It's not THAT hard Ron...

[jer4liberty]

I still don't like the fact he had no idea who wrote this....he needs to own up to the fact that he should have been more cognizant of who was writing in his newsletters.

However, he should say I am against the most racist laws we have, the federal drug laws that disproportionately target African-Americans for the same offense committed by the general population.

 

[RickyJ]

Ron's response today was awful. The media circus that savaged Cain will look tame by comparison if changes aren't made. I believe the OP is 100% correct.

Really? You believe he should admit the newsletters had some very racist commentary in them? Have you even read any of those supposedly "very racist" snippets in the newsletters? I kind of doubt it cause what is in there is very mild. Obama has actually said things much more racist than anything in these newsletters and no one even brings it up. Ron Paul is making the right move here cause this newsletter scandal is nothing and will not hurt him in the least.

 

[wgadget]

I was struck by the RON PAUL GLARE-DOWN that he gave the reporter from the very beginning of the interview.

He looked like a BOSS.

Seriously. Very effective.

 

[D.A.S.]

WRONG APPROACH!

To even attempt to fight these attacks is to be drawn into their trap!

Do not take their bait!!!!!!!!

The way to respond is a two-step...

Step 1. Dismiss them lightly with a wave of the hand: ....."I've gone over this a 100 times. I didnt write the letters and I disavow them."

then.....

Step 2: Immediately switch gears and go on a vicious counter attack: "The Establishment is afraid of my campaign because it threatens their power. They'll invent anything in order to hold on to their power and avoid talking about the economic meltdown...these immoral and costly wars...the trillion dollar bailouts....bailouts of Europe...etc....Why are you wasting your viewers time with this nonsense?"....

Thats how it's done. NEVER allow these bastards to put you on the defenseive!....ALWAYS attack!

No. Whether we like it or not, he did allow things to be published under his name that he obviously doesn't endorse. And he said he takes some moral responsibility for that. It's a question of accountability from someone running for a top executive post, and people are afraid that Ron could be just as easily manipulated or allow things to be done under his nose the way his publishing company went.

So it is important to deliver a swift and broad response to this, to reiterate that he takes moral responsibility for the newsletters and that he regrets he allowed this rhetoric to get out under his name.

Delivering a sound response like he has in the past will be necessary. As much as the third party issue hasn't gone away, I assure you this issue will not go away either, unless Ron owns up to the lapse in oversight and restates his response. The campaign did this for USA Today just today, but Ron needs to be able to say that stuff calmly and without getting antsy.

 

[wgadget]

I still don't like the fact he had no idea who wrote this....he needs to own up to the fact that he should have been more cognizant of who was writing in his newsletters.

However, he should say I am against the most racist laws we have, the federal drug laws that disproportionately target African-Americans for the same offense committed by the general population.

And somedamnhow he needs to get straight to the issue of detention of American citizens without a trial. Make a point of how ridiculous this rehashing of 20-year-old newsletters is in the scheme of reality.

 

[parocks]

WRONG APPROACH!

To even attempt to fight these attacks is to be drawn into their trap!

Do not take their bait!!!!!!!!

The way to respond is a two-step...

Step 1. Dismiss them lightly with a wave of the hand: ....."I've gone over this a 100 times. I didnt write the letters and I disavow them."

then.....

Step 2: Immediately switch gears and go on a vicious counter attack: "The Establishment is afraid of my campaign because it threatens their power. They'll invent anything in order to hold on to their power and avoid talking about the economic meltdown...these immoral and costly wars...the trillion dollar bailouts....bailouts of Europe...etc....Why are you wasting your viewers time with this nonsense?"....

Thats how it's done. NEVER allow these bastards to put you on the defenseive!....ALWAYS attack!

Right. Nothing new has surfaced in the last 4 years, when this was discussed at length. You want to pretend that this is new. It isn't.

CNN is owned by Ted Turner (am I right there?) who is a Global Socialist who believes in One World Government. The people who own CNN are some of the most evil people in the world. It's like I'm fighting against the Legion of Doom here. That, but 1/10th of that. People liked it when Gingrich was attacking the media, and got tired of it when any question to Newt became an excuse for him to take twice as long as everyone else, half to complain about how little time he was given to answer a question about such a complex problem, as if that never happened before, and the other half to answer the question.

If I was Ron Paul, I would want to know why NOW this is being talked about? You didn't have to do any research. You did a piece exactly the same as this, it ran on TV, 4 years ago. This is not new, so it's hard to describe this as NEWS. Smearing Ron Paul with the same old dirt is not the same thing as NEWS.

