Paul Tells Radio Caller: I Wrote a ‘Certain Portion’ of Controversial Newsletters
- Posted on December 30, 2011 at 7:56am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The saga of Ron Paul and his old, controversial newsletters (read up on them here) just got another chapter. During a radio interview on Thursday, Paul grappled with a caller and admitted that he did, in fact, write a portion of the newsletters he has recently disavowed.
The caller, a listener to WHO-AM RADIO in Iowa, asked Paul, “How confident were you at the time that the newsletters that bore your name were representative of your views on taxes, on monetary policy, the Second Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, all the things that you hold dear?”
Paul then launched into a lengthy explanation, in which he admitted he wrote a “certain portion” of them but not the controversial parts:
“Well, the newsletters were written, you know, a long time ago. And I wrote a certain portion of them. I would write the economics. So a lot of what you just mentioned… his would be material that I would turn in, and it would become part of the letter. But there were many times when I didn’t edit the whole letter, and things got put in. And I didn’t even really become aware of the details of that until many years later when somebody else called and said, you know what was in it? But these were sentences that were put in, a total of eight or ten sentences, and it was bad stuff. It wasn’t a reflection of my views at all. So it got in the letter, I thought it was terrible, it was tragic, you know and I had some responsibility for it, because name went on the letter. But I was not an editor. I’m like a publisher.
He went on to say the sections in question were “probably ten sentences out of 10,000 pages, for all I know,“ and ”disavowed all these views.”
Still, the caller wasn’t done. He challenged Paul on some of the “conspiracies” in the newsletters, such as the $50 was going to be made pink and could track citizens.
Paul’s response: “The paper money now is pink, you know?”
You can watch the exchange below, courtesy of Fox Nation:
(H/T: Mediaite)
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Comments (364)
recoveringneocon
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:58amWhen is Glenn going to come right out and support Paul? The Blaze keeps running all these stories on Paul. Everyone of them seems to boost his polling numbers. Now that Bachmann took her ar15 and shot herself in the foot. Santorum cant draw enough people for a Friday night Pinochle game. Its (Paul vs. Romney) vs. Obama
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:25amGo fix your flag.
VOTE FOR RICKY S or BACHMANN (i’m dropping RICKY P out of it)
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:47amCrazy Times
Report Post »Ron Paul helped Bachmann get elected.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7G_pey51A8
spankadonkey
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:49amRECOVER – What a laugh “Paul vs Romney”. Perhaps you ought to recover the fact that Ron PORKY Paul is falling in the polls in Iowa. Looks like a third place finish there, at best. People who didn’t like him before now have many good reasons not to like him. Ron PORKY Paul- what a guy.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:56amgood for him..
If you want to vote for paul, vote for him. If i want to vote for Ricky S, or MS, I will.
the Paulies need to stop acting as if they are superior to everyone else…
and please, if you truely care about your country, fix that pic of yours.
Report Post »Go-rin-no-sho
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 11:30am@SPANKADONKEY
Report Post »I know how you love “Ron PORKY Paul”.
I guess you’ll like Rick PORKY Santorum as well.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/201733-santorum-defends-use-of-earmarks-following-perry-attack-ad
You better hurry up if you want Bachmann to be President, her staff is dropping by the day. Or do you have $1M to pay off Newt’s Campaign debt? Otherwise you’re stuck with Romney.
PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 2:43pmBachman & santorum are unelectable. & That would be true un like what the media says about Paul.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 4:50pmSantorum is very electable. He won statewide as a genuine conservative in Penn. — a key[stone ;)] state in Presidential electoral politics. He has been intensely vetted (no Cain-type surprises). If Santorum’s surge puts him 3rd in Iowa, then it is game on: a 3-way contest between a Libertarian, a Moderate and a Conservative. While the Libertarian and the Moderate would have more money, Santorum would have momentum.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:10pmCrazy, Bachmann and Rick Santorum both voted to strip your fourth amendment rights by voting for the Patriot Act. They do lean Neoconservative. I am a little disappointed. Paul has never voted for any legislation that was unconstitutional, ever! What is it exactly that you do not like about Paul? I bet you are wrong on every point you bring up. Quit listening to the establishment, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, all the rest of the fricken media. I believe that they lie at least 2/3 of the time. Guaranteed. Everyone called Paul a kook when he predicted a major terrorist attack from blowback in the late 90′s and then 9/11 happened, He predicted the housing bubble burst and they called him nuts, then it happened. He is predicting an economic crash that will be the end of the world as we know it, everyone is calling him crazy, I know he is right. You want to vote one of these people that think everything is going to be OK, hang on buddy, because soon you are going to be completely broke. I cannot believe that others do not see this coming and the ramifications of putting in a candidate that is as blind as you or a candidate that lies (if they have to move to the center, left, right or change their opinion on an issue from what they have said in the past). I am glad that I invested in gold way back in the late 80‘s and early 90’s. All of you can suffer.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:54amThe path to the return to a Constitutional Government is right there for you to follow. The leaders name is Ron Paul. It will mean cutting off welfare eventually. It will mean eventually bringing our boys home and stopping sensless Unconstitutional wars. It will mean ending the FDA, USDA. EPA. NEA and about a million other regulatory pain in the ass agencies. It will mean FREEDOM and LIBERTY and a small government. It will mean your State can keep it’s tax dollars and use it as your representatives see fit, not the Federal Government. It will mean lower taxes and personal responsibility. It will mean an end to the war on drugs and all the murders attached to it…..It will mean an end to the growing police State..It will mean you can have the light bulb and toilet you want. It will mean you can start a business without 50 Government agencies to report to…You want freedom or not??? So what say you?
