Remembering Ron Paul's racist newsletter
As a Romney supporter, I suppose that I should be happy. But I hate seeing my fellow Iowans making themselves look like idiots in front of the whole country.
It's not just Paul's odd economic views or his naive, looney-tunes world view and a foreign policy which amounts to hinding our head in the sand and trusting that the world would be gentle with America if it would only stop being the source of all evil in the world. Beginning in 1978, Paul began publishing a newsletter which contained some of the most virulently racist garbage imaginable.
It should be noted that Paul did not write most of this stuff, and claims that he didn't keep close track of the newsletter's contents. He merely allowed it to be published under his name.
Some samples:
"If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."
"Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
"We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such."
"What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?"
First Pat Robinson, and now this? Guys, Ron Paul winning the Iowa Caucuses would be a civic embarassment on the level of having Al Franken as one's U.S. Senator.
Don't do it. He's not going to win the nomination anyway, but still...
Just don't do it.
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