Posted on 01/03/2012 2:43:35 PM PST by presidio9
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) has come under withering fire on the presidential campaign trail in recent days over allegations that a newsletter he edited years ago contained racist commentary. I am a firm believer in former President Ronald Reagan’s commandment not to speak ill of a fellow Republican, but racism has no place in our society today, and Paul’s comments on race should disqualify him from holding the most powerful job in the world.
Many of the inflammatory comments in the Paul newsletters were published in the 1980s and 1990s. That these disturbing remarks came under such headings as “Ron Paul Political Report," "Ron Paul Survival Report," and "Ron Paul’s Freedom Report” leaves me unable to reconcile Paul’s present disavowals.
For example, in a December 1989 Paul newsletter that was quoted by James Kirchick in the New Republic, a prediction was postulated, “racial violence will fill our cities [because] mostly black welfare recipients will feel justified in stealing from mostly white haves.” Or, another Paul letter opined, “I think we can assume that 95 percent of the black men in that city [Washington, D.C.] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
These are not comments to be dismissed or explained away as an off-the-cuff remark by a politician taken out of context. To me, they represent something deeper and far more disturbing—a conviction that blacks are pre-disposed to be violent and seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of whites.
On the eve of the first-in-the-nation Iowa Caucuses on Tuesday, Congressman Paul is in a statistical dead heat with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for the lead. Does Paul represent the mainstream thinking of the Republican Party of the 21st Century? I think not. I just hope others take the time to investigate Paul’s statements on race (to say nothing of his belief that the U.S. brought 9/11 upon itself due to our foreign policy) and conclude that he is the wrong leader at the wrong time to lead America for the next four years—or ever.
Is Eric Holder racist?
Ron Paul IS NOT a conservative.
Calling our military terrorits and praising that traitor Manning as a patriot IS NOT conservative.
He supports OWS, how can he also support the Tea Party.
Yes, there are other racists around but this thread is about Paul
Ron Paul IS NOT a conservative.
Calling our military terrorist and praising that traitor Manning as a patriot IS NOT conservative.
He supports OWS, how can he also support the Tea Party.
Yes, there are other racists around but this thread is about Paul
Yea, I have seen the link, so what.
Paul is a racist, Paul is an anti- Semite, Paul is a blame America first kinda guy.......why doesn’t he just go to the green party and be done with it.
too funny...thanks
(note the New World Order nonsense above the racist stuff)
There are waaaaay more than eight or ten sentences like that.
And he was obsessed with Martin Luther King, Jr. Do the countless references like these count against the eight or ten 'bad' sentences?
Now, we haven't gotten into the Trilateralist warnings in all the newsletters. Or the warnings, as a medical doctor, that the government may have created AIDS. Or that you can get AIDs from kissing someone. Or though the skin. Or the suggestion that the Mossad was being the first World Trade Center bombing. Or that the government is involved in a disinformation campaign to convince you that crack cocaine is worse for you than it really is. But he's nut. How many other U.S Congressmen were giving advice to militias?
Are those sentences among the 'bad' eight or ten?
So do you think he's racist after you take out eight or ten sentences? Is he nuts if you only take out eight or ten sentences from all of his newsletters?
No he’s just and idiot who let other people write stuff an put his name on it without even reading it cause all he cared about was the profit from selling newsletter subscriptions. That’s even more pathetic than if he actually was a racist.
It’s claimed that the likely author, Lew Rockwell, isn’t racist either. He was just cynically trying to “sell libertarianism to hicks”, allegedly. That’s also more pathetic than actually being racist.
He’s stepping on the missues?
The funny thing is the MSNBC progressives : Sharpton, Maddow and Schultz, are telling their liberal viewers that Paul is a racist.
Aww, cut him so slack. So did the pretty boy Marilyn Monroe boinker that delusional freepers claim "would be a Republican today" ;-)
Ehh whatta mean you haven't finished th' latest Kennedy tome! Mahr books by Jack Kennedy means mahr profits for the Kennedy's! Ehhh if I wasn't so goddam bizzy getting a lay with mob girls, I'd have half a mind to get off thee yacht and give you a spanking! Why does daddy dearest pay yer salaries if you can't pump out a'nutter Pulitzer Prize winning novel in a week?? 
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