You’re talking about the newletters that Ron Paul put out, correct?
Ron Paul should have read one from every newsletter issue bearing his name before mailing them out, and if not he should never be in an executive position.
This is the equivalent of Barak Obama sitting in Wright’s church for twenty years, then claiming he was unaware of the racist rants.
I think you get my point.
No, it isn’t equivalent to sitting in Wright’s church. Every politician of significant stature has “autograph” machines. They are used by every President, for example (but not just Presidents), for signing endorsement letters and other mailings that they NEVER see. I managed a campaign for an R candidate at the state level years ago and obtained a “genuine” RR signature on a fund raising letter. RR never saw the letter, nor did any senior staff. It was all handled by a low-level N-Cal regional operative.
The same is true for direct mail campaigns that politicians have others do on their behalf.
People who have been forced to admit (not you) that RP didn’t write the newsletters or review them are now falling back on the naive (or, in some cases, dishonest) claim that RP is unqualified because he didn’t review all of the mailings. By that standard all of the “heros” of the conservative movement are or were “unqualified”, including RR.
The newsletter claim is old and was dealt with years ago, but apparently the R-Establishment feels it can still get mileage out of it. The brain-dead RP opposition here is inadverently aiding Romney, which is the point of the smear. The Beltway Rs know that Romney will start looking like toast if the Iowa finish is Newt, RP, Romney, and it would put NH in question for Romney.
RP isn’t going to get the nomination (and he won’t run 3rd party - another Beltway meme), but he may play a major role in derailing Mittens - if conservatives can get over an acute case of “gullibilityitis”.