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This piece by David Weigel on the anti-Paul pile on pretty much sums my view of this very troubling situation. Unless we hear something new, I am giving Paul the benefit of the doubt. At the same time, he clearly needs to explain himself better. It counts for something that Paul is now running the most anti-racist/antiwar campaign of any GOP candidate:

Paul disassociates himself from the newsletters (although not from all the people who wrote them) and the people running his campaign have no connection to that older, nastier iteration of his career. The campaign was growing so much larger and more interesting than the conspiratorial Paul circle of the late 80s and mid-90s.

In any case, the Paul pile-on is starting to get ridiculous. You can blame Paul and the ghostwriters for some of this, for keeping what was in the newsletters so quiet, but simply because so many of them are now out I'm seeing "damning" quotes that pad the lists without making Paul look out of line. The excitable Dan Koffler compiles some that wouldn't sound out of place, frankly, in a conservative blog or in National Review

Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 11:09 AM | Comments (0) | Return

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