Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has a long history of wacky, racist views.
Such views helped derail his presidential aspirations.
You'd think he'd want to soft-pedal his odious, bigoted ideology.
You'd be wrong.
As Chairman of the House's Financial Services Committee's monetary policy subcommittee, Ron Paul is seeking to abolish the Federal Reserve and put the US back on the gold standard. To bolster his case for leading the nation back to the Stone Age, Paul produced a neo-confederateto provide testimony to the suncommittee:
The hearing itself was lively - based on Paul's desire to abolish the Federal Reserve and bring back the gold standard - but what really stood out was Chairman Paul's leadoff witness: a Southern secessionist.
The "short bio" the witness provided with his testimony omitted salient pieces of his resume, including his 2006 book, "Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe." But the subcommittee's ranking Democrat, William Lacy Clay (Mo.) did some homework and learned more about the witness, Thomas DiLorenzo of Loyola University Maryland.
DiLorenzo, the congressman told the committee, had called Lincoln "the first dictator" and a "mass murderer" and decreed that "Hitler was a Lincolnite."