Do Old Racist Newsletters Disqualify Ron Paul?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 24th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Do Old Racist Newsletters Disqualify Ron Paul?
Nick Gillespie, Reason
As Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) gains in popularity and political relevance – he's currently polling tops in Iowa and is looking very good in New Hampshire – he's got more and more explaining to do about the late 1980s-early '90s newsletters that went out under his name.And make no mistake about it: The newsletters include undeniably racist and other vile comments, such as calling blacks “animals,” preternaturally criminal, and welfare cases. No amount of “contextualizing” is going to change that, especially when the contextualizing includes rationalizations such…
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