Ther man can take us that way…You think a Newt or a Romney can? If you think they can you can call yourself a PROGRESSIVE FOOL!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:03amWe both know Paul is the best candidate and would ensure our liberty by restraining the government with the constitution as that is it’s purpose.But there‘s a lot of people who are willing to be slaves to government and they’re not even aware of it.Smaller government is the answer,Ron Paul 2012.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:03amNeoliberalism.. wacky crazy nuts.
Baddoggy, know what you BELIEVE.. dont believe in a man, believe in a philosophy.
that is where alot of the Ron Paul supporters break down, they show conflicting philosophies that are on polar sides of the spectrum.
Alinsky attacks begin… time now
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:21amI do believe in the philosophy. He is the only man running that will do it. What…you think Newt would? ROFLMAO
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:27am“I do believe in the philosophy” .. of….
Report Post »Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:58amLiberty!
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:09am@ AC
the pursuit of happiness (just as long as it does not trapple on others peoples Lives and Liberties!
Thanks for the response!
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:44amRon Paul may not be a (/11 Truther piece of trash or a Holocaust denier piece of trash…. but, he sure doesn’t seem to mind taking their money, endorsements or submissions to the little newsletter he published!
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:59amCRAZY “that is where alot of the Ron Paul supporters break down, they show conflicting philosophies that are on polar sides of the spectrum.”
Can you be more specific on where the philosophies conflict??
I am assuming you mean they conflict with Right vs Left? In that case you are right, but they do not conflict with the philosophy of the constitution which is Paul’s Philosophy.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 11:06amOr i should say Democrat vs Republican….
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 11:35am@ Ballot box:
it is not a battle between democrat and republican, it is a battle between collectivism and individaulism.
it is a battle between positive liberties and negative liberties.
Life, liberty the pursuit of happiness. How do we get back to it?
Report Post »We cannot just say it is because of our forgien policies that others hate the United States. No, others hate us because they believe in collectivism and positive liberties.
So how can RP say something like that when everything else he promotes is for negative liberites and individualism?
Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 12:57pmI assumed you were in the R vs D frame of mind, but your not….good.
I still don’t really understand what you are getting at…It feels like you are trying to spin a really heavy, rusty, playground, merry-go-round.
Positive and negative Liberties for whom? The constitution is negative liberties in concern of the Government. That was the intention of it. We were fighting against overpowering/reaching governments when it was written. But realized there had to be some small form of government.
Are you saying Ron Paul contradicts what he says about freedom and liberty because of a “collective view” that the world is pissed off at us because of our actions? Well then under freedom and liberty you couldn’t say that they hate our life style, and our freedoms either….There is always going to be a certain amount of collectivism, if you break something down to agree or disagree…there is no danger in that…and there will be a collection of people on both sides…the danger comes when you judge, govern, or condemn an INDIVIDUAL because they happen to agree or disagree with a collective census…
If the collective evidence provided by the CIA and common sense (putting myself in their shoes) says that a lot of people hate us because of our actions, how can I dispute that? Because “experts” say differently?
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 1:12pmWhat in the hell is a negative liberty?
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 1:42pmCrazy, Neoliberals believe in war (interventionism) and are Progressives. Get your facts straight. Do not come on here and be a moron. When you do this it is just putting up lies. Progressives are good at lying. Quit being a Progressive and become a Patriot. Neocons, Neoliberals, Cronicapitalists, Liberals, Progressives bad. Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians are good. Much better company. Get it right. Progressives are in all parties, just more in the Republican and many more in the Democratic party.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 1:53pmDr., Barack Obama related his displeasure with the negative liberties in the Constitution. The negative liberties are what the Federal Government is supposed to experience as the Government does not have liberty, the people do. Limited federal government is the negative liberty that progressives want to get rid of. They want all the power and to get there, they have to diminish the peoples individual liberty, which they have been pretty successful to this point. That is why I am for Paul, he is the only one talking on these lines.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 2:02pm@ Ballot
“Are you saying Ron Paul contradicts what he says about freedom and liberty because of a “collective view” that the world is pissed off at us because of our actions?”
YES
“If the collective evidence provided by the CIA and common sense (putting myself in their shoes) says that a lot of people hate us because of our actions, how can I dispute that? Because “experts” say differently?”
