the United States
      free from political connections with every other country, to see them
      independent of all and under the influence of none. George Washington (Letter to
      Patrick Henry, October 9, 1795)

  • http://twitter.com/Incognito73 Incognito73

    Had Dondero really wanted to smear Paul he could easily have said he was anti-Semitic as well (and to me there is no difference between anti-Israel and anti-Semitic). But he didn’t.  And I love all the anti-Semitic Ron Paul supporters like Wolfman Jones. Very telling.

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  • Marcos

    Fuck off all the anti-semite and anti-afro american people!

  • http://www.facebook.com/reid.dalton Reid Dalton

    Like you, I supported the U.S. attack upon Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan following 9/11.  I opposed the war in Iraq even before it was commenced, and it was about that time I began looking at Ron Paul as a real hero among the Republicans in Congress.  But if what you say here about the debate that was going on in his office before the vote on the Afghan War is true, it is to Congressman Paul’s credit and not your own.  In retrospect it is clear that GW Bush had something far more in mind than a reprisal for 9/11.  As in Iraq, it was a foolish attempt to change the Afghan government to something more to our liking, and the will and well being of the Afghan people be damned.  His vote for the post 9/11 invasion may have been an example of his exercising more political realism than he ususally credited for, but the comments you report he made, if accurate, hit the nail on the head.  As Ron Paul endlessly states, this is non-interventionism, not isolationism, and the prescience that is evident shows that in discussing foreign affairs he is anything but “naive” or “out of touch”.  Why on earth do you describe this as “outrageous” when it seems clear to me that word is far more aptly applied to the U.S. foreign policies Congressman Paul has so courageously excoriated?

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    You’re a punk, Rittberg.  Tell us about your activities in support of the Zionist state.  Filthy punk.

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