New Attack Ad Against RP

[MRoCkEd]

 

[bronc_fan23]

Attack ad from Emergency Comittee for Israel is full of lies. This will be airing in SC.

 

[JuicyG]

Lies. Ron Paul is pro-Israel, he voted for taking out Bin Ladin and he denied 9/11 gov involvement.

 

[bluesc]

I can't believe the Emergency Committee for Israel would attack Ron Paul

Things are gonna heat up. This is a TV ad and I'm sure will have major backing. It's also full of lies.

 

[evadmurd]

Hostile to our military. Yeh that's why we get the most military support.

Oh yeh, the Israeli Intelligence agrees with Ron Paul on a nuclear Iran: http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2012/01/...grees-with-ron-paul-on-potential-nuclear-iran

True conservatism = bombing brown people.

 

[CaptUSA]

Hopefully, this crap doesn't get free media. I'd quit giving it views.

 

[bluesc]

Hopefully, this crap doesn't get free media. I'd quit giving it views.

Of course it will. It claims Ron condemns Israel for defending herself when Ron was one the only ones who didn't. It claims that Ron isn't a "Reagan Republican" because of that, even though while Ron was busy defending Israel's sovereignty, Reagan was condemning Israel for defending herself.

 

[randomname]

ouch. well crafted attack ad.

Emergency Comittee for Israel = Bill Kristol

Bauer is not a conservative. He and Bill Kristol are the very defintion of a neocon.

 

[specsaregood]

you know what we need to do asap?
We need to googlebomb any titles, phrases or links they put in their video and have them googlebombs to pro-RP page.

 

[JuicyG]

They`re targeting evangelicals that might vote for Paul. Perhaps campaign should consider an ad to refute these claims in SC.

 

[specsaregood]

Emergency Comittee for Israel = Bill Kristol
Bauer is not a conservative. He and Bill Kristol are the very defintion of a neocon.

I wonder if there is anything in the FEC rules about foreign interference in our elections.
how many people on their board have duel citizenship?

 

[seapilot]

They must know RP is actually electable in order to attack him this way. Wonder when the Emergency Committee of China starts attacking Rick Santorum?

 

[seapilot]

I wonder if there is anything in the FEC rules about foreign interference in our elections.
how many people on their board have duel citizenship?

Can you imagine any other country's name being associated in an attack ad against a candidate for president? People's patriotism would go ballistic protecting the USA from some county messing with our democracy!

 

[randomname]

I wonder if there is anything in the FEC rules about foreign interference in our elections.
how many people on their board have duel citizenship?

ECI is just a vehicle for Bill Kristol to attack Ron Paul. This is not about foreign interference, or Israel even. It's about the neocons and their MIC buddies wanting to smear Paul.

 

[randomname]

More appropriate would have been for Kristol & Bauer to use PNAC. Too bad people already know that's synonym with neocon scum, so they use their own little 'Foundation' instead...

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was established in 1997 by a number of leading neoconservative writers and pundits to advocate aggressive U.S. foreign policies and “rally support for American global leadership.” One of the group’s founding documents claimed, “a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today. But it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next.”1

PNAC, which phased out most operations by 2006 and let its website expire temporarily in May 2008,2 was perhaps best known for its ability to attract divergent political factions behind its foreign policy agenda, which the group repeatedly demonstrated with its numerous sign-on letters and public statements. PNAC forged an influential coalition of rightist political actors in support of its calls for an aggressive “war on terror” aimed largely at the Middle East, including the invasion of Iraq. Although some observers have exaggerated its impact—two scholars, for instance, argued in the Sociological Quarterly that PNAC almost single-handedly “developed, sold, enacted, and justified a war with Iraq” 3 —the group was arguably the most effective proponent of neoconservative ideas during the period between the beginning of President Bill Clinton's second term and President George W. Bush’s 2003 decision to invade Iraq.4

