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Dean Allen's Proposal to SCGOP Includes Banning Many Veterans

Posted by Working Tommy C | 16 November 2011

As reported here yesterday, Dean Allen has sent a letter to SCGOP Chairman Chad Connelly urging him to ban Ron Paul and his supporters from future debates. In addition to that, Dean Allen took the opportunity to call Paul's supporters "idiots" and otherwise denigrated them for alleged behavior that other candidates' followers are flagrantly guilty of themselves at other debates. Such smearing of Ron Paul supporters includes many current members of the military and veterans. As illustrated by the second quarter 2011 graph above, Ron Paul has been regularly pulling in more money than any other candidates, including Obama, from active duty military personnel.

Dean Allen, it turns out, is a veteran but he's not just any veteran. He wears his veteran status on his sleeve and is always sure to milk it for all it's worth. At every opportunity in his various activities, including his abortive run for SC Adjutant General, he has played the "veteran card" in seeking support or votes. Dean Allen, in his calculated attack on Ron Paul and his supporters, has, strangely enough, attacked one of only two veterans in the presidential race (quickly sinking Rick Perry being the other) and denigrated many veterans who are supporters of Paul and were in the debate audience. One veteran even called out at one point during a break at the debate, "The military loves Ron Paul!"

Dean Allen happens to support Michele Bachmann, a non-veteran--not that there's anything wrong with that, but it seems strange for someone with such an obsession would take anything less than a veteran for president. At the very least, one would think that such a strong supporter of veterans as Dean Allen would not go so far out of his way to tear into and seek to ban a fellow veteran like Ron Paul and his many veteran supporters from future SCGOP debates.

Censorship and banning is really the stuff of tyrants and I think most people would agree that it is positively unamerican to seriously consider such actions, much less pleading with the chairman of the SCGOP to implement such measures. Ron Paul was at the debate fresh from a rally held in Spartanburg earlier in the day. One of the first things he mentioned at the rally was being fired up for the debate by the enthusiastic response by veterans and other supporters who had come to meet him.

The "Veterans for Ron Paul Rally" was very well attended with about five hundred attendees, many veterans in the audience, and a stage filled with them standing behind Dr. Paul as he spoke: