A "Founding Father Of Conservatism" Praises Ron Paul, Creates 'Ultimate Ron Paul' Website

Rep. Ron Paul continues to trail his opponents in national polls. He's yet to finish in the top three of any state contests. (He placed fourth in the Michigan primary last night, ahead of Rudy Giuliani, whom he beat in Iowa, and Fred Thompson, whom he bested in New Hampshire.)

But his passionate, Web-savvy supporters have always forged a community online, where sites independent of his campaign such as Daily Paul, Primarily Pauland Ron Paul Nation have continually popped up.

And the latest may be one of the most impressive of all. Ultimate Ron Paul was created by Richard Viguerie, often dubbed the "funding father of the conservative movement." Viguerie, who founded Conservative Digest magazine in the 1970s, pioneered the use of computerized direct mail, helping raise billions for conservative organizations. Most recently, he authored "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big-Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause."

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[JohnFromCensornati]

Ron Paul (R-TX) is a RepubliCon. The (R) makes it easy to tell. His groupies don't like to mention this.
Save the Consititution by voting for the party that has waged a deliberate campaign against it! More BushWorld logic.

[lungfish]

How can anyone speak intelligently of this man as a viable candidate when he has said things like this?


http://www.tnr.com/downloads/sponraceterrorism.pdf
"Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided."


http://www.tnr.com/downloads/december1990.pdf
This newsletter describes Martin Luther King Jr. as "a world-class adulterer" who "seduced underage girls and boys" and "replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration."

In a blog on the New Republic we learn about the dark side of Ron Paul...

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca

[cognate]

Nice site!

Ron Paul knows how to get us out of Iraq, end the misnamed "War on Terror", end domestic spying and torture, help us make friends with the world and help cure us of the FED and the IRS that have given us so many financial crises, including current stagflation.

[research]

Ron Paul is a typical conservative.

Just another rethug.

[realitytrumpsbull]

Vote for Paul, flush the toilet! Balance the budget! Stop the handouts, stop the eco-whining, get a LOT of people to pull their socks up.

[Stirner]

Viguerie is quite right. In the late 60s and early 70s, when I was a "conservative", I had then understood it as the doctrine of limiting the power of central government, of supporting free-market capitalism. At that time such governmental excesses as the "Department of Education" was looked upon as but a dung-heap of tax-fed and useless parasitic bureaucrats. But it has prospered under the Republican "Neo-conservatives". These "new" ideologues have simply co-opted the authentic Republicanism of such as Robert Taft, and has forgotten the conservative economists and free-market advocates as Roepke, von Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, and others. The limited government and limited foreign policy inclinations of original conservatism was replaced the hard-line anti-communists, The National Review folks or the corporate fat-cats who gathered into such statist groups as The Heritage Foundation. Free-market economics were forgotten. The "Neo-conservatives" emerged, drawing into their ranks those who, thirty years back, had fought against the Communists and had become, in consequence, Nationalists. They have now taken upon their late enemy's coloration -- international, imperial ambitions of world conquest. These fixated fighters still hold the aggressive posture of the anti-Communists -- but now the old enemy is vanquished. What to do? Well, to have any meaning, they must now tell us, and themselves, that the enemy has become "anyone other than us". This is simple international fascism under the guise of being "American". It is a world dominated by the Pentagon and the Defense Department(for after all, isn't there always someone to defend ourselves against? If not, we will find one, or even create one!). This lust for battle dictates our foreign policy and drives us deeper into the cesspool of blood and violence between Palestine and Pakistan. The fear and loathing of Communism has now been turned against the "Other" -- even our nation itself. This is the reason the Neo-conservatives hate Ron Paul -- he reminds them of what they had once been, and of their lost youth and courage.

[Tortillas]

Which Republican candidate likens himself to a racist former governor of Arizona? Which candidate was quoted in a YouTube ad suggesting a vote for Romney was as good as a vote for Hitler?

A slew of colorful candidates are giving the presidential candidacy a run in Arizona. When this finally makes headline, you'll wonder where you heard it first.

http://projectwhitehouse.wordpress.com/

It would be funnier, if it wasn't for real!

[lungfish]

Do any of these people actually know anything about Ron Paul? His publications have been out there for years and they are rife with conspiracy theories, rascism, bigotry, misogyny, etc.... this guy is a very scary man and doesn't deserve the attention he is getting.
If conservatives are worried about being "highjacked" again, they had better do some serious and objective background research on their candidates. They didn't with Dubya, just took him at his word... and his word is shit they learned...

[Mike169]

One of the mysteries of Bush is that all the crap he's pulling - what with domestic spying, enhancing the powers of the president, centralizing power in the government and other such seemingly anti-conservative acts - come from a president who is nothing but "conservative". His politics, if carried out by a liberal Democrat, would cause a howl out of the Republicans who'd think we were headed down the road to communism. I suggest that they label Bush and Cheney the way they would label a liberal Democrat but with the correct terminology - fascist.

[Aslanspal]

A pox on all their houses...in Jesus name of course.