Newt stumbles, Obama surges and Ron Paul exposed
8:59 am December 27, 2011, by Jay
A handful of political developments to get us started in the last week of 2011:
Newt Gingrich — at this point a longtime resident of Virginia, not Georgia — has failed to qualify for the Republican ballot in his home state, which holds its primary on March 6. That’s important in purely practical terms, because Virginia is a big state with a lot of delegates, and because Gingrich was expected to do well there. Instead, only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul will appear on the ballot there, because they were the only ones to collect enough valid signatures.
The failure is also important as a symbol of the former speaker’s lack of discipline and competent leadership. He likes to talks a big game — he and his advisers have likened the ballot failure to the attack on Pearl Harbor — but grand rhetoric is no substitute for execution.
Gallup has confirmed what earlier polls have reported as well — President Obama is having a good holiday season. His job-approval rating of 47 percent is now higher than his disapproval rating of 45 percent. The test will come in trying to sustain that kind of support. Congress, in contrast, will end the year with an approval rating of 11 percent, which is really mind-boggling if you think about it. And what’s truly dismaying about that number is that it is so well-deserved.
With the Iowa caucuses exactly one week away, Ron Paul continues to do well in the polls. But with success comes greater scrutiny, and in Paul’s case it has focused on the contents of an “investment newsletter” that Paul produced and profited from back in the ’80s and ’90s. The publication — titled the “Ron Paul Investment Newsletter” or the “Ron Paul Survival Newsletter” — contains a series of racially biased attacks, whacked-out conspiracy theories and anti-gay rhetoric.
The newsletters were long been known, but have become more relevant as Paul attempts to break out of his cult-figure niche into the mainstream. Paul himself claims that he didn’t write the pieces published under his name, which a., I find difficult to believe and b., doesn’t matter even if it’s true. If you allow such pieces to be published under your name, for your own personal profit, they become your responsibility.
– Jay Bookman
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Mike Parent
December 27th, 2011
11:33 am
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
If there is a God, he already did by ‘giving” us GWB and BHO.
Granny Godzilla
December 27th, 2011
11:33 am
Mike
Man up.
A dad
December 27th, 2011
11:34 am
Thought you’d miss the point Granny. I do have the data, but I wanted to hopefully make you curious enough to search this out for yourself. That was you couldn’t accuse me of misquoting, etc. But you want everyone to do everything for you so you can sit back and snipe. How typical. You had a chance to do something for yourself, without interference, and passed. Enjoy the new year.
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
December 27th, 2011
11:36 am
WWII spending was proof Keynes was right.
the biggest Keynesian failure was Bush without a doubt. Keynes would raise taxes during positive GDP years and spend more in negative years.
Paul
December 27th, 2011
11:36 am
Ben
“Wow, even Bill Clinton says that obama is the worst president ever.”
Do you have a reputable source for that or do you believe everything you read, no matter where you read it?
Chilidog
December 27th, 2011
11:36 am
In 1992, Ron Paul wrote: “Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for that pro-communist philanderer, Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressmen (sic). What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it: We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”
In 2011, “A Dad” wrote: What about Obama sitting all those years listening to the “hate the white devil” sermons from the good Rev. Jeremiah
Yes, I can see why you support Ron Paul.
I hope your daughter grows up to marry a black man.
BADA BING
December 27th, 2011
11:37 am
Air Jordans for $180? That is a lot, but I understand that also includes your bail.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
11:38 am
but I wanted to hopefully make you curious enough to search this out for yourself. That was you couldn’t accuse me of misquoting, etc. But you want everyone to do everything for you so you can sit back and snipe. How typical. You had a chance to do something for yourself, without interference, and passed.
Oooooo, a test premised on a fiction and a passing grade with snark…… can someone please add spam to that plate and we’ll have lunch!
