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Ron Paul recants, sort of

Former Texas representative Ron Paul is qualifying his contention that the murder of former Navy SEAL and ace sniper Chris Kyle demonstrates that “He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.”

Paul has taken to both Twitter and Facebook to respond to the outrage elicited by his commentary. “As a veteran, I certainly recognize that this weekend’s violence and killing of Chris Kyle were a tragic and sad event,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “My condolences and prayers go out to Mr. Kyle’s family. Unconstitutional and unnecessary wars have endless unintended consequences. A policy of non-violence, as Christ preached, would have prevented this and similar tragedies.”

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SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:24 PM

Always wondered how the Scott’s avoided that. ; )

Bmore on February 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM

Someone call up the Zionist cabal and tell them they are overdue on my payments…I got bills to pay, ya know!

thebrokenrattle on February 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM

You should see some of my Irish cousins, they’re so dark skinned that they look like Mexicans or Sicilians.

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:18 PM

And the Welsh. Dark with blue eyes. They are irresistible.

Gelsomina on February 5, 2013 at 2:23 PM

Ya, the Romans had their way, as it were with the Celtic people for several hundred years. My Scottish and Irish ancestors aren’t all as lily white as the driven snow.

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:27 PM

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:24 PM

Always wondered how the Scott’s avoided that. ; )

Bmore on February 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM

Simple, we didn’t.

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:28 PM

Someone call up the Zionist cabal and tell them they are overdue on my payments…I got bills to pay, ya know!

thebrokenrattle on February 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM

ROTFLOL. Good one.

Well back to network studying…the chapter that includes tracing IP addresses back to their geographical location should be interesting.

Buh-bye, pedophilia-loving tuff gai!

MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 2:28 PM

Why don’t you just admit that your paymaster is the “Zionist lobby” and be done with it. We all know it anyway.

Gelsomina on February 5, 2013 at 2:20 PM

It’s all there — in cold, utterly damning black and white — in one of Dear Leader’s always signed (but never, ever actually self-authored, evidently) newsletters! Right next to this one really, really cool article about fiat currency, and how it all ties in with UFO landings, and fluoridation, and animal crackers… an’… an’… well, just all kinds of really cool, secret stuff, darn it!

READ IT IF YOU DARE — !!!

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 2:28 PM

Why don’t you just admit that your paymaster is the “Zionist lobby” and be done with it. We all know it anyway.

Gelsomina on February 5, 2013 at 2:20 PM

It’s all there — in cold, utterly damning black and white — in one of Dear Leader’s always signed (but never, ever actually self-authored, evidently) newsletters! Right next to this one really, really cool article about fiat currency, and how it all ties in with UFO landings, and fluoridation, and animal crackers… an’… an’… well, just all kinds of really cool, secret stuff, darn it!

READ IT IF YOU DARE — !!!

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 2:28 PM

Now now, you know just because he signed them, wrote them in the first person and included personal events from his life doesn’t mean that Lew Rockwell didn’t really write them.

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Are you saying that Statists wish to contaminate our Precious Bodily Fluids, Kent?

It’s why I only drink Bourbon and rain water…Women desire me, but I deny them my essence…

JFKY on February 5, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Buh-bye, pedophilia-loving tuff gai!

MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 2:28 PM

Adios, my craven widdle paranoid, Jew-obsessed Internet (Not-So-)Tuff Gai.

… and, remember: we all know, of course, that you aren’t really, really scampering off with your tail tucked between your legs, like the way it looks. [::big, showy stage wink::]

Enjoy your menses. Or whatever.

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 2:33 PM

Now now, you know just because he signed them, wrote them in the first person and included personal events from his life doesn’t mean that Lew Rockwell didn’t really write them.

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Really we don;t know WHO wrote them…I mean they could have been written or at least PUBLISHED by those crafty Zionists (Joooos)as a part of their crafty plot to discredit any opposition to their nefarious plans…..

JFKY on February 5, 2013 at 2:34 PM

Are you saying that Statists wish to contaminate our Precious Bodily Fluids, Kent?

