they should have just printed the newletters without the horrible article.  It’s just silly.  “Politically incorrect guide to american history” sold like a million plus copies, mainly to conservatives and he acts like it’s some little book racists pass back and forth to each other.

Justin, please, I’m a school library reading this. Laughing out loud is disruptive!

Thanks for a wonderful article.

Fantastic piece.

Jamie Kerchik, what a jerk. Man, is there really no low to which these guys can sink? Does this guy even have a brain or is he just this evil? TAC is probably one of the best magazines in the US. And some lowlife nobody shitty crappy nogood SOB writer-going-nowhere-anytime-ever smears them on his blog.

TNR is sooo way out of their league. It’s like McDonald’s vs. french cuisine.

Phew, why don’t all these political extremists go away to some other planet; commies, neocons, David-Dukes and his ilk, warmongering nationalists, cultural Marxists and all other degenerates I omit—all these people are insane and mad.

They turn politics into a true Hell for any normal person, you know, the kind that pay taxes, work 9-to-5. I wish RP could have made more of an impact. Unfortunately we’re stuck with Hopemongering and warmongering—disgusting.

Bless him though, a true hero. He really is.

I love when bad writers like Kirchik use the word “fringe.” No good writer would ever use such a sledgehammer word.  It’s like “screed.” No good writer would call something a screed, even if it is.

More important than my concern for elegance is how it is that a pro-peace candidate like Ron Paul, who resembles Thomas Jefferson more than any modern presidential candidate, is dismissed as “fringe,” while warmongering lunatics whom the rest of the world can’t believe we’d ever consider are presented to us as the mainstream guys.

Paul is a such a homophobe, Andrew Sullivan endorsed him.

What a skewering of that creep Kirchick. Bravo!

Hrm, I like reading your articles :).

Plus, I find it funny how the accusation went from “HE IS A STRAIGHT UP RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, ANTISEMITE!” to “Well, he is a liar! He knows who wrote it, it was Lew Rockwell”. So now the accusation is, he is a liar, who didn’t write racist, homophobic, nor antisemitic statements.

Actually, I can think of one scathing indictment of Ron Paul: He’s a gentleman of the old school who refuses to respond in kind to the vitrolic attacks of his enemies.

Thank God for Justin Raimondo!

Mr. Raimondo, you are now the reigning libertarian in the fourth estate.  Fonzie Gillespie and the gang have demonstrated that whatever they are, they are not “respectable” they are not for “free minds and free markets” and they are not libertarian in any meaningful sense.

You are the Man, sir. Don’t let it go to your head.

The Timothy McVeigh quip reminds me of something.

After a Ron Paul rally I attended at the University of Washington, I went perusing the local publications to see if anybody had picked up the event and this is what I came up with:  http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_end_of_ron_paul

Somebody who commented had the unmitigated audacity to call Ron Paul “Timothy McVeigh in a suit”.  The article itself is written by a local a**hole freelance writer and DJ on a junk radio station.  Having grown up in the Seattle area, I guess I shouldn’t be all that surprised.  Most everybody in this city is a brain-dead bleeding heart liberal clinging to the grunge era.  I was more shocked than anything else how deep the animosity towards Congressman Paul ran in some circles.

he calls Paul a conspiracy theorist and the entire article is one big conspiracy theory about secessionists, hidden documents (the elders of ...Hazzard county?) and all the rest.  everyone should go read or reread the newsletter abuot rodney king.  it’s delivered in a Stern/ Limbaugh style but it’s factual. 

The worst part of the whole debacle was having to defend ron at the Reason board to guys with screenames like “Crimethink”.  We used to call guys like that “Lloyd” . Matrix guys

Loved it, Justin!  Nobody skewers the rats better than you!

Justin, you are da man!  Thanks for being, as LR calls
you, Ron Paul’s “Hammer of the Smearbund.”

As a reader of Juntin’s since antiwar.com started, it’s
no surprise to see him writing brilliant articles
that crush the ignorant opponents of liberty.

Great article, Justin. Let the beltway libertarians go the way of the the neo-cons to utter irrelevance.

When I recently got a marketing offer from “Reason” Magazine I ripped it up gleefully and thought about your honest and excellent writing!

Thanks Justine, Sadly, it may be that the liars and haters who have set their sights on destroying the first real hope we have had for restoring this country may have done their job well enough to defeat us. At least this time around.

I went over to TNR and read Kirchick’s rant.  All I could hear over there was an eerie sound emanating from Kirchick’s blog… the sound of nobody caring.

Dear Jamie Kirchick:

I would like to join your club, the Respectable Libertarians. Please kindly inform me of the respectable requirements. I will be more than happy to allow you to edit and censor all my writings to meet your respectable criteria.

