Ron Paul

Dr. Ronald Ernest "It's Happening" Paul is a former Congressman from the 14th Congressional District of Texas and is an honorary lifetime member of the Libertarian Party.https://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/lp-monday-message-10-ron-paul-questions
Paul is closely associated with the Austrian school of economics. Long-time Paul associate and staffer Lew Rockwell founded the Ludwig von Mises Institute, which runs columns by Paul. This is the reason for all of his goldbuggery and other crank economic ideas. Paul first proposed legislation to return to the gold standard in the early 80s,End the Fed!, Ron Paul. What am I supposed to do with this paper? It's not even a shiny rock! I love shiny rocks. but after proved that inflation could be killed,CPI - Jan 1977 to Dec 1983 Paul bolted from the party and ran against Ronald Reagan as the Libertarian Party candidate for President.
Paul is perhaps best-known for his social media presence, particularly on anonymous message boards like Reddit.Randy Olson and Richard King, "How The Internet* Talks
*Well, the mostly young and mostly male users of Reddit, anyway.", FiveThirtyEight. Truth be told, Reddit was never that big into Ron Paul, he just had a lot of spammers. (At least 150 of his bots were no doubt those same idiots migrated over to Reddit.)Maxcer, Chris, "Ron Paul Campaign Swept Up in Botnet Spam Scandal", TechNewsWorld. Most Americans have, by now, seen the rabid shrieks of "RON PAUL 2008 2012 2016 20202024!!1!!!" at least once on the Internet. He also did a bunch of speaking tours, mostly targeting universities. Even back then, Ron was predicting an economic crash. 
Having ended a bid for the Republican Party's nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election on 8 March 2008 after obtaining only 15 delegates out of 2,360 (although he did garner 5.7% of the vote in the Republican primaries that year), Ron Paul loitered around the fringe before throwing his hat into the 2012 Presidential race. It got him absolutely nowhere, unless you count winning the U.S. Virgin Islands (I wonder why). In early January 2013, Ron Paul announced his retirement from politics.Goodbye, you cranky old turd! He has a son, Rand Paul, who is not named after Ayn Rand.https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/08/23/rand-paul-wasnt-named-after-ayn-rand-dad-confirms Ron Paul suffered a stroke live on air in November 2020.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/us/politics/ron-paul-hospital.html
==Political positions==
Ron Paul is frequently described as a small government conservativeBaldwin, Chuck (2007-11-06). "An Appeal To My Fellow Pastors." NewsWithViews.com. Retrieved 2007-11-07. with some libertarian ideas, though it is more accurate to call him a paleolibertarian.Snow, Nancy (2006). The Arrogance of American Power: What U.S. Leaders Are Doing Wrong and Why It's Our Duty to Dissent. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 32. He is not so much interested in reducing governmental powers as shifting them from the federal government to the states (see his support for allowing state governments to ban flag burning, despite being against the federal government doing so).https://archive.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul99.html
He is a strict constitutionalist, though his interpretation of what the US Constitution is is somewhat inaccurate, to politely say the least, to the point of abolishing the IRS and the income tax, slashing most federal spending, reintroducing the gold standard, and abolishing the Federal Reserve. We don't have to tell you what the consequences of either of those are.
For some reason, he seems to not like the idea of jus soli, the granting of citizenship to those born in America.Straight from the horse's website!
So domestically he's shit, but even in matters of foreign policy, Paul has demonstrated that he is not to be trusted; a month after 9/11, he proposed H.R. 3076, which would place a $40 billion bounty on top Al-Qaeda members who were brought to the government dead or alive. Essentially, it would hire a group of private mercenaries to handle the Afghanistan War their own way.
Despite being vehemently opposed to American wars abroad (taxes!) unless fought by American mercenaries (profit!), Paul was supportive of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine in 2014.The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder (2018) Tim Duggan Books. ISBN 0525574468. In defending Russian aggression, Paul approvingly cited Russian fascist Sergei Glazyev.
Ron also voted against the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007,Record of Congressional votes on the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act which would have banned federal contracts with firms doing business with the ("Devils on Horseback") militia of Sudan.Fact Sheet on the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act He was the only Congressman to do so.
====Stopped clock====
Hey, if you're categorically against everything the government does, you'll be right sometimes. He wants to end the War on Drugs, supports medical marijuana, and opposed the U.S. war in Iraq. Which is more than can be said of his spawn.
