re: NYT smears Rand Paul, LvMI, Rockwell, Rothbard, Spooner, Block as racists.

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No, it's not. The article simply states the fact that libertarianism is associated with some dubious ideological positions, including neo-confederate apologetics.

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And liberalism is associated with communism, right?

The article links Paul and Libertarianism to nuts who have wacko beliefs, but also happen to believe some of the Libertarian ideas. Would be no different than including references to Stalin and Mao in an Obama piece since they both believed in universal health care. Yes, some Libertarians are not mainstream philosophically, but some Democrats are communists. It was an attempt to paint Paul as a nutjob by association and VERY dishonest.

This is what one does when they cannot effectively debate the actual ideas. The media can't, so they will constantly bring up nutjobs who support him. This was never, of course, done when Obama was running.

Come on, it's not that complicated.