Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters
Posted on January 8, 2008
The folks at the New Republic struck gold with a great article on the racist, sexist, and homophobic content of decades of Ron Paul’s newsletters. This should be a needle in the Ron Paul balloon… but it is doubtful it will dissuade too many Paullynuts. After all, the racist, nutbar content of his past newsletters fits the great majority of his follower’s ideology.
The piece by James Kirchick is very long, but it is well worth the read. go on over and pick it up at Angry White Man.
I won’t bother repeating the dreck in these newsletters, but here is the salient bit close to the end of Kirchick’s piece:
When I asked Jesse Benton, Paul’s campaign spokesman, about the newsletters, he said that, over the years, Paul had granted “various levels of approval” to what appeared in his publications–ranging from “no approval” to instances where he “actually wrote it himself.” After I read Benton some of the more offensive passages, he said, “A lot of [the newsletters] he did not see. Most of the incendiary stuff, no.” He added that he was surprised to hear about the insults hurled at Martin Luther King, because “Ron thinks Martin Luther King is a hero.”
In other words, Paul’s campaign wants to depict its candidate as a naïve, absentee overseer, with minimal knowledge of what his underlings were doing on his behalf. This portrayal might be more believable if extremist views had cropped up in the newsletters only sporadically–or if the newsletters had just been published for a short time. But it is difficult to imagine how Paul could allow material consistently saturated in racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and conspiracy-mongering to be printed under his name for so long if he did not share these views. In that respect, whether or not Paul personally wrote the most offensive passages is almost beside the point. If he disagreed with what was being written under his name, you would think that at some point–over the course of decades–he would have done something about it.
It is out of the question to believe that Ron Paul could be separated from the newsletter that bore his name for decades!
Certainly, Paul may not believe every racist sentiment in these past newsletters, but he allowed his name to be associated with it for many, many issues and this puts his seal of approval on the whole mess.
As a Republican that has libertarian tendencies, I demand that Ron Paul remove himself from contention for the presidency. Further I demand that he resign from his seat in Congress. He is a disgrace to all Republicans and Libertarians everywhere. For a while I just felt Paul was a goofy, oddity. Now I see that he is a racist, nutball and a man like this is far more dangerous than I thought.
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The only known cure for the Severely and Developmentally Paultarded is copious amounts of sunlight.
We’ll see if the MSM ignores this to keep
The Republican NaderPaul’s candidacy alive.Jamie Kirchick (author of the New Republic story):
“I don’t think Ron Paul is a homophobe; I’m just cynical and enjoy getting supporters of political candidates riled up. If you were a Giuliani guy I’d have called him a fascist.”
http://gays-for-ron.blogspot.com/2008/01/jamie-kirchick-i-dont-think-ron-paul-is.html
I’ve gotten a lot of replies from all across the web on this little piece on Ron Paul. They all try to point out that Kirchick is a leftist, wacko. Of course he is. He DOES work for the New Republic, after all. Who doesn’t know this?
Yet, even as these Paullynuts twist and turn about Kirchick not a one of them… nobody… will address the CONTENT OF THOSE NEWSLETTERS!
How do you Paullynuts explain the racist, homophobic language of these newsletters and how can you be intellectually honest that Paul is blameless?
Honestly – does this actually have the ability to slow down his online supporters. New polls will continue to come out that they would have previously taken over – like fittobepres.com, and it will be really interesting to see if this hurts that drive.
Two things you didn’t bother to talk about.
1)Kirchick is a Giuliani supporter.
2)Ron Paul would free the most black men since Lincoln.
I’ve detailed and sourced both claims here.
http://www.thecitizensperspective.com/content/ron-paul-would-free-most-black-men-lincoln
I look forward to your response.
The Neocon Republic is yellow dog trash journalism. I’m still not supporting their “preferred†candidate, Rudy Giuliani. Before they told us Ross Perot was Hitler. Noone died from the pie charts. Noone will die from any newsletter’s insensitive comments. Ron Paul took moral responsibility years and years ago now it is BREAKING NEWS. What is he supposed to stab himself in the back, bowing to the PC establishment in the process? I know we are supposed to judge a true patriot’s entire life on this. Another primary is coming up. ATTACK NOW. It is time to attack the only Constitutional Repubican in the race. QUICK. Your boomerang journalism does not change the fact that Dr. Ron Paul saves people from miserable lives by defending the Constitution. He always has. All Presidents are supposed to swear to uphold the Constitution, remember? Memo to the Neocons. Ron Paul is a faithful husband of 50 years. He delivered 4,000 babies, was a Vietnam veteran flight surgeon and has been a tireless civil servant. Still is. The Austin NAACP President believes he is a fair guy when he defends the civil liberties and Constitutional rights of those in his community. Time for the political opportunists to exit the glass house and put the stones down.
Is Ron Paul perfect? No. Is he a racist? No. Is he a homophobe? Ron Paul is in favor of the same civil rights for everyone under the law, as I am. That means no discrimination of any kind in civil matters whether you are a homosexual, or an adulterer, or like to have sex with cantalopes and pieces of liver, as old Portnoy did. Ron Paul stands for personal responsiblity and strong natural rights for all men and women or whatever you think you are. Ron Paul stands for the rule of law, the written law, primarily the Constitution, instead the back room, big money deals, and social engineering by people who think they know better than all of us, the electorate, that is to say the people combined. I am for a true egalitarian republic where the little man and woman are given the respect that they deserve by the government, because they are greater and more important than the government, and the government owes them respect and equality.
But as for me personally, I have a free speech right to say whatever the hell I want about people, and their ideas and behaviors, as long as I do not liable them. If I want to make fun of anyone, about how they look, or what they do, I can, because I am just as important and sovereign as they are. In my personal and private relationships I can associate with who I want to, and exclude who I want to, and so can you. This is freedom. Long live freedom! Death to Tyranny! Ron Paul 08!