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...and let's get back to concentrating on the big event of the day!

Thank you freedom lover for removing the original post and apologizing. Apology very gratefully accepted!

If anybody's morale went down while reading this thread, make another donation to RP and freedom and you'll feel a lot better.

Go Ron Go!

"its negative... and we don't need it. I think the poster had good intentions in posting it, so they shouldn't be reprimanded. but I don't think this shouldn't be up on the forums. It doesn't accomplish anything positive, and has the potential of scaring away first time visitors/ gives the wrong first impression of Dr. Paul.

Theres nothing we can do or say to the individual who wrote this horrible article, and theres little we can do to repair any damage this article may cause to ron paul by dealing with the article directly. The only way to win people over to ron paul is through his message, not by complaining about bad press. This post serves no good purpose, please remove this thread so we can focus on the important things."

It was in reference to the LA Riots of 1993...
Paraphrased "The riots were welfare payments without the middleman".
I'm telling you this Ron Paul guy is a friggin' GENIUS!!!
He tells it like it is, bro!!!

...this thread is having on a lot of people. It is not necessary for me to speculate on the possible good or bad intentions of the poster because the only thing that matters is whether this thread is raising the morale of the readers or is it lowering their morale. So even if the poster has good intentions and thinks that this thread will make people mad so they will "donate more" I say that is doubtful and the negative effect on most readers out weighs the possible good effect it might have.

Lets help each other keep our morale up and there'll be more donations that way!

If you agree with me do what I just did and flag this thread as offensive. You'll find the "Flag as offensive" button above just after the end of the original post. Then if the moderator, Michael, agrees that the thread is not appropriate for the DP forum he will remove it.

This is an Editorial on what this guy thinks, it may be wrong and misguided but he has the right. Consider it a MAJOR hit piece if ABC or CNN does a report based on this guy's article. The comments on this piece below is proof enough that this guy is wrong.

In fact, I'd like to thank Redstate, Dailykos, and other sites that work so hard at smearing Ron Paul for making themselves look foolish and attracting more people to Ron Paul's campaign.

You should thank them too.

go ron paul!

"... then they attack you, then you win."

Notice how that lame article accuses an entire state (Texas) of being racist. Good grief.

In #9 I say that Ron must answre these critics upfront before the attack comes. I dont think Jesse Benton is up to the task of responding to a blood hungry media. If you like the 12 steps I outline...send them to the campaign

-----------------DO YOU REALLY WANT RON TO WIN------------------
Ron needs more than just money. Send this strategy to mail@ronpaul2008.com and also to press@ronpaul2008.com if these ideas make sense to you
www.dailypaul.com/node/14009

And stop feeding into this crap it's obviously a smear...

Most of this is just flat-out wrong. Its not unusual for congressmen to write newsletters to their constituents, that's what his newsletter was. It didn't go to nutjobs, that's just character assassination. He had a staffer write a lot of stuff in the newsletter and he apparently made a racist statement in one of the issues. Ron Paul apologized and repudiated it immediately. No skeleton, no racism and no incompetence-that's totally overblown. Ron Paul has made many public statements against racism over many years of public life. His record is clean and they are not likely to find any real skeletons in his closet. That's why they are going to make up stuff like this based on whatever tiny shred they can find.

I've been following the campaign since only the middle of last month and I already knew about this non-issue and how it was handled.

if they really think Ron Paul supporters are voters "..who have lost their knight in gleaming armor, George W. Bush"!

I love these kind of articles... They take a tidbit of information like this, and use it to completely defile his candidacy. Even if the racism stuff is true, does that mean we should elect someone who will continue the war, continue our doomed economic policy, continue our brainwashing educational system, and continue taking away our liberties?

I just don't understand why people will turn away from such a great candidate over such a small issue... And personally I do not believe Ron Paul is a racist.

"Not surprising when you realize he is comes from a very racist state."

Pennsylvania is a very racist state?