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From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> Date: January 9, 2008 10:47:58 AM EST To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] the bigoted past of Ron Paul
Perhaps a certain incredulity is in order when The New Republic tells us that someone is an anti-Semite... --CGE
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> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] the bigoted past of Ron Paul
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> THE NEW REPUBLIC
> Angry White Man
> by James Kirchick
> The bigoted past of Ron Paul.
> Post Date Tuesday, January 08, 2008
>
> If you are a critic of the Bush administration, chances are that, at
> some point over the past six months, Ron Paul has said something that
> appealed to you. Paul describes himself as a libertarian, but, since
> his presidential campaign took off earlier this year, the Republican
> congressman has attracted donations and plaudits from across the
> ideological spectrum. Antiwar conservatives, disaffected centrists,
> even young liberal activists have all flocked to Paul, hailing him as
> a throwback to an earlier age, when politicians were less mealy-
> mouthed and American government was more modest in its ambitions,
> both at home and abroad. In The New York Times Magazine, conservative
> writer Christopher Caldwell gushed that Paul is a "formidable stander
> on constitutional principle," while The Nation praised "his full-
> throated rejection of the imperial project in Iraq." Former TNR
> editor Andrew Sullivan endorsed Paul for the GOP nomination, and
> ABC's Jake Tapper described the candidate as "the one true straight-
> talker in this race." Even The Wall Street Journal, the newspaper of
> the elite bankers whom Paul detests, recently advised other
> Republican presidential contenders not to "dismiss the passion he's
> tapped."
>