If Paul did not believe in the racist and bigoted tracts that Powell wrote, then he should have fired Powell when Paul discovered them in his newsletter and issued a retraction and condemnation shortly thereafter.  Similarly, the Ron Paul newsletters were also as homophobic as they were racist.

Paul himself has been mealy mouthed about it all.  First, he claimed that the bigoted things in his newsletter were “taken out of context.”  Then, it became “only 8 or 10 sentences were actually offensive.”  Now, it’s become “someone else did it,” and the typical “A Black Person Said Paul Isn’t Racist” defense – as if a Racial Celebrity Endorsement will make it all go away.

Even if Paul never wrote a single bigoted sentence in The Ron Paul Report OR The Ron Paul Newsletters, the fact that he allowed Powell (and anyone else) to do so AND publish it under his masthead, on his watch, in his (Paul’s) name…and then failing to punish those responsible for making Paul look like racist and a homophobic bigot – if Paul doesn’t believe in being racist or homophobic, that is – tells me that he would be unfit to manage a burger joint, much less carry out the duties of POTUS.