Except that Ron Paul is an EXTREMELY shy person who doesn't even feel right about telling people to turn a light on or off.
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=83665295-1de6-4571-af9c-0a90f6d1fde0
It does not match his personality at all for him to be writing letters to everyone laughing about how no one listened to him and how he is unrepentant for cashing in on misery.
Glenn Beck: "Let me ask a question that you maybe wouldn't want to answer. Are you ... let me rephrase it.. How do you do it? You have been run through the mill. I don't agree with you on everything [the wars] but on finances I do agree on, and you've been right on finances. And America is just now catching up to you. How do you do it? Do you ever get so frustrated where you're just like 'I can't ring this bell anymore'?"
Ron Paul: "You know, I never use the word frustration. I tell people I just have real-low expectations and all my job is is to try and point out the truth as I understand it. You know, according to our Constitution and according to sound economic policy ..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BuBlLMIxcBc
From the racist newsletter:
"I've been told not to talk, but these stooges don't scare me. Threats or no threats, I've laid bare the coming race war in our big cities. The federal-homosexual cover-up on AIDS (my training as a physician helps me see through this one.)"
From this one:
"They're not laughing now. And no one will be laughing when we get the 'monetary reforms' I also forsee."
Same type of garbage writing. It's not the ideas. It's that Ron Paul never talks or behaves this way, even when under constant attacks by the media and in the debates.
Why is this style of writing completely absent from his actual works and only found in these newsletter-type things?
Freedom Under Siege – Ron Paul, 1988
PDF:
http://mises.org/resources/3212
HTML:
http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache...freedom+under+seige"&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
In this 1988 book, Ron Paul's writings are practically identical to those of today, and nothing at all like the newsletters or this newest letter.
[RonPaulR3VOLUTION goes on to address some of the, "shameless self-promotion" and pleas for money that occur in certain newsletters] As for the shilling in this letter, compare it to this:
"I live in Dr. Pauls district and I have watched him for many years.
...
"97% of his campaign donations here come from individuals. The next closest is Sheila Jackson-Lee of D-Houston who gets 67% from individuals.
He wont even ask for a donation!
He makes no phone calls, NOTHING.
Once a year a little mailer comes with the bills he has written, the state of our district and his wifes famous recipes!
Nothing about a contibution!
In the back of the mailer there is a little envelope with a disclaimer and a stamp.
Thats it!
It is so cute.
He wont EVEN ask!"
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=81845