Mike Parent
December 27th, 2011
11:38 am
First I’d have to believe in God to answer that. BUT that “experiment” was beyond defensible or excusable, as were many other atrocities done here. Being a good American means admitting and learning from our mistakes,AND assuring they never happen again, JMO.
josef
December 27th, 2011
11:38 am
DUSTY
And a cheery hello to you…
“Give that lady a fried chicken drum stick for bringing up Lester Maddox”
That ought to get at least a five paragraph response! Nevermind he appointed more blacks to public office than anyone before (not sure about since) and, to me, the most important thing he ever did, he appointed a black to the draft board because to him the idea of drafting so many of Georgia’s black sons and sending them off to Vietnam when they had no voice on the board, “just ain’t right.” A complex fellow he…George Wallace was elected his last term with 95% of the black vote…
Of course, all that may have happened when some people were living safe and sound and insulated from all the injustices Up Nawth…you never know…
Stevie Ray
December 27th, 2011
11:39 am
NOT NEAL BORTZ,
You think $550 million is a lot of money for Goldman for SEC immunity?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/22/moveon-obama-must-keep-hi_n_108514.html
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2010/07/goldmans-550-million-fine-slap-on-wrist/
$13 billion in profit in 2009 means 4.2 percent of single year profits for years of criminal activity that BO vowed to pursue…suggest you google the number of BO appointments who came from GS, went to BO or prior adminstrations policy decision making post, pushed more deregulating legislation (ie bank holding company) then returned to GS to profit off policies they championed while in DC..
Granny Godzilla
December 27th, 2011
11:39 am
a dad
Insult first? Data Later? And you expext to be taken seriously?
no data….just diatribe
squishy.
Mike Parent
December 27th, 2011
11:40 am
Granny, “man up” ?
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:40 am
What a great way to end the game last night.
Brees is the man.
Who dat going to win the Super Bowl.
Paul
December 27th, 2011
11:40 am
Well, I see that before I posted several people mocked/ridiculed/questioned Ben about his Clinton/Obama confrontation and offered him the chance to put up or shut up.
He chose the third option – he left.
This blog is a tough place for newbies who think they can operate like they do on Redstate or other blogs and post whatever fanciful notions cross their mind and other people will respond with “yeah, you tell them!!!”
Lord Help Us
December 27th, 2011
11:41 am
a dad,
So, apparently, ‘Obamaeconomics’ = keynesian
Okay, since Ronald Reagan, Bush !, Clinton, Bush II all subscribe to degrees of keynesian economics, as do the current crop of GOP candidates (sans RP), why do you call it Obamaeconomics?
Adam
December 27th, 2011
11:42 am
Mike Parent: Okay, so NG is OK and agrees with SC flying the Stars and Bars over their State house and the President was ok listening to the Rev Wright saying “God Damn America. ” ?
Once, to make a point, yes. I dare you to find more than one sermon in which he said this, and to read up on the context.
Mike Parent
December 27th, 2011
11:42 am
Get a life: If the Patriots kept pouring it on with the game settled, to get a record, everyone would be crying, “Bad Form”.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:43 am
Mike,
Sore lose much?
You must be a con.
Finn McCool
December 27th, 2011
11:44 am
Let’s see, Keynesian economic policy went into effect in the US as a response to the great depression and lasted up to the mid 70’s – a time during which the middle class in the US ballooned and the country emerged as a super power.
Yeah, I guess I’m a Keynesian.
Dusty
December 27th, 2011
11:44 am
Well, I better leave Bookman’s Propaganda Picnic and write some thank-you notes. MIckey Mouse will be president by the time I come back.
Do let me commend liberals for the vim & vigor of their persistent paranoid personalities. Amazing! Day & night at that!
Carry on, comrades. The day is young.
Adam
December 27th, 2011
11:44 am
A dad: Adam – the simplest answer is in the form of a question: name one country that espouses and abides by Keynesian economics that is successful, and explain why keynseian economics made it so. Answer: you can’t.
There is a logical fallacy that describes what you just did there with pinpoint accuracy:
(shifting the) Burden of proof (see – onus probandi) – “I need not prove my claim, you must prove it is false”
Onus probandi – from Latin “onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat” the burden of proof is on the person who makes the claim, not on the person who denies (or questions the claim). It is a particular case of the “argumentum ad ignorantiam” fallacy, here the burden is shifted on the person defending against the assertion.
Chilidog
December 27th, 2011
11:44 am
Johnny b Good wrote: “He has already been disavowing them for 10 years!!!!!”
————
No, not really. When this issue first came up in 1996, he defended the writings in his newsletters. It was only later when the “paleo-libertarian” strategy collapsed that he began trying to distance himself from what he wrote back then.
