Eric Dondero, Now Blasting Ex-Boss Ron Paul, Used to Beat Up the Register's Steven Greenhut
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Indeed, the resulting media tsunami (and Paul campaign denials) prompted Dondero to clarify in TV news interviews and on the Right Wing News blog that Paul is not racist, homophobic nor anti-Semitic.
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| Eric Dondero |
He got an up close look at the man, myth and legend as the Texas congressman's travel aide and personal assistant in 1987-88, national organizer of Draft Ron Paul for President in 1991-92, congressional campaign coordination in 1995-95 and senior aide from 1997-2003. Libertarian Republican still includes this endorsement of the publisher from Paul:
Eric, your enthusiasm for liberty is infectious. Stay that way. Your help is deeply appreciated.
-- US Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
At first, while espousing Libertarian beliefs, Paul was also a good Republican soldier, campaigning for the first President Bush, Dondero notes. But, by the time the run up to the Afghanistan War came, "Ron was 'under the spell' of left-anarchist and Lew Rockwell associate Joe Becker at the time, who was our legislative director. Norm Singleton, another Lew Rockwell fanatic agreed with Joe," Dondero writes. Becker, Singleton and Paul leaned toward a no vote on the war resolution, something everyone else in the congressional office believed would put them out of work, according to Dondero.
At the last moment, Paul voted yes but he had tainted his reputation with his aide Dondero, who ultimately cut his ties with the politician after he voted against the Iraq War. The ex-aide then went on to expose readers to various sins of Paul, including his newsletter giving credence to "nutty" 9/11 conspiracy theories and the notion the U.S. should not have entered World War II.
Dondero does not write solely about Paul, taking on several others who the author sees as either rightly/wrongly embracing/shitting on libertarian dogma. Orange County Libertarian Party chairman Bruce Cohen once remarked, "Love him or hate him, you gotta admit, Eric Dondero is the Matt Drudge of Libertarian Politics."
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When blogger Lady Fingers over at Red County suggesting Greenhut run for Berkeley City Council after the writer called Private Bradley Manning a hero for leaking secret Army cables to Wikileaks, Dondero posted this comment:
Sir, you made an error. Greenhut is no Libertarian. He claims to be one. But that's only because "Libertarian" sounds cooler than America-hating Leftist.
We real Libertarians constantly have to correct on-line publications about the use of our label. We've been infiltrated by a gang of pacifist leftwingers. Greenhut is one of the worst offenders. We wish he wouldn't use our label. But he does.
Again, Steve Greenhut of the Orange County Register is NO LIBERTARIAN.
Doug Bandow posted on The American Spectator blog about the entire Eritrea soccer team defecting, prompting Dondero to again go to the comments section to go after the author and Greenhut (who had nothing to do with the Bandow post):
Notice everyone, how Bandow has completely ignored one of the biggest stories of the decade on the African continent: the current bill in Uganda to allow for the execution of homosexuals, and jailing of anyone who knows a homosexual and doesn't turn them in. Similar bills have been filed in Nigeria and Ruwanda.Dondero even roasted Greenhut for something the Register's Mark Landsbaum wrote on Orange Punch during the 2008 presidential campaign. (Of course, you can't blame Dondero because all the Reg op-ed scribes at the time--Bock, Greenhut, Landsbaum, Cathy Taylor--looked alike.) After Landsbaum argued that, based on the general election's national security debate, Barack Obama came across as more libertarian than U.S. Senator and hawkish interventionist John McCain, Dondero responded via the comments:
Who is behind this? Radical Muslim clerics, surprise, surprise.
This is why the Leftwing Libertarian like Bandow (Lew Rockwell, Justin Raimondo, Steve Greenhut, Anthony Gregory, et.al.) can't touch the story with a ten foot pole.
To Readers of Orange Crush:
Please note what Greenhut is describing here is Leftwing libertarian foreign policy. His surrender to Islamo-Fascism views in no way represent the broader libertarian movement.
Eric Dondero
Libertarian Defense Caucus
Dondero quickly followed-up with a correction, although the mea culpa had nothing to do with having cited the wrong author:
Apoligies, obviously, I meant to say "Readers of Orange Punch"
Eric - part-time resident of La Quinta/Indio, CA & full-time reader of Steve Greenhut's non-sensical views on libertarianism.
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