Dimwits who think everyone apart from them is in on the conspiracy cite Neo-Con co-author as proof

A small minority of dimwits who believe that Ron Paul is too good to be true and represents nothing more than an establishment puppet have seized upon a 15-year-old affiliation with a Neo-Con to charge that the Congressman is a "Zionist shill" in the latest pathetic attempt to scrape the barrel and sling mud at the presidential candidate.

Lewis E. Lehrman, the co-author of Ron Paul's 1993 book "The Case for Gold," was later a signatory to the infamous Project For a New American Century document, a pre-9/11 Neo-Con blueprint which yearned for a "new Pearl Harbor" to justify U.S. military expansionism across the globe.

The fact that the book itself is a sober argument for a return to the gold standard is ignored while Paul's affiliation with Lehrman is seized upon as evidence that Ron Paul is a "Zionist shill" and "part of the New World Order."

Of course, anyone with a shred of common sense would realize that a 10-term Congressman stretching back over 30 years would have had relations and affiliations with all kinds of people whom he didn't necessarily agree with on a host of issues.

If Ron Paul had run a lemonade stall with a childhood friend when he was growing up in the 1940's and that friend had gone on to become a bank robber, would this make Ron Paul an accessory to the crime? Would it be justified to use this to claim that Ron Paul would give criminals a free pass if he became president?

If Ron Paul, a man who delivered more than 4,000 babies during his time as an ob/gyn, had made friends with a doctor who went on to become an abortionist - would this make the Congressman a baby killer?

How many people do you know from years past that went on to do or say things that you disapprove of? People change.

On the face of it, the charge that Paul is a "Zionist shill" because he wrote a book with a man that went on to become a Neo-Con is a childish ad hominem smear, using guilt by association in a desperate attempt to scrape the barrel for mud to sling at the Congressman.

Another example of how some people even within our own movement are literally straining at the leash to dig up dirt on Ron Paul is a You Tube comment under Paul's latest video interview on The Glenn Beck Show.

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The writer speculates that because there is a gold-fringed U.S. flag in the background of the interview, which they say denotes martial law, this is potential evidence that Ron Paul is a "crypto-fascist."

"Paul's people would have been entirely responsible for what was in the background, thus the campaign sign and flags themselves," he writes.

Why Ron Paul's people would have been "entirely responsible" for setting up a shot for an interview conducted by CNN is not explained, but this is just another example of the mindlessness that prevails in some corners of the Internet.

The "everything's a conspiracy crowd" just cannot temper their paranoia for long enough to accept the fact that, while we may not agree with the Congressman on every issue - such as net neutrality or what happened on 9/11, Ron Paul is the real deal and he has to cope with enough mordacity from the establishment media without the need for this baseless BS.

The vast majority of 9/11 truthers and Ron Paul supporters in general realize this but for those who also like to claim that Alex Jones is a "Jesuit Temporal Coadjutor," a Zionist or even a shape-shifting reptoid, their bizarre self-destructive cynicism prevents them from ever contributing towards positive activism and change because of their ninnying egotistic obsession with claiming that everyone but them is in on the conspiracy.

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they must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority

Good article.

What's really sad is that RP IS, what the Republicans SAY they stand for ... and yet, the Right Wing talk shows and media outlets like Fox are giving RP little attention. And .. the attention they are giving him is to treat him like a buffoon. No need to even mention the Demobats.

Vi

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yeah for sure. where in california are you from i just moved from orange county.
i wonder how many people back home know about him. ive just been telling everyone myself, i lost all hope in the media, exept people like bill maher hes broght ron paul on a few times already hes awsome. i wanna go buy a bunch of posters and signs. just paint the town

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they must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority

Ron Paul mania? Does anyone really believe the Elites will allow him to be elected and even if elected to serve more than a couple a months before bing bang boom. He challenges too many of the old order of things, things that keep rich people in power and behind the scenes. I have Great respect for Pauls agenda, but it conflicts with too much status-quo. In the last election, both candidates were Skull and Bonesers, old order elites. In this election, Hillary is carrying the elite banner for the Dems and Romney for the repukes. I'm for almost anyone other than those two, and oh yeah that idiot Guliani, ~LOL~, he's falling faster than a bird without wings, thank God. The only reason Guliani might be elected, keep the war maching cruising along.

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yeah i wouldnt be surprised if Ron Paul got assassinated right after being elected, by our friends in high places. do we even need to go into how the media is controlled by the powerful and how we are controlled by the media? i think we are all aware. yeah i think its stupid to link him to this one or that one since being in politics will mean you have links to everyone everywhere eventually. honestly i think a democrat will be winning this election unless Dr. Paul gets the republican nod. They are all so one dimensional with RP as the exception. here lemme give an example; giuliani, 9/11, crime decrease, romney, traditional religious values and a fucking smirk that makes me want to slit his throat, huckabee, who the fuck even knows, mccain, I was a POW, RP, constitutionalism, foreign policy, border security, real money transition, reduce govt spending, limited govt, end war on drugs, rewrite war on terror, open free trade, etc etc etc. gee whiz, why the fuck would big business, media controlling whores want Dr. Paul to win? they are getting rich on the rules, they wouldnt want them changed.

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That's about it, Magus. You've got it pegged. And the Dems are no better at all. If you watched the last Dem debate, it was laughable. Every one of those jokers stood before the American public and stated, that if elected, they would honor and uphold the Constitution. Then, one by one, they espoused all of the unconstitutional programs that they would try to get passed. They're a freakin' joke!

Vi

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not a joke yet, we could all make them jokes. The Constitution and the supreme court are being ignored. I think most of us are tired of paying up the ass while the bankers just keep counting our money.VV

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they must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority