Ron Paul speaks up for minorities, no one else touches the issue! 

I wish he would just be honest on those letters from the past.  Just say yup, it was a mistake and move on.  (If he really thought it was a mistake, that is.)

Denying it makes him look like the typical politician he is. OH and saying I liked MLK is the new version of “i have a black friend”?

Very impressed by his answer, and I’m not a RP fan

Come on Ron, it’s simple.  I was a Congressman, I wrote a newsletter.  I left Washington and went back to Texas to practice medicine.  My Associates in DC continued to publish the newsletter and I allowed them to use my name for notoriety.  They allowed certain letters to be published that I disagree with, I disavow them, but I take moral responsibility for them because my name was attached to it.  I should have had more oversight but I was too busy delivering babies at no cost for poor minorities.

Except his record and statements over the years actually back it up. I like how this is helping to undermine the already diminished credibility of the media. That said, I think he owes it to newer voters that are just responding to his message to reiterate the response he’s given over the past 20 years.

he is a true libertarian and always has been, do your homework before you comment.

I wonder why Ron voted against the MLK holiday.

I think he should tell the truth instead. He could say something like this:

“I used to hang out with the current leader of the KKK. 

I have lots of buddies who are super racist, because I used to be super racist. 

Now I’m trying to change.  The policies I advocate for are a lot more important than my well-documented history of racial prejudice.”

Record Smeckord.. Why won’t he say who wrote it then?.. For all we know the person that supposedly wrote it still works for him. Prove to me he or she doesn’t .. You can’t . You also can’t prove it wasn’t him that wrote it either..  So I ask again. If he didn’t write it UNDER HIS OWN NAME then who did?? Don’t worry I’ll wait.. 

 Single mindedness is the true sign of a sheep.

I bet you think Mr. Romney is a “straight shooter” as well.

Ron Paul 2012. Already my president

 It had nothing to do with MLK himself, It had to do with the fact that it violates the constitution.

He wouldve liked to see MLK celebrated in a constitutional way.

Go ahead and feel self righteous now.

He also has a black friend.

Hehehe.  I’m a lot closer to being a RP supporter than a Romney supporter.

I just think that honesty would be the better approach here. 

How do national holidays violate the constitution?

I didn’t realize Paul liked banging strange women 2 at a time. My statue of King would have him with his arm around two women and his wife and kids kneeling at his feet.

Normally you don’t have to force a holiday about a “loved” figure on people. King was shoved down people’s throats, like gay marriage. Don’t agree and you’re a bigot. That’s not a lot to choose from.

Search “reality check ron paul” on youtube and you’ll see Ron Paul didn’t write the racist newsletters.

http://youtu.be/THkz9btU0zY

http://youtu.be/Xp_sSqU0G-k

The only byline is from a man named James B. Powell

Boom! Roasted.

Ron Paul is a man of principal and didn’t want to sell out his friends. He takes the heat even though he knows he looks bad, but the message he wants to get out is that you all have the same right to personal liberty. The newsletter was a mistake and it is a distraction.

I know that white supremacists didn’t “love” Dr. King and that they hate the holiday.

That’s one of the things I enjoy about the MLK holiday.

Search “reality check ron paul” on youtube and you’ll see Ron Paul didn’t write the racist newsletters.

http://youtu.be/THkz9btU0zY

http://youtu.be/Xp_sSqU0G-k

The only byline is from a man named James B. Powell

Boom! Roasted.

Ron Paul is a man of principal and didn’t want to sell out his friends. He takes the heat even though he knows he looks bad, but the message he wants to get out is that you all have the same right to personal liberty. The newsletter was a mistake and it is a distraction.

The only byline is from a man named James B. Powell

Search “reality check ron paul” on youtube and you’ll see Ron Paul didn’t write the racist newsletters.

http://youtu.be/THkz9btU0zY

http://youtu.be/Xp_sSqU0G-k

Ron Paul is a man of principal and didn’t want to sell out his friends. He takes the heat even though he knows he looks bad, but the message he wants to get out is that you all have the same right to personal liberty. The newsletter was a mistake and it is a distraction.

