There is also a good John Nichols piece in The Nation, a place I would have
not expected to find such a thing.  Some liberals and feminists are
apoplectic about Paul, thinking that somehow his crappy ideas are leaching
into the populace.



On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Well, indeed, and what I am doing is not actually campaigning for him,
> but using him as a hook to push an antiwar agenda.
>
> Ryan Grim did the same thing in his piece in Huffington Post which I
> forwarded. The piece isn't about Ron Paul at all. It's about the drug
> war. The piece starts out: Ron Paul says the drug war is racist. Is
> that true? Let's investigate...and off it goes.
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If it's not too zen for y'all, supporting Paul is not really supporting
> > Paul.
> > He isn't going to be president.  The most visible stuff about him is the
> > themes of anti-war, anti-drug-war, and cancel the rest of government. The
> > latter isn't going to happen, while the first two are pretty popular. So
> in
> > my view by all means talk them up. That doesn't prevent anyone for noting
> > the genuinely wacky, less visible stuff in his platform, as well as the
> vile
> > material in his newsletters.  He's being made out to be David Duke, but
> Duke
> > campaigned on racism. Paul does not.
> >
> >
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