Posted on 12/20/2011 6:55:56 AM PST by TBBT
Emerging as a real Republican contender in Iowa, Representative Ron Paul of Texas is receiving new focus for decades-old unbylined columns in his political newsletters that included racist, anti-gay and anti-Israel passages that he has since disavowed.
The latest issue of The Weekly Standard, a leading conservative publication, reprised reports of incendiary language in Mr. Paul’s newsletters that were published about 20 years ago.
A 1992 passage from the Ron Paul Political Report about the Los Angeles riots read, “Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.” A passage in another newsletter asserted that people with AIDS should not be allowed to eat in restaurants because “AIDS can be transmitted by saliva”; in 1990 one of his publications criticized Ronald Reagan for having gone along with the creation of the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which it called “Hate Whitey Day.”
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The Paulbots are finally getting a taste of what every other candidate has had to put up with. They treat Paul like he’s a god and now they’re seeing what it’s like.
Before the usual suspects say “Paul didn’t write them, they were ghost written, he had no idea.. yadda, yadda”, remember...
In 1996 he admitted writing them and his campaign then even said he ‘continued to write them’.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2821308/posts
It’s actually getting amusing how they dig up dirt on anyone who gains any traction, but what did they report when Obama became the front runner?
Why do people think Ron Paul has such a following in the neo-nazi and skinhead communities? It’s because of garbage he wrote back in the day.
Paul deserves it for spitting on all the other candidates.
Notice how Paul NEVER takes responsibility for anything. Is that the Libertarian way?
When his web site posted some screed about a candidate that wasn’t true. “I didn’t write it, I don’t know who did, I’m senile, it’s a hacker, etc etc.
One consistent stream in the Paul Character. Deny, Deny, Deny.
I thought Libertarians were big on Personal responsibility? Guess NOT!
The cadence and word selection clearly matches that of his own autobiography (allegedly ghost written by the arch terrorist William Ayers).
When did being “anti-’gay’” become a sin?
But....but....but....
HE WILL LEGALIZE POT!
Lol!
Ron Paul can’t be taken out. It’s gone from Texas legalize-weed types to international take-down-the-US-political process in one election cycle.
And Paul (if you asked him, nobody has yet) would just be shocked, SHOCKED at the groups that operate under his banner.
America under Pauls drug policy.
DYK that Paul says he has the Black vote because he will let them out of Prison (non-violent druggies, sellers?)
Never mind that sentiments like these regarding homosexuals, inner-city minorities and so on are regularly expressed on FR without controversy (even when done in more vulgar fashion). But if Paul is associated with such criticism, a double-standard shows up. Now lets watch the socialist wing here trip over themselves explaining how Paul is 'pro-homosexual' while they blame him for 'anti-homosexual slurs' in these newsletters...
“Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks
Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are.
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