Ron Paul says he didn't write these newsletters, and I take him at his word. They don't sound like him. In my infrequent personal encounters and in his public appearances, I've never heard him say anything racist or homophobic (halting and uncomfortable on gay issues, like a lot of 72-year-old conservatives, but not hateful).

Rep. Paul didn't write them. Do you want me to translate this into something else besides english to make comprehension easier?

With what is available today, such as graphic and work processing applications, I can go out and publish "newsletters" from anyone I want, saying anything I want.

If I wanted to, I can create a paper trail from dillon to Bishop to granholm, on "official" looking letterhead, spelling out how to raise taxes last year and get away with it.

The thing is, they aren't real. They were never real. They never will be real.

And it saddens me to see the level of gullibility displayed by people who should know better than to take something as flimsy as this at face value and run with it as if it were the truth.

Come back with a video file or audio clip to the contrary, then we'll talk.

'But he selected the people who did write those things, and he put his name on the otherwise unsigned newsletters, and he raised campaign funds from the mailing list that those newsletters created. And he would have us believe that things that "do not represent what I believe or have ever believed" appeared in his newsletter for years and years without his knowledge. Assuming Ron Paul in fact did not write those letters, people close to him did. His associates conceived, wrote, edited, and mailed those words. His closest associates over many years know who created those publications. If they truly admire Ron Paul, if they think he is being unfairly tarnished with words he did not write, they should come forward, take responsibility for their words, and explain how they kept Ron Paul in the dark for years about the words that appeared every month in newsletters with "Ron Paul" in the title.

And it's not odd (as you claim) when you read further below in the same article:

  Paul said he had never even read the articles with the racist comments.  

"I do repudiate everything that is written along those lines," he said, adding he wanted to "make sure everybody knew where I stood on this position because it's obviously wrong."

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