Too Kooky for Kentucky: Proximity to Racism Continually Dogs Pauls

As these posts from Too Kooky for Kentucky show, this isn’t the first time the Pauls have been dogged by accusations of racist allies:

Now that the focus is on Rand Paul to show where he stands on race in America and to renounce his radical, racist supporters, it’s worthwhile to take a look at his father and political mentor, Ron Paul. After all, as repeated articles have pointed out, Rand is running to become his father’s heir.

As this CNN article shows, Ron Paul has a troubled history on the issue of race. Here are portions-

A series of newsletters in the name of GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul contain several racist remarks — including one that says order was restored to Los Angeles after the 1992 riots when blacks went “to pick up their welfare checks.”

CNN recently obtained the newsletters — written in the 1990s and one from the late 1980s — after a report was published about their existence in The New Republic.

None of the newsletters CNN found says who wrote them, but each was published under Paul’s name between his stints as a U.S. congressman from Texas.

Paul told CNN’s “The Situation Room” Thursday that he didn’t write any of the offensive articles and has “no idea” who did.

[Too Kooky:] Of course the Pauls never have any idea who did these things, how they were released or anything else about racist commentary that seems to always follow their campaigns. But now Rand Paul is on the spot. Can he continue to waffle now that the spotlight is one him? We’ll see.

And this post highlights a pair of videos documenting those accusations:

Ron Paul's Racist Quotes
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