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For years a great deal of attention has been paid to 'racist' remarks published on a monthly basis over a period of almost twenty years in a newsletter bearing Ron Paul's name and photo. Paul made almost $1 million a year from the newsletter and it was promoted using his letterhead and signed, handwritten notes. What one should note, and what I'll provide examples of, is that Paul's newsletters didn't just touch on racial issues. They were filled with government conspiracy rantings, advice to militias, New World Order alerts, wacky medical advice, and a hodge podge of the kinds of things you would try to ignore from your crazy uncle at the Thanksgiving table - the one you've checked out of the facility for the day and placed in the far corner, with a bib and only a spoon, because forks and knives have points and sharp edges.

Paul's supporters say that Paul didn't know what was in the newsletters and that he says he is not a racist. Disregarding the fact that Paul's previous defense was not a denial of knowledge, but that the racial facts were based on sociological studies, the man demonstrated he can't be trusted to run a country, if he runs a business by turning it over to crazies for twenty years with no supervision or oversight while collecting a million a year, signing promotional materials, providing content (see below), and just letting the lunatics free on his watch. There is no Get Out Of Jai Free card. He was either incompetent or a raging nut case. And it's not a case of one youthful indiscretion. When he made these comments in the 1970s and 1980s he wasn't a kid . . . and it's more like a few hundreds indiscretions than one.

And the fact is Ron Paul didn't just occasionally write about race and he didn't turn the content over to somebody else. His newsletters were a written form of Attention Deficit Disorder. They never stayed on subject, sometimes changing the topic from paragraph to paragraph. They included first-person notes about his wife and son, his Congressional colleagues, his medical advice, financial invest (buy gold!), and world events, with contrapuntal notes about blacks, Jews, militia, Trilateralists, Jews, blacks, conspiracies, blacks, AIDs, blacks, how-to-kill-a-criminal-punk-and-not-leave-evidence, Jews, blacks, the New World Order, and blacks. These were personal investment and political newsletters from Paul that suffered from Tourettes attacks of an unseemly kind. Did you notice I mentioned blacks and Jews a lot? Well, so did Paul.

I've been 'blessed' by a friend with all or parts of over 50 Ron Paul newsletters. Some of you may agree with parts of these, but take the work as a whole. Remember it was written by a Congressman. Try to imagine that nobody ever said anything to Paul about this content and he didn't know it was being written, over a period of twenty years. Imagine trying to run against Obama while defending the soundbites that come from this stuff. Consider the juxtaposition of some of these comments (I particular love how 'buy gold!' pops up, including the "guy gold! those d*mn black! buy gold! segments). Or the "hey, I have a Jew friend and he done told me that them Massad fellas are the ones what blowed up the World Trade Center" segment. And for anything I have here, I have 100 more. Yeah, run on that, Ron.

(no, didn't look like Ron Paul had anything to do with that newsletter)

("I'm a physician and a Congressman, so I should spread this rumor about government-made AIDs")

(Keep those gay Republican colleagues of mine from having sex in the Congressional gym!)

(Faulty medical advice; BUY GOLD!)

If Paul wins Iowa, it's a black eye for the Republican Party.