Posted on 01/10/2008 2:16:11 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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."
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul's campaign has raised millions of dollars, most from online supporters.
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.
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His follwers are committed and he is coming in fifth; he needs to get out beyond them now, and he isn’t winning new support with that.
I'd take issue with the 'committed' part. Many of his followers are using him as a pawn within the Republican ranks. There's little commitment on their part. Others, yes, they are committed Paulites.
The ones he has to get beyond are mostly in the first group. But part of the reason he isn't winning new support is that he isn't making an effort to get beyond those 'users'. On the contrary, he seems comfortable with the situation.
IF the Christmas greeting was penned by him, it seems logical that he would want/keep a copy of that, even initially. The argument that he never saw these newsletters just doesn’t fly.
I’ll give you that, I agree. Unless I change it to ‘should be committed’?
Oh, I'd go along with that...he, he!
The extent of my being published is having a letter to the editor of a history magazine published. That was back in the late '90's. I believe I still have that issue. So, yes, I'd agree most people would likely keep copies.
But the argument he never saw these is disingenuous. He never saw them yet he can make a statement that this issue has been around for over a decade. If he's known about the 'issue' for over a decade, he's known about the articles for that same period of time. As far as a statement of ignorance, 'that dog don't hunt'.
Grammatical error. I do not believe Dr. Paul is a bigot or a conspiracy nut. But he spends enough time among them, and little enough effort pushing them away, that I don’t think he has the judgment to be president. He emarrasses himself, and would embarrass the country.
this is in bloggers? I think it’s big news that CNN has picked this up
I figured it was. I wasn't calling you out, just wanted to be sure I understood.
Frankly I'm at the point where, if Ron Paul doesn't come up with concrete proof that these articles are in no way associated with him, I will not give him any further credibility on the racist or anti-semitic issues. Statements, denials without proof don't cut the mustard anymore.
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