Hannity about to go on attack

[Liberty74]

Third Party run if the statist and fake conservatives (neocons) go after Ron on this to destroy his chances. Hannity is such a shill.

 

[AlexG]

Wow Mitt comes out swinging at Newt lol

 

[Carole]

 

[PauliticsPolitics]

Wow Mitt comes out swinging at Newt lol

Yea, it sounds like he watched all of Ron's adverts.

 

[Tunink]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dUoxruCh8c&feature=related

 

[Publicani]

My question is, what is the best strategy for countering the newsletter smear when people bring it up, whether in person or online?

"Everybody knows in my district that I didn't write them and I don't speak like that... and I've been reelected time and time again and everyone knows I don't participate in that kind of language. The point is, when you bring this question up, you're really saying 'you're a racist, or are you a racist?' The answer is no, I'm not a racist. As a matter of fact, Rosa Parks is one of my heroes, Martin Luther King is a hero, because they practiced the libertarian principle of civil disobedience and nonviolence. Libertarians are incapable of being a racist because racism is a collectivist idea: you see people in groups. A civil libertarian as myself sees everyone as an important individual."
—Ron Paul, CNN, January 10, 2008

Let me repeat:

" The point is, when you bring this question up, you're really saying 'you're a racist, or are you a racist?'"

 

[sailingaway]

Watch out for an additional attack saying that Dr. Paul profited by making over $1 million from these newsletters over that time from subscription fees. A guy on Facebook was going on and on about it trying to draw a supposed correlation that they profited from them and how could they not know the content.

It is hard to find logic in internet poison because it usually grows 'operator game style' with people recharacterizing the nonsense they heard from someone else. So they are saying over the 10 years it ran there were a million in subscriber fees? and there are what, 10 questionable sentences over those ten years? So we should find out how many sentences there were in the newsletters over ten years to divide and find out the percentage of fees 'tainted' by bad content? And then find out how much fo those subscriber fees to the independent editor actually went to Ron as a licensing fee for his name, and then apply that percentage to see how much of what went to Ron was tainted? And then decide if he should have known in advance this would happen and as a private citizen not politician should have protected himself?

I find that argument in the 'don't feed the trolls' category.

 

[Inkblots]

Has Ron Paul ever offered a direct apology for the newsletter content? I seem to remember him being combative when confronted with them. Why not have the campaign work up a sincere, sound-bite length apology that Ron can use during debates and interviews? The letters may have been ghost written but Ron Paul does actually have some degree of moral responsibility for them. Don't try to defend it, just offer a sincere apology and let the chips fall where they may.

But he has. Ron Paul said, "The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts. ... When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publically taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name."

 

[wgadget]

Take-away:

1. Ron did not write them.
2. Ron is not a racist.

End of story.

 

[wgadget]

The accuser has the burden of proof, right?

Let's see PROOF Ron wrote them.

 

[SilentBull]

I'm a little nervous but Republicans must be tired of being called "racists" by now. I think the initial reaction will be that people won't believe it, since they're so used to this.

 

[The Midnight Ride]

 

[Publicani]

funny, Drudge came out with the headline that MSNBC calls Romney KKK. Let's start the republican political debate: "Who is the worst racist, uh?"

 

[blakjak]

"Everybody knows in my district that I didn't write them and I don't speak like that... and I've been reelected time and time again and everyone knows I don't participate in that kind of language. The point is, when you bring this question up, you're really saying 'you're a racist, or are you a racist?' The answer is no, I'm not a racist. As a matter of fact, Rosa Parks is one of my heroes, Martin Luther King is a hero, because they practiced the libertarian principle of civil disobedience and nonviolence. Libertarians are incapable of being a racist because racism is a collectivist idea: you see people in groups. A civil libertarian as myself sees everyone as an important individual."
—Ron Paul, CNN, January 10, 2008

wow. now that is how you handle the issue

 

[Inkblots]

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

Great video!

 

[dmitchell]

But he has. Ron Paul said, "The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts. ... When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publically taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name."

That's pretty good but I don't see an "I'm sorry" in there.

 

[Give me liberty]

So since i dont like hannity what is happening now? is hannity attacking Ron Paul on those newsletters? sigh those again? its like there heads are stuck in 08 or something i would know if Ron Paul is on hannity.

 

[Carole]

Who the hell called who here? Looks like stupid Newt got his wires crossed as Hannity jumps in immediately to "correct" him. We called you. Newt.

so little scrutiny of it."
It looks like it's a strategy. Will hear about the newsletters tomorrow during the debate as well.

 

[theczar1776]

Before accepting the premise that the quotes are racist please read the following.


http://takimag.com/article/why_the_beltway_libertarians_are_trying_to_smear_ron_paul/#axzz1gWszdzjZ

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Whoever was responsible for those newsletters need to come out clean and assume the responsibility for writing them.

Wasn't there already a confession about this?

I will confess, I wrote them, but Murray Rothbard helped me with the spelling. I was more of a songwriter. It was satire and hyperbole. I'm terribly sorry, I'll attempt to avoid this in the future, but I may not be able to help myself, cause I'm Rick James, bitch!

I may be stupid or insensitive. I've read all the quotes from the newsletters and didn't find a single racist quote there.

It is certainly overblown.