Regarding the TSA act, Paul was the one standing up and saying the unsayable: that taking nude photos of passengers and feeling up their grandmothers is not making anyone safer.Ron Paul Responds to TSA: Introduces 'American Traveler Dignity Act, Youtube. He proposed a simple law which would essentially say that government officials have to go through the same screenings the rest of us do, in an effort to wake them up. He has even spoken in defense of WikiLeaks, a whistleblowing website (since turned Russian propaganda outlet) that has among other disclosures exposed government corruption.Ron Paul Defends WikiLeaks, The Young Turks
Paul, along with his son's future enemy Bernie Sanders, were the driving forces behind the audit of the Fed that revealed its so-called "backdoor bailouts" during the financial crisis of 2008.Nichols, John, "Fed’s ‘Backdoor Bailout’ Provided $3.3 Trillion in Loans to Banks, Corporations", The Nation 12.2.10.
==Extremism==
===Homosexuality and the Religious Right===
It's whispered that Paul is in league with the Dominionist and Christian Reconstructionist movements.Is Ron Paul a Dominionist?, ScienceBlogs Paul introduced the We the People Act into the House of Representatives twice. This bill would strip federal courts of jurisdiction in cases involving abortion, same-sex marriage, privacy related to sexual behavior, and Establishment Clause issues, leaving them to the states... which is exactly what the Religious Right wants to do. He has engaged in outright dishonesty in support of this agenda, for instance claiming that prayer has been prohibited in schools.
How does Ron Paul reconcile dominionism with libertarianism?Charles, Deborah, "Libertarian Ron Paul is dilemma for Republicans" Reuters (1/12/12 6:45pm EST). It seems he wants the church to be strong and the state to be weak:
Astute readers might recognize the first part of that statement as an outright lie.
Ron Paul's radical views on "states' rights" also extends into homosexuality. Ron Paul believes that these rights include the ability to regulate sex, specifically arresting homosexual individuals for having sex. This is another case where he abandons the right to privacy for a group he doesn't like:
While he wants to abolish the death penalty at the federal level, apparently it doesn't matter when supporting pastor Phillip Kayser advocates the death penalty for gays.Paul Campaign Touts Endorsement of Preacher who Advocates Gay Death Penalty, ThinkProgressRon Paul Hired Anti-Gay Activist to Run Iowa Campaign, Talking Points Memo
Paul said that, as President, he would veto legislation banning discrimination by employers on the basis of sexual orientation.https://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Ron_Paul_Jobs.htm He also voted in favor of legislation that would ban same-sex couples from adopting children in the District of Columbia.https://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_1999-346.htm During his 2012 Presidential Campaign, he said he supported the Defense of Marriage Act in response to the Obama Administration saying they no longer planned to uphold the bill.https://web.archive.org/web/20120201195219/http://theiowarepublican.com/2011/ron-paul-condemns-obama%e2%80%99s-decision-to-abandon-doma/
In short, cross-examining both Paul's explicit positions and proposed legislations, his program would result in the strengthening of a theocratic agenda, not by passing laws in Congress (downright impossible due to secular opposition), but by preventing the federal government from stopping establishment of religion or anti-gay legislation at the local level.
His associates have included such Dominionist kooks as Gary North (a former Paul researcher back in the 70's). North was appointed Director of Curriculum Development for Paul's new homeschooling program.The Theocratic Ron Paul Curriculum, Freethought Blogs
===Libertaryan===
Paul is a figurehead for the majority of tax protester and neo-Nazi (such as Stormfront) groups in the US.Ron Paul Revolution on Stormfront (NSFL)Index of Ron Paul-related threads at Stormfront (NSFL) Stormfront.org administrator and noted white nationalist Don Black donated $500 to Paul's campaign.Source: Federal Election Commission database Paul's campaign has expressed dismay over these associations, although critics hold that he has not adequately distanced himself from them.Edsall, Thomas B., "To His Dismay, Ron Paul Becoming Magnet For White Supremacists", HuffPo (05/25/2011 12:15 pm ET). Edward and Elaine Brown, a married couple identified as sovereign citizens by the FBI, were arrested in 2007 for refusing to pay taxes. Ron Paul, in an interview with Fox News, applauded the couple's efforts to defy the Sixteenth Amendment (which Paul holds was illegally passed and seeks to totally abolish). He went further comparing them to Gandhi & Martin Luther King."Ron Paul on Cavuto About The Ed Brown Case", Youtube.
