Ron Paul ‘90s newsletters rant against blacks, gays
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/10/paul.newsletters/
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A series of newsletters in the name of GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul contain several racist remarks — including one that says order was restored to Los Angeles after the 1992 riots when blacks went “to pick up their welfare checks.”
This is a copy of one of the “Ron Paul Political Report” newsletters, which has stirred controversy.
1 of 2 CNN recently obtained the newsletters — written in the 1990s and one from the late 1980s — after a report was published about their existence in The New Republic.
None of the newsletters CNN found says who wrote them, but each was published under Paul’s name between his stints as a U.S. congressman from Texas.
Paul told CNN’s “The Situation Room” Thursday that he didn’t write any of the offensive articles and has “no idea” who did. Watch Paul’s full interview with CNN »
“When you bring this question up, you’re really saying, ‘You’re a racist’ or ‘Are you a racist?’ And the answer is, ‘No, I’m not a racist,’” he said.
Paul said he had never even read the articles with the racist comments.
Do you think Rabadash Rabs is going to comment on this thread?
In reviewing those newsletters (which were from Ron, not his son Rand btw), I don't see so much as a single word that would be out of place among what gets posted here on Free Republic every single day. They're certainly a tad un-PC, but not much worse than that. And it's actually mild compared to what gets said on some of the threads here about the radical gay movement etc.
Then again, we've already established with the Stormfront issue that you apply different standards to different people based on the convenience of the argument to the candidate you support. So I don't expect you to see the inconsistency here either.