Ron Paul signed off on racist 1990s newsletters, associates say

and now, for your completely predictable news of the day.

Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you, the 2012 Republican Presidential Candidates:

joshishollyfalalalalalalalala:

Anybody wanna talk about that time last election when Mitt Romney was racist to a baby

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For those who are keeping score…

tropicanastasia:

Herman Cain on:

•  Libya: “President Obama supported the uprising, correct?” and after stumbling through a vague disapproval of the president’s approach he stopped and said he’d have to “go back and see” because ““I’ve got all this stuff twirling around in my head.”
• Islam: Cain wouldn’t feel “comfortable” appointing a Muslim person to his cabinet because they might try to “ease Sha’ria law” and Islam into legislature. He also believes that a majority of American Muslims are extremists.
• Marriage equality: Six days after saying it should be left to individual states, Cain stated that there should be a federal ban on gay marriage.
• Reproductive Rights: Cain said that Planned Parenthood is “Planned Genocide,” because their original mission was to “help kill black babies before they came into the world.” 

Not forgetting of course that after multiple women come forward with allegations of Cain sexually harassing them, his lawyer publicly threatened that women should “think twice” before coming forward again.

This is a joke right? No one could actually support this man.

what’s wrong with ron paul?

shanexcore:

• He doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state.
• He believes abortion should be illegal.
• He doesn’t support the repeal of DoMA and didn’t support the repeal of DADT.
• He doesn’t support putting more money into inner-city schools, but does support vouchers for religious schools.
• He believes creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools.
• He doesn’t believe HIV causes AIDS.
• While he doesn’t support a federal ban on gay marriage, he also doesn’t support a federal law legalizing gay marriage. Some see this as a states’ rights issue, and this is how he frames it, but he does support other federal legalization movements (drugs, for example).
• His newsletter spouted horrible racist content for twenty years. He denies writing any of it, but if he allowed this content to go out under his name, he either approved it or was so ignorant of both the type of people he associates with and the type of content going under his name that he shouldn’t be trusted to run anything.
• He believes in reinstating the gold standard, which most economists believe was one of the major causes of several financial crises at the turn of the century, including the Great Depression.
• He believes in free market capitalism.
• He wants to get rid of Affirmative Action, which has been shown time and again to be ineffective and not good enough.

His stance on drugs and wars win him a lot of liberal fans, but only if they don’t look at literally anything else he stands for.

in short, pretty much everything.

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tyleroakley:

If you’re American or if you know any Americans, please watch this 3 minute video to make sure you KNOW what could happen if Michele Bachmann is elected president in 2012.

thedailywhat:

This Is Important, You Should Know About It of the Day: Republican presidential nomination hopeful Michele Bachmann is the first candidate to sign the “pro-marriage” pledge of conservative Christian group The Family Leader.

According to the Des Moines Register, those who sign “The Marriage Vow” [pdf] agree “to personal fidelity to his or her spouse, the appointment of ‘faithful constitutionalists’ as judges, opposition to any redefinition of marriage, and prompt reform of uneconomic and anti-marriage aspects of welfare policy, tax policy and divorce law.”

The vow also affirms the signee’s belief that homosexuality is a public health risk and a choice, and on par with polygamy and polyandry.

Worse still is the vow’s shocking suggestion that children born into African-American families under slavery were better off than they are today because they were “more likely to be raised by [their] mother and father in a two-parent household.”

And, finally, for good measure, candidates who sign the pledge must also make a point of rejecting Sharia law.

A spokesman for Rep. Ron Paul has expressed reservations on behalf of the congressman, while Tim Pawlenty’s spokesman said the former Minnesota governor was reviewing the document. Most of the other candidates refused to comment on their plans; only Jon Huntsman has stated (through an aide) that he will not sign the pledge as he “never signs any pledges.” Family Leader CEO Bob Vander Plaats — who was state chair of Mike Huckabee’s Republican presidential campaign in 2008 — said his organization will only support candidates who sign the pledge.

[dmr / tp / wonkette / mediaite / photo: politico.]

Related: Bachmann compared same-sex marriage to Pearl Harbor in 2004.

when ron paul is hesitant to sign it, you know it’s foul.

Sarah Palin Quotes (by teenage girls)

holdon4theride:

On the whole Sarah Palin thing

sliu:

I made a couple jokes when I first heard about it, like, “As a[n elitist] Lexingtonian [because that’s how we roll], THIS UPSETS ME.”

But seriously, this is an American politician who [possibly] [probably?] wants to RUN THIS COUNTRY and she has supporters who are re-writing history via Paul Revere’s wikipedia page to match what this woman says.

I do not understand.

Yes, making Palin jokes is easy because she’s a dim-witted ignorant twat and I hope she gets mauled by one of the literal “mama grizzlies” she’s always talking about. But the extent of her influence is no joke. It’s terrifying.