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Originally posted by grahambino
so my question is who's campaign forged it?
my guess is Fred Thompson.
It wasn't forged, but it wasn't written by Paul either. Between his stints in the US congress (while he was back to being a practicing obstetrician and after his 1988 Presidential run) there was a libertarian newsletter published called the Ron Paul Political Report. I guess it bore his name since he was one of the leaders of the libertarian movement at the time. Of course, when it comes to libertarianism you always attract the crazies along with the normal people who just want freedom from government, so there are some people with racist views. Either way, it had some pretty bad racial stuff in it about blacks/gays/jews, your typical targets of white supremecists. He since then denounced their racist rants and expressed regret for not paying attention to what was being published with his name on it. It was brought up back when he ran for congress in the late 90s, and they dug it up again now to smear him with.
Whether you agree with his policy or not, Paul seems like a principled and honest man to me, so I'm going to have to assume this is the truth. Unfortunately, once a smear has been released, it doesn't matter if you deny it successfully, because the damage is already done. Kind of like the Obama/Madrassa crap they tried to smear him with a while back.