Ron Paul: a puzzle.

Ron Paul is a bit of a mystery. He is a physician, author, was a Representative from Texas, he ran for president as the Libertarian candidate. He is a conundrum.

Economically I think he is out to lunch as an advocate of the Austrian economic theory, which if different from Voodoo economics is worse. He, like a number of his extreme conservative constituents want small government and all that goes along with that belief system that would love to take us back to the 19^th century. Yet he voted against Paul Ryan’s budget proposal.

He has been called the intellectual godfather of the Tea Party, which has to be one of greatest oxymorons of our times.

He writes newsletters and makes close to a million dollars doing so and saying absolutely outlandish things. Here are some examples: “I think we can safely assume the 95 percent of the black males in [Washington DD] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”

“Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for that pro-communist Martin Luther King.”

“I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming.”

“[Magic] Johnson may be a sports star but he is dying [of AIDS] because he violated moral laws.”

He has called former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala as a “short lesbian", Martin Luther King as a pedophile and praised the Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke.

As yet in his farewell address to congress he said, “A society that boos or ridicules the Golden Rule is not a moral society. All great religions endorse the Golden Rule. The same moral standards that individuals are required to follow should apply to all government officials. They cannot be exempt.” He was then booed when he said the United States should not “do unto other nations what we don’t want them to do to us.”

What a guy.