You completely miss the point.

Michele Malkin did not create her websites in order to appeal to disgruntled, conspiracy-minded, maladroit losers and virulent racists and anti-Semites, or to profit from their collective psychoses.

If she did allow racist and anti-Semitic crackpots and homophobic bigots to monopolize this site, and to post their bilge without moderation-which wouldn’t happen, but let’s stipulate that this is an hypothetical-then yes, she’d probably be forced to admit culpability, which Ron Paul has been steadfastly unwilling to do.

According to him none of his deranged supporters-not the lunatics who’ve assaulted Sean Hannity and Rudy Giuliani, not the Troofer outpatients from Bellevue’s pysch ward, not the WN wannabe stormtroopers who donate to his campaign-are his responsibility. He’s not even responsible for the nutbars who he specifically and repeatedly courts-in person!

I would love to have this guy as CIC.

It would be like an endless loop of Dr. Strangelove.

I wonder if that defense was tried at Nuremburg….

So if someone on hear makes a racist mark, does that mean MM is a racist because her name is linked to the website.

menoname on January 10, 2008 at 6:19 PM

No. Don’t be stupid.

Should Brack Obama drop out as well since he attends a racist black church? He attends the church, has spoken there, takes donations from them and has not publicly denoucned them. Does that make him a racist too?

offroadaz on January 10, 2008 at 2:40 PM

Yes.

BTW, “I didn’t write it, I don’t know who wrote it (and video tape is easy to fake these days), but I take moral responsibility” is weaseling, it’s a nudge-nudge wink-wink head fake.

If you believe it, you’re a willing dupe.

Ron Paul profited from the virulently racist attitudes of his supporters for nearly two decades.

Whether or not he shared their views is completely irrelevant.

So if someone on hear makes a racist mark, does that mean MM is a racist because her name is linked to the website.

Why should it even matter?

Don’t you grasp the fundamental point here?

Ron Paul profited from the virulently racist attitudes of his supporters for nearly two decades.

Whether or not he shared their views is completely irrelevant.

But you go ahead and keep believing that for 10 years his signed newsletter that was written in the first person and made references to his wife, his career and his military service were all ghost-written by some unknown party without his knowledge

Was there really signatures on them or just a logo.

Damn those belligerent Aussie vacationers!

Paul did good on CNN

I believe what he said

offroadaz on January 10, 2008 at 5:40 PM

Color me shocked and amazed. I’m sure that the Branch Davidians believed everything that David Koresh said and thought it was good too.

But you go ahead and keep believing that for 10 years his signed newsletter that was written in the first person and made references to his wife, his career and his military service were all ghost-written by some unknown party without his knowledge.

Or just blame it on the Jews. Either way.

wow

Paul did good on CNN

I believe what he said

offroadaz on January 10, 2008 at 5:40 PM

No he didn’t. He said on one hand that liberterians don’t catergorize group and than went on to explain why black people support him.

Paul did good on CNN

I believe what he said

This is, absolutely, the apotheosis of the Paulnut mindset. We’ve reached escape velocity.
Allahpundit on January 10, 2008 at 2:31 PM

It’s a good thing you said it, because my version lacked the smooth second stage separation..

The more that the RP campaign tries to hide who the author is, the more I think it’s RP.

freakagriep on January 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM

yep.

Paul is either guilty as sin on this and his ties to neo-nazi’s.

OR

He has the political IQ of a gnat fly

Isn’t this whole escapade an affirmation of libertarian reasoning?

Sell your daughter out as a crack-whore?

Hey, it’s capitalism, dude!

Importing millions of indentured servants from south of the border to enhance the stock portfolios of your friends?

That’s just the free market at work, baby!

Want to open up your own meth lab?

Isn’t that what entrepreneuralism is all about?!

I don’t see why capitalizing upon racism and anti-Semitism is some big departure for the cultists. Unless it’s just because this particular episode casts doubt upon the self-perceived “coolness” of Nick Gillespie’s pals.

Woot! Then in your eyes I’m viable!

Vote for me!

Keljeck on January 10, 2008 at 3:48 PM

hah, you only asked what excluded someone from running. Not what characteristics the president should have

Being a convicted felon
Not being a US citizen

offroadaz on January 10, 2008 at 3:40 PM

Woot! Then in your eyes I’m viable!

Vote for me!

Then what does? Being an entirely ineffective congressman?

Keljeck on January 10, 2008 at 3:36 PM

Being a convicted felon
Not being a US citizen

mismanaging a newsletter writing campaign written over 15 years ago does not disqualify someone for running for president in my opinion.

offroadaz on January 10, 2008 at 3:32 PM

Then what does? Being an entirely ineffective congressman?

Which is why he’s unfit to be President of the United States.

freakagriep on January 10, 2008 at 3:25 PM

mismanaging a newsletter writing campaign written over 15 years ago does not disqualify someone for running for president in my opinion.

sweeper on January 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM

So Huckabee goes to Cornerstone once.

Ron Paul has been on Alex Jones’ show how many times now? And he FUNDED A RACIST NEWSLETTER.

There’s a large difference here you are purposely overlooking to rationalize your faith in that man.

offroadaz on January 10, 2008 at 3:22 PM

You think he’s going to say racist things in prepared statements in Congress?

In fact, most of Ron Paul’s articles at LRC are those prepared statements.

There are racist things in his newsletter, there are crazy conspiracy theories in his newsletter, and depending on who the ghostwriter is, he may still be working for the Paul campaign and could end up in his administration.

If he allowed for such an oversight, particularly for a friend, who’s to say what kind of people are working for him?