PNAC's 1997 "Statement of Principles" set forth an ambitious agenda for foreign and military policy that William Kristol and Robert Kagan, PNAC’s founders, described as "neo-Reaganite."5 Signatories of this charter document included many leading figures from the Christian Right and other conservative political factions. The statement argued, "We seem to have forgotten the essential elements of the Reagan administration's success: a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the U.S. global responsibilities."6

Among PNAC's staff and directors were Kristol (chairman), Kagan, Bruce Jackson, Mark Gerson, Randy Scheunemann, Ellen Bork (deputy director), Gary Schmitt (senior fellow), Thomas Donnelly (senior fellow), Reuel Gerecht (director of the Middle East Initiative), Timothy Lehmann, (assistant director), and Michael Goldfarb (research associate).7 In addition, a host of mainly conservative figures supported PNAC’s various sign-on letters and policy statements. (See "A Complete List of PNAC Signatories and Contributing Writers," Right Web.)

Origins and Agenda Before establishing PNAC, neoconservatives and their allies among hardline nationalists, including Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, began aggressively promoting ideas meant to replace the militant anticommunism that dominated U.S. policy during much of the Cold War. A key step in this process was the 1995 establishment of the Weekly Standard by two scions of the neoconservative movement—William Kristol (son of Irving) and John Podhoretz (son of Norman). Together with Fred Barnes, a former correspondent for The New Republic, they secured funding from media mogul Rupert Murdoch to support the magazine, which quickly replaced Commentary as the high-profile outlet of neoconservative ideas.

In 1996, Kristol and Kagan wrote an article for Foreign Affairs that become a sort of founding statement for the new neoconservative agenda. Entitled "Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy," the article established several pillars of a post-Cold War foreign policy agenda, including maintaining a benevolent hegemony based in part on a willingness to use force unilaterally and preemptively. Kristol and Kagan asked rhetorically: “What should the U.S. role be? Benevolent global hegemony. Having defeated the 'evil empire,' the United States enjoys strategic and ideological predominance. The first objective of U.S. foreign policy should be to preserve and enhance that predominance by strengthening America's security, supporting its friends, advancing its interests, and standing up for its principles around the world."8

The main enemy was internal; in Kagan and Kristol’s opinion, it was “time once again to challenge an indifferent America and a confused American conservatism." They added: "In a world in which peace and American security depend on American power and the will to use it, the main threat the United States faces now and in the future is its own weakness. American hegemony is the only reliable defense against a breakdown of peace and international order. The appropriate goal of American foreign policy, therefore, is to preserve that hegemony as far into the future as possible. To achieve this goal, the United States needs a neo-Reaganite foreign policy of military supremacy and moral confidence."9

PNAC served as an institutional vehicle for advocating the ideas laid out in this article. Housed in the same Washington, D.C. office building as the American Enterprise Institute, PNAC was staffed by a number of emerging neoconservatives who generated statements and open letters on various themes and marshaled the gathering of signatures of elite political actors. The founding of PNAC marked a "complete generational transition" in neoconservatism that occurred somewhere "between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Bosnian war," write conservative scholars Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke in their 2004 book America Alone. "By the later half of the 1990s, Kagan, William Kristol, [Joshua] Muravchik, [Richard] Perle, [and Paul] Wolfowitz ... had assumed the leadership roles that had long been held by Nathan Glazer, Irving Kristol, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Norman Podhoretz. The younger neoconservatives had filled a space left by the increasing inability of older neoconservative views to provide a sufficient interpretative framework for the changing realities of international events in the 1990s."10

PNAC's June 1997 statement of principles repeated many of the same goals laid out in Kristol and Kagan’s Foreign Affairs article, including the use of preemptive force. The statement argued that "the history of the 20th century should have taught us that it is important to shape circumstances before crises emerge, and to meet threats before they become dire." Responding to what they saw as the confusion of the Clinton administration, the statement called for a "Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity" that would be based on several key pillars. "We need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future; we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values; we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad; we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles."11