Seriously, though: no matter how many times Kirchick gets crushed by Raimondo and other journalists, it seems like he still loves the attention nonetheless, so maybe the best recourse is to ignore him altogether. I hope somebody puts a big Ron Paul sign in his lawn.

Kirchick seems like a toddler banging a toy on the floor to get mom’s attention.  He is upset because nobody cares all that much about these newsletters.

Personally, I find them embarrassing but not a disqualification.  If there were another anti-war/anti-empire, spending cutting, drug-war-ending candidate available I would certainly consider supporting him or her over Paul.  Of course, nobody else comes close.

People who hate Paul because he is anti-socialist will just use the newsletters as a continued excuse to hate him.

People who have never heard of him still won’t have heard of him.

Most genuine limited government types would continue to support him.

I remain mystified at the cosmotarian hostility.  Paul isn’t flawless, but he’s better than Reagan, Goldwater, Buchanan (sorry, TAC) or any other credible conservative candidate in my lifetime.

Justin, you write well and true. Great piece! Please don’t ever get too mainstream.

Registered as a Republican for the first time last month and cast my absentee ballot for RP last week.

West Coast high-tech worker, Ivy League BA in European History with a special focus on early 20th century fascism, life-long “progressive,” discovered RP via lewrockwell.com and antiwar.com back in 2002, really could care less what Reason or Cato or TNR have to say about anything.

Where were Reason, Cato or TNR back in 2003? Where was Hilary, for that matter?

Never thought I’d say this but at the age of 37 I am now a proud paleo - the only faction that demonstrated principled, vehement and incisive opposition to W’s nonsense from the very beginning, not just later when it became convenient.

Justin your writing was a big part of that political awakening for me - thank you.

P.S. Google phrase: “that piece of trash Lincoln”

While some at Reason had a knee-jerk fit in reaction to Paul’s newsletters, overall the Reason guys are OK in my book.  It does no good to lump them in with the NRO crowd when they certainly are not.  I just wish some over there had taken a deep breath and had done a little more research before passing judgement on Paul.

As far as CATO, I’d also say that it does no good to paint them as Neocons.  A read of their website will prove they they are far from it.  I can understand, though, how their reluctance to acknowledge Paul and how their beating of the anti-war drums only softly could ruffle some libertarian feathers. 

CATO and Reason have different audiences and differing strategies.  Let us all disagree where we may, but can we do it without name calling and exaggeration?

BTR

That punk Kirchick not only deserves this skewering, but also needs to take notes from a true journalist like Justin.  Keep it up, Justin!

I ran across this and found it rather poignant.  Made me chuckle a bit.

(Satire)

“Disciples of Lew Rockwell Demand Acceptance for Their Brand of Love; Protest Beltway Libertarians’ Concerns Over Friendly Ron Paul Newsletters”

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=47a8e7057ce09013&ei=Q8ioR-alNoSa9wK26_X_BA&url=http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i29919&cid=0

OOOPS!

Correct link Here:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i29919

Weren’t you a “cosmo-libertarians” years ago, Raimondo? Takes one to know one, I guess.

Where is the evidence that Martin Luther King “seduced underage girls and boys”?

Jamie’s a little Yalie (bonesman?) who is writing this crap to get his brownie points with the CFR who after all, controls the content of TNR.

Thank you Justin, you are wonderul.

We have several wars going on at the moment; 30,000 American causalities; 1 million dead Iraqis; a skyrocketing budget deficit; recession; a plummeting currency; assaults on our civil liberties; CIA black sites and Guantanamo--and Jamie Kirchick whines about Dr. Paul not being “respectable” like Reason and CATO? The more I think about it, the more I like the raw, take-no-prisoners style of Paul’s old newsletters. We live in tough times. Wussy rhetoric doesn’t cut when the country and world are basically going to hell.

Justin,
Have I ever told you that
you’re beautiful when you’re
angry?

I wonder sometimes who it is that gives the msm hacks the orders to not cover Ron Paul events and campaign progress.  It can’t be a conspiracy because that would mean simpletons such as Anderson Cooper would have been let in on it.  I mean give me a break here will you?  Or that the copy writer on my local via com owned news channel would be part of the evil cabal.  Again not likely.

They must be given simple instructions such as no Ron Paul stories, orders of the boss, and expected to follow them no questions asked.  Or maybe they are told that their research requires that they cover Romney, McCain, Huck, Thompson, etc, because those are the only ones that peope are interested in, despite those thousands of calls a week asking for coverage of Ron Paul.  The mouthpieces take their marching orders without question.
When Ron Paul does well in a state that state is no longer even mentioned. Add to that list of states that no longer are part of the Union; Minnesota, Maine, Louisiana, Montana, Alaska, Nevada, North Dakota, with more to follow.  It must be strange to actually live in one of those states and not even hear the person who finished second in your state’s primary mentioned on the national news. 

