Likely Author Of Shocking Ron Paul Letters Exposed

The New Republic:

Since my article "Angry White Man" was posted on our website last Tuesday, many have asked who the author of Ron Paul's newsletters could have been. Published since at least the late 1970s--and at their most incendiary from 1987 to 1996--these newsletters have at times been filled with conspiratorial warnings about the Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group, animus towards black and gay people, and sympathy for right-wing, anti-government militia movements. Many libertarian bloggers have intimated or concluded that the man chiefly responsible for this content was Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Paul's former congressional chief of staff and the founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. John Robbins, who succeeded Rockwell as Paul's chief of staff, released an "Open Letter to Lew Rockwell" on the Internet last week. "This week, for the third time, the puerile, racist, and completely un-Pauline comments that all informed people say you have caused to appear in Ron's newsletters over the course of several years have become an issue in his campaign," Robbins wrote. "Your callous disregard for both Ron and his millions of supporters is unconscionable." Rockwell, however, in an interview conducted before "Angry White Man" was published, denied that he had any role in writing the newsletters.

Hours after my article appeared on the TNR website, the Paul campaign released a statement. "The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed," Paul said. "I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts." Moreover, he insisted that he didn't even know who wrote those words. On Thursday, two days after the statement appeared, Paul campaignspokesman Jesse Benton reiterated Paul's denial to CNN's Brian Todd. When Todd asked if Paul would attempt to find out who could have written the newsletters, Benton replied, "No, what's the point?"

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Comments

[sonshine]

Racism is stupid.

[justsaynotofascism]

Ron Paul's Midland County, Michigan coordinator, Randy Gray speaking at that white-power rally in Tennessee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRBb_zBgZM

The clearing view of Ron Paul:
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/01/clearing-view-of-ron-paul.html

[Misanthrope0]

The ONLY thing that could bring down a candidate that is as clean as Ron Paul, is a charge of racism.
Trent Lott saw this and many others as well..
Problem is when the accusations are true, they step down. Pressure is too great.
Amazing Paul can absorb this pressure and not quit or step down. In fact he IGNORES the media. He knows they are not to be answered to. It is the people of his district he answers to.
I guess he knows its not true and so does everyone else so he keeps getting elected and raising millions and millions of dollars..
Did you know the Paul supporters are donating their government stimulus checks to his campaign in the form of another money bomb?
What group says this?
I mean are all these people racists?
Blimps, 24 hour radio, 20 million in one quarter, Limos, Airplanes, Money bombs, over 50 websites, You tube, face book, meetups, college students, he instantly raises 6 million in one day, people quitting their jobs to work for the campaign,
10 consecutive campaign wins, 5 children (3 are MD's)..

What racist does this?

PLEASE!

[justsaynotofascism]

Check out Ron Paul's coordinator for Midland County, Michigan:

KKK Randy Gray
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/01/clearing-view-of-ron-paul.html

[montestruc]

Not only 2nd place in Nevada for Paul, but he has now beaten in one election or another every other candidate but Romney, he has beaten Guliani and Thompson several times in several different elections. He has more delegates now than Guliani or Hunter and almost as many as Thompson.

[localman]

2nd Place in Nevada. Not too shabby.

[SupremeIdiot]

Didn't the Paul campaign say that the person responsible was found out and fired quickly?

Or was it that he didn't keep track of what was being published under his name for decades?

Or was it that his Chief-of-staff was responsible and that Paul had no idea that the man was doing it and his C-O-S apparently didn't talk to Paul?

Or maybe it is something completely different from all of that?

[Skepticat]

Listen up faithful Paululons

IF you publish various newsletters with YOUR NAME on it for over 10 years you SHOULD be paying attention to the content whether you're in politics or not. Your (hopefully) good name
should be important enough to you to pay attention so that items you would be ashamed of are not associated with your good name.

If you claim you didn't know or didn't pay attention to what was in newsletters that went out under YOUR NAME for over 10 years you might be 1) a liar or 2) a naive trusting fool but in either case it doesn't make you look very smart or presidential.

[barrycourage]

What kind of leadership would anyone expect from a man who did not know the content of media published under his imprimatur to promote his ideas? And media that was published for DECADES, at that.

I don't know who is more stupid: Paul for thinking we'd buy this subordinate junk or the people who do buy it.

Stay in the GOP race, Ronny. Continue to remind the world that the GOP is a party of nitwits.

[Talcott]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsQsHpPDel8

[cognate]

Ron Paul is third at 12% in Nevada, 10% of the precincts reporting. That's outstanding considering the media blackout on him.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#NV

[andyboy]

"This week, for the third time, the puerile, racist, and completely un-Pauline comments that all informed people say you have caused to appear in Ron's newsletters over the course of several years have become an issue in his campaign," Robbins wrote."

hey Ron Paul!

can I sing you to the tune of Hey Bulldog?

did I tell you that the Branch Davidian called?

They're lookin' for someone

hey Ron Paul!

Who held the pen makes no difference at all.

[cognate]

C'mon folks, time to roll back the state - or we're done for.

Let's get our military

1) Out of Iraq
2) Out of Afghanistan
3) Out of the Persian Gulf
4) Out of Saudi Arabia
5) Out of the rest of the Middle East, Asia and Europe

6) End all foreign aid: no more arming both sides in the war Israel has with the Muslims

With the money saved we can end the income tax and not replace it with anything.

Take away the FED's power to create inflation. ALL inflation is caused by the FED. The FED alone prints money and/or writes rubber checks.

[leftLibertarian]

The DumboCrats talk sh!t.

They claim they will end the Iraq War but if one of them gets elected to be President, expect at least 4 more years of US troops in Iraq.

[ptarantino]

Being an advocate for gay rights is fine, but when you become a zealot, you lose proper perspective.


A great writer or even a fair one needs balance & the ability to see things from all angles.. I think Kirchik doesn't posses that in his writings of Ronald Earnest Paul.