Not Racist Ron Paul, But Opportunist Ron Paul
Paul didn't greenlight the racist stuff in the newsletters because he is a racist, or in the purity of literary license. He approved the digs because they were a quick and dirty way to make a fast buck.
Paul didn't greenlight the racist stuff in the newsletters because he is a racist, or in the purity of literary license. He approved the digs because they were a quick and dirty way to make a fast buck.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 01.02.2012
WASHINGTON -- Despite recent accusations of racism and homophobia, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) stuck to his libertarian ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 01.01.2012
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who is expected to do very well in the Iowa caucuses this week, aggressively fended off acc...
Aaron Freeman | Posted 02.29.2012
Why be mad at somebody today when you know that in a few years they'll probably be your comrade in celebrating the next leap forward for civil rights?
AP | SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 02.26.2012
By SHANNON McCAFFREY, The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- No more Mr. Nice Guy. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich lambasted...
Posted 12.26.2011
As more evidence surfaces that Ron Paul knew about the racist and homophobic messages of the 1980s and 90s newsletters he published, a former senior a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.27.2011
NEW YORK CITY -- For the second time in as many runs for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, controversial newsletters Rep. Ron Paul (R-Te...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.24.2012
A slash and burn assault on government, even when its race tinged, doesn't hurt Ron Paul one bit. It gets media and public attention, draws denunciations from his defenders as hitting below the belt, and quiet cheers from the multitudes that happen to agree with him.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.23.2011
It is hardly a new revelation that newsletters sent under Rep. Ron Paul's name often contained provocative and occasionally racist material. When the ...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.15.2011
Unlike Trump, Ron Paul is a politician who knows how to get and sustain attention. And knocking civil rights when all else fails is always good for that.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite the scoffs at Paul's win at CPAC, and GOP assurances that it will have absolutely no impact on the 2012 presidential election, the scary Paul phenomenon could do just that.
The New Republic | James Kirchik | Posted 05.25.2011
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. P...
The New Republic | James Kirchick | Posted 05.25.2011
If you are a critic of the Bush administration, chances are that, at some point over the past six months, Ron Paul has said something that appealed to...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.03.2012