I don't watch TV news. Have they spent 15 minutes going over Newt's maritial history in fine detail? How his first wife was his high school teacher. And how he was dating his second wife when he was still married to his first wife? And he was dating his third wife when he was still married to his second?

 

[milo10]

Using the term "I made the biggest mistake of my political career" would literally be the biggest mistake of his political career. They would bash Ron Paul badly from it.

They would ignore the rest of the statement and just use the "biggest mistake of my career" part of it and act like Ron Paul was talking about directly writing it.

Imagine it:

CNN:

"Ron Paul has come under fire about racist letters in his newspaper"

*shows examples of the racist statements and puts Ron Paul quote "I made the biggest mistake of my political career" on the screen*

"We will be right back to discuss it further"

*CNN hosts grill him on it*

+rep. You understand how the media operates. Ron's campaign does as well. Most people don't.

 

[KramerDSP]

I think Ted Turner is long gone from CNN and was bought out. Turner had some pretty harsh things to say about media conglomerates in an interview a few years ago.

 

[sofia]

I think Ted Turner is long gone from CNN and was bought out. Turner had some pretty harsh things to say about media conglomerates in an interview a few years ago.

Zionists pulled CNN right out from under Turner's nose. Turner hated what Gerald Levin and friends did to him.

 

[parocks]

The campaign knows what they are doing. They got to the top of the polls in Iowa by having the best campaign, there is a reason why Ron hasn't responded like this. They know what they are doing. We should all just calm down. Sleep on it. See how things look tomorrow. It's probably best this came out now. Let's get it out of the way and get Ron elected.

I thought there was going to be a newsletter question in the last debate. Hannity had started talking about it. If there was a Newsletter question in the debate, that might not have gone well. If that had happened, and had not gone well, that would've been bad. I don't really care much about this, I don't think it's all that harmful, and it could possibly be good as others have said.

 

[rp713]

i side with ron on how he handled this. he was interviewed by CNN twice about this YESTERDAY. why keep asking him the same question over and over when he answers the same every time? its not like herman cain when he has different answers every time he speaks on it. its always been the same answer.

just run the questions and answer from the previous day. it doesnt matter what reporter you use, the answer will be the same. he didnt write it, he didnt read it at the time because he was too busy with other important things like BEING A DOCTOR which consumes an awful lot of time, and he rejects what was written. what more do they want?

when obama rejected what Rev. Wright said, it was over with rather quickly.

ron took a stand today. he wont comment on this to cnn anymore. he gave his answer and thats that. if you dont like it then go eat shit.

 

[parocks]

Zionists pulled CNN right out from under Turner's nose. Turner hated what Gerald Levin and friends did to him.

Well, there you go. I don't have the facts about CNN right, but I think the message is right, and as it turns out, it coincides even better with the facts.

 

[abstrusezincate]

The OP is right. The issue doesn't go away until Paul disavows it AND it is made clear who said it. That person should admit it, say they were wrong, and Ron had nothing to do with it, and draw the attention for their beliefs onto themself. Ron isn't diminished, the question will be resolved, and more important issues can arise.

Then the campaign can move on. Sooner equals better.

 

[sofia]

Well, there you go. I don't have the facts about CNN right, but I think the message is right, and as it turns out, it coincides even better with the facts.

Walter Isaacson became CNN President. Now he runs the Aspen Institute (which Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Trey Grayson, Jack Conway were affiliated with)

The current CNN Boss is also a Zionist-Globalist but I forget his name.

 

[Steppenwolf6]

from the DP:
Dr. Paul,

I have not spent a lot of time, energy, and money for you to get indignant with reporters about one question in your past. You are the FRONTRUNNER. They will ask you questions about this.

I work in PR. I will give you the easy answer:

"This is a very difficult question for me to answer because it assumes something about my character that isn't true but I understand why you ask and the American people deserve an answer. That was the biggest mistake in my political career. I owned a newsletter and had hired several people to ghostwrite in my name. Unfortunately, some very racist, offensive and disparaging remarks were made in it that I do not approve of. I do apologize for my neglect of that newsletter and understand the pain those remarks can inflict on some people. I do want the American people to know that I will not tolerate things like that in my campaign, in my life, or in a Paul presidency. [insert reporter name], you've covered me and your network has covered me for a while now and you know, I have never made comments like that and never will."

