Napoleon Ier wrote:Is he really "legitimising" their views?
Yes.
By accepting their monetary support he's demonstrating that he regards them as an acceptable entity. That lends them a legitamacy that they did not previously have. How hard is this concept for Ron Paul lovers to grasp?
Napoleon Ier wrote:$500 is enough of a token amount that we can safely say Ron Paul is not in the pocket of white supremacist organisations.
Good job that's not what we were saying in the first place then... but thanks for pointing out the blatantly obvious none the less.
Napoleon Ier wrote:In fact, maybe we should enquire, why exactly did they support him?
It doesn't really matter what specific reason they said they were giving him the money for; what matters is that he found their organisation and their ideas, on the whole, acceptable to his way of thinking, and loaned them the legitamasing gesture of accepting their donation. I applaud your creative attempts to wriggle out of this fact; but it's just the truth of the matter. Who cares why they chose to donate, it's the simple fact that he'd accept a donation from that organisation.
Would he be ok to accept donations from the Hitler Youth, Al-Qaeda or KKK if they said they were giving because they liked his stance on reducing the National Debt? Here's a clue, sane people say 'no' at this point.
Napoleon Ier's cap said wrote:"We like his (Paul’s) stand on tight borders (and not letting any more blacks and mexicans in) and opposition to a police state (because we like to own large numbers of unecessary firearms),"
Reading between the lines is so much fun...