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Old 12-21-2011, 08:29 PM   #1
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The Story Behind Ron Paul's Racist Newsletters

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...etters/250338/

Even assuming he didn't directly write those newsletters from which he earned a million bucks, the key paragraph on the article is why would he let someone like that use his name:

"But the questions remain. If Ron Paul is so libertarian that he won't even police people who use his name, if his movement is filled with incompetents and opportunists, then what kind of a president would he make? Would he even check in to see if his ideas are being implemented? Who would he appoint to Cabinet positions? "
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Old 12-21-2011, 08:45 PM   #2
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I think my soul just died reading the comments.

And not only that, but he seemed to be okay with what it said in 1996, just said that it needed context. When he wants to become president, then he disavows any responsibility for it.

Anyway, isn't he all for making it legal to discriminate against people on the basis of race? Its hardly a secret he's a bigot.
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Old 12-22-2011, 07:10 PM   #3
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It's not exactly that. It's just that he feels that people should have the right to hate each other and leave it up to the communities to sort it out.
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Old 12-23-2011, 12:40 AM   #4
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A direct-mail solicitation for Ron Paul's political and investment newsletters two decades ago warned of a "coming race war in our big cities" and of a "federal-homosexual cover-up" to play down the impact of AIDS.

The eight-page letter, which appears to carry Paul's signature at the end, also warns that the U.S. government's redesign of currency to include different colors - a move aimed at thwarting counterfeiters - actually was part of a plot to allow the government to track Americans using the "new money."

The letter urges readers to subscribe to Paul's newsletters so that he could "tell you how you can save yourself and your family" from an overbearing government.

The letter's details emerge at a time when Paul, now a contender for the Republican nomination for president, is under fire over reports that his newsletters contained racist, anti-homosexual and anti-Israel rants.

Reports of the newsletters' contents have Paul's campaign scrambling to deny that he wrote the inflammatory articles.

Among other things, the articles called the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. a "world-class philanderer," criticized the U.S. holiday bearing King's name as "Hate Whitey Day," and said that AIDS sufferers "enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick."

As Paul made a campaign stop in Manchester, Iowa, on Thursday, his Iowa chairman, Drew Ivers, repeated Paul's assertions that he did not write the articles that resurfaced this week in a report in the Weekly Standard magazine.

Paul has said that he is not sure who wrote the articles that were published under his name. He has said the articles do not reflect his views, and noted that his public stances - supporting gays in the military for example - have run counter to the incendiary statements in the newsletters.

In an interview with CNN's Gloria Borger on Wednesday, Paul said of the newsletter's articles: "I didn't write them. I didn't read them at the time and I disavow them."

When Borger continued to pursue the subject, Paul removed his microphone and walked out of the interview.
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Old 12-23-2011, 12:44 AM   #5
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So either he sold hundreds of newsletters for $99 a year subscriptions and never read them but yet allowed them to put his picture on the front and sign his name at the end, OR he actually is a racist bigot who was fully aware of what was in the newsletters which were published every month for YEARS.

He made a lot of money selling these either way. Does it matter if he read them or not? If you go out selling propaganda material that calls for a race war, do you get to go back later and say you never actually read or support the views in the newsletter that bears your name?
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Old 12-23-2011, 06:36 AM   #6
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He won't win the nomination for the GOP. His anti-war stance and cutting the military budget by bringing all of our troops home from abroad will cut deeply into the Tea Party's hopes of invading Iran and North Korea by 2013.
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