Feh. This report from Reason magazine does nothing to dissuade me from turning away from libertarian-leaning presidential candidate Ron Paul. Its apparent that Lew Rockwell is the person who likely penned those racist newsletters that carried Paul’s name:
Financial records from 1985 and 2001 show that Rockwell, Paul’s congressional chief of staff from 1978 to 1982, was a vice president of Ron Paul & Associates, the corporation that published the Ron Paul Political Report and the Ron Paul Survival Report. The company was dissolved in 2001. During the period when the most incendiary items appeared—roughly 1989 to 1994—Rockwell and the prominent libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard championed an open strategy of exploiting racial and class resentment to build a coalition with populist “paleoconservatives,” producing a flurry of articles and manifestos whose racially charged talking points and vocabulary mirrored the controversial Paul newsletters recently unearthed by The New Republic. To this day Rockwell remains a friend and advisor to Paul—accompanying him to major media appearances; promoting his candidacy on the LewRockwell.com blog; publishing his books; and peddling an array of the avuncular Texas congressman’s recent writings and audio recordings.
Read the article, especially if you are a new Paul supporter who isn’t all that familiar with the inner battles for the soul and direction of the libertarian movement. Paul isn’t the mild-mannered Congressman who just wants everyone to be free that he claims. He and Rockwell made their bones in the LP by placing the race card.
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“He and Rockwell made their bones in the LP by placing the race card.”
Actually, it looks like those bones($) were made from outside of the LP by playing the race card. Expanding the donor tent, fishing for dollars it appears, cause he already had LPers agreeing with him and certainly got plenty of free exposure to LP members during that time. The LP sucks for other reasons, but them having race card money isn’t one of them.
Your statement should probably read He and Rockwell made their bones OUTSIDE of the LP by placing(sic) the race card.
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