Ever since I heard that Ron Paul was running for the presidency, I was more than a little concerned, When I learned what he stood for, I became downright frightened, partly because of how the Republican candidates have been trying to proclaim themselves to be the heir apparent to Ronald Reagan. It seems that in terms of racebaiting and a love for the South, Paul is the clear heir to Reagan. But what The New Republican has dug up on Paul is shocking.
The strange thing is that the more progressive (or at least objective) journals like the Nation have seems to cast a blind eye on Paul's past and his affliation with the Ludwig von Mises Institute and his endorsements from the infamous John Birch Society (a society that even William F. Buckley, the father of the New Right, denounced). As most Kossacks know, Paul, in a now-infamous interview on MSNBC, said that the Civil War was an unnecessary war.
Buth things get even stranger, as the article notes, Paul's own coziness with former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (and convicted criminal) David Duke, while demonizing blacks who participated in the 1992 LA riots as well as gays and blacks, should give anyone pause to think about who they really are endorsing.