Ed Koch: 'Ron Paul is the perfect candidate for the bigots'
Ed Koch. Reid Pillifant
3:46 pm Dec. 28, 201112
Ed Koch agrees with Newt Gingrich on Ron Paul, who is currently leading in the polls in Iowa. From an email blasted out just now by the former mayor:
Ron Paul is the perfect candidate for the bigots in this country. He is not like the racists who paraded in white sheets or the David Dukes who stated their allegiance to the ideas of Hitler. No, he is the affable avuncular relative with a twinkle in his eye and voice that doesn’t ever sound shrill, but more like that of your kindly and occasionally crotchety uncle. He doesn’t have to wear an armband or use a stretched arm salute, and you can be sure he regrets the revelation of the earlier hate writings in his newsletters.It is incredible that a Republican candidate for president in the year 2012, supported by white supremacists, Jew haters and gay bashers, is a frontrunner in the upcoming Iowa caucus. The U.S. did itself proud in 2008 by electing an African-American for president. Our better angels prevailed four years ago in not allowing race to dominate our decision-making. Notwithstanding that Ron Paul is in the lead in Iowa, I believe Republicans will do what is morally right and reject him, and select one of the other Republican candidates.
To his enormous credit, Newt Gingrich has said of Ron Paul, as reported in The Times of December 28, that he “was a ‘protest’ candidate and that he could not vote for the congressman if he won the party’s nomination. In a television interview, Mr. Gingrich, the former House speaker, declared that Mr. Paul’s ‘views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.’” I would hope that every other Republican candidate in the Iowa caucus would likewise state they would not vote for Paul if he were to win the Republican nomination.
So .. RP is also supported by a majority of the military and non-white voters. How did that one slip through the cracks, Mr Koch?
I guess I'm not a DECENT American-
I say we end entangling alliances and stop pre-crime bombings of soverign countries.
I wouldn't vote Gingrinch in as dog catcher.
Ron Paul is neither racist nor anti-gay but in fact wants a meritocracy in which Wall Street & Washington can stop exploiting Main Street. Hence dark-skinned people like me are voting for him. Is Ed Koch a serious journalist or just another white collar goon on Washington's payroll?
Morgan Pehme!
the smear campaign continues.. Ron Pauls political philosophy is the most anti-racist philosophy there is! He believes all men are created equal!
Yep, such a racist bigot.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4
He is not like the racists who paraded in white sheets or the David Dukes who stated their allegiance to the ideas of Hitler. Not at all. No these were reserved for the Democratic Party
Ed Koch just lost every ounce of credibility he ever had with me.
Ed Koch just lost every ounce of credibility he ever had with me.
Koch is posturing to his constituency;
As for his allegiance to President Obama,
what about Jeremiah Wright? What about Saul Alinsky ( Rules for radicals..........and check this out: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/entry.php?497-quot-Racist-Newsletters-quot-...
Ron Paul would lose 50 states to Obama and Congrsss will be democratic for a generation.
RON PAUL is the voice of the angry white man----who is tired of paying taxes to the FED which
helps too many monirities especially blacks get loans in education, housing and healthcare without discrimination. A strong Federal Government has ensured that blacks had opportunities to enter the professions and politics-----but this has been a detriment to WHITE POWER---so RON Paul and his followers want to get rid of anything that is FED. DEEP INSIDE- Ron Paul would not mind if the United STATEStes is broken up into independent countries---- with one WHITE ETHNO ESTATE WHERE WHITES CAN BE TOTALLY FREE TO GOVERN THEMSELVES----AT least this the deep reasoning deep into the future.