ZenFountain
16th January 2008, 05:20 PM
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....That is Paul's defense today, and I'm inclined to believe him. The race-baiting newsletter passages do not sound like anything else Paul has said or written in his public life. People who were familiar with the newsletters' production confirm that they were largely ghostwritten and that Paul often did not review them prior to publication.
Yet the fact remains that Paul earned money and built his fund-raising list with newsletters that seemed to be aimed at bigots. Given his association with "paleolibertarians" such as Lew Rockwell who sought to construct an anti-statist coalition partly by appealing to racial resentments, he owes his supporters more than accepting "moral responsibility" for inadequately overseeing the newsletters to which he lent his name.
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If I thought Ron Paul might be president in 2009, I'd have to admit that his newsletter negligence raises questions about his judgment and about the people he'd choose to advise him. But since the value of the Paul campaign lies in promoting the libertarian ideals of limited government, individual freedom, and tolerance, the real problem is that the newsletters contradict this message.
Full Article (http://www.reason.com/news/show/124417.html)
Bravo Jacob, you've said what's been needed to be said about "the newsletters" issue for a long time and Paul's association with Lew Rockwell in particular. For those that might not know, Reason is a libertarian publication with an excellent blog covering all things libertarian. The word libertarian and the name Ron Paul have become a veritable faux pas around here, but I still find myself in the awkward position of being genuinely sympathetic to many of the principals of libertarianism while simultaneously despising most of the new recruits that have joined the cause via Ron Paul and the 9/11 troof brigades. Oh joy...
....That is Paul's defense today, and I'm inclined to believe him. The race-baiting newsletter passages do not sound like anything else Paul has said or written in his public life. People who were familiar with the newsletters' production confirm that they were largely ghostwritten and that Paul often did not review them prior to publication.
Yet the fact remains that Paul earned money and built his fund-raising list with newsletters that seemed to be aimed at bigots. Given his association with "paleolibertarians" such as Lew Rockwell who sought to construct an anti-statist coalition partly by appealing to racial resentments, he owes his supporters more than accepting "moral responsibility" for inadequately overseeing the newsletters to which he lent his name.
....
If I thought Ron Paul might be president in 2009, I'd have to admit that his newsletter negligence raises questions about his judgment and about the people he'd choose to advise him. But since the value of the Paul campaign lies in promoting the libertarian ideals of limited government, individual freedom, and tolerance, the real problem is that the newsletters contradict this message.
Full Article (http://www.reason.com/news/show/124417.html)
Bravo Jacob, you've said what's been needed to be said about "the newsletters" issue for a long time and Paul's association with Lew Rockwell in particular. For those that might not know, Reason is a libertarian publication with an excellent blog covering all things libertarian. The word libertarian and the name Ron Paul have become a veritable faux pas around here, but I still find myself in the awkward position of being genuinely sympathetic to many of the principals of libertarianism while simultaneously despising most of the new recruits that have joined the cause via Ron Paul and the 9/11 troof brigades. Oh joy...