The sad thing is he's the most sane of the current crop of Republicants running for office.

They are literally scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

He'll get 14 to 18 percent of the GOP vote in New Hampshire is my bet.

Hmm... the tone of this post indicates that you think that these items will be seen as negatives by the Ronbots. The Ronvolution is just beginning...

TNR article: "Finding the pre-1999 newsletters was no easy task, but I was able to track many of them down at the libraries of the University of Kansas and the Wisconsin Historical Society."

Going to an actual physical library and using it to "unearth" information shouldn't be so shocking of an action.

Would you like me to pretend to be shocked or can I just skip that?

Hey, I'm doing a search for the docs and came up with this Ron Paul website that's just a photo of him with these giant, glowing, oscillating eyes!

What is this sh... ALL HAIL RON PAUL!! ALL HAIL RON PAUL!! ALL HAIL RON PAUL!! ALL HAIL RON PAUL!! ALL HAIL RON PAUL!!

Articles he didn't write? You have got to be kidding. Whether he wrote them or not, he clearly endorsed them, and the hateful ideas they promoted.

Not a majority interest? The organization was called RON PAUL & ASSOCIATES.

Seriously unbelievable.

man voting for president could easily be a full time job if you wanted to be truly fair about it.

And I actually know people who call Paul an "anti-authoritarian" and say good things about him at the same time they denounce the Democrats for selling out the LGBT community with their LGB-only ENDA effort. A President Paul would veto ENDA no matter what groups it included.

If you liberal scumbags really think Ron Paul's a fascist or a white supremacist, then it's you who are delusional and kooky, and not we libertarians.

Vote for Ron Paul--as President, he will build a giant spaceship and raise us all to a better world!

I actually don't think that Ron Paul is a fascist or a white supremacist, but he HAS BEEN pandering to those groups throughout his entire political career.

Some of these sound perfect for King County.

If Atlas were to shrug, so to speak, who would feed and house me? Who would give me the money I need for booze and motorcycle parts? Let's face it: I spend all day posting utter blather on blogs instead of working. I haven't done anything productive since 1989, and I don't want to.

Look, libertarians have way more than their share of ingenious ideas. Way more. Take the blimp, just as one example. And they work ten times as hard as parasites like me. That means there's tons left over to keep me in the manor to which I'm accustomed. Who wants to see that end?

But man. Look at how they chased that Fox News guy, Hannity, down the street. It was mighty. What power! What organization! Who wouldn't vote for people like that? Who wouldn't?

So yeah, I'm glad the government infiltrated Ron Paul's fine newsletter and planted those "embarrassing" articles. Please, won't someone stop these supermen? I don't want to think -- I can't! And I sure as hell don't want to work.

Mother! Help me mother!

Who doesn't support the violent overthrow of the US Government these days?

Ronvolution: It's not just for wingnuts anymore!

For the love of God, STOP! You people have elevated this guy to some sort of mythical status to the point where you've reached a Larouche-ian level of ignorance.

The problem here isn't that we're scared of your libertarian beliefs, the problems is the batshit-crazy people that he attracts. Those people are what I'm scared of. So he didn't actually write these hideous hate-filled screeds, so what? The fact remains that they were written by people that identify with and support Ron Paul, and I have to judge a candidate at least partially by the type of followers that they attract. GW Bush was a great example of this: all of the southern fundies loved him, all of the rational thinkers despised him. See how that works?

... 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.

People like some commenters here and most sloggers sadden me because of how completely unable they are to separate what they feel from what they know and what makes logical sense. Freedom of speech is good, and makes sense to preserve. However, to do so you need to be willing to protect the David Dukes and Stormfronts as well as the selfless flag-burning free-loving anti-war hippies. Ask the ACLU.

Taking rights from you and giving them to others? That seems so logical, thanks for playing.

Where will you be for the RONPOCALYPSE???!!!

Take your red herring back, please. There's acknowledging the civil rights of bigots, and then there's actively embracing their views.

Paul has no excuse. Put the Kool-Aid down.

I call bullshit. If you've known about these writings in your name since 1990 and are so appalled by them why not do something to stop them?

That's what I thought.

I didn't say WHICH ones sounded good. And, as I've said before, I've been a non-supporter of Paul all along.

January 8, 2008 5:28 am EST

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – In response to an article published by The New Republic, Ron Paul issued the following statement:

“The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.

“In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that we should only be concerned with the content of a person's character, not the color of their skin. As I stated on the floor of the U.S. House on April 20, 1999: ‘I rise in great respect for the courage and high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies.’

“This story is old news and has been rehashed for over a decade. It's once again being resurrected for obvious political reasons on the day of the New Hampshire primary.

