Ron Paul’s Campaign for Lunacy

Written by Daria DiGiovanni in politics, VIP on 22 January 2010

Just when you thought he couldn’t possibly test the limits of rational Americans any further, Ron Paul comes out with yet another absurd and treacherous statement — this time advising his followers at a Campaign for Liberty event in Atlanta that “the CIA must be taken out”. The Congressman’s latest in a series of harmful diatribes that aids our enemies condemns the Central Intelligence Agency as somehow “harmful” to the United States and informs his enthusiastic audience that the US Military’s “morale is down” even as (presumably) the US government is “looking for a few more wars to fight”.

Earth to Ron Paul: What exactly has the CIA done that is “harmful”? Using harsh interrogation techniques richly deserved by enemy combatants to prevent further attacks against the United States, including the plot to blow up the Library Tower in Los Angeles? If that’s the “harm” to which you are referring, I say waterboard away!

Assuming there is some truth to Paul’s declaration that the US Military is demoralized, could that have something to do with the politically correct way our out-of-touch bureaucrats are forcing them to fight a war against extremists who don’t play by any rules? When US Navy Seals are punished instead of lauded for capturing a high-value terrorist target for the “crime” of giving the guy a fat lip, I’d agree that is demoralizing. So is the story of Army Ranger 1st Lieutenant Michael Behenna, serving a 25-year prison sentence for shooting an Al-Qaeda operative. Isn’t killing the bad guys before they can harm more innocent people an objective of going to war?

Regardless, I suspect that’s not the type of demoralization to which Ron Paul refers. After all, one day after a suicide bomber attempted to blow up an airliner on approach to Detroit on Christmas Day, he represented the “Republican” side of the aisle on CNN by falsely blaming the event on “US occupation of Yemen and Nigeria.” No wonder CNN enjoys hosting him on their unfair and unbalanced network!

As for the claim from his avid supporters that Paul’s economic policies and staunch exhortations to audit the Federal Reserve justify his perilous foreign policy, according to Open Secrets.org, the Texas Congressman sponsored 23 earmarks totaling over $80 million, ranking 33rd out of 435 representatives. Doesn’t sound very fiscally responsible to me.

Still, even if the Texas congressman actually practiced what he preached economically, the fact remains that there is a Global Jihad raging, replete with ideological zealots with no regard for human life and an insatiable desire to kill all infidels — Jew, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Wiccan, Atheist, Agnostic, Deist and every other belief system that refuses to submit to Allah. And no amount of denial is going to change that.

So instead of playing the role of “useful idiot” for Al-Qaeda, perhaps Congressman Paul could do something truly revolutionary by supporting the West’s efforts to stop Islamofascism, tepid as they may be. He could start by apologizing to the brave men and women of the CIA and the United States Military, before thanking them for giving him the freedom to promulgate his kooky theories to his own brand of Kool-Aid drinkers.

Daria DiGiovanni

Author of Water Signs: A Story of Love and Renewal, copy director and partner in Parasol Creations, and co-host of Conservative Republican Forum.

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http://twitter.com/BruceHMajors @BruceHMajors

I have seen to much smearing of Ron Paul from various quarters in the past to believe he is crazy even when, on rare occasion, he is wrong. So you will forgive me if I assume you don't understand what point he was trying to make until I read or hear his remarks for myself
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1288191071 Daria DiGiovanni

Hey, Ron Paul's own words and actions speak loud enough for me. If there's any "smearing" going on, it is self-inflicted by the congressman himself. Thank you for reading and commenting, Bruce.
ron paul = HYPOCRITE

ron paul is a HYPOCRITE! he gets TONS of earmarks. yes some of his ideas are good, like auditing the fed, but he just seems to be growing in his radicalism because it is helping him sell books and rake in money.

he's also a RACIST!
http://twitter.com/StevenRosenblum @StevenRosenblum

The CIA is out there trying to defend this nation from people who's objective is to either bend us to their religious will or kill us for being infidels. Ron Paul's foreign policy is naive at best and suicidal at worst.
He does have some excellent ideas about the Federal Reserve and the tax code, but that doesn't excuse his reckless statements about our intelligence agencies.
http://www.docsetc.com Terrence Abrams