What do I want? I want him to accept responsibility for the articles and to stop trying to blame “some dude” for them.
Stevie Ray
December 27th, 2011
11:47 am
GRANNIE GODZILLA, ADAM, NOTNEALBORTZ,
Is there any end to your OBAMAZOMBIE positions? Suggested reading if you are interested in a balanced analysis of all the croyism and the fact that politicians and giant corporations remain above the law and that both parties are the same:
GLENN GREENWALD: With Libery and Justice for Some
Republic Lost: Lawrence Lessig
Throw Them all Out: Peter Schweizer
Your baby is no less ugly than any of the prior WH occupants…of course, we both know its highly unlikely any of you will research this to a degree that curbs your predictable and shallow barbs at anyone not of your opinion…
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:47 am
Dusty,
Leaving already?
I remember when you posted w did nothing wrong.
josef
December 27th, 2011
11:48 am
ADAM
I don’t presuppose to speak for the Christians, but in my faith G-damn is calling the L-rd’s N-me in vain and to do so from the pulpit is the height of apostasy, imo. He might as well have stolen, born false witness, coveted his neighbor’s ass or any of the other nine from the pulpit…sorry, but that rhetorical use is not forgiveable given the podium from which he spewed it…
Mike Parent
December 27th, 2011
11:49 am
Adam, yes he made his point. In any event he outraged some people. http://articles.cnn.com/2008-04-29/politics/obama.wright_1_wright-barack-obama-speech-on-race-relations?_s=PM:POLITICS
Chilidog
December 27th, 2011
11:50 am
Hevy, Stevie, take a chill, dude. Shouting at the computer screen isn’t going to help your blood pressure any.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:50 am
SR,
Did you expect one man to change our corrupt government by himself?
No silly, he will need a mandate and a movement for that.
Are you joining the OWS or just running your mouth?
Stevie Ray
December 27th, 2011
11:52 am
For all you genious economists citing Keynes…here’s something to consider:
The ultimate test case for the Keynesian model, of course, is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which promised that 3.5 million private sector jobs would be created at a price of $787 billion. The President warned that if the stimulus were not signed into law, the country could face 8.8 percent unemployment.
One only needs the post-enactment facts in order to ascertain the success of the stimulus bill:
• 862,000 jobs created at an average cost of $282,000 per public sector job and $647,000 per private sector job
• Four of five jobs created are in the public sector
• Government spending is not correlated to areas of high unemployment, and
• The rate of unemployment has reached 9.3 percent after peaking at 10 percent.
Source is CATO
http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/209267-obamanomics-101-failure-explained.html
Mike Parent
December 27th, 2011
11:52 am
getalife. No, I’m not a Pats fan, I was just stating a fact. Actually I was fine with them keeping the pedal to thew metal, but I wouldn’t have felt terrible if Brees got hurt doing it, either.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
11:53 am
When the newsletters first arose as an issue in 1996, Paul didn’t deny authorship. Instead, Paul personally repeated and defended some of the most incendiary racial claims in the newsletters.
In May 1996, Paul was confronted in an interview by the Dallas Morning News about a line that appeared in a 1992 newsletter, under the headline “Terrorist Update”: “If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be.” His response:
Dr. Paul denied suggestions that he was a racist and said he was not evoking stereotypes when he wrote the columns. He said they should be read and quoted in their entirety to avoid misrepresentation…
In the interview, he did not deny he made the statement about the swiftness of black men.
“If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them,” Dr. Paul said.
Seems there are other statements by Paul defending his statements rather than denying authorship.
Now which Ron Paul is telling the truth?
Johnny begood
December 27th, 2011
11:53 am
Not a real boortz redneck
The federal reserve act needs be challenged!! The reason no one has challenged it is because it supports the status quo… Drr. Why would big government types give up a unlimited money supply??? Why get rid of a institution that can enable endless spending, endless warfare, endless welfare, and endless government. Lol I mean if I gave you a printing press and called the toilet paper you produced currency would you give that printing press up?? The fed gets to withhold alot of information because part of the fed is a Private Bank. Afterall, the federal reserve act was written by private bankers with only Banking interest and big business in mind. The federal reserve act is a direct violation of the constitution!!! Btw loved how you didn’t refute my constitution quote…;) because keynesians like you don’t support the constitution. Your big government types be it crony capitalist or socialist, who want to run the economy and run people’s personal lives.