- you are accepting the notion that people hate us because of our actions. it is too simple to understand on my rusty- playground merry-go-round.
just think of it as pointing fingers. “oh, it’s your fault that i fell and broke my arm!”
Report Post »SO what kind of person is the US in this serario to you? the bully of the playground, or the person who stopped another from doing great harm, and in the process, broke the arm?
Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 2:13pm@ Doctor
Negative liberties – sounds bad right? it is really propaganda by progressives to call it “negative” liberties.
-Neg Libs say what the government cannot do. that is what the constitiution is based on, what it cannot do.
-Pos Libs on the other hand (btw, sounds good, right) say what the goverment CAN DO. Democrats and Progressives LOVE Pos Libs.
@ Patriot
Report Post »- DONT TELL ME WHAT I AM AND AM NOT. go read up on a neoliberal and tell me what that means the next time you want to respond to me.
West Coast Patriot
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 2:48pmCrazycommie, read my post above to you.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:54amAll these candidates are uninspiring, to say the least.
Maybe Iowa will agree and write Palin in. She’s a star – this cannot be argued. She generates enormous buzz and that’s aobout 75% of the game, folks.
Too bad we have to make it so difficult on ourselves and waste another 4 years before coming to our senses.
Report Post »Timothy_Reid
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:21am@haus It’s not a game, and people thinking it is is why we have digressed so far from where we started.
Report Post »KTsayz
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:21amRon Paul is THE MOST inspiring candidate. He talks about our Constitution, our unalianble rights, our individual liberty.
Report Post »There is nothing more inspiring than that.
spankadonkey
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:54amWow, yes, PORKY Paul is a great “talker” and that is all. Ron PORKY Paul – what a guy.
Report Post »spankadonkey
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:57amYes, PORKY Ron is inspiring alright. He inspires me to puke
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:15amI want to like Paul personally, and I certainly appreciate his politics. He just seems to be terribly thin-skinned – too much so, to ever be POTUS – especially as a republican.
I was watching him interview with Hannity last nite and before Sean could finish thanking him, Paul was all pissed-off taking off his mic and bailing before the cameras could draw away. I sure wish he had his son’s demeanor.
Report Post »jscottu
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:53amIt’s bad enough when the left goes after Ron Paul. But when republicans attack Ron Paul it makes me sick. It’s enough to make me go third party.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:55amI will vote for Johnson if I have to choose between two progressives.
Report Post »moodtd01
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:57amYou may get your chance in a Trump-Gingrich ticket. Good Luck with that.
Report Post »KTsayz
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:45amIf the GOP snatches victory from the only worthy candidate, then I’ll have no choice but to write in Ron Paul.
Report Post »But I’m a strong believer in prayer, and my prayers are for an awakening among the sleeping sheeple that they become aware of their enslavement and seek the one candidate determined to restore our Founding Principles – Ron Paul! Oh yeah, I’m praying for a huge r3VOLution!!!
spankadonkey
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:04amKTSAYZ – My prayer is that all you Paulbutz will open your eyes and realize the guy you love so much is a complete FRAUD. Ron PORKY Paul – what a guy.
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:40amWow, I can’t believe you guys can look at the rest of the world and think the economy is the most important thing to us right now. Take off the blinders, governments are falling right and left. Qausi isolationist Ron Paul’s strategy of weakening the ability of our military to launch global attacks is not going to save us, or make the rest of the world like us better. Closing down over seas bases–the majority of which serve a strategical purpose–is not going to make us look nicer to China or Iran or any of the friends of the people who hate us–it’s going to make us look debilitated! Do we have a base in China? NO! But Ron Paul thinks that is one of the reason the world hates us! Do we meddle in China’s government? No, because we are busy fighting the UN on the same enviromental regulations they are! We give them money plus intrest that we borrowed from them, we fight the same fights, hell we should be on the same side BUT they still hate us. Because they hate US as Americans for what we used to stand for. None of that is going away no matter who is elected. And I’d be surprised if we even made it to the next election before things get worse. And you guys don’t see it!
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:56amI think the most important issue facing America is this renewed bout with socialism/Marxism, whatever you wanna call it. When you have an estimated 30%+ people (many of them young) not understanding the fundamental principles of capitalism, that’s around 100 million people.
Screw the other countries for at least 4 years (within reason, of course). Do you think it will really matter (our foreign policy) in the grand scheme of things if the founding principles have been eroded and replaced by these kooks currently running the country??? We won’t be living anywhere near as freely. Everything will be different to those who have been living long enough to understand the difference. And, at that point, you expect me to care if Iran ever gets a nuke???
We need to crush this progressive movement so utterly dominantly that it never springs up again. This is THE MOST IMPORTANT issue we face by leaps and bounds.
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 3:08pmJSCOTTU: “It’s bad enough when the left goes after Ron Paul. But when republicans attack Ron Paul it makes me sick. It’s enough to make me go third party.”