He is also a PROVEN anti-semite. His entire "Global Neutrality" Foriegn Policy stance is based upon his inner hatred for Israel and anything Jewish. I've seen this up-close myself, before he switched the language back from pure hateful anti-semitism to "neutrality". One of his former regional campaign directors also quit his 2008 Presidential campaign when he also found out the same. He and his closest skin-head type of followers (agreeably not all of his loyal followers are all so stupid and prejudiced) teach revisionist history about the Middle East, actually using pieces and works written and published by terrorist sympathizers and fundraisers who are on the international watch-list abroad.

Very strange, all of these constant revisionist history pieces Ron Paul supporters use, are only re-posted at Moveon.org and MSNBC.

Ron Paul has a LOT in common with LIBERALS AND PROGRESSIVES. Being only fiscally conservative with a practice of abusing taxpayer dollars earns this man no right to address Zoo animals, much less be a member of Congress.
KES

I totally agree with Ms. DiGiovanni and her comments. Ron Paul continues to make wrong and unbelievable comments on this subject as well as many others. Thank you Ms. DiGiovanni for clearly stating the facts and the horific comments of Ron Paul. We should support our Navy Seals, not punish them. So all I have to say is BruceHMajors and to the other Ron Paul fan club, quit drinking the Kool-Aid and put on your "listening ears" and realize Ron Paul is a kook who cares nothing about protecting the United States, and doesn't agree that we should give respect and thanks to our Military Troops fighting for our FREEDOM!!!
Benito

Aww,, this is a cute post. The very fact that you're asking what the CIA has done that is so harmful to the US shows your lack of insight into the matter. Check out the book Blowback titled from the very phrase the CIA uses to describe retaliation on the US and her allies due to covert operations. It started in Iran (1951) and we've been on a roll ever since!
Jack

Why don't you spend a few minutes reading this tidy list of CIA atrocities and further your insight
http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-and-a-timeline-o…
Yury

^ infowars? Are you kidding me? That's the Alex Jones 9/11 truther site that just today claimed that the US has invaded Haiti…for oil (i'm not kidding).
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1288191071 Daria DiGiovanni

Oh brother, Info Wars! I should write my next post about nutjob Alex Jones — the same man who screamed "Kill Malkin"! while harassing Michelle Malking threateningly at the DNC in 2008. It's all caught on video. The fact that Jones and Paul enjoy a modicum of credibility is truly frightening.

But I guess psychologically, it's easier to create a familiar fantasy enemy in your mind than it is to accept the reality of brutal, bloody Global Jihad. Thus, we have people who actually think Al-Qaeda is a "fabrication" of the CIA, and that Bush-Cheney hired the Israeli Mossad to fly the planes on 9/11. Such people are incredibly useful idiots for the enemy! Stalin had American communists; the Jihadists have 9/11 Truthers, many of whom worship at the altar of Ron Paul.
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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1288191071 Daria DiGiovanni

@Yury, I know that is unbelievable! And yet, so many of Paul's followers really buy into the "occupier" garbage. I suppose they would've been happy if we'd just let those poor people suffer and die in the aftermath of the earthquakes, instead of rushing to their aid. Simply amazing their utter lack of regard for doing the right thing.
C00

Excerpt from http://theaxisofstevil.com/2008/08/29/alex-jones-…

The fact is, Alex Jones and his followers are a grown up version of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. They sit in their dimly lit rooms, obsessing over the society that has turned them away. They seek the comfort of acceptance, so they seek out a group. A group far different from the ones that shunned them. As a group they feel powerful. They feel like they have something to offer. But notice, when Alex finds Michelle, watch his face as he looks for his backup. See how he looks like a lost child? But the spark comes back when his eyes finds him, and he orders him to join him. Why is that? Because alone, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, and Alex Jones are miserable lost individuals. But together, they are the Columbine Bombers. They are the Trench Coat Mafia. They are a “somebody”.

