I just heard on the radio that Bachmann is now endorsing Paul. So, there’s that.
No, the head of her Iowa campaign has defected and is now endorsing Paul.
I think you cut right to the point there. Obama is to Ron Paul as Ron Paul was to Bruno.
This shows a stunning level of ignorance about a subject that clearly has you quite worked up.
The shoe bomber wasn’t a Middle Easterner. Nor for that matter was the underwear bomber or the guy who shot up the recruiting center in Kansan, nor were a host of other wannabe Jihadis.
In fact, John Walker Lindh IIRC was blonde-haired and blue-eyed as was Pierre Robert, the infamous “blue-eyed Amir”.
Moreover, Middle Easterners aren’t a “race” and the idea that you can tell who is an who isn’t by looking at them is simply absurd to anyone who’s ever visited there.
For example, most people in Syria and Lebanon, look as “white” as people in Europe.
Here’s Bashar Assad, the President of Syria.
Obviously, there are quite a few, including myself, who are significantly darker than most Europeans, but outside of North Africa, we’re hardly typical.
Fortunately, they can be identified by DNA. Once the current round of “vaccinations” is finished, yo- . . . ahem . . . they’ll all be safely rounded up, don’t you worry! 
Handwave this away however you want, nobody’s going to believe you or care. He’s done. Forever.
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C’mon, Lew Rockwell or someone probably wrote the book and Ron Paul never realized there were offending passages in it. Besides, that’s ancient history and did you realize the Austrian economists have predicted all of our economic troubles and the government has too much power and Ron Paul is really really sincere.
He’s gonna win, wait and see.
Here’s another potential source of major embarrassment for Ron Paul - his affiliation with the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) (he’s a lifetime member who has addressed their annual meeting).
*"Though it describes itself as “non-partisan”,[7] AAPS is generally recognized as politically conservative.[6][8][9][10] According to Mother Jones, “despite the lab coats and the official-sounding name, the docs of the AAPS are hardly part of mainstream medical society. Think Glenn Beck with an MD.”[10]
The organization opposes mandatory vaccination,[11] universal health care[12] and government intervention in healthcare.[10][13] The AAPS has characterized the effects of the Social Security Act of 1965, which established Medicare and Medicaid, as “evil” and “immoral”,[14] and encouraged member physicians to boycott Medicare and Medicaid.[15] AAPS argues that individuals should purchase medical care directly from doctors, and that there is no right to medical care.[16] The organization requires its members to sign a “declaration of independence” pledging that they will not work with Medicare, Medicaid, or even private insurance companies.[10]"*
And that’s just for starters. Articles/commentaries in the AAPS journal have among other things claimed that HIV does not cause AIDS, denied human activity’s role in global warming, claimed that abortion causes breast cancer, that ““humanists” have conspired to replace the “creation religion of Jehovah” with evolution” and that "“anchor babies” were launching a “stealthy assault on [American] medicine” (including the false claim that illegal aliens have sparked a recent leprosy epidemic in the U.S).
Bottom line - the AAPS is a bunch of raving libertarian loons. Ron Paul’s association with them provides abundant fuel for his opponents.*
*the saner ones, anyway. Michele Bachmann is probably applying to AAPS as an auxiliary member as we speak.
Yes because Obama’s ties to ACORN were meaningful factors for his losing the presidency.
I’m shocked, shocked!
Well… not that shocked.
Will, if we’re talking about gradations of crazy, ACORN barely gets the needle quivering. AAPS fries the meter.
Ron’s got some more splainin’ to do.
He hardly addressed the newsletter issue and he’ll treat this with the same degree of attention.
He only feels compelled to explain claims he has made personally. The truth is that his own rhetoric as been fairly moderate compared to the craziness he gets saddled with by association.
The statements from his book aren’t a big deal in my opinion.
Yes, but win WHAT? Candidate with the most delusional fanbase? throws confetti
nvm
:):p:D
You don’t see a problem with him blaming the victims of sexual harassment? The boss gropes somebody in the copy room and instead of him getting in trouble for what he did they should just quit their job? It’s partially their fault?
Yeah, voters are going to love that.
edit: Wait, was your reply supposed to be sarcastic? I can’t even tell anymore.
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You don’t see a problem with him blaming the victims of sexual harassment? The boss gropes somebody in the copy room and instead of him getting in trouble for what he did they should just quit their job? It’s partially their fault?
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Where does he say the boss shouldn’t get in trouble? He says civil rights laws are not needed to handle this, which is hardly a surprising position coming from him. This is just politically correct sensationalism.
I should have said 'instead of just him getting in trouble…" I didn’t mean to imply that he meant the harasser shouldn’t be punished. But he does blame the victim. If somebody is the victim of sexual harassment, it’s not their fault. They shouldn’t have to lose their job because they didn’t do anything wrong. There is no shared blame. There’s nothing sensational about that idea.
Then what laws should be used to administer justice to the employer, if not civil rights laws?
I assume every state has a law against sexual assault. I also believe its fairly simple to obtain a restraining order.