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What Ron Paul Might Have Said About That 47%

- Tom DiLorenzo -

DiLorenzo at great length extolls Ron Paul and Paul's hero John C. Calhoun (1752-1850):

"Ron Paul is a seriously learned man when it comes to economics and political philosophy...As such, he must know that Rothbard considered John C. Calhoun, the nineteenth-century U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Vice President of the United States to have been one of America’s greatest political philosophers as well."

Now, what DiLorenzo might have said is that Calhoun was a leading defended of slavery. Great political philosopher indeed! By what standard? This is in keeping with DiLorenzo's one-sided attacks (and Ron Paul's as well) on President Lincoln and Generals Grant and Sherman. In all their diatribes against those three great men you will nary hear a mention of the evils of slavery. Ron Paul, that 'seriously learned man', is in reality seriously flawed.

Whatever else Calhoun might have said is negated by his defense of slavery and repudiation of individual liberty.

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Beginning of the headline : Unlike Romney and Obama, Ron Paul is neither a repeater of Republican Party platitudes about "America’s greatness" nor a mumbler of silly socialist platitudes that sound like they were paraphrased directly from The Communist Manifesto ("From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs")... Read More

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