“When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publically taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name.”
-Ron Paul

As usual, Andrew Sullivan comes through with the real news:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/01/ron-paul-respon.html

You're an irresponsible journalist, Dan. Don't publish things as fact until you've verified them. You freedom hating SLOG hippies will do anything to vilify a man just because he's conservative.

how did we get so many loony ron paul supporters in the northwest? do people support him because he looks like former speaker tom foley's bastard brother?

i swear, the media shares some responsibility, even bill mahr(sp?) who is usually ok, gave him a blow job on his show.

did somebody say sullivan supports this scumbag? sullivan is such a conservative tool.. now it turns out he is a big obama fan simply because he hates the clintons. i wonder why slog loves that douchebag so much.

Or for that matter, every politician in held personally responsible for everything any of their staffers ever said on their behalf... Obama, drugs, selling drugs...Hillary!... (for shame).

Or for that matter everything they ever actually did... I did not inhale –or- have sexual relations with that woman... I have no idea how those billing records could have gone missing like that… Noooo we didn’t kill Vince Foster…

Geeesh... Everyone is afraid of Ron because he's right. And, he would slaughter all the sacred cows... On the Right and on the Left.

"He is currently the only candidate in the US presidential elections that is not a FREEMASON, SECRET JEW or MEMBER OF THE KROKODILES, THE ANCIENT SECRET MENS A CAPPELLA CHORUS FROM FASCIST, SORRY I MEAN HAVARD UNIVERSTIY. This naturally makes him the #1 enemy of FREEMASONS, JEWS and ALIEN HALF HUMAN HALF LIZARD MEN FROM ATLANTIS WHO HAVE SECRETLY ENSLAVED HUMANITY WITH THEIR MIND CONTROL DEVICES."

word!

Yes, yes, we Sloggers all hate FREEDOM®; they’ve got us there. Check and mate. Well played, indeed.

The Ronbots wouldn’t be so scary if they didn’t all have a permanent case of THE CRAZY EYES. Not to mention their plan to KILL US ALL IN OUR SLEEP should Herr Paul not be elected Preznit For Life.

http://www.tnr.com/downloads/solicitation.pdf

Deny all you want to. Paul is the vanguard of the G. Gordon Liddy wing of the Republican Party. Jackbooted thugs, here we come.

A responsible journalist really would at very least update this enty to include Mr. Pauls response (if only because it is relevant to the story) if not post that response as a subsequent entry.

Please do so.

Thank you!

Ron Paul is on record as saying he doesn't believe in evolution. Does that sound about "right" to you, dude?

Why? Because they're too chicken to do a PvP server.

This happens because Ron Paul isn't really a libertarian. Libertarians are pro-choice. Libertarians aren't terrified over the fact that Mexicans are coming here to work. Ron Paul is not a libertarian. He's a nativist, an isolationist, an extreme individualist and a reactionary who tries very hard to sound like a libertarian. Someone with his outlook doesn't make it to Congress for so long unless he learns to pander to certain constituencies, many of which have ulterior motives for wanting to get rid of government programs.

I consider myself a Libertarian, but I think that implies equality and choice.

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Granted, it's hard to do, (it's supposed to be) but isn't anything worth doing worth doing right?

I think this is most relevant to the office of the POTUS in that his oath is to protect THE CONSTITUTION… not the people, not the borders, not the economy, not the little babies or the wrinkled oldies… just THE CONSTITUTION. – That’s his job…

Sure, he needs to answer for this, absolutely. Repeatedly, and full-throatedly. But do the haters here think he's spent the last 17 years of his political life playing possum until he turns president? That he's just waiting to get elected so he can throw all blacks, Jews, hispanics, etc in the camps, and build a giant fence against Mexico?

Isn't it possible--just possible--that he actually doesn't believe the stuff written in some dodgy newsletter he still happened to have his name on (which he has admitted many times was a mistake), and was sorta, kinda, vaguely associated with, a couple decades ago long after he moved onto other pursuits?

And just to be clear, I'm not a Paul supporter. My Libertarian leanings are mostly around social issues; I don't like bought-and-sold politicians treating me like a child and telling me what to do when it comes to what I put in my body, how and who I like to fuck, etc.

But like most pure idealists, he doesn't know when to quit. The federal government isn't useless, we do, in fact, need to progressively collect taxes (and yep, that means disproportionately from the rich), and there does need to be some kind of basic social safety net.

Still, Jesus. Let the man breathe.

Well, I can believe you or what my own lying eyes saw come out of Mr. (I hesitate to use the word "Doctor" in regard to someone who repudiates evolution) Paul's mouth verbatim on an extended interview on CNN.

I choose the latter. You really ought to find a better horse.

PS - his half-hearted repudiation of Stormfront et al during the same interview didn't really help matters much, either.

Has the RONBOMBING started???!!!

Wonder how many Ron Paul supporters up here on Capitol Hill realize what they are supporting?
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/March1990.pdf