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
December 27th, 2011
11:54 am
Stevie Ray – Senator Obama voted for telecomm immunity for their criminal compliance with Bush. I harbored no expectation that PBO would be a champion of the ACLU on the issue.
President Obama let me down on Medical MJ. That is the only time I muttered an obscenity toward him.
And Goldman committed no crime. Their “victims” are free to bring civil action anytime if they feel they were wronged. And Goldman has no consumer business. Their “victims” have legal counsel on the payroll.
josef
December 27th, 2011
11:54 am
getalife
Yeah, Dusty’s gone…come in, stir things up, and then leave…hrrrmph…
The Thin Guy
December 27th, 2011
11:55 am
Wonder if it ever occurs to Bookman that one of the reasons the approval rate for congress is so low is the Democrats control the senate? Delighted to know that Jug Ears and Hippo Hips are enjoying their taxpayer paid $ 4 mill plus vacation to Hawaii
http://news.investors.com/Article/595902/201112261944/kwanzaa-barack-obama-michelle-obama.htm
and keeping the Celebration of Kwanzaa alive. I went to a card store the other day and they were out of Kwanzaa Cards. Another example of blatant racism.
Granny Godzilla
December 27th, 2011
11:55 am
Mike Parent
Did you miss the question or are you avoiding it?
Granny Godzilla
December 27th, 2011
11:32 am
Mike
Do you think God would damn or bless America for the Tuskeegee Experiment?
Be honest….
Adam
December 27th, 2011
11:56 am
Stevie Ray: Suggested reading if you are interested in a balanced analysis of all the croyism and the fact that politicians and giant corporations remain above the law and that both parties are the same:
Why do you think I disagree? Because I still want to vote?
Dusty
December 27th, 2011
11:57 am
getalife,
I really need to thank a few people for their delights at Christmas. But if you so desire I will tell you again: W did nothing wrong. After 9/11 he was the strength that held us together. That strength is missing now.
There! Now don’t fret I may return. Maybe. If I’m interested and all that….
stands for decibels
December 27th, 2011
11:57 am
I was away for awhile, saw this…
It doesn’t apply to be a repeating part of his life. Now Obama sat in Rev Wrights church for 20 years.
does any rational person posting here REALLY think that Obama’s was a “racist church?”
If so, please explain and show your work.
Granny Godzilla
December 27th, 2011
11:57 am
“Jug Ears and Hippo Hips”
good lord alimighty.
Stevie Ray
December 27th, 2011
11:57 am
CHILIDOG,
Thanks for calling me out as of course you are correct except I’m smiling as the blood in my body crashes recklessly into my arterial walls…I’m on a campaign to get all on both sides to agree that until we reform government, none of this matters….
getalife
December 27th, 2011
11:58 am
Mike,
I enjoyed the game from beginning to end but the best part was Brees’s speech after the game. The first shot showed Brees doing the Tebow and gathering his thoughts. Then he gave a heart felt speech thanking his entire team to give them the credit. I thought this guy would be a great politician.
willie lynch
December 27th, 2011
11:59 am
It seems that every new republican front runner is being toppled with blinding speed. The only two candidates with enough “cheese” to pull off these kinds of stealthy maneuvers are Perry and Romney. And since the Perry campaign is dead that only leaves the one who would truly be challenged by these rivals.
I watched a season or two of Big Love on HBO, there’s some rough and tumble politicking going on with those Mormons.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
12:00 pm
“I’m on a campaign to get all on both sides to agree that until we reform government, none of this matters….”
So, you did join the OWS movement.
Good for you .
josef
December 27th, 2011
12:00 pm
GG
“Do you think God would damn or bless America for the Tuskeegee Experiment?”
I’ll take a shot at that. I don’t think G-d would blame America, but those individuals carrying out the act. I don’t think G-d really pays that much attention to the geo-political lines mankind has drawn across H-s creation to separate us one from the other…
Johnny begood
December 27th, 2011
12:00 pm
Chilidog
WRONG he never said those statements were his in 1996!!! He does however support the right of racist people to be racist. That’s free speech, that’s the first amendment. Every libertarian respects (although many condem) the views of racist people. That’s what he was defending in 1996 if you actually read instead of some New York times regurgitation, gotcha type reporting. Libertarians respect the free speech of racist people as long as they don’t use force.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
12:01 pm
“W did nothing wrong.”
