[Hoot Gibson]

You seem like you're for Ron Paul, so I'm just asking you about them. I don't know that much about him really besides what I've said in my previous posts, so I really have no idea if he really looks down on minorities or if he said any of the things mentioned in the linked articles.

Do you have any idea about it? There's so many half-truths and lies out there, just gotta watch what ya believe. That's why I'm skeptical of what anyone in the lime-light supposedly says, and I try to see them say it themselves.

I have been following national politics closely for quite a few years and I have never heard him say anything that I would remotely consider racist or bigoted. Call me crazy, but I believe him when he says that somebody else wrote some of the things that suddenly have become an issue in this campaign. Paul was working as a doctor during the period in question and it is easy for me to believe that at time he was too busy to properly monitor what was written in his own newsletter. He should have suspended his newsletter/video operations if he was too busy to manage them responsibly.

Ron Paul opposes what has been described as the soft bigotry of low expectations and discrimination of all kinds. That includes hate crime laws, affirmative action, and minority set aside contracts for government contracts. All libertarians do. I agree with him on those positions and every other domestic position that I can think of. The reason that I do not support Paul over any of the other Republican candidates is that his isolationist, Pollyanna view of the world and national security is absolutely nuts.

Another criticism of Ron Paul that I believe is unfair and politically motivated is Karl Rove's attack on him as being politically to the left of Barack Obama. Ron Paul and true libertarians are very conservative and Rove knows that to be the case. National defense is not a liberal/conservative issue. Some of the biggest war hawks wartime presidents in our history have been liberals (including Kennedy, Johnson, and Truman).

Since going to work for Fox, Karl Rove has shown himself to be a party hack that puts party over principle consistently. His attacks on conservatives like Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, Michelle Bachman, and Rick Perry have proven that he is no friend of conservatives. There are valid criticisms to be made of many Republican politicians, including Paul, but describing Ron Paul as a far left wing liberal is as dishonest as it is crazy.

Rove is a big tent Republican who is far more interested in quantity than quality when it comes to getting Republicans elected. As political commentators, Dick Morris and even James Carville have more credibility than Rove, IMO. Ron Paul is not electable but that is no reason to lie about his record.