In February 2012, during his last attempt to gain the nomination for presidency, Ron Paul appeared as a keynote speaker at a four-day conference in Irvine, California held by Freedom Law School; it specializes in encouraging the use of pseudolaw to "lawfully" disengage from obeying government and to resist it. The group has held events attracting libertarians, tax protesters and sovereign citizens. Ironically the announcement he would be a speaker came shortly before the FBI posted their official warning on the sovereign citizen movement of which some members did appear at the event.Ron Paul Set to Speak to 'Sovereign Citizens' — Just As FBI Issues Warning About Them, Crooks and Liars
Ron Paul uses his notability to endorse candidates for office on the local level. One of the candidates he initially endorsed, Bill Johnson, turned out to be a white supremacistLA Times editorial (5/7/08 6:48 pm). who had written a proposed constitutional amendment that would have deported people based on racial criteria."Stealth election", LA Times 5.5.08. He endorsed the fundamentalist loon Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party in 2008Ron Paul Endorses Chuck Baldwin for President, ronpaul.com and in turn was endorsed by noted crank Arthur Robinson.Official Endorsements for Ron Paul, Ron Paul ForumsArt Robinson endorsements He was also supported by neo-fascist Willis Carto.Paul Disowns Extremists’ Views but Doesn’t Disavow the Support, The New York Times In the 2014 North Carolina Senate race Paul endorsed Greg Brannon,Ron Paul Endorses Dr. Greg Brannon For U.S Senate In North Carolina! an associate of League of the South.Rand Paul-Backed GOP Senate Candidate Held Rally With Secessionist Group
===Economics===
When Ron Paul was on the Colbert Report, he insisted that gold was a superior currency because if you lost $1 million worth of gold at sea, then it would be a lot harder to replace. (Which is weirdly applicable to Bitcoin: they're arbitrarily assigning value to things that are extremely difficult to produce, then using word-of-mouth to track ownership. In other words, gold is a blockchain made of physical blocks). Ron Paul should consider the Yap and the Island of stone money.Goldstein, Jacob, "The Island Of Stone Money", NPR 12.10.10 (updated 2.15.11). "So somebody today owns this piece of stone money, even though nobody's seen it for over 100 years or more."
He doesn't just want to audit and end the Fed, but also to audit Fort Knox's gold reserves, juuuust in case someone replaced them with metal bars that are merely painted gold.Is Gold in Fort Knox Real? Ron Paul Wants to Know, CNBC In August 2012, the U.S Treasury, at the behest of a German court, began doing just that.What's in your vault? Uncle Sam audits its stash of gold at the New York Fed, By Andrew Tangel, Los Angeles Times, August 02, 2012. Don't expect anything big.
===Science===
Dr. Paul neither knows nor cares about science. He believes that a lack of understanding of basic science shouldn't matter in choosing a doctor president. Although an MD, he has said evolution is "just a theory" and that he does not accept it."Ron Paul: I Don't Believe in Evolution", Youtube The thing that is even stranger is, as a doctor, he should be familiar with the antibiotic resistance of bacteria as antibiotic resistance results from natural selection.https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/antibiotic_resistance.htm He's also a climate change denier.http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/global-warming-is-a-hoax-heres-whyhttps://twitter.com/ronpaul/status/864479476494807041?lang=en
Paul has taken umbrage with NASA: an organization invaluable in helping America get to the Moon, expand humanity's knowledge of space and innovating new technologies. During the 1988 presidential race, Paul criticized the government's direct involvement. Apparently, due to the government having any control over it, Paul went into anti-federalist mode claiming the agency was "dead" and not producing good results. His bold solution: NASA should be privatized completely and left to unaccountable businessmen to run the free market to handle.SPACE - DOMESTIC POLICY, Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Position Paper (1988)SPACE - INTERNATIONAL POLICY, Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Position Paper (1988) He has consistently held this view recently, relating it again during the 2012 GOP nomination period."Ron Paul on NASA CNN Florida Republican Debate 1/26/12", Youtube.
===Health "freedom"===
 
 
In other words, Paul, who is an actual MD, supports freeing the chains that bind the sellers of quack remedies and unproven nostrums from lying to their potential customers. And you wonder why laissez-faire has so many critics.