It’s why I only drink Bourbon and rain water…Women desire me, but I deny them my essence…

JFKY on February 5, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Waaaa-hoooooo

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:35 PM

Now now, you know just because he signed them, wrote them in the first person and included personal events from his life doesn’t mean that Lew Rockwell didn’t really write them.

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Wait… wait. So… you mean… Lew Rockwell is really a skulking, conniving, double agent Joooooooooo, then — ?!?

OMG!!!11!! This freaking explains absolutely EVERYTHING, then — !!!

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 2:36 PM

Now now, you know just because he signed them, wrote them in the first person and included personal events from his life doesn’t mean that Lew Rockwell didn’t really write them.

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Really we don;t know WHO wrote them…I mean they could have been written or at least PUBLISHED by those crafty Zionists (Joooos)as a part of their crafty plot to discredit any opposition to their nefarious plans…..

JFKY on February 5, 2013 at 2:34 PM

Exactly, could have been anybody… Well, obviously except Herr Doktor…

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:36 PM

Are you saying that Statists wish to contaminate our Precious Bodily Fluids, Kent?

It’s why I only drink Bourbon and rain water…Women desire me, but I deny them my essence…

JFKY on February 5, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Automatic +1, Strangelove reference.

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 2:38 PM

If he admitted it, “they” would have to kill him, you, me and everyone who read this thread, blow up the HotAir server farm and threaten Ed, Allah, and MKH into silence..just to keep it SECRET!

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!

JFKY on February 5, 2013 at 2:23 PM

I noticed you left Jazz off the list… /conspiracy?

Gredd on February 5, 2013 at 2:43 PM

And Erika too! /double conspiracy?!

Gredd on February 5, 2013 at 2:45 PM

I noticed you left Jazz off the list… /conspiracy?

Gredd on February 5, 2013 at 2:43 PM

Our tentacles are vast, and extend into even the veriest shadows. Dare you trust even YOUR OWN CHILDREN — ?!?

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 2:45 PM

Now now, you know just because he signed them, wrote them in the first person and included personal events from his life doesn’t mean that Lew Rockwell didn’t really write them.

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Wait… wait. So… you mean… Lew Rockwell is really a skulking, conniving, double agent Joooooooooo, then — ?!?

OMG!!!11!! This freaking explains absolutely EVERYTHING, then — !!!

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 2:36 PM

TNR Exclusive: A Collection of Ron Paul’s Most Incendiary Newsletters

Newsletter Authorship

The masthead of March 1987 Ron Paul Investment Letter lists “the Hon. Ron Paul” as “Editor and Publisher” and “Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.” as one of several contributing editors.

An undated personal solicitation letter—signed by Paul—asking the recipient to subscribe to his newsletter in anticipation of (presumably) the 1988 Libertarian Party Presidential nominating convention.

The April 1988 Ron Paul Investment Letter lists Paul as Editor.

The May 1988 Ron Paul Investment Letter lists Lew Rockwell as Editor. It also advertises books by the far-right conspiracy theorist Gary Allen, who was a contributing editor to the Ron Paul Investment Letter.

Lew Rockwell “may have” wrote racist newsletters! research this for yourself!

I believe that Ron Paul is depending on us to out his long time friend, and vice-president of the company that was in charge of publishing those newsletters, he also admitted to sometimes editing them! If you search google for “Lew Rockwell Racist or his views on martin luther king jr” which is the recipient of some of the most scrutinized remarks in the newsletter, dozens of stories come up. When you compare the language and style of Rockwells’ writing, the use of slang and for lack of a better term “catch phrase” writing like that used in the racist comments in the news letters, it is a perfect match. He has made racist comments that when compared side by side with Ron Pauls’ newsletters it becomes obvious! Please everyone on this site do the research, I’ve heard Fred Reed, who still works for Rockwells website. But please everyone do some investigation into this and let’s out Lew Rockwell! I will not let our hard work and the future of our country be destroyed by Ron Pauls’ refusal to “out” his friend. This is the only selfish thing I have ever seen from Ron Paul, and I believe he is counting on our intellect, to figure this out and take it off his shoulders. If after research you believe it was Rockwell spread this story around. He was at least one of main day to day overseers on the publication while Ron Paul was practicing medicine, that alone merits blame to be put on him.