What’s bad is the attacks on the people who do not hold the same view for Ron Paul as the Paul supporters do. It’s either you agree with Paul or you are stupid and then comes the rest of the name calling. I’m getting tired of people pushing this guy on us. It’s no different than the Media pushing Romney. We all have different view points and they should be respected. This is getting ridiculous.
Report Post »Jeff65
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 5:52pm@spankadonkey You really don‘t want to accept that it is the responsibility of congress to designate money so that the executive branch doesn’t get it to use to bribe the congressman for votes on bills they wouldn’t normally vote for? It’s already been proven that the idea of earmarks being bad is a twisted idea used to manipulate “Tea Party” people, but you still carry on about it.
Why?
Report Post »spankadonkey
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 7:44pmJEFF65 – You comment to me is about the most twisted comment I have seen. I think you need to do a little homework on earmarks. Congress is supposed to pass a budget that defines how tax revenue is to be appropriated. The Executive branch does not get what’s left over. Earmarks are simply a disgusting way for Congress people to appropriate money for their own pet projects, usually intended to buy their re-election. Paul has a pretty liberal record of using earmarks. His clap-trap about bringing tax money back to his district so it gets some of its taxes back is pure political show. Earmarks are virtually always used to buy re-election. Paul’s maintaining otherwise makes him a fraud at best and a liar at worst.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:52amThe newsletters went out in his name for about 10 years, and he only recently found out their content. Either he is lying or just plain stupid for not reading his own newsletter.
Report Post »azsmitty
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:50amAbout to subject myself to a barrage of Paulinista posts, but some one has to say it………………As with the support adorned upon Barrak Obama by the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, The New Black Panthers…………no matter what evidence surfaces that discredits Obama, they reject it out of hand and resort to singing Yes We Can. Lemmings not matter which side of the aisle or political spectrum still follow their leader, even off the cliffs.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:01amOf course you‘re right but it’s useless to try to point it out to them. They are hopelessly brainwashed.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:20amEven if he did write these racist newsletters, it doesn’t change the fact that the single, most important issue we have right now is our economy. No other candidate will fix it and you damn well know it. Ron Paul is the only one that will do what is necessary to bring us back to prosperity without issuing out another quantitative easing.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:34amWillie
Report Post »You and azsmitty didn’t even watch the video. Here is the video that they were discussing in the interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4
qpwillie
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:34am@American Soldier (Separated)
The economy is not the most important issue. The economy is one of the symptoms of the disease. If you Paulies weren’t ignorant of what 0bama is doing, you wouldn’t be so anxious to help him get reelected so he can finish implementing his plan. By 0bama’s own words, the plan is about 70% completed. For we who know what he’s doing, 70% sounds about right.
And NO, The other candidates are not in on carrying out that plan.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:53amWillie
Report Post »Stop all the name calling and insults. Then tell us about this 70% thing. Your ideas are not getting passed your hate.
qpwillie
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:01am@recoveringneocon
No, I won’t be posting 50 years of planning on the Blaze. You should have been watching what was going and seeing it come about.
Sorry you wasted your money and time on leftist professors.
Report Post »jsciai
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:09am@ AmSo(Se)
Report Post »Yes, the economy is the single most important issue right at this second. So, we’re going to elect a person with NO business experience? (Just being a doctor and running small office isn’t enough qualification for me). A person that has been feeding from the public trough for decades? A person that is a Washington insider and can only spout populist slogans? If the economy is truly the most important issue at the moment, then elect a candidate with true business experience, who knows how the economy works and who has proven his leadership as both a CEO and a Governor–Mitt Romney. Thank you AmSo(Se) for the endorsement. But, tomorrow Iran will get nukes, and Russia will ally with them and China will pull the money plug. Then what will Dr. Paul do? Nothing, and he has said as much in the debates, etc. Face it, he talks the good line but isolationism never solved world(USA) problems and only made them worse. As to baggage? Dr. Paul has a boatload–see newsletters, etc. I’ll go with a person with a PROVEN record on the economic issues and positive stances on USA strength. Not to mention Romney is the MOST electable candidate against Obama, beating him by a double digit margin–see Rassmussen poll data.
Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:13am@ Recovering..
.. I agree with you about QPWillie needs to explain more. I dont get what he is saying either, and I am not a Paul supporter.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:23amQPWILLY, So what is it about the constitution that you hate so much?
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:36amCrazy Times
Report Post »Just for the record. We can agree on things, but in no way does this one thing make us friends. I will tho have my son work on fixing the flag.
hauschild
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:47amCool! The RINO’s and Status-Quo‘ers must be so excited now that we’re gonna end up with a progressive as POTUS either way. The great news just keeps coming these days.
Ugh.
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:46amAll right, this is getting exasperating. Ron Paul has said multiple times that he disavows those old newsletters the editors wrote and that he was morally responsible for poor management of them. I mean, for crying out loud, HE WAS BUSY AS A DOCTOR while these newsletters were being written. Can we PLEASE drop this issue and move on?!
