While the Libertarian Lynch Mob should be called Liar'sLog.

This is what you get from people/blogs that don't owe anyone anything and have no asses they need to kiss to stay in business. Nikoley just speaks the truth here. It's simple: if you don't like people who are discriminatory skanks, don't have anything to do with them. He makes a couple of very precise points that I want to showcase.

Why does Paul attract racists and other kooks? Because, and it must be said: Paul as politician is perfectly willing to leave them alone -- or at least mostly. In a libertarian's eyes, a racist ought to be perfectly free to be a racist: in his home, family, private affairs, and business dealings. Unequivocally. Ultimately, that's what Paul will have to face up to explicitly admitting to if he's to keep stating his principles as he's done a fair job of unabashedly doing.

...Paul is not a racist, I don't think, and neither am I. But it doesn't mean I want a state to stamp it out, any more than I want a state to stamp out anything else that's a matter of people's freedom to associate in their private affairs and business dealings. Explicitly: the owner of a private bus has every right in the world to send blacks to the back of the bus. ...And any blacks who pay the bigot his fair anyway, are fools.

Of course Paul can't admit to letting people have their own thoughts/prejudices, even if they live in peace, because he is running for President, and as radical as it seems to be saying "drop the Federal Reserve" and "abolish the IRS," there is just no way to take away the concept of Thought Crime Patrol from the state and the brainwashed masses. That just can't be done. So then you know why a lot of libertarians are suspicious of anyone running for office, even Ron Paul.

As to Richard's last point, grow up if you can't understand the very core of self-ownership. Someone else's mind is not yours to control via coercive tactics (meaning: the state and using statism as a way to combat racism/kookism/all other isms).