Owner of Blackwater has Contributed to Ron Paul in the Past.

[atilla]

This is not a bad thing. It shows that Prince's outfit is probably very loyal to the ideals we uphold. In fact, if Ron Paul ever starts to get even bigger money rolling in and higher poll numbers, he should hire a security detail from Blackwater to protect him.

if george w refuses to turn over the white house after ron paul is inaugerated, we know where to turn for help.

 

[Shink]

I've heard somewhere that Ron's huge with the Blackwater guys--makes sense.

 

[militant]

this is a high profile donor favored and defended by mainstream republicans. if it gets brought up, smile about it, enjoy it just a little, it COULD help. if someone asks about the problems in iraq with his company, just say that paul doesn't control the company and has been busy working in congress and running his campaign.

 

[American]

You guys are funny, like we could do anything about it to being with in the first place. Now you want to create problems that dont exist.

Freedom message is popular, Prince donated almost twenty years ago when there was no Blackwater.

Lets move on....

 

[cac1963]

this is a high profile donor favored and defended by mainstream republicans. if it gets brought up, smile about it, enjoy it just a little, it COULD help. if someone asks about the problems in iraq with his company, just say that paul doesn't control the company and has been busy working in congress and running his campaign.

Hillary is currently catching alot of heat from the left blogosphere over her connections to Blackwater, fyi. It's the left who'll use these donations against Paul, especially if they're able to defeat Clinton in the primaries.

 

[Delivered4000]

Yeah, but this was probably before the Blackwater scandals

 

[cjhowe]

Does anyone one know when he donated to Dr. Paul?

This could only help.

The man must be pro 2nd amendment.
He also may be anti-war.
Maybe he is a economist at heart.
Maybe he has children and worries about thier future.

I don't think his company would have less to do if we pulled out of Iraq, perhaps more.

11/24/1995 - 1000
4/22/1996 - 1000

While he was an employee of the U.S. NAVY!!

Shortly thereafter he contributed to such PAC as The Susan B. Anthony List (goal is to elect pro-life women) and Restoring the American Dream (principles are restoring individual responsibility, traditional values, respecting human life, overhauling our tax system, understanding the limits of government, protecting our faith and families, defending America)

 

[skiingff]

 

[Adamsa]

Businesses should start to support Paul as he gains traction anyway. Blackwater has bad press and done some questionable things, but it isn't illegal at the same time.

 

[KingTheoden]

The idea of Blackwater doesn't bother me at all. I think it is fine that there is a company, generally populated by ex-military, who offer security services. The problem is their application in Iraq; indeed, the entire operation in Iraq is something that should never have occurred.

I do not think this is at all a big deal. There have squads of regular military that have done very bad things in Iraq, but that does not mean the military as a whole is indictable.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

just a smear campaign

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016102.html

"October 14, 2007
More WaPo Disinfo On Ron Paul
Posted by Daniel McAdams at October 14, 2007 12:22 PM

Reading this weekend's Washington Post piece on Blackwater founder Erik Prince, I came across a paragraph that perplexed me:

"Prince was a White House intern under President George H.W. Bush. His political donations over the past two decades total almost $263,000 to Pat Buchanan, Oliver North, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) and former senator Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, among others."

What? Why would an individual who has profited to the tune of several billion dollars from the drug war and the Iraq and Afghanistan war be giving money to the most antiwar and anti-war-on-drugs Member of Congress? Catholic guilt?

So I decided to do some looking around.

First I went to the Federal Election Commission website and checked contributors to Dr. Paul's presidential campaign. No Erik Prince.

Then I looked at Dr. Paul's contributors to every congressional race since 2001 (pre-Blackwater bonanza days). No Erik Prince.

Then I cross-checked all of Erik Prince's political giving, going back to 2001 on CQ's excellent Moneyline website. Nothing.

Surely the reporter didn't make this up?

Ah, finally found it! When Ron Paul returned to Congress in 1995 Prince gave $1,000. Then he gave another $1,000 the next year. Nothing since then. And Prince's listed profession when he gave two grand to Ron Paul? US Navy!

That equals less than one-one hundredth of what Prince is said to have given to dozens of GOP recipients, yet somehow that same Washington Post that doesn't seem to know that Ron Paul even exists saw fit to print it without clarification or explanation, leaving the reader to conclude that Ron Paul is just another candidate who gets money from the military industrial complex that he (pretends) to rail about.

This is called "disinformation," and from Ron Paul to the wars they are shilling for against Iran and Syria, the Washington Post is proving itself a master that would have made Trotsky proud. "

 

[MicroBalrog]

There's nothing wrong with Ron receiving money from E. Prince, even if he were giving this money now.

 

[Johncjackson]

If anything it just shows that contributions do not influence RP and he can't be bought.

Blackwater would benefit from a continued Iraq War and continued military presence around the world. Ron Paul wants to bring troops home.

There is no way to smear RP with this info. He is 100% against the Iraq occupation. If he were FOR war, then smeone could make an argument-that Blackwater was paying him to support the war so they could profit.