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:53amIt will be dropped when the Lame steam media put Ron Paul by the wayside like Herman Cain.. Until then, expect more.. And then on to the “NEXT” candidate…
Report Post »Pendragon
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:06amIf he Disavows Supporting the KKK and Nazi Parties then Why within the last few years did he have KKK leaders running his Michigan Campaign until they were caught?? Either He suffers Dementia and has no clue which is Dangerous to the Country…Or he is Like Eric Holder with Fast and Furious and Refuses To acknowledge the Letter nor Vet the people who work for him So being Naive is not an option at best If he cannot protect his Own Campaign from Nazi’s and KKK then how do we keep them out of his cabinet… Incompensibility is not an option for the POTUS and worst case for him He was so arrogant he thought it was fine to have a KKK leader working for him even after knowing the Newsletters 20 years ago were a question and now within the last 3 years still caters to the KKK and Nazi groups So which is it Irresponsibility Like Eric holder with Fast and Furious Over and over and over Consistently and in a regular pattern or Flat out Racist in a regular pattern Remember he is the one with dining with Storm Front Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays. If you are sitting down for dinner with him or him with them, that means you approve of them
Report Post »http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/01/15/437394/-BREAKING:-Ron-Pauls-Klansman-Kampaign-Koordinator
holy ghostbuster
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:10am@ PENDRAGON – your problem seems to be that you are reading The Daily Kos.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:19am@PENNDRAGON..Didn’t view the video did you? If you did..and if itis true what you say about him having mambers of the KKK working for him..do you suppose they came to work with white sheets over their heads? If you views this video..you would understand that Paul is not racist or judgmental..in any way.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:22amOn your point, most of us had views that were different 20 years ago.I know many of my views have changed; are any of you folks the same person you were 20 years ago??
Someone back in history said you without error, throw the first stone. (sin=error)
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:06amStoic One you do have a point, I mean I they if Robert Byrd (who was a true former KKK in the Democrat party) could supposedly have a change of heart an go on to become a Career politician… Ron Paul disperses the same fair shake in the Republican party or as an independent.
However, I think the fact his name was associated with this newsletter will continue to dog him through the election. It’s very possible one of his opponents or critics in the government may force him to discuss them under oath… I wouldn’t be surprised if they called a special session just to question him in this in an attempt to discredit him.
Report Post »jsciai
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:24amI hate to say it, but the Obama machine will not let bygones be bygones. They will pull up every single one of the newsletters with any indication of racial, homophobic or any other bigotry and will put it on the first page of every magazine, newspaper and televised report, and will present it as Dr. Paul’s own message. His explanation of only being the editor will not excuse him and this will be the rallying cry for leftists, liberals, and minorities to show up at the polls. Thus insuring Obama’s next term. I’ve often wondered how many of the pro-Paul commentators are actually Obama operatives pushing to have him as the challenger to Obama. Just curious.
Report Post »Dudley Do-Right
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 12:49pmNo we can’t drop this issue! If Ron Paul didn’t write these newsletters than he should prove it and tell who did. Why hasn’t he made an effort to clear his good name? TELL US WHO WROTE THEM DR PAUL?
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 6:11pmMr. Oshawott
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:46am
All right, this is getting exasperating. Ron Paul has said multiple times that he disavows those old newsletters the editors wrote and that he was morally responsible for poor management of them.
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Then why has he never apologized to those offended and has changed his excuse for the letters in question. He looks guilty to me………………………..
Report Post »DanBrogan
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:45amI think what you have to understand is that Ron was practicing in the medical field at this time, so it was likely that things could slip through into a final copy, I’m not agreeing at all with what the content says in it either. Also, he is a civil libertarian, and is the only candidate that speaks out about the bias judicial system against blacks, and how we are grouping people because of race, gender, or religion. Also, someone who is racist would not pay for the hospital bill of a inter-racial couples.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 2:41pmLibertarians aren’t racist. Who don’t care if your purple, white, black or green.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 7:19pmI prefer the color poke-ee-dot
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:41am22 years ago, and the deniers still cling to a lost notion, and seek to destroy he who came to save them from their own filth…
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:58amand seek to destroy he who came to save them from their own filth…
What is Paul to you, the messiah?????
Keep up your authoritarian views, it shows what you truely believe.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:29am@CRAZYTIMES No Ron Paul is not the our Messiah..only Jesus Christ holds that honor..but the Constitution was founded under God and Jesus Christ and that is what Paul seeks to take us back to..We want to be rid of foreign theocracies in our land..and we don’t want any more of our freedoms stripped away..What are you?..afraid you won’t make it in a free world?
