{"id":1861,"date":"2011-09-05T12:07:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T03:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2011-09-05T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T03:07:59","slug":"the-undiscerning-and-dangerous-appreciation-of-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-undiscerning-and-dangerous-appreciation-of-ron-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"The Undiscerning and Dangerous Appreciation of Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a scorching article describing why Ron Paul is a coward and a liar. \u00a0He refuses to clean out his camp, and he purports to hold \u00a0a set of views which are so miserably inconsistent that it cannot be an innocent mistake. \u00a0One cannot love liberty enough to act for it without hating tyranny enough to act against it. \u00a0Ron Paul does not actually love liberty&#8211;he merely hates an unusual grouping of people.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One can not spend thirty years connected to holocaust-deniers, anti-semites, and explicit anarchists without red flags going up.\u00a0 For what it is worth, I do not believe Ron Paul is a holocast denier or an anti-semite.\u00a0 I think he is worse.\u00a0 I think he is a coward.\u00a0 Ron Paul knows full well that his closest connections are a mixed bag of the most extremist sort of anarcho-capitalists you have ever seen.\u00a0 He refuses to engage these subjects.\u00a0 He does not publicly dispute their claims.\u00a0 He sits on the sideline, collecting $30 million in campaign contributions as a candidate who has never ever ever won a single state primary (in what seems like a million attempts), but is never asked to separate himself from his lunatic friends.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbahnsen.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/21\/the-undiscerning-and-dangerous-appreciation-of-ron-paul\/\">The Undiscerning and Dangerous Appreciation of Ron Paul<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the first time I have read David Bahnsen, so I am taking this post of his at face value. \u00a0I already count Lew Rockwell as one of the worst kooks out there, but I did not know (because I have not done cursory research) that the association between Rockwell and Paul was so deep. \u00a0Please do read the entire article over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbahnsen.com\/\">The Bahnsen Viewpoint<\/a>, his blog. \u00a0Obviously, let me know if you see something that raises red flags, but this article is a valuable text.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly appreciate his analogy of the roommate. \u00a0I am likewise finished with trying to gain agreement through negotiations with our opponents, and am only interested in defeating them. \u00a0I will not spend over long to debate with those whose objections smack more of delay than of routes to victory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1861\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1861\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a scorching article describing why Ron Paul is a coward and a liar. \u00a0He refuses to clean out his camp, and he purports to hold \u00a0a set of views which are so miserably inconsistent that it cannot be an innocent mistake. \u00a0One cannot love liberty enough to act for it without hating tyranny enough to act against it. \u00a0Ron Paul does not actually love liberty&#8211;he merely hates an unusual grouping of people.<\/p>\n<p>One can not spend thirty years connected to holocaust-deniers, anti-semites, and explicit anarchists without red flags going up.\u00a0 For what it is worth, I do not believe Ron Paul is a holocast denier or an anti-semite.\u00a0 I think he is worse.\u00a0 I think he is a coward.\u00a0 Ron Paul knows full well that his closest &#8230; 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