I’m sure we’ll get all sorts of talking points about how Paul isn’t actually a truther, he just doesn’t want to annoy potential donors
(MSNBC) As libertarian Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul looks for a state he can win, some of his supporters have turned to a new theme: voting fraud.
A Super PAC supporting Paul has pledged to monitor the vote in all the remaining states, using an army of exit pollsters to fight what it calls results that are “outrageous, unacceptable and patently un-American.” The group, called Revolution PAC, has spent half a million dollars supporting Paul with videos, webcasts, online ads, direct mail, billboards and radio ads in primary and caucus states.
The leader of the group, its founder, chairman and treasurer, is Gary Franchi, a promoter of conspiracy theories and sophisticated social-media entrepreneur in the resurgent movement known as the Patriots.
Some of what MSNBC writes about is
Franchi has supported the 9/11 Truth Movement, which supports the idea that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, werean inside job to create a pretext for a reduction in American liberty, or at least involved a cover-up, with the World Trade Center brought down by a planned U.S. demolition, instead of terrorist-controlled airplanes. Franchi founded the Lone Lantern Society (a reference to Paul Revere indicating that foreign enemies are on American soil). The group supports “the birth of freedom and the death of the New World Order,” a secretive elite that is supposedly trying to set up a world government. Lone Lantern has held street demonstrations on the 11th of every month in Chicago and elsewhere, demanding an investigation of 9/11. In New Hampshire in 2008, a video shows Franchi asking Tom Ridge, the former secretary of Homeland Security, who was campaigning for Sen. John McCain, whether Ridge would support an investigation of the “controlled demolition” of the World Trade Center. Ridge was having none of it, saying, “I just don’t buy into that. That’s a conspiracy theory that has no basis in fact. It’s almost out of the Twilight Zone.”
Obviously, Revolution PAC is an outside group which can support who they want. But, Paul could finally come out and say “I do not support the 9/11 Truth movement, they’re out of their minds. He won’t. He seems to enjoy hanging with Truthers/conspiracy nuts like Alex Jones, and going on their radio programs.
Like Ron Paul, Franchi has a few good ideas, then turns them up to Ludicrous Speed, perhaps even going plaid. Ron Paul has won none of the beauty contests, er, primaries/caucuses, and will, mostly likely, win none in the future. He has a great core group, but no broader appeal, especially when people find out about his background.
I will repeat. The Tea party is predominantly libertarians….and while they have a good message the messenger(s) are whackos.
In a day and age when everyone should be so informed because of the digital age, computers, cell phones, smart phones, blackberries, Ipads…..500 cable channels, satellite TV, cable news…….
Our populace is even less informed then ever before because every side continually bombards them with so much spin, lies, mistruths and deception that they have tuned out………
It is why Obama was elected……he promised them no more lies and mistruths and as per usual…….Politician>lies.
The masses has tuned out. They have done man on the street interviews where people did not even know that Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan had been presidents…..
With voters like that its no wonder that people believe 911 was a conspiracy and that Obama really was going to bring change to the way government does business.
I will repeat. The Tea party is predominantly libertarians
Maybe where you are but not here in Florida. While there are segments of the Tea Party that carry libertarian believes, for the most part they are shunned and have had to start their own groups.
Ron Paul is not a libertarian he is a paleo-con. He has far more in common with Pat Buchanan than he does with any proper libertarian. In fact Ron Paul advised Buchanan on his run and some of his top people have worked for Buchanan.