Ron Paul’s skeletons

Ron Paul said he didn’t write racist remarks published in his old newsletters, said The Dallas Morning News, but that's a "shockingly" dismissive excuse. Reading this stuff was a "gut-punch" for everyone who responded to his maverick,

What happened

Maverick GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul said on Thursday that he didn’t write racist remarks published in a newsletter that bore his name in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the newsletters, which were unearthed by James Kirchick this week in The New Republic, said that order was restored after 1992 riots in Los Angeles when blacks went “to pick up their welfare checks.” (CNN.com)

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