Texas Congressman Ron Paul, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, won’t attend a GOP forum hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) on December 7th, reports Reason.com. Although the GOP forum will feature Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, pizza magnate Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Texas Governor Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, Mr. Paul wasn’t invited.
The RJC wasn’t shy about offering a reason for keeping Mr. Paul out of the GOP forum. The RJC “rejects his misguided and extreme views,” RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said, according to Reason.com. “He’s just so far outside of the mainstream of the Republican party and this organization,” Mr. Brooks added.
The RJC expressed their reservations about Mr. Paul as far back as May. “As Americans who are committed to a strong and vigorous foreign policy, we are deeply concerned about the prospective presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul,” Mr. Brooks said in an RJC press release.
The Wall Street Journal pointed out how Mr. Paul’s unwillingness to offer foreign aid to allies, including Israel, is a roadblock to growing his support in Iowa. “A lot of Republicans are of this Christian mind-set that we need to defend Israel,” Paul supporter Micah Luethje told the Wall Street Journal in November.
Jonathan Tobin, senior online editor of Commentary magazine, slammed Mr. Paul by backing up the RJC’s decision to keep the Texas congressman out of the GOP forum.
“On the surface, the decision by the Republican Jewish Coalition not to invite Rep. Ron Paul to their forum for presidential candidates seems ill-advised,” Mr. Tobin wrote in an op-ed for Commentary magazine.
However, Mr. Tobin added “there is no reason for it to allow Paul to pretend he is anything but an extremist who is far outside of the mainstream, especially when it comes to issues concerning the U.S.-Israel alliance.”
Mr. Tobin focused in on Mr. Paul’s foreign policy views as the primary reason for his support of the RJC’s decision. “Paul’s isolationism is so hard-core that he sees America as a force for evil in the world and its adversaries, such as al-Qaeda, as being justified in their determination to fight us,” Mr. Tobin argued.
At the end of his op-ed Mr. Tobin slammed Mr. Paul for his foreign policy views. “I’m sure there are gatherings of Islamists and anti-Semites where he would be welcomed with open arms,” Mr. Tobin professed.
source: http://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/ron-paul-kept-out-of-rjcs-gop-forum-critics-cheer/
Party rules can be annoying but in this case that have every right to not send an invite to someone that doesn't want to get involved with other countries.
And of course if Ron Paul did sent aid to other countries he would just get called a warmonger like Obama.
fyi, that last sentence of mine is a joke, since people started calling Obama a warmonger for starting wars that started years ago.