Does anyone on this blog agree with this lie?
Mike Parent
December 27th, 2011
12:02 pm
I answered it as best I could, being an atheist. I wrote, “First I’d have to believe in God to answer that. BUT that “experiment” was beyond defensible or excusable, as were many other atrocities done here.”
So I would damn the people who instituted that “experiment.”, but I can’t speak for some invisible Deity.
I guess I can dislike my government while still loving my country.
Stevie Ray
December 27th, 2011
12:02 pm
GETALIFE,
Best thing that could happen is that OWS and Tea Party colluded to press common ground….corrupt government is the only important issue that needs addressing. If BO couldn’t effect any remote changes, he shouldn’t have suggested “the days of lobbyist controlling the agenda in Washington are over…”
ADAM,
To answer your question…NO. But to be so partisan on most issues doesn’t move voters needs at all…
Doggone/GA
December 27th, 2011
12:02 pm
“That’s free speech, that’s the first amendment”
Sure it is. And it’s first amendment free speech to criticize him for those statement. The first amendment give “free speech” not immunity from the consequences of speaking your mind.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
December 27th, 2011
12:04 pm
Well, howdy everybody and a Happy New Year to you. Now that the missus sister Maggie has been laid to rest in a double grave plot by 16 pallbearers I guess I can get back to blogging with you.
It looks like all the godly Republican canadates have done ruint their reputation and we got no more in the pipeline. So me and my buddy Jim Earl and my other buddy Joe Bill got together up at Billy Bob’s last night and went to work on helping the Republican Party out. And we come up with a idea: a rebranding strategery. See, we can use the same canadates and do what all the big corps. that have ruint theirselfs with lousy customer service do: rename theirselfs. See, if Bell Atlantic can show up as Verizon and looking closer to home if In the News can become Granny Godzilla and DB can become Stands for Decibels, then these canadates can take on new names and the voting public won’t be any wiser.
So Newt Gingrich can become Wham Bam Thank You Maam and Mitt Romney can get alot of Southren votes if he’ll just run as Bubba Christ. Who down here besides a few Atheists and Jews can vote against a Christ or a Bubba? We’re still working on a name for Ron Paul. Maybe Gramps McCool or something else that sounds cuddly. By the way, now that he’s being called a Rascist I like him alot better.
No charge for the advise and Jim Earl asked me to tell you hey. Anyhow, it’s beans & weenies time so have a good p.m. everybody.
josef
December 27th, 2011
12:04 pm
SFD
“…does any rational person posting here REALLY think that Obama’s was a “racist church?”
The Church of Christ? No. That congregation, yes. Read Preacher Wright’s writings going back for decades and judge from the corpus.
Tom(Independent)
December 27th, 2011
12:04 pm
Good news libs, Barrack Hussein Obama is surging in the polls. Four more years and we can go deeper in debt and put more people on welfare. If 95% of black people are voting for the black man, why doesn’t 95% of white people vote for the white man. What is wrong with that?
carlosgvv
December 27th, 2011
12:05 pm
Granny – 11:55
And yet, there’s no evidence that God ever did anything, one way or another, to America in connection with the Tuskeegee Experiment. In fact, there’s no evidence whatsover that God even exists. And yet, how many books written about God would fill how many bookshelves? The logical thing to do would be to put religon aside and wait patiently until irrefutable evidence comes in that God not only exists, but is the God you’re worshiping. Unfortunately, common sense and logic go out the window when irrational religion takes over the mind.
willie lynch
December 27th, 2011
12:05 pm
The Thin Guy
December 27th, 2011
11:55 am
How is Kwanzaa racist? All races can celebrate Kwanzaa. Is Hanukkah racist?
Doggone/GA
December 27th, 2011
12:05 pm
“That congregation, yes”
Including the white members?