So this group called the 9/11 Truther’s bands together. They feel needed. They feel powerful. They are telling the story you don’t know, and you need to hear. And as they build numbers, they gain confidence. As they snowball across the web, they pickup all the other Eric’s and Dylan’s searching for their acceptance. They mold them and hand them the propaganda, and they move on as a group. But when confronted with the truth, they snap. Why? Because the truth is not just that what they believe in is wrong. The truth is, if what they believe in is wrong, then so is their group. And if their group is wrong, then they are alone. They are no longer the “Trench Coat Mafia”. They are once again a scared and angry little “Dylan”. So before they lose what they have worked so hard to build, they lash out violently. They threaten whatever has threatened their collective existence. They threaten and attack a small, harmless Michelle Malkin. They threaten to blow me up. They plant pipe bombs in a high school and take out their fellow students.
C00

^ could also be said about RP cultists.
Teaparty_patriot

Quote – Daria DiGiovanni "I suppose they would've been happy if we'd just let those poor people suffer and die in the aftermath of the earthquakes, instead of rushing to their aid. Simply amazing their utter lack of regard for doing the right thing. "

"Mr. Madison wished to relieve the sufferers, but was afraid of establishing a dangerous precedent, which might hereafter be perverted to the countenance of purposes very different from those of charity. He acknowledged, for his own part, that he could not undertake to lay his finger on that article in the Federal Constitution which granted a right of Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

-James Madison in regards to the expense of giving aid through the tax money of his constituents to French refugees of the Haitian Revolution.

Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 3rd Congress, 1st Session, page 170 (1794-01-10)
Sal A

As Paul notes in his answer, cutting the number of earmarks does not cut spending. An earmark is a congressional provision that directs federal agencies to spend funds already authorized on specific projects. If the funds aren’t earmarked, the agencies can spend the money any way they see fit. That is, the executive branch, rather than Congress, will determine how the taxpayer’s money is spent. This point cannot be stressed enough because even the writers at the Wall Street Journal do not understand it.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/phillips5.html

If the Wall Street Journal doesn't get it, then I certainly don't expect a half-wit commentator from the tabloid-equivalent Parcbench, who invests just enough analysis to get passing grade on a community-college research paper to get it.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1288191071 Daria DiGiovanni

Hey Sal, thank you for your comments. As I do not wish to sink to your level, I will simply leave it at that and assure you that although you know very little about the founders and writers of Parcbench, or me, your comments tell us an awful lot about you. Enough said.
GL2814

>>If the Wall Street Journal doesn't get it, then I certainly don't expect a half-wit commentator from the tabloid-equivalent Parcbench, who invests just enough analysis to get passing grade on a community-college research paper to get it.

If she is a "half-wit commentator" why comment then? Go waste your time elsewhere.

Sorry but "Dr. Paul's" head in the sand attitude will get us killed.
Thomas Lynch

Ms. DiGiovanni's analysis hearkens back to the dark days of pre-WWII isolationism when Roosevelt was forced to undertake every scheme and disingenuous excuse to assist our allies and, not so coincidentally, protect our shores by acting abroad. Let's hope that the Gospel according to Paul i on foreign relation sis wholly discredited. Ms. DiGiovanni is helping along that road. It is always instructive to be reminded that no matter how things change, they really don't.. I wish that the other pundits were as direct, succinct and well-thought out as Ms. DiGiovanni. At least, even if I don't agree with them, I could understand their argument and compliment them on their writing skills. It is obvious that Ms. Diggiovanni has gone to the Kauthammer school of writing..while she agrees with Mr. K. on many issues..she is his peer in written oratory.
TJ.

I find Liberals/Progressives and Ron Paulers more similar than they are to true Conservatives. The truth is a lot of Ron Paulers are former liberals!! They are vicious and will attack and smear anyone who doesn't agree with their radical ideology as a neo-con or warmonger… the same tactics used by liberals!!
OG11213

The CIA represents all that is wrong with how our government operates. It is secretive, it can't explain what it does to "regular" Americans, it spies on American citizens, it wastes billions of dollars that can go to restoring our economy, the rule of law does not apply to it. If you hate big government when you're out of power but love big government when you're in power, than you'll love the CIA. If you believe in government accountability and the rule of law, than you'll oppose the CIA.