In a 2012 primary debate, Paul tacitly endorsed the notion that the federal government should "let him die" when it comes to someone without health insurance, refusing to counter jeers from the crowd.
===Teabagger===
Ron Paul was the first to start using the "Tea Party" iconography back in 2007 during their "moneybomb" days. In a massively ironic move, the Teabaggers ran multiple candidates against him in the 2010 midterms.A Ron Paul Tea Party poster and Tea Party Betrays Ron Paul, Fox News In the 2016 race, Rand Paul tried to bridge the gap by commandeering the "Tea Party Express", but within months the party leadership was conclusively sick of his shit and switched their allegiance to Ted Cruz.Farrell, Keith, "Republican Liberty Caucus Leader Switches Support From Paul to Cruz", The Libertarian Republic 1.4.16.
==The Ron Paul (insert descriptor here) Report==
Soon after his election to Congress in 1978, Ron Paul & Associates began sending out fundraising letters, some of them warning of a "coming race war." Originally entitled the "Ron Paul Freedom Report", then the "Ron Paul Political Report",CNN story relating to "his" Political Report and finally the "Ron Paul Survival Report", it was full of homophobia, racism, sexism, and paranoia. The Ron Paul Report was roughly equivalent to the John Birch Society or Executive Intelligence Review in its kookishness. Paul has stated that his views are in very close alignment with those of Birchers.The Antiwar, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Drug-Enforcement-Administration, Anti-Medicare Candidacy of Dr. Ron Paul by Christopher Caldwell (July 22, 2007) The New York Times. "I have a lot of friends in the John Birch Society. They’re generally well educated, and they understand the Constitution. I don’t know how many positions they would have that I don’t agree with. Because they’re real strict constitutionalists, they don’t like the war, they’re hard-money people…" TRPR particularly seemed to hate Barbara Jordan, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela. There was a level of implausible deniability that Paul did not know was actually in his own rewport, but his Twitter account tweeted a racist and antisemitic cartoon that featured "Le Happy Merchant" and Cultural Marxism.Ron Paul Tweets Extremely Racist and anti-Semitic Cartoon - Later Claims It Wasn't Him: The racist cartoon was created by doctoring an anti-imperialism, pro-communism cartoon by superimposing the racist and anti-Semitic images (Jul 03, 2018 1:24 PM) Haaretz.Antisemitic ‘Cultural Marxist’ tropes have infected mainstream conservatism thanks to boomers using the internet. by Ruairi Wood (April 14, 2019) Amity Underground (archived from 14 Apr 2019 17:05:14 UTC).
Most of the articles did not have a byline, but they all bore Ron Paul's signature. He made some nice money from them (a cool $1 million). And he never once raised the issue or denied them while they were published. Once Paul started gaining traction in presidential elections, the newsletters and fundraising letters resurfaced. He claims that he didn't write them (which is, itself, problematic, as he was happy to put his name on it), only read them "on occasion", and "disavows" them. Needless to say, no one else has claimed ownership. The Washington Post Fact Checker gave him 3 PINOCCHIOs for "It’s hard to believe that a man who wants to oversee the entire U.S. government — albeit a smaller version — would provide zero oversight of his publications, or even bother to read them from time to time."
Movement libertarians tend to finger Murray Rothbard and/or Lew Rockwell as the ghostwriter. Rockwell, predictably, denies authorship but he has defended several of the statements as both being written by himself and being "statistical" instead of racist.Camia, Catalina, "Candidate's comments on blacks questioned", Dallas Morning News 5.22.96.'Racist Newsletter' Timeline: What Ron Paul Has Said, Christian Science Monitor R&R were both angling for positions in the Paul Administration if he somehow got elected, which could explain the omerta.Julian Sanchez & David Weigel, "Who Wrote Ron Paul's Newsletters?" Reason 1.16.08.Dougherty, Michael Brenden, "Here's the Real Story Behind the Ron Paul Newsletters", The Atlantic 12.20.11.
Ron Paul has made noises which suggest that he has backpedaled from the racism he embraced previously, but still sounds a bit like Ayn Rand:
 
Reconciling this with his views on homosexuality is left as an exercise for the reader.
