[lbo-talk] Did Ron Paul really say this ?

[Mark Bennett]

Gary Allen wrote speeches for Wallace, whose success in Presidential
politics Paul can only dream achieving.  Always remember what P.T. Barnum,
or Mencken,or Gore Vidal, or one of those jokers is said to have said:
"When the American public walks, its knuckles graze the ground."

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Sep 28, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote:
>
> > On 28/09/2011 18:36, Doug Henwood wrote:
> > On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:32 PM, c b wrote:
> >>> Congressman/Presidential candidate Ron Paul wrote, ""The beneficial,
> >>> educational impact of the John Birch Society over the past four
> >>> decades would be hard to overestimate. ...
> >> Wow, that's terrible. Where did you get it?
> >
> > Is it really that shocking?  If you look at his books of speeches, he's
> obviously been a far right conspiracy theorist for some time.
>
> It's shocking mainly from a marketing standpoint. Paul is totally awful,
> and the occasional left weakness for him is inexplicable. But the JBS is so
> outre that I thought that an actual elected official might want to keep his
> distance from them.
>
> Doug
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