Dec 22, 2011 - RedState: About Those Racist Ron Paul Newsletters that He Didn’t Read and Completely Disavowed ".....What I did not know until just today is that when these original allegations came to light back during Ron Paul’s 1996 Congressional run, his defense was absolutely not that he didn’t write them or know what was in them; his defense was that he was being taken out of context. He defended the comments on their merits. His campaign spokesman literally said that the problem was that the media was too intellectual to understand them. Yes, well, admittedly some people miss the intellectual nuance in statements like “If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be” (a statement which Paul specifically defended when questioned by the media).
Now comes this: in 1995 CSPAN did an interview with then-former Congressman Ron Paul, asking what he’d been doing with his time. One of the questions that came up was, essentially whether he was still involved in politics. Paul’s answer? “Oh, yeah, I’ve got this great newsletter, let me tell you about it…”....
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You know, for not reading the newspaper and not having any inkling about what was in it, Paul was remarkably well informed as to its contents and general thrust.......
Crash! Bang! Boom!
The apple doesn’t fall far, he’ll never be “ready for prime time”.
Someone is afraid of Rand so they are trying to discredit him early on. I suspect it’s Christie who sees Paul as a threat, but I have nothing to go on other than a hunch.
Rand Paul was never going to be ‘my’ guy. But if RP wants to be taken serious, he needs to formulate his ideas/concepts w/ his own words. He can’t be ‘lifting’ whole portions of other people’s work and then say they are his ideas.
RP is now in the situation where anything he has ever written or said is being put under the microscope to see if he used other people’s words and called them his own.
This is not about having a ghost writer/speech writer, IMO, this is about how YOU think...what is YOUR vision. I don’t need words from Wiki or some ‘think tank’. I want to know what you think because that tells me what kind of man you are and if you’ll get MY vote.
Yep.
Cruz takes almost the opposite approach and quickly points out that he’s not perfect when called on something, legitimate or not.