You can’t seriously be so simplistic as to believe that there aren’t confounding factors about why there are more blacks in prison prison than whites. Economics? Access to education? Quality of legal representation? Fear of brown people? These are all things that are more often against you if you are anything but white.

RP says some enticing things. I’m just not willing to forgive him for his other views or past actions. Luckily, RP isn’t ever going to be taken seriously on the large scale. Unfortunately, neither will Kucinich or Richardson. Since we need a more “slick” candidate than either of them (the consumers have spoken…) That leaves Obama and Edwards. I wish I had faith that the country had gotten over their bigotry enough for Obama to be elected. No he’s not perfect, but he’s not the pure concentrated evil of the Republicans, and I have a big problem with 24 years of leadership from 2 families if Clinton is elected. And I still think her campaign is going to implode. A black and a hispanic could be good for the country, but it’ll probably have to be another cracker (Edwards) with Obama as VP as a viable ticket. I’m not happy with it, but another 4 years with a fundamentalist Republican will completely ruin this country.

>Many Americans, including the undersigned, have eagerly >anticipated the presidential candidates’ forum that Iowans for >Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian Alliance will be hosting in >Des Moines on June 30th, 2007.

Black people DO commit more violent crime than others. That why the prisons are full of them. Facts are facts.

So to vote with my heart or for the most probable winner of viable candidates

Where did I ever say I supported Clinton or Obama? I was talking about Ron Paul being a wingnut. My problems with the other candidates are for another argument which I don’t have the time or energy for.

Yes, the war and the economy are the two biggest issues facing the country. One of the reasons we are in that mess is that Republican administrations since Reagan have been telling us to be afraid of all brown people from the middle east. Those “silly” social issues are what will allow this country to get even more divided over the xenophobic fear of all things different. The environmental issues that RP wants to dismiss will impact everyone. Just because he’s the only Republican who says he’ll get us out of the war, doesn’t change the fact that he’s a bad idea for this country. Isolationist policies will not save our economy.

RP will not liberate us from any secret occupation, he’ll make it worse.

I’m done. Go have a drink. I’m having one too.

If homey RP liberates this country that has been under secret occupation since the 30′s then…..yeah let the revolution unite use all.

Conspiracy nuts have a right to support a political candidate, too. Big tent, and all that. Do we really want to start cherry picking supporters? By that standard, then Hillary Clinton should be shunned because she has the support of radical athiest lesbians, Barack Obama should be shunned because he belongs to a racist church….

The MOST important issues facing the country right now are the war and the economy. Period. All the silly, petty social issues people get worked up about aren’t going to destabilize the country. Failure to get a handle on a tanking economy WILL.

Do you think any Democrat(except for Gravel or Kucinich) will end the war? Really? The top two are fully willing to rattle the saber at Iran. There is NO DIFFERENCE between Rudy Guiliani and Hillary Clinton–in fact, Hillary Clinton has been briefed by GWB as to how to continue the war in Iraq if she’s elected. There is only one candidate who is not beholden to big corporate money, and only one candidate who understands both the economy AND the war. You know who that is.

Go back and do a little research on his views of black people. Re. DC: “I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal. If similar in-depth studies were conducted in other major cities, who doubts that similar results would be produced? We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings, and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.”

Those are HIS words. See if you can find copies of his zines: The Ron Paul Political (later the Survival) report. He’s a fundamentalist Christian who believes that the US should be a Christian country. He thinks we should pull out of the United Naitons. He’s received a perfect rating from the John Birch Society. He counts David Duke and other white supremacists as supporters. He’s a regular guest on the Alex Jones show (I live in TX, AJ is probably the biggest conspiracy nut on the face of the planet.) He thought the Mexican military helping out with Katrina relief was part of a NAFTA golbalization scheme. He thinks we should go back to the gold standard. He’s insinuated Hillary Clinton a lesbian, and that Vince Foster was Bill’s coke dealer. He’s a fucking wingnut. He’s against raising CAFE standards and for drilling in ANWAR. He wants to shield oil companies from MTBE lawsuits. He dosen’t see why oil companies should have to pay fees to drill in our waters in the Gulf of Mexico…

Do I need to go on? Just because he is a pediatrician and against the war in Iraq, it doesn’t make his other views o.k. I stand by what I said. He’s a very bad idea for this country. If you think Waco and Ruby Ridge are calls to arms, he might be the candidate for you. But hell, if he splits the republican party, then great let him talk.