If Ron Paul got the treatment of evenn a Huckabee he would be the first presidential candidate who by the end of February would be running uncontested.  What the man has been able to accomplish with the media actively blacking him out is remarkable.  It is literally like living in a sci-fi movie where peoples minds have been snatched when you hear people quoting poll numbers.

I am convinced that the polls, far from having any informative purpose, are meant simply for the media to eliminate candidates that they do not care for.  Their dream ticket was Hillary vs. Giulianni and so they were leading in all the polls.  Then Huckabee and Obama win in Iowa and it goes to some new polls, athough they don’t stop trying to push Giulliani.  On C-span whenever someone calls in and wants to talk about Ron Paul and why he is never covered they quickly go to the polls.  Forget that Ron has been beating the polls almost every time out even though there are people who believe you are supposed to be voting in accord with who are leading in the polls.  I think we should outlaw presidential polls and boycott any stations that publish polls.  They serve no other purpose than to push the agenda that certain candidates have no chance to be elected and should drop out of the race.

As concerning the Paul campaign,
no one has shown up this many
hypocrites since John the Baptist.
As NUCCI avers, something STINKS
in the state of Denmark.

Let’s see, Raimondo supported

Buchanan in 1992 and 1996

Buchanan and the reform Party in 2000

Ralph Nader in 2004(Nader and libertarianism- that’s a short book)

Ron Paul in 2008

Raimondo is the kiss of death for candidates it would seem

Meanwhile in the real world Dr. Ron Paul’s message seems prophetic:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91343/6349077.html

Justin, May the force be with you!

The chinese conclude that the neocon way is nothing less than: “a blunder in cognition”
I have always felt that the “we create our own reality” crowd will destroy what is left of U.S. influence, now that its prestige has been interred with Trotsky’s heirs.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91343/6351751.html

Here from China another warning that America will pay a very heavy price if “New American Conservative” approach to international affairs continues, and another any further adventures are started:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91343/6344597.html

Why can’t they just call them C***sucking Judeo fascists?

@TruthaboutJustin,

Far from the kiss of death I would describe Justin as the kiss of life.  The death kiss is voting for Bush, Clinton, Kerry, Gore, and throw in every other candidate this time around minus Ron Paul.
With any of the so called front runners the one thing we are guaranteed is death. 

A good analogy of the mentality which makes someone vote for a McCain or a Hillary is the seals who safe on the rocks panic when a great white pops it’s head out of the water.  So the seals in panic flee the rock and into the water with the shark.

So now Romney has suspended his campaign.  Hmmmmm.  What to make of that?  Looks suspiciously like he is trying to help McCain win states that would have gone to him.  Romney had some of his best states ahead of him.  I wonder how this makes people in states like Utah, Michigan, and Nevada where he had much greater support than McCain feel?  They bought into Mitt and he dumps them with over half the states left to go. 

Developing non-story to be here in New York is that voting machines in some polling places did not have Ron Paul on the ballot.

Re: the three comments by “abc” (a common acronym for “American Born Chinese"), all citing articles in “People’s Daily”, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party…

...well, just think about it.  Evidently, now the so-called “paleoconservative” “movement” is a kindred spirit of the Chinese Communist Party.  Who would have thought it - unless one considers that Lenin, too was an antiwar “revolutionary”.

The reason I qouted the Chinese editorial was that this quote:

“when the wind squalls, some people will wisely build a windmill; whereas others will build a windbreak.”

Seems to be analogous to Dr. Ron Paul’s thinking, if I undestand him right.

On the other hand This quote:
“Faced with the ever-changing international situation, some countries will adapt themselves to the new change. Others will shrink under the protective shell of ideology – even worse – fire ideological arsenals at the enemies. In so doing, they will only dig themselves deeper into a hole.”
seems to describe quite well what neocons like Kirchick have been doing to U.S. foreign policy.
It struck me that this editorial after years of silence was a clear shot across the bows suggesting the U.S. take heed and re-think its neocon foreign policy.
We live in a Global Village. If you don’t want exposure to Chinese editorials on your PC, maybe you should stay away from the keyboard which was made in China too.
And the internet which runs on Chinese made servers.
Try to buy a PC “Made in the USA”.
I believe the Greatness of Ron Paul lies in his essential freedom from arrogance, and his willingness to build windmills.
Lets be clear who we support and why!

Justin, I believe your article would have been immeasurably more persuasive without the profanity.