Who hearts Ron Paul?
The reviews are pouring in, and the Aryans are gushing:
“I know that Ron Paul is not a white separatist or a white nationalist. However, he is the most honest and responsible of all the presidential candidates and that is why I support his candidacy.” —John J. Ubele, the National Coalition’s Operations Manager
“Folks, get involved in the Ron Paul ‘revolution’ and work with political activists in your communities who are attracted to his anti-globalist message…. Most of you would be surprised at how many good people can be exposed to a, let’s say, ‘pro-majority’ message among the remarkable groundswell of fed up, mostly White Ron Paul supporters — many, early on, from the 9/11 truth movement. They are finding their backbones as they are exposed to more and more hidden truths, especially about the hidden hand of Jewry behind every foul venture.” —White Will
“Not standing up for Ron Paul against the un-American Jewish media and neo-cons who will do anything to stop his nomination is like not standing up to the efforts to force integration, to encourage mass non-White immigration, or to the attack on the USS Liberty. … Ron Paul is NOT a White Nationalist. His Libertarian policies will also conflict with National Socialism, something that a good number of Stormfront members support. However, he is the least toxic candidate by leaps and bounds.” —Concerned Human
Not all white supremacists are so enthusiastic about the Paul candidacy. comJo, Pan-Aryan Insurgent isn’t willing to take the middle road when it comes to eliminationism: “Anything less than ALL is NOTHING. If anythings priority is not 100% the survival of the White Race, than it is a problem and not a solution. Ron Paul’s priority is not 100% the survival of the white race, so he is an enemy and a burden just as much as any jew.” The Paul campaign finds themselves in the uncomfortable position of agreeing with a neo-Nazi on this point: Racism is not his platform.
Orcinus suggests that while Paul may not explicitly be a mouthpiece for their ideology of hate, there is good reason for swaths of the fringe right to throw their support behind him:
Well, I guess it’s not really his fault that Paul has spent the better part of the past two decades hanging out with the fringe “Patriot” right, and that his core positions emanate from a belief system — revolving around abolishing the IRS and the United Nations and the Federal Reserve and public education and reinstituting the gold standard and thrumming up fears of an insidious “New World Order” takeover — that is part and parcel of their worldview.It’s just who he is. But of course he attracts their support. He’s long been a player on the netherworld between the extremist right and mainstream conservatism, acting as a “transmitter” of extremist beliefs who avoids racist and anti-Semitic talk and repackages for broader consumption their bizarre, conspiratorial worldview as ostensibly normative.
…Paul himself doesn’t necessarily believe these things — but the theories themselves are so thoroughly rooted in racial and anti-Semitic animus, often playing the role of providing a thoughtful “academic” face to smooth-talking racists like David Duke, that it’s hard not to hear Ron Paul holding forth on them now and understand perfectly well where those ideas are coming from, even if it’s never acknowledged. Though having seen Paul work the militia circuit in the 1990s certainly gave me a good idea.
Without a clear purview into the inner workings of Ron Paul’s mind, I’d be hard-pressed to condemn him for the cautious support of fringe groups like Stormfront and National Coalition. His anti-government rhetoric is appealing to them, yes, but also to libertarians, anarchists and portions of the electorate disenfranchised by the Bush years. Questions concerning Paul’s possible bigotry have been swirling since he penetrated the national consciousness earlier this year, but nothing incontrovertible has ever surfaced. Paul’s message should be judged on its own merits, strong (opposition to the Iraq war, his call to do away with the IRS) and weak (gold standard triumphalism, his assertion that God is in the Constitution) alike.
