A friend asked me why Ron Paul voted against a hurricane relief bill; was there something poisonous in it, or did he think it would be ineffective? I replied that I would expect Dr Paul to vote against any such bill on Constitutional grounds; and appended a link to the story, familiar to some of you, of how Davy Crockett was turned away from the Dark Side (or, as you may prefer, toward it).
Google’s first example of the story happens to be on Ron Paul’s own website. Rereading, I found that the text of that copy appears to be somewhat corrupt; so I looked for others. Indeed, the full story is substantially longer and more instructive. Copies at: Lew Rockwell; Patrick Henry On-Line (Martin Lindstedt); SlimPickins; Return of the Gods; TRIM (John Birch Society) (broken links removed 2020)
Later: Walter Williams collects some quotations from other early politicians on the same theme.
2020: The story is repeated at hushmoney.org, Healing and Revival, Constitution Society, Foundation for Economic Education; and debunked at Jim’s Corner.
wow, lew rockwell. couldn’t find any copies on open white supremacist sites?
Would you like to suggest one?