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:45 PM

*ties a Ron Paul post to a string, the string to the stick holding up the box*
Shhh, I’m gonna trap me a flame war!
(Don’t worry, it’s a BIG box……)

GWB on February 5, 2013 at 2:47 PM

(Oh, and it’s foil-lined!)

GWB on February 5, 2013 at 2:47 PM

[Rockwell] was at least one of main day to day overseers on the publication while Ron Paul was practicing medicine, that alone merits blame to be put on him.

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:45 PM

Well, yeah. Sure. Absolutely. Because nothing literally shrieks Uniquely Ready for the Awesome Responsibilities of the United States Presidency like a self-confessed inability to even routinely glance at the contents of a newsletter bearing both your own name and signature for a solid, leaden, ten freaking YEARS, for pity’s sake!

I mean… c’mon. Be fair, right?

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 2:49 PM

I mean… c’mon. Be fair, right?

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 2:49 PM

More like… Herr Doktor is in trouble… Quick create a diversion and direct Herr Doktor to the egress…

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:52 PM

*ties a Ron Paul post to a string, the string to the stick holding up the box*
Shhh, I’m gonna trap me a flame war!
(Don’t worry, it’s a BIG box……)

GWB on February 5, 2013 at 2:47 PM

Couldn’t be helped, in this particular instance. One of ‘em inexplicably succumbed to a sudden and debilitating attack of that well-known Paulite online malady, “the Joooooooo Jitters,” and then… well… [::gestures expansively towards soiled surroundings; shrugs::]

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 2:53 PM

(Don’t worry, it’s a BIG box……)

GWB on February 5, 2013 at 2:47 PM

You’re gonna need a bigger ~~boat~~ box…

SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 2:54 PM

My work (or is that “my voik”) is done here…I must move (moof) on…

I bid you all au revoir(Shalom) and will see you all at the conspiracy meeting….

JFKY on February 5, 2013 at 2:58 PM

HE.
ACTUALLY.
SAID.
HE.
WAS.
REFERRING.
TO.
“JEWS.”

See if you can successfully stumble-foot your way away from it a second time. I’m thoroughly enjoying the brief (if, sadly, inept) bit of cabaret with my lunch, at your increasingly sweaty expense.

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 1:45 PM

Just figured this icky li’l conversational sundae well and truly deserved to be topped with the immense, bright red cherry of JohnGalt23′s demonstrable (and eternally archived) intellectual dishonesty, is all.

Carry on, then.

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 3:00 PM

I bid you all au revoir(Shalom) and will see you all at the conspiracy meeting….

JFKY on February 5, 2013 at 2:58 PM

Remember it’s your turn to bring the fresh batch of goyish babies next time, for after-meeting snacks!!!

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 3:02 PM

Sen. Rand Paul differs with dad: ‘Chris Kyle was a hero’

How a sane, rational human being reacts to the very same situation which inexplicably gave Herr Doktor (and more than a few of his monomaniacally Juden-obsessed paranoiac spear-carriers, hereabouts) a bad case of the verbal runs, this A.M.

Just so they might actually be able to maybe kinda discern the actual, real world difference next time around, is all.

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 4:14 PM

Yes, a Westboro Baptist idjit leaps to the defense of Ron Paul

“Unexpectedly — !!!”
/s

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 4:26 PM

Has Dante been banned?

Bmore on February 5, 2013 at 6:25 PM

I doubt it, just because s/he didn’t show up for this goat rodeo doesn’t mean s/he won’t show up for others.

JFKY on February 5, 2013 at 7:46 PM

If the rest of us are goats, I know which two slack-jawed yokels hereabouts I’d cheerfully nominate for the role of Designated Chupacabras… if you take my meaning.

Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 7:50 PM

Over at Ace of Spades they have a thread about how Ron Paul has doubled down on his statement…don’t know if they are reinterpreting this article or Ron Paul has just decided to, as Ace says, let his freak flag fly.

JFKY on February 5, 2013 at 8:11 PM

I particularly enjoyed this comment from the thread over at Ace’s: