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In early book,Ron Paul criticized AIDS patients, minority rights and sexual harassment
Last edited Fri Dec 30, 2011, 01:35 PM - Edit history (2)
In early book, Rep. Ron Paul criticized AIDS patients, minority rights and sexual harassment victimshttp://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/30/in-early-book-rep-ron-paul-criticized-aids-patients-minority-rights-and-sexual-harassment-victims/
Texas Rep. Ron Paul has distanced himself from a series of controversial newsletters from the 1980s and 1990s that bore his name and included inflammatory and racially charged language.
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.
In his 1987 manifesto "Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution after 200-Plus Years," Paul wrote that AIDS patients were victims of their own lifestyle, questioned the rights of minorities and argued that people who are sexually harassed at work should quit their jobs.
Ron Paul Claimed An AIDS Patient Is ‘A Victim Of His Own Lifestyle’ In 1987 Book
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despite his denials, CNN’s Peter Hamby reports that Paul included many of the controversial ideas in his 1987 book, “Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution after 200-Plus Years.” That work — published under Paul’s name — attributed AIDS to the gay “lifestyle” and suggested that victims of sexual harassment should simply quit their jobs:
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/12/30/395881/ron-paul-claimed-an-aids-patient-is-a-victim-of-his-own-lifestyle-in-1987-book/
Ron Paul: Newsletters haven’t hurt me politically
http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/12/30/ron-paul-newletters-havent-hurt-me-politically/
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“It never hurt me politically, and right now I think it is the same case, but people are desperate to find something,” the GOP presidential contender said during an in-studio interview at WHO Radio in Des Moines.
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he did not even read it 
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This man is a Doctor. Anyone who is or knows a doc knows that NOTHING goes in or out of that office with their name on it that they have not read carefully. At least when he was practicing it was like that, I hope it still is.
He is not only all the horrid things we already know he is a liar and will say anything to get himself out of trouble. Not material for any office IMO.
