I bet that, following his failed presidential bid and subsequent retirement from Congress, most of you thought that you would never hear from Libertarian idol Ron Paul again. Okay, perhaps it would be more accurate to say most of you
hoped you would never hear from him again. Well, ladies and gentlemen, like a vicious strain of herpes Ron Paul just keeps coming back no matter how much you want him gone. This time he's founded The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, in order to (presumably) promote the antithesis of that very title. As
an article from
The Daily Beast points out, his newly created institute is staffed by legions of conspiracy theorists, anti-Semites, Neo-Confederates and other cretins:
The newsletters’ content—a toxic stew of racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, sympathy for right-wing militia movements, and support for a litany of conspiracy theories—had been revealed by this writer in 2008. But Paul’s latter-day resurgence, particularly with young voters and the Tea Party, provoked a renewed round of interest in his shady associations and fringe beliefs.
[...]
The Times story focused on the role of Lew Rockwell, Paul’s former congressional chief of staff and later vice president of the company Ron Paul & Associates, which published the newsletters. Paul always denied authorship, insisting that unknown staffers produced the publication; several sources subsequently fingered Rockwell, now the head of a small think tank in Alabama called the Ludwig von Mises Institute, as the lead writer.
[...]
On April 17, Paul announced the creation of a new think tank, the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, which, according to its website, “continues and expands Dr. Paul’s lifetime of public advocacy for a peaceful foreign policy and the protection of civil liberties at home.” Sitting on the advisory board is none other than Rockwell.
And it gets worse, with institute members who act as apologists for the Confederacy and even the late genocidal dictator Slobodan Milosevic. Point this out to your Paulbot friends and family members just to see how they spin this.
