Whoever wrote the newsletters and it appears some chaps at TNR have said some pretty trashy stuff. I don't think Paul is racist at all, I heard about the newsletter thing a long time ago. If Ron Paul really is a bigot, he is the best liar ever, and he even said that you will never find a clip of him saying anything like that. That would be neat if someone could do that, besides drudging up the newsletter again, and again.

That would be funny if saying I believe him makes me a bigot too. I'll call Paul Dirks a yuppie to be a dick, but I don't know anything about Mr. Dirks except that he plays guitar. Seems like Ron Paul said that he was a minor partner and lent his name, which was more recognized after his 1988 run. He managed his medical practice after he ran in 1988 and didn't edit the newsletter, which was in an office in another city before the Internets. He took responsibility for it 12 years ago.

So that is the "other horn" I suppose, he isn't a bigot now, the new blather will be "Ron Paul is incompetent", because he didn't edit a newsletter after he ran for president, while out of Congress, while running a medical practice where he never accepted medicaid or medicare, etc. what a bigoted monster. In every other area of his life he practices what he preaches, except for a span of two years or so in a newsletter without a byline. Perhaps Mr. Hyde came out of the doctor. I figured he would have plenty of time to edit the newsletter since all he seems to have done with his time otherwise is sit around counting his money and giggling to himself while reading mein kampf.

But perhaps that oversite can be weighed against various known actions and deeds of some of our other, more "electable" candidates. Judicial Watch has a pretty nice list to start with.

http://judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2007

Washington, DC –Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2007 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:

1. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY): In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 – and rightly so – for blocking the release her official White House records. Many suspect these records contain a treasure trove of information related to her role in a number of serious Clinton-era scandals. Moreover, in March 2007, Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint against Senator Clinton for filing false financial disclosure forms with the U.S. Senate (again). And Hillary’s top campaign contributor, Norman Hsu, was exposed as a felon and a fugitive from justice in 2007. Hsu pleaded guilt to one count of grand theft for defrauding investors as part of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.

5. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY): Giuliani came under fire in late 2007 after it was discovered the former New York mayor’s office “billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons…” ABC News also reported that Giuliani provided Nathan with a police vehicle and a city driver at taxpayer expense. All of this news came on the heels of the federal indictment on corruption charges of Giuliani’s former Police Chief and business partner Bernard Kerik, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to accepting a $165,000 bribe in the form of renovations to his Bronx apartment from a construction company attempting to land city contracts.

6. Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR): Governor Huckabee enjoyed a meteoric rise in the polls in December 2007, which prompted a more thorough review of his ethics record. According to The Associated Press: “[Huckabee’s] career has also been colored by 14 ethics complaints and a volley of questions about his integrity, ranging from his management of campaign cash to his use of a nonprofit organization to subsidize his income to his destruction of state computer files on his way out of the governor’s office.” And what was Governor Huckabee’s response to these ethics allegations? Rather than cooperating with investigators, Huckabee sued the state ethics commission twice and attempted to shut the ethics process down.

8. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL): A “Dishonorable Mention” last year, Senator Obama moves onto the “ten most wanted” list in 2007. In 2006, it was discovered that Obama was involved in a suspicious real estate deal with an indicted political fundraiser, Antoin “Tony” Rezko. In 2007, more reports surfaced of deeper and suspicious business and political connections It was reported that just two months after he joined the Senate, Obama purchased $50,000 worth of stock in speculative companies whose major investors were his biggest campaign contributors. One of the companies was a biotech concern that benefited from legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after the senator purchased $5,000 of the company’s shares. Obama was also nabbed conducting campaign business in his Senate office, a violation of federal law.

Yes, these "electable" candidates are the pillars of Civic Duty and Moral Responsibility, and truly embody what a child aspires to when it asks a parent, "Do you think I could be President one day?", and the parent replies, "Yes", while the gears in its head start turning. It just screams "hope" and "change", and doesn't stink of a deep cynicism or anything. I'm sure these newsletters will put Dr. Paul on the list next year....

I didn't say any Dem in particular was a bigot either, just making an observation... Divide and conquer ;)