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:43am@ ashestoashes
“We” “We” We” is all in your posts.. (collectivism) why did you not type “I believe that” (individualism)
Report Post »amtsoundsmith
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:15am“and seek to destroy he who came to save them from their own filth…”
Report Post »Wow, you sound more like an obama supporter praising their false messiah. I hate to break it to you but Ron isn’t God….I’m pretty sure if Ron Paul read your comment he too would be thinking “wtf is this guy talking about?”.
ashestoashes
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:23am@CRAZY..I cannot conceive of anyone who would not want to keep foreign theocracies from taking “us over except for Communists and Muslims..which or course are the foreign theocracies..and I would think that any Paul supporter would want the freedom which is written into our Constitution.. and then lastly but most importantly…Jesus Christ is “our” Messiah…born of love..and even though the ones who don’t believe in Him or recognize Him now…one day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord..without exception..every one in the heavens..on the earth..and under the earth..without exception.
Report Post »moodtd01
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:40amSpeaking of the Newsletters, Does anyone disagree with what they have to say? I have read several of the excerpts from the supposed worst of them and have to say at one time or another I either would have agreed with him or still do. As far as racism goes, Is it racist to tell the truth? Of course it is in our modern multicultural, politically correct, everything goes society. “Do what thou wilt is the whole of the law.” It is like Satan, Lucifer, Old Nick, De Debil himself is in charge of our society.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:50am@moodtd01.. No, I haven’t read them, I can‘t find them in it’s entirety.. Just snippets here and there.. …Yes what I have read they are not racist, In fact they are saying what was to come in the future, in truth WOW , they were right on the money.. If you can give me a link of the newsletters in full I would appreciate it. Thanks..
Report Post »moodtd01
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 11:30am@Demint.Disciple Bing search “Ron Paul Newsletters PDF”, there are hundreds of sources.
Report Post »modilly
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:38amRidicule, Isolate, eliminate. Deflect from arguments you can’t make and destroy the opposition.
Another George Bush or some real change?
Ron Paul 2012
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:38amIt is ok to say horrific things about the other canadites, but God help you if you say or even hint of saying one bad thing against Ron Paul…
.. that is my issue with not him, it is with his supporters.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:47amHey Crazy…did you happen to view the video? There are some things that I take issue with him on..like gay marriage..don’t think it should ever happen.I vehemently oppose it..but if you didn’t watch the video..please do.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:11amagain, my issue is not of Ron Paul, it is of many of his supporters and their attacks on conversatives.
RP can believe what he wants to believe and you can vote who you want to vote for, but holy crap, i will not stand by and have people who claim to on the right attack other on ther right, as if we have no voice in the matter… voting has not even began yet.
I have said time and time again, i’m sure their are plenty of honest Paul supporters.. but man read there postings! then ask yourself, do you really feel that is the best way to interact with others who you say you are like minded with? If the answer is no, then what are they trying to do?
That answer would be manipulation.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:23amThere’s a difference between a Conservative and a Neoconservative, and most here who support Ron Paul attack NEOconservatism, not conservatism itself.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:35am@ American Soldier
their are liberals and neoliberals…
it’s great that we have two parties, and a full spectrum of political views. the problem has been that the two major choices started becoming one, and it’s great that we are finally starting to pull those two choices apart, to make them different again (example, newt is NOT a conservative!)
however, what we fail to see is this…
alot of the paul supporters “consider” themselves far right, so anything else it to the left. But it is not linear, it is a circle, they go so far right, that their views become left views..
that is why everyone is having this arguement about Paul.. and anti-semitism, because the far left have the same views as well. Look at the free gaza movement and tell me that Paul supporters DONT agree with what they say. I can tell you conservatives would disagree.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:54am@CRAZY It gets frustrating when people don’t understand what has been going on with the candidates..Take Romney for example.. I have always liked the guy..I believe that in his heart..he would like to go the way of Ron Paul. Even Herman Cain threw his support behind PaulBut these candidates it seems to me are owned.. It has been like that for a very long time..We have never gotten someone “for the people” like Paul who has consistently voted for “us” in Congress. The rest have had agenda‘s and it certainly was’t in our best interests. Newt’s record is in complete opposition to the people..good talker..he is all about promoting Newt and making Newt rich and the hell with the people..He has been behind the biggest Federal land grab in history while the govenment is working on the second spanning 11 states. Newt is for the global warming scam involved with Agenda 21 which will tax us into poverty. He’s pro UN.
Report Post »Paul has been carried by the people..not the media..not the big boys..by the people only..We are tired of having power’s that be on earth rule us..We want the freedom this country was founded upon. People are victims of main stream media..now of which Faux News is. An arab bought in around the last elections.
I believe the Paul supporters haven’t realized this..They are only trying to educate..but once they understand this..I hope they have more patience.
Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:26am@ Ashes..
.. i agree with you 100%.
here is one good example of what you are talking about..
.. i love allen west, however since he has been in congress, he has not been voting the way i feel a tea party member should be. So now what to do?
And Paul, I agree with MOST of what he says; but i was really thrown back when watching the debate where he said it is because our policies that radical islamist attack us.
I dont believe that. Our policies suck, sure alot do. but we have to stand up to our enemies which are ALOT, show them our convictions. I dont agree in the “say this then do that” mentality of Washington, which you and I can agree on. But I believe we need to show the rest of the world that we are not going to bow down to nothing; and promote the same individual freedoms for others across the world.
