Flirtation with Ron Paul blew up in the Professional Left’s face like a homemade bomb late last week, and the smoke still hasn’t cleared. Poor Zaid Jilani, fire-breathing ThinkProgress writer, just can’t seem to cope yet:
There is nothing in Paul’s public record that lines up with years-old story about newsletters. Looks more and more like bad negligence…
Nothing in Paul’s public record? What about the time he voted against giving Rosa Parks a Congressional Gold Medal? Or his effort to protect private schools from discrimination charges? Or his attempt to end federal court jurisdiction over school desegregation? What about his opposition to the Civil Rights Act?
Perhaps that ‘public record’ explains Paul’s longtime popularity among white supremacists at the Stormfront website (don’t click this link). That might not be an indictment of Paul if he didn’t pose for smiling snapshots with the site’s founder. Paul’s widespread support among patriot militias, anti-Semitic groups, and birther-cretins like Alex Jones should have suggested caution to Zaid Jilani and Bill Maher and Glenn Greenwald before they waxed rhapsodical about him, so the “negligence” is theirs, not his.
