Ron Paul says, Anyone can be elected President

[HereSince1628]

When asked about a Palin Presidential run.

Paul says, 'just look at history."

Um, is history W??? Or is history the first black president?

Sorry, but Ron Paul is just a closet racist.

[Make7]

1. Except himself. ( n/t )

[WeDidIt]

2. Paul is wrong. Out of hundreds of millions of people

only 44 could be elected president so far.

[renegade000]

4. right, i hate that "anybody can be president" line.

it's like saying "anybody can win the lottery". factually true, but i wouldn't want someone to set their life dreams on that tiny tiny possibility. there are more reasonable goals out there.

[metapunditedgy]

15. More to the point, it's not random like the lottery is (supposed to be).

You need a big political machine to get to the national stage.

[NoPasaran]

6. Even fewer than that

Tyler, Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Arthur and Ford succeeded to the Presidency but were never elected to the office.

[namahage]

7. If you want to be technical, it's not 44 people.

Grover Cleveland is one man who got counted twice.

In addition, not every person who became President was elected to the office--John Tyler and Andrew Johnson, among others, both became President by virtue of being in the #2 seat, but they themselves never won a Presidential election.

[hughee99]

10. For that matter, did * get "elected" president? n/t

[glinda]

3. he is a nut job

[KonaKane]

5. What a big surprise.

I knew this back in the day of his "racist newsletter" fiasco and how he so quickly tapdanced away from it so it wouldn't hurt his presidential run.

Ron Paul is absolutely full of shit. Oh, and the needling irony of his comment is that he had to become a Republican in order to run for president.

[abelenkpe]

8. Ron Paul is a racist conspiracy nutcase

but you know that I'm sure.

:)

[Walk away]

9. Ron is a Libertarian (code for "hates poor people")

Anyone in government who works to eliminate poverty or tries to make this a more equitable country, is un-American to Ron Paul and his followers. They think fair means letting the hungry starve so that there will be less of them breeding.

It's the sickest form of republicanism.

[OHdem10]

11. He said our PAST History. that includes GWB

[stargazzr]

12. 19 of 20 people can't define racism.

Can you?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

16. The Ron Paul Newsletter promoting stereotypes like "fleet footed black" purse snatchers is racist.

[ecstatic]

17. Ron Paul's racism:

He fans anti-immigrant flames. In a 30 second TV spot that ran in New Hampshire during the 2008 campaign, he demanded that students from alleged terrorist countries be denied visas into the U.S. Paul offered no proof that there are hordes of students pouring into America to commit terrorist acts. The ad was more than just a cheap ploy to fan terrorism fears. This reinforced the worst in racial and religious stereotyping and negative typecasting. The stereotype is that anyone in America who is a Muslim with a non-white face is a terrorist.

Paul's topped that with the infamous slavery quip that he made on Meet the Press. He claimed the Civil War was an unnecessary bloodbath that could and should have been avoided. All Lincoln had to do was buy the slaves. Other slave promoting countries, asserts Paul, didn't fight wars and they ended slavery peacefully. Paul's historical dumbness could and should have been laughed off. It wasn't. It was intently debated, and defended. The scarier point was that it was taken seriously at all.

Paul's legions were unfazed by the controversy; they reveled in it. Paul gave them plenty more ammunition. He asserted that blacks are criminally inclined, political dumb bells, and chronic welfare deadbeats. There was also the alleged Paul hobnob with a noted white supremacist. Here's what Paul on his campaign website ronpaul2008.com had to say about race. In fact he even highlighted this as "Issue: Racism" on the site. "Government as an institution is particularly ill-suited to combat bigotry." In other words, the 1954 landmark Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of education school desegregation decision, the 1964 and 1968 Civil Rights Acts, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and legions of court decisions and state laws that bar discrimination are worthless. Worse, says Paul, they actually promote bigotry by dividing Americans into race and class.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/ron-paul-still-as-scary-a_b_470707.html

There's nothing closeted about his racism.

[EFerrari]

21. No kidding. n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. A good online or dead-tree dictionary will give you a usable definition.

Dictionary.com:

rac·ism   /ˈreɪsɪzəm/
–noun
1.
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2.
a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3.
hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry: rac·ism
Pronunciation: \ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-\
Function: noun
Date: 1933

1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
2 : racial prejudice or discrimination

— rac·ist \-sist also -shist\ noun or adjective

Both are compatible with the commonly held idea of racism. Where's the problem? Are you trying to say racism doesn't exist?

[Blue-Jay]

23. What point are you (poorly) trying to make?

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[AnArmyVeteran]

14. Conservatives/republicans seem to love stupid presidents... (and the Presidential IQ Report)

They orgasmed when they put Bush-Duh-Second in the White House. They loved his inept daddy. And they worship Reagan, who even with a full mind was barely average. Look at the last three democratic presidents. Carter's IQ was over 170. Clinton's was about that. And Obama's is extremely high.

Conservatives/republicans/tea baggers seem to feel threatened by smart people. I suppose that is why they all attack science. They attack scholars. They attack experts. They attack college professors. They call anyone with an IQ over 95 an 'elitist'. But I guess when their IQs are floundering in the mid to lower 70s anyone over a moron would seem to be an elitist.

BTW, I wrote the Presidential IQ Report about ten years ago giving GW Bush an IQ of 91. You might have read my article or seen that 91 IQ figure. I wrote a spoof article about the IQs of all the presidents for the previous 50 years. I created an fictitious think tank of psychiatrists, sociologists, psychologists and the like and even gave them names. My article was so believable it was picked up by a lot of media around the world as fact. I even tricked Garry Trudeaux into making a Doonebury cartoon after my bogus presidential IQ report. He later apologized for being duped.

Since I wrote my report a lot of people stole my idea and even created websites dedicated to my IQ report. Ahhh capitalism... People steal other people's ideas all the time and profit off of them. But one thing the thieves didn't figure on was that the names of the people I used in my fake report were people I knew. They didn't even bother to change their names. And any forensic writing expert could easily tell it was my writing style and not theirs, especially since none of the thieves were writers or ever had anything published.

Looking back, I know I was way to generous and kind to give Bush an IQ of 91. It's closer to 70, if that high.

[ncteechur]

18. Thank you President Paul. Oh yeah, Ron Paul isn't president of shit.

I guess he is wrong.

[The Gunslinger]

19. He never will be elected.

[HopeHoops]

22. I would say that Dubya proved that point except for a minor detail - Bush was never elected.