I dont believe in american imperialism, or colonialism or anything of that sort. And people (ALL people) have the choise in what they want to believe. If our enemies say it is our fault, we should say NO, not “you are right”.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:36amHow has “being unaware” become an acceptable excuse for politicians? I’m listening to Eric Holder blow off American deaths and now Paul with his letters. If your name is on it and you profited from it IT’S ALL YOURS.
Report Post »moodtd01
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:35amI used to trust Ron Paul, his was the first campaign I ever supported monetarily in 2008. Now I am not sure he is trustworthy, he seems like a moonbat. The rest of the GOP candidates have also been shown to not be trustworthy as well. The only one that is left who still seems like a good solid Christian Constitutional Conservative is Rick Santorum. If he gets at least 3rd in Iowa I will send his campaign the little bit of money I can.
Report Post »Interestingly, if one pays attention to the endtimes scenario, Ron Paul would be a perfect fit for the lack of the United States involved in things overseas, especially with supporting Israel. Not to mention he is such a Libertarian that Conservatives and Liberals could get behind him. The problem with his brand of Libertarianism is that he is more of a Libertine. “Do what thou wilt.”
Will the establishment really allow someone like Santorum or Paul into the White House? That is yet to be seen.
SamIamTwo
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:30amWonder what GB thinks of Art Laffer endorsing Newt?
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:41amSo much for Ballot “security”
New Hampshire Primary – Sham Chain of Custody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PKQEQ7qHvgM#!
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:44amArt Laffer!!
The lead moron who laughed at Peter Schiff in the Peter Schiff Was Right videos when Schiff (like Ron Paul) was calling the housing bubble and financial collapse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0YTY5TWtmU
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw
louise
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:28amRon Paul has explained these newsletters. Now let’s get down to the business of electing him. He had my support the last time, and he still has my support and vote this time. There is no one else who understands the true problems and has real solutions. His knowledge of what America is facing……and his Constitutional solutions to these issues……gives me and my husband hope that we the people can have a real Constitutional Republic that our founders envisioned. People all over the world are watching us to see if we can do this, because if we can do this, so can they.
Liberty is something that all people want. True Liberty is from God, and God tells us in His word that “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty”.
Not only do I have hope for this Republic, but also for God to turn the hearts of men around before it is too late.
Ron Paul 2012
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:56amI agree.
Report Post »spankadonkey
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:18amNo, Ron PORKY Paul lied about the newsletters. First he said he didn’t write them. Now he is admitting that he did write some of them. He also lied when he said he didn’t know who wrote the racist parts. Can you say you honestly believe he doesn’t know who wrote what? Oh, yes you’ll believe it because you are a Paulbutz and you believe everything he says. Ron PORKY Paul – what a guy.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 12:21pmSpank…Who would you prefer to be our next President?
Report Post »Dudley Do-Right
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 12:56pmTell us who wrote them Dr Paul? Clear your good name!
Report Post »jdawg
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:28amGuess who’s feeling really good about this admission? Eric Dondero:
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/former-staffer-feels-totally-vindicated-after-ron-paul-s-newsletter-admission
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:18amHe sure sounds like a hard core racist picking up the tab for an interracial couple back in the 70′s.
Report Post »spankadonkey
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:20amPORKY Paul had a “special” relationship with one of them. Guess which one. Ron PORKY Paul – what a guy.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:17amHis answer about not being aware of what was going out IN HIS NAME not only baffles me but sets up all kinds of alarms! What would he be “unaware of” as POTUS? Would he even be “aware” of what he was signing? If he doesn’t even read his OWN newsletters before publishing them (he says he’s a “sort of publisher” whatever THAT means), then could we trust him to actually READ bills that go out? That’s our problem NOW! They don’t read the blasted bills! So. . . other politicians would LOVE that. They’d probably get RP to sign all kinds of things and then later he could say, “I didn’t know that was in there. I didn’t write those parts. I’m only sort of a President!” lol
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:14amPaul said: “It wasn’t a reflection of my views at all. So it got in the letter, I thought it was terrible, it was tragic, you know and I had some responsibility for it, because my name went on the letter. But I was not an editor. I’m like a publisher.”
I know Ron Paul supporters will undoubtedly defend him for this, but will anyone admit how dumb this sounds? “I was not an editor. I“m like a publisher” ??? I tried to search for a more gracious adjective (other than “dumb”) but couldn’t really come up with one. In any case, it’s a pretty lame excuse, in my opinion. In listening to him on the radio, he seemed to ramble on. Then when asked about his former conspiracy theory (money being made pink and would be used to track us), he diverted by talking about inflation! He knows that wasn’t the question asked of him–and even the host let him get away with it! And the money is PINK??? Still looks quite green to me!?
The most he got was he admitted (finally!): “I had some responsibility for it, because my name went on the letter.”