I agree that the story about newsletters is murky. HOWEVER, Ron again has a point here. With all the discourse the other candidates make, they actually never go beyond the generic statements about minorities and tackle important issues that Paul mentions in this segment. 

If you really want to see the true story about the newsletters watch these clips:

http://youtu.be/THkz9btU0zY

http://youtu.be/Xp_sSqU0G-k

No rational person can blame Paul for what some nut wrote in his newsletter.

However, if we’re doing a guilt by association thing than it would only be fair that we on the right can call Obama, and every “liberal and progressive” for that matter, a terrorist sympathizing racist because of his past with Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.
Obama hung out and listened to them for years. He even calls them his friend.
So with these facts, we know that Obama loves racists and terrorists. But we must remember that this is guilt by association. So every “liberal and progressive” who knew of Obama’s past and voted for him anyways are also terrorist loving racists.

Guilt by association is fun!

Why didn’t Paul just trot out his black friend?

So Mr. Libertarian’s hero was a socialist.  I find that hard to believe.  But I’m sure all of the crazy Paulites will eat this lie up. 

So you are not rational?  If the Barack Obama Political Newsletter had racist, anti gay, and antisemitic content, I’m pretty sure he would not be President right now.  But somehow the Ron Paul Political Newsletter can get away with it.

Never question “dear leader”.  

Thank your buddy J. Edger for that bit of info.  I frankly could care less who King or any other politician bangs.  I would bet that more politicians cheat on their wife than don’t.  

It’s tough out their for a racist. 

“It had to do with the fact that it violates the constitution.

He wouldve liked to see MLK celebrated in a constitutional way.” Care to elaborate on that comment? LOL It violated the constitution (how?) but he wanted to see it celebrated in a constitutional way? Wow, paulbot. Nice comment.

You don’t understand. What Obama did was far worse than what some anonymous idiot wrote on a newsletter owned by Paul. Obama physically became friends with the terrorist Bill Ayers and the racist Jeremiah Wright. This information was well known when Obama was running for POTUS. “Liberals”, despite knowing  these facts, voted for Obama regardless. That means not only was the left OK with Obama being friends with a terrorist and racist, they welcomed it.
Thus, “liberals” ( all liberals because they are collectivists), like Obama, are terrorist sympathizing racists.

Can I ask you something? Should Dan Abrams, the founder and owner of Mediaite, be held accountable every time a “liberal” writes something that praises the terrorist Bill Ayers or the racist Jeremiah Wright as they often do? Because it’s being written on his site, should Abrams also be labeled  as a terrorist sympathizing racist?
I only ask because because that scenario is being applied to Ron Paul. He’s being blamed for the actions of another and that doesn’t seem fair.

It is a safe assumption that Martin Luther King Jr. would have never approve of clowns like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Ben Jealous, Charly Rangel, Willy Brown, Eugine Robinson, etc.  because these clowns first and ALWAYS look at a person’s color of skin, rather than the content of that person’s character.

Well I dunno if a rabid racist is really qualified to speak for Dr. King.  I kinda doubt it, actually. 

Considering that Jesse Jackson was one of the people who rushed to his side after he was shot, I think Dr. King might have some good things to say about Jesse.

Zona, the scandal of the racist articles in the financial newsletters has already been debunked. Anyone responsible about this election should already know that, so he didn’t really need to go into detail.

Out of 200+ newsletters printed, 9 had at least one ARTICLE in them that was racist.Every single one of those 9 newsletters was published in Washington, DC, during the time when Ron Paul was living in Texas, practicing medicine. Remember, this was pre-Internet. Living on the other side of the continent made it easy for him to be unaware of, or at least unable to preemptively stop, the inserting of rare racist articles in his otherwise financial newsletters.

All of the actual facts in the case are available in clear, concise format, here:

http://pithy.butnowyouknow.net/the-facts-about-ron-pauls-newsletters-and-the-racist-articles/ 

How do you know Paul was not friends with the people that wrote in his own political newsletters?  How do you know Paul did not write some of the questionable stuff? We know Paul did not write all of the racist, anti gay and antisemitic content, but we know that he profited from it.  We know that throughout the years, the newsletters have helped Paul’s political cause.  Out of all of the Republican candidates Paul is probably the most honest, and at least he is talking about actual issues that are important to me.  But Paul is still a politician, and I don’t trust everything his campaign claims about his past.  And I would never vote for Paul for President.  His views are too extreme for me.   

