Now fear, though, the Paulites will go to stages 4, 5, and especially 6 in an attempt to mitigate the disaster inherent in Ron Paul’s writings
(CNN) As the newsletters burst into view, first during his 2008 presidential bid and again in recent weeks after he climbed to the front of the Republican race in Iowa, Paul has blamed the writings on ghostwriters. He said he was not aware of the “bad stuff,” as he described it.
But one of Paul’s own books, published solely under his name, contains several passages that could be problematic as he attempts to push his libertarian message into the political mainstream.
As usual, Paul does have some good points, though some of them are rather un-PC, even if he is telling the truth, and Independents might have an issue with them. Then we have stuff like this
In a passage first flagged by the Houston Chronicle in 2007, Paul then claimed that sexual harassment should not be a violation of one’s employment rights.
“Employee rights are said to be valid when employers pressure employees into sexual activity,” Paul wrote. “Why don’t they quit once the so-called harassment starts? Obviously the morals of the harasser cannot be defended, but how can the harassee escape some responsibility for the problem? Seeking protection under civil rights legislation is hardly acceptable.”
That’s a great way to lose the female vote (though not all harassment is towards women), and completely foolhardy. Blaming the victim? Dumb. Leon Wolf finds a quote from the book not in the CNN article
The Middle East, in the last forty years, has soaked up billions of dollars in the name of American security and peace. The more we give Israel, the more we must give their Arab enemies. The height of this folly was vividly and tragically dramatized on October 23, 1981, with the killing of the 241 Marines in Beirut when their barracks were destroyed by radical Moslems. The terrorists probably were aided by Iran and supplied with explosives sold to them by Israel, originating from the United States and paid for by American taxpayers.
So, the bombing was the fault of those eeeeevil Israeli’s and the US, not the Islamist wackjobs. Ron Paul doesn’t seem to like the country he wants to be president of too much, and darned sure takes the far left position that Israel is the root cause of all problems in the Middle East.
