The Undiscerning and Dangerous Appreciation of Ron Paul

Here’s a scorching article describing why Ron Paul is a coward and a liar.  He refuses to clean out his camp, and he purports to hold  a set of views which are so miserably inconsistent that it cannot be an innocent mistake.  One cannot love liberty enough to act for it without hating tyranny enough to act against it.  Ron Paul does not actually love liberty–he merely hates an unusual grouping of people.

One can not spend thirty years connected to holocaust-deniers, anti-semites, and explicit anarchists without red flags going up.  For what it is worth, I do not believe Ron Paul is a holocast denier or an anti-semite.  I think he is worse.  I think he is a coward.  Ron Paul knows full well that his closest connections are a mixed bag of the most extremist sort of anarcho-capitalists you have ever seen.  He refuses to engage these subjects.  He does not publicly dispute their claims.  He sits on the sideline, collecting $30 million in campaign contributions as a candidate who has never ever ever won a single state primary (in what seems like a million attempts), but is never asked to separate himself from his lunatic friends.

via The Undiscerning and Dangerous Appreciation of Ron Paul.

This is the first time I have read David Bahnsen, so I am taking this post of his at face value.  I already count Lew Rockwell as one of the worst kooks out there, but I did not know (because I have not done cursory research) that the association between Rockwell and Paul was so deep.  Please do read the entire article over at The Bahnsen Viewpoint, his blog.  Obviously, let me know if you see something that raises red flags, but this article is a valuable text.

I particularly appreciate his analogy of the roommate.  I am likewise finished with trying to gain agreement through negotiations with our opponents, and am only interested in defeating them.  I will not spend over long to debate with those whose objections smack more of delay than of routes to victory.

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