Yes, WE already knew that, Paul. Nice you finally admit it, even if it doesn’t bode as well for you.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:27amLast week he hold us he never read the newsletter. & he had nothing to do with it. Is this a Flip-Flop?
Report Post »FaithUsa
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:30amWhat’s the difference between a publisher and an editor? One deals with distribution, the other with content. Do you know which is which?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:02amBADDOGGY Print isn’t good enough? his name on the banner, his signature at the bottom and Paul put the profits in his pocket……. Newt did it
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:23amYou want the 10K, come up with a video. 10K man…you could get off welfare for a couple of weeks with 10K….
Report Post »CptStubbing
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 11:53amThe new $50 bill has a shade of pink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Series2004NoteFront_50.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Series2004NoteBack_50.jpg
the new $5 bill has shades of purple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_five_dollar_bill.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Series2006_NoteBack_5.jpg
The new $10 bill has a shade of orange.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US10dollarbill-Series_2004A.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_$10_Series_2004_reverse.jpg
Here is a picture of all our current currency. It’s very pretty.
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RepubliCorp
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 7:33pmBADDOGGY I will give you 10k for a video that proves he didn’t write or know about the newsletter….And Paul lying doesn’t cut it. Also if you cant, he is guilty as charged ….just because it wasn‘t captured on video doesn’t mean it happen. And if I did come up with one you wouldn’t pay off..so your offer is BS just like Paul is BS
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:13amThis was a complete surprise to me. It was touching…this is such a sweet non judgmental man.
Report Post »clockwatcher
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:12amVoting for this guy is a wasted vote. A vote for him is a vote for the black jimmy carter. It’s time to put on your big boy pants, man up and quite the race. Ron you will never win and you will help the fool now in charge( when he is not on vacation, golfing and leaving work early).Free at last in10 months.
Report Post »FaithUsa
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:27amRon Paul is a study. How about reading what he has written and said in Congress? Even the old newsletters from what I can find when I can find more than a quote or two out of context are an interesting history. Didn’t Beck preach about original source? What Ron Paul has to teach can’t be learned in a sound byte. If your opinion is based on what MSM feeds you. Shame on you.
Report Post »Ron Paul is the best vote available to us this election. His clarity and consistency would provide an urgently needed transition.
RepubliCorp
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:37amFAITHUSA lets read
Report Post »“I want to totally disassociate myself from the policies that have given us unprecedented deficits, massive monetary inflation, indiscriminate military spending, an irrational and unconstitutional foreign policy, zooming foreign aid, the exaltation of international banking, and the attack on our personal liberties and privacy,” he wrote in a letter offering advice to the Republican party: not a letter about the Obama administration — a letter about the Reagan administration. Paul isn’t a conservative…he drips Neo-Lib
Baddoggy
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:42amFaithUSA… No one really wants to swallow the medicine of returning to the Constitution because they suck off the Government teat. They don’t want to go on in life without rules and regulations.
These fools don’t want FREEDOM and LIBERTY…they want Newt or Romney! They are fools!
Report Post »Wake up America!
mck05002
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 12:44pm@Republicorp Are you serious? Just because Reagan was a conservative, do you honestly believe that the federal gov‘t wasn’t extremely bloated? That they weren’t trampling on individual liberties? Do you think the Reagan administration followed the Constitution to the letter? Not by any stretch of the imagination. The Reagan presidency was a bright spot in a long line of filth, but in no way was it a small constitutional presidency. Apparently time has dimmed you recollection. Ron Paul criticizing Reagan doesn‘t mean he’s a liberal, it means that he is willing to stand up for the Constitution, no matter who is in power!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:45pmMCK05002 how many statues have they erected of Ron Paul overseas? And Reagan? Maybe your memory comes into question. Reagan had to undo the Carter mess… and when he walked away from the white house he had a 70% approval rating. Paul isn‘t worthy of being Reagan’s doormat
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:08am“But there were many times when I didn’t edit the whole letter, and things got put in….” -RP
“I didn not have sex with that woman…” – BC
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:18amThe newsletters raked in about a million a year that went into Paul‘s pocket but it wasn’t his view. That‘s like a drug dealer telling you he doesn’t use drugs so he is innocent of a crime.
Report Post »CIAtroll
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:25amHow is de criminalizing drug use and letting many blacks out of
prison racist ????
making drugs illegal was done in the first place because Nixon was a Racist.
Report Post »If I were Black I would FEAR Santorum or Bachmann as being the Racist.
Crazy Times
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:26amYep..
He is a politian, just like the rest of them.
RP since 1976…
Report Post »FaithUsa
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:34amWould you be able to cite a source for your claim about those millions? Really? Millions back then off a typewritten newsletter? Wow.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:11amhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul read it and wipe FAITHUSA
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:14amCIATROLL take another toke……..and go vote for the kook
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 9:29amoops typo *weep
Report Post »cdavis411
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:07amHe doesn’t even know what is in his own newsletter. He is either the worst executive there is or he is completely full of it. My bet is the latter.
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