Johnny begood
December 27th, 2011
12:06 pm
As they say in politics the only thing libertarians and liberals agree on is they hate Neo Cons. The only thing Liberals and Neocons agree on is they hate libertarians. And of course the only thing libertarians and NeoCons agree on is they hate liberals…. American politics jump in
Stevie Ray
December 27th, 2011
12:07 pm
NOTNEALBORTZ<
Appreciate your response however, we know by virtue of the fine that GS admitted to disclosure issues and mislead buyers relative to mortgage related securities….admitting to civil fraud SEC charges..of course we will never know what other crimes they may have committed given the record setting cronyism that exists between GS and our corruptresentatives…
Finn McCool
December 27th, 2011
12:08 pm
“…does any rational person posting here REALLY think that Obama’s was a “racist church?”
Do you expect jews to like Nazi’s? What’s in the past is in the past?
getalife
December 27th, 2011
12:09 pm
I did not believe him when he said we invented aides until our government admitted injecting std’s in humans for “study”.
Paul
December 27th, 2011
12:10 pm
Hello Dusty
“W did nothing wrong. ”
I suppose that’s a matter of opinion. So you’re okay with his not vetoing spending bills and running up the debt?
You’re okay with his putting thru a number of megabillion dollar programs and not paying for them, just shifting the debt onto your kids and grandkids?
Is that what you consider ‘nothing wrong’ or would you like to revise your statement to something along the lines of “did nothing wrong except:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.(How do you make the symbol for ‘infinity’ on a keyboard?)
josef
December 27th, 2011
12:10 pm
Doggone
“Including the white members?”
Yes.
Stevie Ray
December 27th, 2011
12:12 pm
GETALIFE,
I didn’t formally join because their messaging is for crap but i understand they do deal in high quality weed….all joking aside, OWS and the teaparty both have good core issue relative to government reform….I’m more akin to OWS folks that teaparty who scares me with all their god and other unrelated rhetoric….for the record as it were…
Thanks for the fun….I feel my campaign was furthered today and that common ground exists…who is in favor of a second constitutional convention?
Later
Vinny
December 27th, 2011
12:12 pm
It’s a shame that we have a president that spent 20 years in a racist, hate-filled church being mentored by a racist marxist.
A dad
December 27th, 2011
12:13 pm
Adam – I did answer. I said there isn’t a keynesian country that succeeds.
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
December 27th, 2011
12:13 pm
What exactly has Obama done for his “black voters”? I know the right-wing wants to make everything a race issue but they don’t explain what he has done.
Bush sent everyone a $300 check. I don’t know what Obama has done. Making them buy health insurance does not count. (except Aetna and other insurers have nearly doubled in share price)
FED UP
December 27th, 2011
12:15 pm
I consider myself independant on politics. As disappointed as I was with Clinton (yes I voted for him) I think he did a good job at getting things done with a majority of Republicans he had to deal with. Mr Obama is a clean cut looking man with a very attractive family, and he is a smooth talker. Makes great speeches. I just wish I had written down everything he promised before he was elected. EXAMPLE: the debate on the healthcare bill will be on C-span so everyone can understand more about the bill! IT WAS NOT. The healthcare bill will not cost any additional money! We now know many hidden cost are gonna hit us right in the checkbook and the account is OVERDRAWN! And many more falsehoods. But both parties push the candidate that makes the best appearance and makes the best speeches. And we all fall for it. The only thing that smells worse than politics is a cesspool.
Johnny begood
December 27th, 2011
12:15 pm
Chilidog
you embarrass yourself lmao
I am a African American!!!! Omg haha how could I be racist against myself?? Well according to that 1992 Ron Paul newsletter then he must be the classic flip flopper because he voted for the MLK holiday. Go look at the roll call vote, Ron Paul voted yes!!! So why would he write that then vote yes???? Omg you are a moron
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
December 27th, 2011
12:15 pm
“Bubba Christ”
I like that. A sure winner here in the Deep South (as long he is white and fat)
getalife
December 27th, 2011
12:16 pm
SR,
I think it will take three or four more Presidents to fix a firmly embedded corrupt government and President Obama is just a start. It took a few decades to get to this point and change will not happen in two terms.
willie lynch
December 27th, 2011
12:16 pm
Tom(Independent)
December 27th, 2011
12:04 pm
I’m glad you proclaim yourself “Independent” because those views are far from the views of the collective.
Mark
December 27th, 2011
12:16 pm
A 2006 memo penned by Newt Gingrich praised the health reform law Mitt Romney piloted as governor of Massachusetts, and threatens to undercut the former House speaker’s criticism of that plan.
