To Arms! To Arms!

Ready the Battledroids! Warm up the Underground Tunneling Death Tanks! Release the hounds! Arm the methane balloon strike force! And for goodness sake, send out the trolls! Omega Force Ron Paul is under attack yet again!

The Ron Paul forces are really amazing. It's incredible how many excuses they can create for their candidate when yet another tidbit of offal is found that tarnishes him. Of course, when the information is a little bit difficult to argue, like Ron taking money from white supremacists, it all boils down to smokescreen; taxes, property ownership, freemarketfreemarketfreemarket, keep your goddamn hands off my money, etc, etc.

I was a little gobsmacked after reading Melissa's post linked above, commenting:

And apparently, even the appearance of integrity and dignity isn't all that important to the Paul campaign. OMG, shoez. OMG, donations. Five hundred bucks? What will that buy, a box of bumper stickers?

Perhaps the reason this thread has not yet been flooded with the Ron Paul Bludgeon Bearers is because even they are a little ashamed about this? One can only hope. One isn't living in fantasyland, but one can hope.

Of course, I'm a foolish, foolish person. The thread was swiftly filled with Ronbots, shame be damned, who refused to even consider the implications behind their candidate happily accepting money from a white supremacist, swallowing the ridiculous "we're using this to spread freedom" excuse hook, line, and stinker.

Well my friends, time heals all wounds. Time also tends to expose more Ron Paul slime. Taken from a 1992 article in "The Ron Paul Policial Report:

Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action…. Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the “criminal justice system,” I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.

If similar in-depth studies were conducted in other major cities, who doubts that similar results would be produced? We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings, and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.

Nice, eh? Apparently, racism is a "sensible political opinion." And I find Ron Paul's apparent puzzlement over African American voters supporting welfare and affirmative action to be, frankly, hilarious.

Of course, I'm sure there will be Ronbots that will insist that he never actually wrote these words, blaming it on some staff writer, knowing deep down in their Ron Paul lovin' hearts that it somehow slipped by their candidate, and he never, never would actually call almost all African American men criminal.

Cue another kick in the goolies by time:

Well, don't say we didn't warn you about Ron Paul's friends.

Here's American National Socialist Workers Party leader Bill White, coming out big for Paul on the far-right Vanguard News Network site on December 20:

Comrades:

I have kept quiet about the Ron Paul campaign for a while, because I didn't see any need to say anything that would cause any trouble. However, reading the latest release from his campaign spokesman, I am compelled to tell the truth about Ron Paul's extensive involvement in white nationalism.

Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays. This is part of a dinner that was originally organized by Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis and Joe Sobran, and has since been mostly taken over by the Council of Conservative Citizens.

I have attended these dinners, seen Paul and his aides there, and been invited to his offices in Washington to discuss policy.

For his spokesman to call white racialism a "small ideology" and claim white activists are "wasting their money" trying to influence Paul is ridiculous. Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position.

I don't know that it is necessarily good for Paul to "expose" this. However, he really is someone with extensive ties to white nationalism and for him to deny that in the belief he will be more respectable by denying it is outrageous -- and I hate seeing people in the press who denounce racialism merely because they think it is not fashionable.

Bill White, Commander
American National Socialist Workers Party

Far be it from me to take the word of Bill White(!) as gospel truth (A correction in the New York Times states that good 'ol Jesse Benton says Ron has never "knowingly" met Bill White.), but I would hope there are some Ron Paul supporters out there that would consider the piling-up crap and start asking some serious questions of their candidate.

Well, unless they're racists, of course.

And as for other corrections:

Stormfront, which describes itself as a “white nationalist” Internet community, did not give money to Ron Paul’s presidential campaign; according to Jesse Benton, a spokesman for Paul’s campaign, it was Don Black, the founder of Stormfront, who donated $500 to Paul.

Still. Kept. The. Money.