Epic Truths?
Paultards LOVE to rewrite History or they are just so in love with Old Man Paul that they write a false history for him so they can fulfill a lust.
240, Check this out.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/06/ron-paul-claims-legacy-of-reagan-in-web-video-despite-past-rejection/Ron Paul claims legacy of Reagan in Web video, despite past rejectionBy Christopher Bedford- The Daily Caller Published: 5:12 PM 09/06/2011 | Updated: 5:18 PM 09/06/2011
In a video released Tuesday, Rep. Ron Paul takes aim at Republican presidential frontrunner — and fellow Texan — Gov. Rick Perry.
The clip, paid for by the Ron Paul Presidential Committee, seeks to hammer home the oft-noted point that Perry was a 1989 convert to the Republican Party, endorsing Sen. Al Gore’s unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination the year before.
“After Reagan,” the video declares, “Sen. Al Gore ran for president… pushing his liberal values. And Al Gore found a cheerleader in Texas named Rick Perry.” The video contrasts this record with “a young Texan named Ron Paul [who] was one of only four congressman to endorse Ronald Reagan’s” 1976 primary challenge against Republican incumbent Gerald Ford. The congressman also endorsed Reagan in his successful run four years later.
“Now,” the narrator continues, “America must decide who to trust: Al Gore’s Texas cheerleader or the one who stood with Reagan?” (RELATED: Ron Paul calls Perry ‘Al Gore’s Texas cheerleader’ in latest video)
The script does not differ from the narrative of the Paul campaign, whose activists lay claim to the legacy of the American Founders and American conservatism.
In Internet posts and Ron Paul advertisements, a Ronald Reagan endorsement of Paul is frequently cited. However, the authenticity of the endorsement was questioned when Paul’s 1996 congressional campaign refused to share documentation with The New York Times and compounded by Reagan’s former attorney general, Edwin Meese II, who, the Times reports, “came [to Texas]…to insist that Mr. Reagan had offered no recent endorsements.”
Despite these doubts, the idea that Paul “is the one who stood with Reagan” is called into question most candidly by the congressman’s own words.In 1987, the year leading up to the 1988 election, a story in the Dallas Morning News quotes Paul calling Reagan “a dramatic failure.”But, Paul says, his disenchantment with the Ronald Reagan began well before 1987. In an interview that year with The Christian Science Monitor, he said, “It didn’t take more than a month after [Reagan's inauguration in] 1981, to realize there would be no changes.”
In a 1987 open letter authored by Paul and published in the Libertarian Party News, Paul reaffirmed that since 1981 he had “gradually and steadily grown weary” of Reagan and the Republican Party.And in 1988, the same year Paul’s campaign accuses Perry of not standing by what it terms the Reagan Revolution, Paul told The Los Angeles Times, “The American people have never reached this point of disgust in politicians before. I want to totally disassociate myself from the Reagan administration.” This, Los Angeles Times reporter J. Michael Kennedy writes, is because Paul believed Reagan was “leading the country into debt and conflicts around the world” — an accusation the presidential hopeful and his supporters often levy against fellow Republican contenders today.
Paul’s opposition to what his current video calls “the Reagan Revolution” was so intense that in 1987 the former Reagan supporter joined Perry in the ranks of those current presidential candidates who did not spend 1988 as a Republican, resigning from the party and running unsuccessfully as the Libertarian Party candidate for president.In his letter of resignation to Republican National Committee Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf,
Paul wrote that because of Reagan, “big government has been legitimized in a way the Democrats never could have accomplished,” adding, “The chickens have yet to come home to roost, but they will, and America will suffer from Reaganomics.”“The message of the Reagan years,” Paul concluded, is that “there is no credibility left for the Republican Party as a force to reduce the size of government.”He did not run again as a Republican until 1996 — five years after Perry’s conversion — when he returned to the United States House of Representatives, embracing the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
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