Sure, it seemed like a good topic at the time. Ron Paul was making noise and people were asking (again) about his racist, kooky newsletters. So I collected them, and I intend to keep doing so, but luminaries such as the New York Times via Salon seem to think Paul is going to once again slide out of the public spotlight:
Or maybe, and just hear me out here, maybe Ron Paul has always been a niche candidate with a small but incredibly vocal base of support? Maybe the rallies full of thousands of college students represented essentially the entirety of his following and not just the most committed element? Maybe a cantankerous lifelong congressman who combines a steadfast antiwar position with long-discredited crank monetary ideas was never actually remotely likely to come close to winning the Republican nomination? (And his history of embracing racist white populism probably hurt him with “independents,” besides the racist independents.)
Maybe, maybe, most of America actually doesn’t care for Ron Paul or his ideas!So as of now, I'll be broadening the scope of this site to examine in more granular depth the esoteric sources of many of the weird things we hear right-wing leaders and candidates saying. Stuff like Sarah Palin's ties to people who think they battle demons, for example.
It's sure to be hilariously terrifying. It'll be hilerrifying.
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