THAT is the answer. None of this "it's impossible for me to be racist because I'm libertarian" or "that's old news"... You may not like it Ron, but if you keep running from it, they'll keep asking it.

For goodness sake, please learn from Herman Cain (and only on this because he's an idiot), that blaming the media will get you nowhere.

Done ranting. From a decade long supporter...

ACTUALLY on Cain.. yes,I agree:
Total,complete, ignorant idiot BUT he went from nobody to frontrunner exactly by firing straight back and bashing the MSM and lefty establishment in the most direct,sometimes disconnected but aggressive and simple manner.
If you call that " going nowhere"...(!?)

Yes, he got finally killed out of the race by personal matters,he was weak in his defense because of facts and truth putting him in that weak spot (he should have been killed by his ignorance and for being a statist) but the point is :
All that is not going to happen to Ron Paul .
He is no Cain,Paul is another quality of man.

People liked Cain exactly BECAUSE he was feisty against the left establishment and the media ,simple ,direct.
What you are presenting here instead sounds like romney-gingrich speech,please ..dont'make me puke.

You work in P.R. but you don't know everything and you are no Ron Paul.
People CAN see through all this and they DO.

To everybody:
Please,i beg you,stop criticizing and correcting everything Ron Paul does and says!
These are the times to be even stronger and more positive than before

 

[Liberty Shark]

I wouldn't bother wasting too much valuable time on this issue. Anything involving race is very controversial in this time period in this country. For the people who seem to spend their entire lives searching for "evil racist white people" and smearing them and trying to ruin their careers, you are never going to convince them on anything on an issue like this. They are beyond hope.

There is zero evidence that shows that Paul wrote any of that stuff - period. Most politicians, or at least prominent ones, have ghost writers who write their books and campaign stuff. In this case, a mild mistake was made in not thoroughly checking every single word of the letters, but it is understandable because we are only talking about a few scattered sentences over a decade. And even those few select comments were not exactly horrible, at worst they were somewhat laughable attempts at sounding like a "culture warrior".

The good news is that the only reason why the regime is trying to carryout this smear attack is because they clearly now view Paul as a threat to their iron grip rule on the government and power structure. Yet the genie is already out of the bottle. Everyone (outside of the controlled power structure) now hates the Federal Reserve, on both sides of the political spectrum (for different reasons). This is just one out of a litany of issues that has been advanced by the movement.

 

[Steppenwolf6]

Another one of these stupid threads that someone has to make when they think they have had some major epiphany on what Ron should do or say. I am starting to get to the opinion that these types of threads should be bannable. These topic matters are not thread worthy in the GRC.

SO agreed.

And the "i know i am the expert,if it was me instead of Ron Paul I would know how to handle it,i would win" whole grotesque factor just adds some involuntary comedy to the mix.

WHY DON'T THEY fxxxxing run alone against all of the establishment and apply their oh so fuXXXXng great "expertize" to their campaign?
Go ahead,will be sitting here judging how THEY do.

 

[Liberty Shark]

The OP is right. The issue doesn't go away until Paul disavows it AND it is made clear who said it. That person should admit it, say they were wrong, and Ron had nothing to do with it, and draw the attention for their beliefs onto themself. Ron isn't diminished, the question will be resolved, and more important issues can arise.

Then the campaign can move on. Sooner equals better.

If you truly think that the media will stop the smear attack due to that, then I would have to kindly question your sanity. The establishment doesn't care what Paul says regarding this issue, they are simply trying to smear him. They aren't dealing in objective facts, they are dealing in lies and nonsense. It's not much more complicated than that. Any truthful and non-biased person will see this for what it is. The haters will continue to hate.

 

[D.A.S.]

The Campaign did issue a response to the newsletter issue in the USA Today Article:

Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said the congressman was practicing medicine at the time the newsletters were published and "did not write or approve the incendiary passages and does not agree with them."

"He has, however, taken moral responsibility because they appeared under his name and slipped through under his watch," Benton said. "They do not reflect what he believes in: liberty and dignity for all mankind. … Dr. Paul, renowned as a straight shooter who speaks his mind, has given literally thousands of speeches over the past 35 years, and he has never spoken such things."

And this is exactly what Ron needs to be repeating over, and over, and over...

 

[american.swan]

I think he needs to have a quick answer and go on to another topic. Then, if the person asks a similar question AGAIN, talk about something else, like the detention of US citizens.