teapartysamurai
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Says Dondero of the newsletter (full text below*), Ron Paul "did read them, every line of them, off his fax machine at his Clute office before they were published. He would typically sign them at the bottom of the last page giving his okay, and refax them to Jean to go to the printer." There is not a word of this inthe Texas Monthly article that Paul uses to deflect Hannity.
On another occasion, Paul slips and slides through a 2008interviewwith Wolf Blitzer on the same subject. Paul repudiates what was written, but very carefully limits himself to saying he never wrote these things.
Here's the problem.
Ron Paul doesn't seem like a racist. He has in fact spoken out saying -- correctly -- that racism is in fact collectivism. He says this is simply not part of his character --and his supporters insist this is so. Yet the newsletter content,publicizedseveral years back by the New Republic, seriously opened the issue in documented fashion.
But the issue seems to be sliding, in light of former Paul aide Dondero's assertions that Dondero appears to have witnessed. The issue is moving slightly but critically from race -- to truth telling.
Simply put: did Ron Paul "read them, every line of them" and then sign off on them? Or not?
If Dondero is telling the truth, then Ron Paul looked Sean Hannity straight in the eye the other night -- and deliberately evaded the truth.
Four years ago he appears to have done the same thing to Wolf Blitzer.
For a candidate whose supporters routinely accuse George W. Bush of having lied about the Iraq War, the idea that Paul himself is repeatedly less than truthful -- with a specific accusation from a former aide -- is big trouble.
The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Ex-Ron Paul Aide Disputes Paul on Newsletters
Now this doesn't surprise me, because Ron Paul has been lying about those newsletters for years.
I have another thread which documents he's lying about his newsletters.