And it’s about this:
Emerging as a real Republican contender in Iowa, Representative Ron Paul of Texas is receiving new focus for decades-old unbylined columns in his political newsletters that included racist, anti-gay and anti-Israel passages that he has since disavowed.Pester. Pester. Pester.
The latest issue of The Weekly Standard, a leading conservative publication, reprised reports of incendiary language in Mr. Paul’s newsletters that were published about 20 years ago.
A 1992 passage from the Ron Paul Political Report about the Los Angeles riots read, “Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.” A passage in another newsletter asserted that people with AIDS should not be allowed to eat in restaurants because “AIDS can be transmitted by saliva”; in 1990 one of his publications criticized Ronald Reagan for having gone along with the creation of the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which it called “Hate Whitey Day.”
Looks to me like he is just going to continue with the party-line that he doesn’t believe the stuff that was published in his newsletters, and that he didn’t read the articles back then anyway. Oh, and that there’s nothing wrong with the fact that he didn’t vet the articles. Not my job, man.
Even if he were to do a 180 degree turn around and take a modicum of responsibility by at least saying it was wrong to have something published under his name without knowing what the hell the stuff said, he is toast. Not that he was ever going to win the nod, anyway.
However, he still might win Iowa. But if there is time for just one more surge, please, please, please let it be Rick Santorum. Wouldn't that be fun?
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