A memo (first unearthed Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal) distributed through Gingrich’s Center for Health Transformation credits Romney and his state’s health reform law as a positive development.
“The most exciting development of the past few weeks is what has been happening up in Massachusetts. The health bill that Governor Romney signed into law this month has tremendous potential to effect major change in the American health systemm,” Gingrich wrote. “We agree entirely with Governor Romney and Massachusetts legislators that our goal should be 100 percent insurance coverage for all Americans.”
That would seemingly temper Gingrich’s criticism of the Massachusetts plan as the “forerunner of Obamacare.”
Gingrich has similarly criticized the individual mandate contained both in Romney and President Obama’s health reforms, despite having supported a similar model for health reform in the 1990s. He’s since disavowed such a plan.
Finn McCool
December 27th, 2011
12:17 pm
Pretty good read and still relevant:
Today, the signature of modern American capitalism is neither benign competition, nor class struggle, nor an inclusive middle-class utopia. Instead, predation has become the dominant feature—a system wherein the rich have come to feast on decaying systems built for the middle class. The predatory class is not the whole of the wealthy; it may be opposed by many others of similar wealth. But it is the defining feature, the leading force. And its agents are in full control of the government under which we live.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2006/05/predator-state
Doggone/GA
December 27th, 2011
12:18 pm
Josef “Yes”
Baloney
Mike Parent
December 27th, 2011
12:19 pm
Where’s Harry Truman, now that we really need him!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
12:20 pm
Fed up, I can tell from your post that you are well-informed and obviously very very fair and balanced. Obviously you have done your research and I am sure if you were tracking those promises you would be even more fair and balanced. I am sure you would never post a falsehood or blame Obama unfairly and unbalancedly. And I am sure YOUR cesspool does not stink.
I imagine the obvious snark in the above eludes you…but if you want to learn real infomation about promises kept, Politifact may be for you if you can turn off Faux.
Paul
December 27th, 2011
12:20 pm
Mark 12:16
Haven’t you been listening to Newt’s clarifications? He only said that stuff because they were trying to head off Hillary’s attempt to shove socialized medicine down our throats!!!!”
//sarc//
trevordc
December 27th, 2011
12:21 pm
The only thing being exposed here is how the AJC is still as liberal as usual. I hear everyday on the radio how ajc is going to be more down the middle….lol. You guys are the msnbc of print media. Just embrace it, i would respect you more if you did.
josef
December 27th, 2011
12:22 pm
Mike
@ 12:19
Amen!
Doggone…
Well, make a sandwich of it, it doesn’t change anything…
Johnny begood
December 27th, 2011
12:22 pm
Mike Parent
You have Harry Truman in every Neo Conservative that runs for office. If like Harry Truman look no further than Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachman. Neo Cons have long hailed Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman as icons of neoconservatism.
josef
December 27th, 2011
12:24 pm
trvordc
The AJC has moved more to the middle…it still has a long way to go…
Chilidog
December 27th, 2011
12:27 pm
Johnny begood wrote (12:00 pm): “”Chilidog
WRONG he never said those statements were his in 1996!!! “
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He never said they weren’t. They were written in the first person in a newsletter under his name.
He is totally responsible for them.
too bad, so sad.
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
December 27th, 2011
12:27 pm
More good news for liberals from the Obama DOJ – they won’t pursue convictions regarding online poker intrastate.
I may register Georgia Poker.com today.
josef
December 27th, 2011
12:27 pm
johnny
For the love of G-d, man, what DO you know of Harry? Liberal, on a lot of issues, conservative on others, but it there ever were a President who represented us as a people as who we really are, it was he…never forget that he integrated the Armed Forces and gave us the Marshall Plan, called by Churchill, “the most unsordid act in history.”
Tom(Independent)
December 27th, 2011
12:29 pm
Willie lynch@12:15 – My views are not as far off as you would like to think. As a conservative I do think of my childrens and grandchildren lives not just for right now! I believe our number one concern should be our citizens jobs and economy not what happens in foreign countries. We are not the world’s policman anymore, or so I hope? They (foreign countries) must look out for themselves!
getalife
December 27th, 2011
12:29 pm
newt is a typical con that lies about everything but takes no blame for anything.