All of this, and considering he's an opponent of the Civil Rights Act, leaves us with a couple of explanations as to why Ron Paul seems to be a magnet for nuts:
#He's pandering to the gun-toting, anti-tax racists of the rural South, like his guru von Mises
#He's horribly ignorant of who he has ties to; or
#He's a gigantic bigot and just doesn't want to admit it.
===Operation Blitzkrieg===
Turns out #2 can be crossed off the list: data leaked by a 2012 anonymous hacking campaign against Neo-Nazism links Ron Paul at the hip with American Third Position.Yeah, Ron Paul is racist after all, sorry. So that means Ron Paul, at worst, is a full blown racist, and at best was complicit in an attempt to bring about a race war.
===Checkmate, statists===
Nelson Linder, former president of the Austin Powers division of the NAACP, has known Ron Paul for over twenty years and vehemently denies that he is a racist, and in fact admires his work in defense of blacks in the criminal justice system.Alba, Dan, "‘NAACP President: Ron Paul Is Not A Racist’", Nolan Chart 1.13.08. Naturally, the existence of a single African-American who thinks Ron Paul isn't a racist proves that he indeed isn't.
==Electoral "success"==
Ron Paul ran for President on the Libertarian ticket in 1988, and obtained about 0.5% of the popular vote. His running mate Andre Marrou ran again in 1992 and obtained 0.28% of the popular vote. After this poor showing, Ron Paul went back to the GOP with his tail between his legs.
Ron Paul attempted to run for the Presidency a third time in 2012, and gained more media attention than the first two times. Unfortunately for Paulbots, he only won two caucuses (Minnesota and Maine), though his supporters insisted he was second in delegate count. While it became statistically impossible for him to grasp the nomination, his supporters hoped to win a plurality of delegates in at least 5 states to allow him to carry his campaign all the way to the Republican convention. Cue the Paulbots singing hosannas: "Ron is spreading the message!" and "He has stealth delegates!" and he will "win the nomination with a floor speech at the RNC!"See: the wishful thinking of his 2012 campaign supporters. Ah, politics, where you can claim your losses are really victories.
While his domestic policy views were hard to stomach (which is why Rand Paul ran toward the middle in 2015; in doing so, he became just another turd in the GOP punchbowl), it was amusing to see other Republican candidates getting owned on some matters of foreign policy in the debates. Supporters were able to garner a majority of the delegates in 6 states by the time of the convention, so the RNC changed the minimum requirement to 8 states, finally ending his long-shot campaign. After Ron got turned away at the velvet rope,Mehta, Seema, "Ron Paul supporters walk out of GOP convention", LA Times 9.28.12. his supporters were so outraged, only 80% went out and voted for RomneyGoodman, Joseph, "Libertarians By the Numbers: A Demographic, Religious and Political Profile", Public Relations Research Institute.Note: Basically they proved that they're just Republicans, always have been and always will be. Just watch that same 80% vote for Trump; maybe more if he promises to kick brown people out.
When it became evident his bid was hopeless and Mittens' nomination was inevitable, a number of Paulbots amazingly discovered the true Master Plan behind Paul's campaign: to garner enough sympathy and support for Paul's son, Senator Rand Paul, to be chosen as Romney's running mate. Strangely, that pipe dream also turned out to be nothing but a dream.
Ron's decision to not run for re-election in 2012 may have been politically motivated as well: he probably cannot get re-elected there anymore, not for his raving hypocrisy, but because his district has changed:
He never polled above 2% nationally;Schneider, Bill, "Poll: Bloomberg could have Perot-like effect on 2008 race", CNN (6/26/07 8:05 a.m. EDT). Just 25 more years and he might get to 5%! that's the funniest part. The Pauls have never done well outside their safe areas: Kentucky will vote for anybody with an (R) next to their name, and Paul retired as soon as Texas redrew his territory of suburban/rural Houston/Galveston. (Now that's what we call a marketplace of ideas!) He knew he'd be forced to actually run a real campaign to impress more urban voters in Houston who hadn't benefited from his years of pork barrel spending.
Technically he got an electoral vote in 2016.
Ron Paul will be remembered as a failed U.S. representative and presidential candidate who sold less than 500 books. To be fair, he did make a decent chunk of change from his campaigning and convincing gullible bastards that gold was the way to go, conveniently leaving out that it was best for his wallet. Plus the legion of Redditors who will cry "media blackout!" and defend his honor to this day.
