Ron Paul announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President yesterday. Ron appeals to many on the left because he is strongly antiwar and supports legalization of marijuana. However, he is not a supportable alternative, because he would dismantle Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public education, regulation of criminal corporations, programs to support the poor, etc. He would even kill FEMA, abandoning disaster victims to their fate. He would plunge us back to the day of Herbert Hoover. In addition, he opposes the Civil Rights Act. He claims it’s only over property rights, but his record demonstrates that he is a true Republican, that is, a liar.

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There’s video there, but it cannot be imbedded, so I cannot share it, but click through to see him make this outlandish claim.

In addition, Paul would make it legal for business to discriminate. He would allow “whites only” businesses, such as restaurants and real estate developments, stepping is back into segregation. Here’s video. Hat Tip: TPM

Is he truthful about this? Here are four quotes from 1992.

…"If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be." – Ron Paul, 1992 "Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal." – Ron Paul, 1992 "We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such." – Ron Paul, 1992 "What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn’t that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?" – Ron Paul, 1992… [emphasis added]

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Can there be any doubt that he considers black people different because they are black? Ron Paul is just another racist Republican.

Furthermore he’s a religious extremist. Paul is making a pilgrimage to kiss the ring of Ralph Reed, a Republican pseudo-Christian, one of the most corrupt and most discredited in history. Reed lobbied for sweat shops and sex slaves in the Marianas, disguising it as bringing Christ to the workers. For Paul to pander to such a man is not just evil. It’s idiocy.