Ask him about leading on deregulations with gramm to watch his head explode.
There will be no change with willard or newt so there is only one choice left.
JOE Cool
December 27th, 2011
12:30 pm
Tom(Independent)
December 27th, 2011
12:04 pm
Poor Tom….so small minded.
Johnny begood
December 27th, 2011
12:32 pm
Chilidog
What are you talking about??? He did say that he didn’t write them and that he didn’t support those views. However he did say he supports the free speech of racist people. Your trying to tie that into your arguement and you fail so hard at doing it.
Chilidog
December 27th, 2011
12:32 pm
Johnny begood wrote: “He (Paul) does however support the right of racist people to be racist.”
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Apparently he did so by giving them a platform from which they could air their racist veiws.
How do libertarians feel about publishing racist comments in order to raise money from racists?
Is that OK, because the racists are responding to the man and not the message? (or is it the message and not the man?)
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
December 27th, 2011
12:33 pm
getalife
Newt is far worse than Willard. He is vindictive, corrupt to the core, and friendless inside DC. He would surround himself with lackeys and reprobates. He truly is sleaze in its full representation.
Steve - USA
December 27th, 2011
12:33 pm
josef@12:24 The AJC has moved more to the middle…it still has a long way to go…
It had to, it’s circulation was dropping through the floor. The AJC’s old target audience couldn’t afford to buy a paper, they had to move toward the middle.
Chilidog
December 27th, 2011
12:35 pm
Johnny begood wrote: “Every libertarian respects (although many condem) the views of racist people.”
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Oh, really?
You do realize that you are not helping your cause with statements like this, don’t you?
Why should anyone have any respect for a viewpoint that is motivated by hatred?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 27th, 2011
12:35 pm
The AJC’s old target audience couldn’t afford to buy a paper, they had to move toward the middle.
Ahh the post of stupidity rather than perhaps acknowledging the march of technology.
Granny Godzilla
December 27th, 2011
12:35 pm
“However he did say he supports the free speech of racist people.”
Ron Paul and I both support the free speech rights of racists.
He was stupid enough to hand them a megaphone with his name on it.
No Oval Office for him.
Doggone/GA
December 27th, 2011
12:37 pm
“Well, make a sandwich of it, it doesn’t change anything”
And what gives you special insight into the motives of those white racist members of a church with a black preacher leading it? I’d be VERY interested do know why they did that.
Richard
December 27th, 2011
12:38 pm
Ron Paul is a humanitarian in the sea of political lobbyist and corruption which undermine the American people. Look at not only his voting record while in Congress, but take a snapshot of his entire life. As young boy growing up on a farm, learning what hard work and savings really meant. Then a humanitarian choosing to not dodge the draft like Gingrich, but instead joining the Airforce to become a Flight Surgeon, and later a humanitarian becoming an OBGYN Doctor delivering babies.. multitudes of them. This man cares for life, as a humanitarian took his fight to congress and challenged the de-linking of the Gold standard, by history knowing that empires have consistently come to an end once the monetary policy of that empire was based on a fiat standard.. Paul, once again as a humanitarian sought to protect that very same thing which the Founders of this great nation sought also to protect, your life, your liberty, natural law rights which would ensure a freedom to obtain prosperity. Not only does Paul have a sound understanding of history, and where we have come from, he has endorsed the continued education in economic philosophy (Austrian Economics), he is very aware of the history of foreign nations (read: The Foreign Policy of Freedom) and again as a humanitarian seeks the protection of rights for all citizens of the whole world, which more so than any other candidate is known and supported by people around the world.
getalife
December 27th, 2011
12:38 pm
Not,
Yes newt would be a disaster and willard is the 1 % candidate.
Folks expecting change from those two is like dusty saying w did nothing wrong.
It is a lie and they know it..
Finn McCool
December 27th, 2011
12:38 pm
how true is this?
by failing to prosecute a single high-profile Wall Street actor today, the Obama Administration is failing to deter financial fraud tomorrow.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-connaughton/obama-wall-street-laws_b_1157915.html?ref=email_share
mm
December 27th, 2011
12:40 pm
I saw a very interesting bit of information on the news the other night. The registered voters in this country are:
42 million democrats
37 million independants
30 million republicans
I guess now maybe the cons will stop calling their views the “majority”.