DISQUS

The statements are obviously not Ron Paul's. Apart from his statements asserting that fact, in terms of style and tone they are unlike what he says or writes, or said or wrote, both before that time, during that time and after that time. Even the most superficial analysis establishes that clearly.

What's more, he repudiated them very publicly and long ago in major publications in Texas.

Finally, they are a dead issue as far as political challengers for his Congressional seat over the years are concerned. If anyone would have reason to make them visible if they were authentic and credible, those individuals would. They have not. Why?

I, too, am troubled that he didn't more closely track things going out with his name attached, something for which he apologized. I recently wrote a foreword for a book that was mangled through being edited by the author as well as the editors, and it troubles me deeply that anyone ever might think I stand by their version. Next time I will insist on control beginning to end or I will decline. Then again I haven't before had something published as an adjunct to someone else's book, whereas goodness knows the hundreds of thousands of words Paul has spoken and written and had prepared on his behalf by Congressional and other staffers over the years.

Withdraw your support if you wish, but do so for substantive reasons rather than uncritically accepting (and moreover then propagating) a palpable smear.

John McCain once said of Ron Paul that Paul was the most honest man in Congress. You do a man of sterling character a grave injustice.

We all make mistakes from time to time and, regrettably, it is you have made one here and now.