Establishing the format that would be used in later PNAC publications, the statement of principles was published letter-style and signed by an impressive list of supporters. Although many of the signatories to the statement of principles (and other PNAC documents) were neoconservatives, young and old—such as Elliott Abrams, Norman Podhoretz, George Wiegel, Midge Decter, Frank Gaffney, and I. Lewis Libby—there were also representatives from other political and social sectors, including Religious Right leaders like Gary Bauer; mainstream Republicans like Steve Forbes, social conservatives like William Bennett; hawkish nationalists like Peter Rodman, Rumsfeld, and Cheney; and prominent academic proponents of some neoconservative ideas like Francis Fukuyama and Eliot Cohen. This range of support demonstrated PNAC’s success as an instrument for building a broader coalition of influential militarists around the neoconservative ideas and objectives of its founders. Nearly a dozen of the original signatories would, some four years later, obtain posts in the George W. Bush administration, including Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Paula Dobriansky, Zalmay Khalilzad, Abrams, and Libby.12

In the wake of 9/11, the agenda items outlined in PNAC’s founding statement reemerged in the form of Bush's 2002 National Security Strategy, the definitive statement of the so-called Bush Doctrine.13 As described by leading international relations scholar Robert Jervis, the Bush Doctrine is composed of "a strong belief in the importance of a state's domestic regime in determining its foreign policy and the related judgment that this is an opportune time to transform international politics; the perception of great threats that can be defeated only by new and vigorous policies, most notably preventive war; a willingness to act unilaterally when necessary; and, as both a cause and a summary of these beliefs, an overriding sense that peace and stability require the United States to assert its primacy in world politics."14

 

[freakout9903]

Gary Bauer, the guy that uses propaganda/scare tactics to get people to vote for a candidate is now trying to sell you an entire minute of lies about Ron Paul:

Ron's Paul conservatism is isolationist and conspiratorial
he's hostile to our military
hostile to our allies like Israel
and was hostile to great conservatives like Ronald Reagan
he denies that Iran is building nuclear weapons
he says it was a crime to kill Osama bin Laden
he blames america for creating terrorism
he says we don't know the truth of the 911 attacks because of a gov't cover up
he condemns our Allie Israel for defending itself
Ron Paul is not a Reagan republican and we can do better

Remember this is coming from a guy that told Americans a dirty nuclear bomb will be dropped on Washington D.C. , that it isn't a matter of if but a matter of when. These are outright lies, every single one of them and I will be putting together an article to disprove every single word this guy has said before the NH primaries.

Video from 08 vvs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-EPtmJrnyA

 

[Travlyr]

Gary Bauer's American Values website

Bauer took his unapologetically pro-family, pro-life message across the country in 1999 and 2000 into the Republican presidential debates and primaries. Stressing the sanctity of life and traditional marriage, Bauer made family-friendly policies and combating judicial activism key platforms of his campaign.

[...]

A staunch supporter of President Bush’s war on terrorism, Bauer is also a leading Christian advocate for a strong and secure Israel. Since the atrocities of September 11th, Bauer has devoted considerable time and energy to strengthening the shared values of the Israeli/American alliance.

Gary Bauer sounds like a great guy. Too bad he doesn't stand for honesty, truth, or peace.

 

[A. Havnes]

I'm afraid that this will hurt us bad if we don't refute it. Ron Paul needs a foreign policy ad pronto! Ron Paul does not condemn Israel for defending itself, Reagan campaigned for him, isn't part of 9/11 truth, and gets more money from the troops than anyone else. What's sickening is that people will believe this garbage, and it won't just be the people over at Rapture Ready spewing this crap anymore.

Seriously, these people think our government exists solely to serve Israel, and they will continue to do so even at the expense of our own economy, safety, and freedom.

 

[AdamT]

Truly disgusting propaganda, just wow. Comments and ratings blocked, shocker.

 

[bluesc]

Truly disgusting propaganda, just wow. Comments and ratings blocked, shocker.

Hopefully you guys can combat this in SC! Michael Scheuer would be a good person to see in ads there.