RON PAUL says the key is liberal reeducation.

[powderman]

By Jeffrey Lord on 8.23.11 @ 6:09AM

To bring about radical and permanent change in any society, our primary focus must be on the conversion of minds through education.
-- Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul​


Sigh.

Somebody needs to say this.

Does Ron Paul have a lot of interesting ideas he puts forward as a presidential candidate?

Yes. From his honestly libertarian views (he was the 1988 Libertarian presidential nominee, so he's been at this a long time) to his willingness to challenge the status quo on economics (questioning the role of everything from sugar subsidies to the Federal Reserve) to his emphasis on the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, Congressman Paul has been fearless in sticking with his principles. And in bringing new ideas -- or old ideas -- to an American electorate that has been staggered by the far-left reality that is the Obama Administration.

But as complaints surface in the wake of his strong showing in the Iowa Straw Poll, complaints from Paul supporters and candidate Paul himself that he is not receiving the attention that is his due -- someone should say the Congressman and his supporters are correct. There should be -- must be -- more attention paid to the Paul campaign.

Why?

Because the Paul campaign is not just a campaign for president. This is a campaign -- a serious campaign -- to re-educate the American people to an alternate universe of reality. A campaign that goes far beyond whatever will happen at the polls in 2012.

And sorry to say, this re-education campaign does not present a pretty picture of itself.

Looming over the interesting and appealing ideas of the Paul campaign is a veritable political tornado of allegations involving anti-Semitism, racism, pacifism, far left-wingism and, at the edges, a tiny flicker of intimidation.

So let's spill it all out on the table and take a look.


To take a look, go here: http://spectator.org/archives/2011/0...eral-re/print# 

[JustaShooter]

Pretty impressive hit piece you've linked to.  Couple of things:

First, though at the beginning of the article he pays lip service to Ron Paul's "honestly libertarian views" the author seems to immediately forget there is more to the political landscape than a simple liberal vs conservative.  In branding Ron Paul a neo-liberal for his non-interventionist stance he misses the very important point that non-intervention is a consistently libertarian view, plain and simple.

Second, the claim that Ron Paul is "pretending to conservatism" is specious at best.  He is what he is - libertarian.  If he chooses to run as a Republican to be better able to compete in our predominantly two-party system and if many of his views resonate with some of the conservative base, so be it.  But he remains unapologetically libertarian.

Finally, I found the circuitous route the author used to arrive at the claim of anti-semitism more than a bit stretched.  Managing to equate labeling someone a "neoconservative" to be the same as using the word "Jew" as a pejorative is a master stroke of genius in the political realm of underhandedness.  It is easy to see why the author has been able to make a name for himself as a political operative.

Just a Shooter