Copyrighted Image? DMCA | For many years, Paul was merely an outlying crank in the ranks of the Republican Party--a "libertarian" who courted the paranoid bigots in the John Birch Society, whose monthly magazine featured his name on its masthead as a "contributing editor." More than a decade ago, during his 1996 campaign for Congress, the racist ravings in his newsletters were first exposed--the same series of articles that besmirched Martin Luther King and Barbara Jordan and encouraged every racist stereotype about African-Americans as criminals and welfare dependents. He disowns those words now, but back then a spokesman defended them as merely "taken out of context." |
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