==Everybody laugh at him==
===Welfare queen FOUND!===
Now, there is general irony about the fact that a person who is anti-government is working for the government at all, but with Paul it gets a little... deeper. From 1999 to 2009, the spending in Paul's district has quadrupled.Harkinson, Josh, "Ron Paul: DC Miser, Galveston Porkmeister", Mother Jones 7/22/11 5:00 AM EDT). And it isn't like other Congressmen are doing this to him against his will, he's doing this. He has this thing about taking wildly popular bills that are going to pass regardless of what happens, and sticking in an earmark, funneling money to beneficiaries in his district. Then, he votes against it knowing it doesn't matter. (Additionally, in 2010 the GOP decided that they voluntarily not use any earmarks. The reasons for that are another matter entirely, but Paul was one of four of the nearly 200 GOP Congressmen who did not do that.)
The projects he's got out of it? He claims to be against public transportation, but got the Congress to spend $750,000 on a public transit center in his district. He's against federal emergency management, but got the Feds in 2008 to build houses for those in his district displaced by Hurricane Ike (completed in 2011). And remember the time he bitched that House Speaker Tip O'Neil would drive around Washington in a government Lincoln Towncar? He currently drives a Lincoln Towncar.
Basically, Ron Paul is the same as every asshole in every other district.
===Campaign finance violations===
Jesse Benton, Ron Paul's former campaign manager, and two others associated with the 2012 Ron Paul campaign were indicted in 2015 on campaign finance charges.Rand Paul Aide Indicted on Charges of Hiding Payments The New York Times This poses a challenge to Mr. Paul's claim to play by a different set of rules and not give into politics-as-usual. As with so much else with Ron and Rand, this one runs in the family. The same Jesse Benton is now running a super PAC supporting Rand Paul.
===The sad tale of RonPaul.com===
Following his failure to get the GOP nomination, and subsequent retirement from Congress in January 2013, Paul wanted to get a website off the ground. In March 2013 he tried to buy RonPaul.com: a site run since 2008 by his supporters. Paul had once owned the site but lost it in August 2012 after failing to pay renewal fees. The site's current owners soon after acquired the rights to own the site.The Atlantic Wire - Ron Paul is Feuding with His Fans
In response to his request to buy the site, the owners very nicely offered to give Paul RonPaul.org, another domain name they own, absolutely free. As for RonPaul.com, they offered to give him that for 250,000 USD. Instead, he refused both offers and went to the World Intellectual Property Organization (a United Nations agency) to lodge an intellectual property complaint in an attempt to control both without paying a dime.Fitzpatrick, Alex, "Ron Paul Isn't Getting RonPaul.com", Mashable 5.24.13. 
That's right, Ron Paul went to the United Nations: a global organization that he has constantly said America should renounce and leave.Is It Time to Renounce the United Nations?, at LewRockwell.com Paul isn't so hateful of it after all or he wouldn't use it to get involved in a matter that he apparently has no faith in the free market to handle.
The WIPO dismissed the complaint. In a hilarious twist, they also found Paul guilty of " for ignoring the very reasonable offers the site owners gave him. Furthermore, Paul's attempts to lie about the site being used to benefit from his name and likeness were shot down. It was apparent the domain owners were obviously using the site to help spread news and information about Paul as opposed to exploiting him for personal gain as he claimed.
Following this damaging legal haymaker, Paul abandoned the attempt to seize the site and instead launched a website with a different domain name: something he should have considered doing in the first place.Ron Paul Launching New Website After United Nations Dismisses His Domain, US News Despite destroying practically all his credibility in claiming to support a free market, Ron still uses his site as a soapbox to preach about the wonders of a free market based on compromise, volunteerism, and non-aggression.
As to be expected, many of his supporters still attempt to justify his underhanded behavior.Here's an example of such drone like support Sadly, no amount of deflection or justification can disprove that this incident shows Paul lacks any principles and consistency where his ideal free market is concerned. This indisputably makes him no less respectable or honorable than many other American politicians in office who he accuses of using the same tactics he did to get what they want.
In a textbook case of denial, the owners of RonPaul.com still refuse to accept Paul could treat them like crap.RonPaul.com - WIPO Decides: RonPaul.com to Remain with Grassroots Supporters. Archived from ronpaul.com, 23 May 2013.
