Racist-NO Traitor-NO!!! Nutcase-YES.
How many nutcases do you know who have an M.D. from Duke Medical School, served as an Army flight surgeon, and have gone on to have a very successful medical career? Think about it.
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I think the Ron Paul bashing is generally due to two factors:
(1) For many people, it's more important that the US continue to "kick ass" overseas in endless, trillion-dollar warfare in the Middle East than for Americans to retain our Constitutional liberties right here at home. These people are willing to trade any amount of their remaining freedom for the false promise of security -- as if wars overseas were stopping terrorists from infiltrating the US
right now.
(2) Some people in this country (Jewish and Christian Zionists) are more loyal to Israel than to America for religious or ethnic reasons -- hence the existence of organizations like AIPAC, JINSA, ZOA, AJC, etc. These organizations are enormously influential, and all other GOP candidates kowtow to them, as do most of the Democrats (esp. Hillary). Since Paul wants US tax dollars to be spent
only in the US, those people don't like him, and they smear him at every opportunity.
You know the GOP is truly screwed up when NY and Massachusetts
liberals like Giuliani and Romney, respectively, are considered more conservative than a strict Constitutionalist like Ron Paul --
simply because they're pro-war and are willing to attack Iran for the sake of "poor, defenseless," nuclear-armed Israel.
When it comes to guns, the other candidates believe the Second Amendment gives us the right to play games with firearms, like hunting and target shooting. Ron Paul believes the Second Amendment is about keeping combat weapons in the hands of civilians so we can defend our freedom from a government that turns brutally repressive. So you'd
think the choice would be obvious for people who care about the right that protects all our other rights, wouldn't you? Well, apparently it's not obvious enough.
If a GOP candidate besides Paul gets elected and ends up signing another Assault Weapons Ban or something even worse, then I'm not even going to cry about it. In fact, if that happens, I'm going to go on every gun board I know of and rub it in to all those who didn't support Paul while they had the chance.
I swear, I'm beginning to think Americans
deserve to lose their rights. Not only will they NEVER fight for them even during an unconstitutional gun confiscation, they won't even support the only pro-Constitution candidate who slips through the establishment's filter.