Wash. Post's Charles Lane: Ron Paul has same foreign policy as Jeremiah Wright

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane warned that Iowa Republicans were about to select a candidate to the left of Obama on foreign policy.

“I think one of the amazing things that this all shows is that the Republican Party might be about to crown winner of the Iowa caucuses somebody [Ron Paul] with the foreign policy views of Jeremiah Wright.  Remember that?”

Lane also said that Paul would not be the GOP nominee as he "goes around blaming the United States for 9/11."

During the 2008 Presidential campaign, a number of controversial statements by the former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ - a church Obama attended for twenty years - came to light.  Many of those statements were outrageous in their anti-semitism and their animosity against the United States.

Some of those quotes are eerily similar to things said by the Texas Congressman.

Brainy Quotes has just a few:

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.

In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

Recently, Warner Todd Huston wrote:

What it reveals to me is the utter shame that Ron Paul is thought to be a worthy candidate in any GOP primary for any position whatever. I tend to see that his fan base of racists, Jew haters, and conspiracy nuts don't tend to vote for the most part and in talking to many of his ardent -- and cultic -- supporters over the last few years I see people that do not fit in at all with the rest of the GOP. In fact, in talking to his supporters I find few of them have any knowledge at all of politics outside of "Doctor Paul’s" take on it. They see the whole world through the Paul prism and aren’t well informed otherwise. I also feel that most of them will just fade away once Paul himself finally goes away in 2012 (Paul announced that he won't run for reelection to his House seat, so unless he wins the White House his political career seems to be over).

I'd like to note that this is no new position for me. Back in September I wrote a similar piece lambasting Ron Paul. In that piece I also note that Paul appeals to only on small wing of the GOP: the economic wing. I noted then and still believe that he is a disaster for the national security wing and the family values wings of the party. A candidate that appeals to only one third of a party base is unelectable.

 

But even that appeal is among people that are blissfully unaware of his racist past, his associations with wackos, and his support of every conspiracy theory that have come down the pike from the Bilderbergers to the one that claims the CIA started the AIDS virus.