This one is going to be short. Today, I tackle an old Paultard talking point. The idea that Ron Paul thinks of Rosa Parks as a hero, and that voting against her Congressional Gold Medal was actually a good thing, because he was upholding the constitution in her name. They also bring up the fact that Ron Paul volunteered to donate $100 of his own money, rather than charging the tax payers for it. Unfortunately, there are a few problems with his story.
First, congressional gold medals have been handed out since even before the constitution, and there's no historical record suggesting that the founding fathers deemed them to be an unconstitutional expenditure. The first one was awarded to George Washington, in 1776. Second, the medal wasn't being funded by tax dollars, it was funded through the sale of bronze replicas, which Ron Paul would have known if he had actually had actually read the bill. If Ron Paul wanted to chip in his own money rather than charging the tax payers, then he could have done so, by purchasing a replica. Is there any evidence that he actually did? I guess words speak louder than actions. Third, Ron Paul claims that the medal went against everything that Rosa Parks believed in. But Rosa Parks was still alive at the time, so why not just ask her how she felt about it? What makes Ron Paul think that he has the authority to speak on her behalf?
At the very worst, Ron Paul is a blatant racist. At the very least, Ron is too incompetent to actually read a bill before he makes a speech against it. This is bad, because he was making an extremely unpopular vote on an extremmely popular medal, and even then, Ron Paul still didn't bother to double check to make sure he had his facts straight. So the next time you hear a Paultard bring up Rosa Parks, please keep this article in mind.
Oh, and in completely unrelated news, Ron Paul is now planning to show off how anti-racist he is by speaking at Bob Jones University.