Read a history book, moron.  Jackson was at King’s side when a white racist shot King dead.  God, you are ignorant.  

That didn’t prove anything.. So because Powell’s name was on something nefarious written in one of the news letters that’s somehow proof that Powell wrote ALL the garbage that any of the news letters contained??  FAIL.. That’s a THEORY not proof  .. and you “boom roasted” me too.. HA!! You need more people than your Ron Paul news network to back you up.. Also didn’t sell out his “friends” .. some friends he has..  He needs to man up and say who wrote it.. 

Zona, Ron Paul hasn’t done that? If he didn’t write them, he tells us that, he doesn’t agree with them, what else you want him to do?

Let’s line up Paul, all the other Republican candidates, and President Obama, and one by one demand apologies for all their racism. Would that work for you Zona?

You don’t think they are all racist? You don’t think YOU are also racist? Don’t kid yourself…we’re all racist.

Don’t be so friggin lazy ceeza.. Google it and check “fact check Ron Paul racist newsletters”…

You need everyone to do your work for you?

Ceeza here likes their assumption on Ron Paul… don’t push him/her to think or do any research..  Assumptions, especially Media-fed assumptions, are so cozy…

You going to put the same scrutiny to all these candidates while you’re at it Henry, including Obama?  They’re all racist…in fact, WE are all racist. You don’t think so? I bet I could find your racist streak…

You are dreaming Andrew… reverse racism is supported, if it comes from a “victim”. If Barack Obama had used “racism” in some newsletters, the media would have used it to get him more votes..

Gimme a break! Wake up Andrew..

I’m not biased against liberals….I have an asshole friend who’s a libtard.

The Liberals and the Republican candidates have nothing on Ron Paul, so they make things up from unfounded truths or just plian lies. Ron Paul is the only candidate that tells the truth and his rivals can’t handle the truth. Everyone of the candidates except Paul has something to hide from the electrorate. The people in America have been lied to so often they believe in them. Along comes an honest politican and they can’t recognize him, he doesn’t fit the mold of dishonesty which they are accustomed to. It kind of reminds you of what they thought of Jesus when he was crucified. I’m not compairing him to Jesus, but the truth is being denied. All it takes to learn the truth is common sense and faith in a honorable man.

Are you CRAZY??? He voted FOR the holiday!!! It was one of the few votes he’s cast in favor of something that is not explicitly authorized in the constitution!!! 

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-625 

Check your goddamn facts!!!

Oh, and by the way, in 1979 he voted FOR the passage of the bill that designates the Martin Luther King holiday.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-625 

He voted FOR the holiday, man!!! Don’t defend something he didn’t do!

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-625 

HE VOTED FOR the holiday!!!! Check your goddamn facts! It’s all available for the public!!!

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-625 

He voted FOR the holiday!!! As in IN FAVOR of!!!

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-625 

The racist stuff was in less than five percent of the whole 240 newsletters issued by Ron Paul that contained mostly investment-related stuff, and Ron Paul was doing medical practice. He used to read some of the newsletters before publishing but 5 percent is easy to go by unnoticed, so I fully believe him when he says he doesn’t know who wrote them.

Paul stated that he wasn’t even aware of what was in the news letters untill 10 years later when someone brought it up. Paul wasn’t even in the same state when the letters were written ,he was in Texas delivering babies. You stated Paul is honest, wich is more than you can say about other politicians, and discusses the issues that are important to you. If he is honest and talks about issues you are concerned with, what are your reservations. His past record is well documented for everyone to see. It seems like you are only interested in keeping the status quo which will be a disaster. 

Many of the people on this page are lazy low life and will never do research on anything. This is why Obama was elected in the first place. They are led around by their nose by a corrupt media that manufactures lies.

You don’t need to agree with a person on everything to admire her. Ralph Nader and Dennis Kucinich both admire Ron Paul.

But you know what? Forget it. I’m pretty sure anyone with any amount of brain inside their skull can reach that conclusion by themselves. You’re just looking for tribal excuses to be against Ron Paul because he’s republican.