Ron Paul takes donation from south Florida white supremacist

I keep saying Ron Paul is batshit crazy, and I keep hearing that no, he's not, you just don't understand his positions, he just wants freedom, yadda yadda fuckin' yadda.

Now hear this: Ron Paul is batshit crazy.

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has received a $500 campaign donation from a white supremacist, and the Texas congressman doesn't plan to return it, an aide said Wednesday.

Don Black, of West Palm Beach, recently made the donation, according to campaign filings. He runs a Web site called Stormfront with the motto, "White Pride World Wide." The site welcomes postings to the "Stormfront White Nationalist Community."

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Black said he supports Paul's stance on ending the war in Iraq, securing America's borders and his opposition to amnesty for illegal immigrants.

"We know that he's not a white nationalist. He says he isn't and we believe him, but on the issues, there's only one choice," Black said Wednesday.

On his Web site, Black says he has been involved in "the White patriot movement for 30 years."

Paul's spokesman says the candidate will keep the money "and try to spread the message of freedom." Good luck with that. How much freedom will $500 buy these days, anyway?

Now, the obvious question: can you imagine if a Democratic candidate had taken such a contribution and vowed to keep it?

Actually, you don't have to imagine it. Remember Norman Hsu? Hillary Clinton gave her Hsu contributions to charity, under relentless pressure from the MWM ("mainstream wingnut media") and others in the brain-free community. Can we expect the same relentless pressure to force Ron Paul similarly to divest himself of racist money?

No, I didn't think so. After all, like Drunky McStagger and his haves and have-mores, Stormfront and that deplorable ilk are Paul's loyal base.

Norman Hsu: he's not just for Democrats

Predictably, the wingnuts have been bloviating themselves silly over the Norman Hsu scandal. Hsu is the guy who's been a fugitive for sixteen years while showering stolen money on politicians all over the country. The most high-profile recipient of Hsu's money may indeed be Hillary Clinton, but she's far from the only one. Indeed, some of them are even here in Florida:

Sen. Bill Nelson's staff admitted Friday that his campaign received as much as $7,500 from Hsu.

Florida's Democratic Party also benefited — to the tune of $6 Gs.

And while Hsu funded mostly Dems, two of his associates reportedly gave to one Republican: Former Florida CFO Tom Gallagher. He bagged $1,000 in his ill-fated attempt to beat Charlie Crist in last year's gubernatorial race.

Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) gave her Hsu money to charity, as Sen. Nelson plans to do. Naturally, though, Gallagher, being a Republican, took the "I didn't do anything wrong" approach:

Gallagher said he hadn't even heard about the Hsu scandal. The $1,000 he supposedly received from two Hsu minions didn't trigger alarms. "I received money from 10,000 to 12,000 people."

I'd just like to take a moment to thank Florida's Republicans, who voted for Charlie Crist over Tom Gallagher for their gubernatorial nomination last year. I can't imagine how much worse off we'd be with an ignorant dickhead of Gallagher's caliber in office.

UPDATE (8:29 pm 9/22/07): Welcome, all you crazed, mouth-breathing, moronic brownshirt fucks who have linked over here from your mutual masturbation society known as Free Republic! I'm so happy you've visited this "moonbat's" blog. Nothing better than getting traffic from people too stupid to think for themselves!

Your, um, referrer said I was "trying to link Norman Hsu with Republicans because one of Norman Hsu’s associates gave Tom Gallagher of FL $1,000." Now, which part of that don't you understand? Of course I'm linking Hsu to Gallagher ... because Hsu did give him money! Note that I didn't say "only" Republicans; in fact, the title of this post should be pretty self-explanatory.

Of course, I shouldn't expect mentally deficient cretins like yourselves to understand the nuance of meaning between, say, claiming that Hsu only supported Repukes (which I didn't say) and stating that Hsu gave money to a Republican (which he did, to Gallagher, who is an especially reprehensible and noxious Republican). But I thought I'd try.

Again, thanks for visiting, and please stop by again! Oh, and thanks for 2006, and thanks in advance for 2008, you intolerant steaming piles of shit.