==Keeper of the Lame==
His son, Rand, is a Junior Senator and failed Presidential candidate from Kentucky. He, too, is a firm advocate for state's rights, shrinking the federal government's power, ending the War on Drugs—and is such a cheap trick that he betrayed each of those issues with one signatureEric W. Dolan, "Rand Paul backs bill that could lead to crack down on states where voters legalized weed", Raw Story. (because opioids, or something).Ingraham, Christopher, "Senators held a hearing to remind you that ‘good people don’t smoke marijuana’ (yes, really)", WaPo 4.5.16. He does a little dance to prove he is worthy of getting past the gatekeepers, he's an insider. He's whatever you want him to be.
Not a patch on his old man:Twisted Undies At RonPaulForums Ron was the anti-establishment Republican candidate in 2008 and 2012. In 2016 we had Cruz, Trump, and Carson. Plus you had Sanders sucking up a lot of the youth vote that Ron relied upon. 
In 2014, Ron Paul endorsed a variety of conspiracy theories: 9/11 Truther, JFK Assassination conspiracy and Martin Luther King conspiracy theories. He made these endorsements despite it being "politically very risky to talk about it" vis-a-vis Rand Paul's chances of being elected President.Nuzzi, Olivia, "Ron Paul Dons 9/11 Truther Tin Foil", Daily Beast (08.31.14 2:45 AM ET). Was Ron Paul trying to sabotage Rand Paul's chances or is he just trying to consolidate the wingnut base? It's anyone's guess.
==Athletics==
Ron Paul is also the only person to ever hit a home run out of the park in the Congressional Baseball game.Ron Paul, Congressional Baseball Legend
==Paulbots==
"Paulbot," a portmanteau of "Ron Paul" and "robot", is an affectionate for drone-like supporters of the former Congressman (also known as "Paulbots," "Paulites," "Paultards," "Ronulans," or "Ronpauloompas"). They usually scan online platforms for mentions of Ron Paul and then descend on those discussions with hostile invective and over-the-top praise for him, accompanied by various rude behaviors, including shouting down disagreement and accusing anyone who disagrees with them of being a statist or fascist. Despite being real people (with real cognitive issues) they have been called 'bots' because their comments often have the non sequitur-like quality of computer-generated spam. Many Paulbots are often conspiracy theorist cranks as well, and believe that Paul was the only "hope" America had of not going down the path of the New World Order, but since the American sheeple were too distracted by Obama and his bread and circuses to consider reading up on and hence voting for the almighty Paul, the NWO will now be inevitable.
==See also==
*Essay:A Brief Note on Ron Paul supporters
*Paul Ryan: Why do so many Republicans have to have similar names? (They all have a pretty similar skin color, too, now that we broach the topic.)
*Lyndon LaRouche: Another political ideologue who drew rabid support from people who believe his way is the only way.
*Barry Goldwater: (Ooh, shiny.) A Movement Conservative and JBS hero. Goldwater Junior failed to work the same magic; he lost a Senate bid in '82, and was viewed as little more than a brand name. Sound familiar? His son Barry, Jr. endorsed Ron Paul in '08.
*We Are Change: Paul's cheersquad activist group led by Luke Rudkowski who took to the streets to tell the sheeple to vote for Paul or to expect the worst.
* - Ladies and Gentlemen, the Polish version of Ron Paul!
*Rand Paul — Crank father, crank son
*Peter Thiel — Big donor for both his 2008 and 2012 campaignsRyan Mac and Lisa Lerer (February 14, 2022). "The Right’s Would-Be Kingmaker". The New York Times.John Hudson (February 20, 2012). "Peter Thiel Is Ron Paul's Billionaire Sugar Daddy". The Atlantic.
==Videos==
*What drug debates looked like in the 80's. - The irony is that Downey was sucking down a pack of cigarettes per day, and Paul predicted his imminent death. Just Say No!
*"I should've punched Bruno."
==External links==
*Angry White Man: The bigoted past of Ron Paul
*Daily Paul archives - PEACE! GOLD! LOVE! (Which of these is not like the others?)
*Ron Paul Forums don't like Rational Wiki – but notably they don't make any specific accusations or complaints or refutations, so, go figure.
*The Ron Paul Presidency – Google Future
*The Libertarian Moment has finally arrived!
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