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Once I wrote a post titled "The reason I would oppose Ron Paul even if he hadn't voted against every civil rights advance he could." It linked an op-ed saying the terms of the public debate on taxation is insane.

DamnWilcox, a Paulite who operates Wrong Policy. said in that thread:

You mention only the symptoms of the problem (high debt)
On December 11th, 2007 DamnWilcox (not verified) says:

First off your title is inappropriate to the content of the article.

I was rude, of course...

It is appropriate to my intent. It is the precise truth. I was hoping you Paulies would recognize the futility of arguing the point.

You see, even if you are right in your argument...and I don't know yet, this comment is entirely a reaction to that first sentence...the fact remains that Ron Paul has voted against every civil rights bill that ever crossed his desk. That and that alone would be enough for me to oppose him, for life.

It is also enough for Stormfront to support him.

Apparently there's more.

They've taken it down now because people were getting too nosy but at the Vanguard News Network, Bill White, a Commander in the American National Socialist Workers Party, claims that Ron Paul is secretly a white supremacist and that he meets with members of the fringe racist movement and sympathizes with them.

On the other side of that link lurks screen shots of the post, as well as an interesting link to SPL.

Extremist Group Announces Speech by Congressman
by Heidi Beirich on October 8, 2007

The Robert A. Taft Club, a group headed by a man with a network of racist connections, has announced that a U.S. congressman, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), will address the group this Thursday at a restaurant in Arlington, Va.

The Taft Club is led by Marcus Epstein (right), who serves as the executive director of both white nationalist Pat Buchanan’s The American Cause and the Team America PAC, which is run by Buchanan’s sister, Bay Buchanan. Epstein writes for the anti-immigrant hate site vdare.com and he advocates for white supremacist organizations. He is especially fond of American Renaissance — a white supremacist journal that has suggested that blacks have “psychopathic personalities” — and attends the journal’s biannual conferences. In 2006, Epstein invited the head of American Renaissance’s parent organization, Jared Taylor, to speak to the Taft Club on the issue of “Race and Conservatism.”

Taylor isn’t the only extremist Epstein has invited to speak at the Taft Club’s meetings. Both Paul Gottfried, who has spoken at American Renaissancefoe of interracial marriage who is an editor at The Washington Times, have spoken to the club. (Epstein is listed as one of McCain’s friends on McCain’s Facebook Internet page). This past February, Epstein invited two members of a racist and anti-immigrant Belgian party, Vlaams Belang, to speak to his group. In 2004, an earlier incarnation of the Vlaams Belang, Vlaams Blok, was banned on the grounds that it incited racial hatred.