Bastards 1 - Ron Paul 0

January 9, 2008 | by David Steven | More on North America | No comments

While you’re all focused on the important political issues - Clinton/Obama; McCain/Huckabee/Romney - I have continued to enjoy the Ron Paul insurgency, which now appears to be entering its final phase.

Paul, you will remember, built a fanatic online following, raised oodles of money (over $6m in just one day), but failed to build much real world support (8% in New Hampshire, just behind Rudy Giuliani).

Now the New Republic has really put the boot in with a devastating article on the skeletons in Paul’s (seemingly capacious) closet. Sample extract from an eight-page Paul fund raising letter sent out during the presidency of Bush-the-elder:

I have unmasked the plot for world government, world money, and world central banking. Planned exchange controls to hold you hostage…while the dollar drops down a hole…

I revealed the Red debt bomb set to explode in your bank account…The real, financial reasons Bush invaded Panama. The nightmare of a ‘cashless society’ (watch out for it, if they get away with the New Money)…

I’ve been told not to talk, but these stooges don’t scare me. Threats or not threats, I’ve laid bare the coming race war in our big cities. The federal-homosexual cover-up on AIDS (my training as a physician helps me see through this one.)

The Bohemian Grove – perverted, pagan playground of the powerful Skull & Bones: the demonic fraternity that includes George Bush and leftist Senator John Kerry, Congress’s Mr New Money. The Israeli lobby, which plays Congress like a cheap harmonica. And the Soviet-style ‘smartcard’ the Justice Department has in mind for you.

Paul’s reaction? He didn’t write any of the offending letters or newsletters, but takes “moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name.”

Lew Rockwell, a key Paul supporter, has an even-more amusing take. Paul’s opponents are now ’scared and desperate’:

I think that what people should take from this is the obvious: this story appeared at this point and time, using this very “hot” theme, because the old media establishment that tries its best to support the Washington DC political establishment is darn near spooked by the power wielded by a bunch of grassroots Moms, Dads, college kids, Grandmas, and blue-collar Joes who have had enough of the current system and its choke hold on their ability to live their lives unencumbered.

Freedom has gained some popularity in the heartland and in the home, thanks to Dr. Paul, and that won’t be tolerated by the controlling bastards in power or the inconsequential media hacks like Kirchick and the New Republic.

Of course, there’s a small grain of truth in what Rockwell says. The ‘controlling bastards’ probably have got what matters to them most. A near-certainty that Paul won’t now run as an independent, siphoning off a small, but potentially critical, protest vote…

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