HUH?? 30 years is not that long. My views and I think most peoples opinions about race relations haven't changed over the years. If he was a homophobic racist 30 years ago, that speaks to his basic character. And we are not talking about the 1950's here. 30 years is 1982 and anyone publishing crap like that in 1982, when they are 46 years old, knew exactly what they were doing.
He said he didnt write it, an author came forward and said he has written it (by he, I mean the author that came forward wrote it, and not ron paul), and nobody on his staff claims he wrote it. Nothing will convince you that he didnt write it.
I don't buy Ron Paul's line of BS any more than that of any other politician. He named his son after Ayn Rand for pity's sake and they both oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and believe that privately owned businesses have the right to segregate. Ron Paul was the only member of congress to vote against honoring the 1964 Civil Rights bills on its 40th anniversary.
Should maybe read his speech:
Civil Rights Act
Seems perfectly reasonable to me. I wasnt alive at the time, but maybe it shouldve been something handed to the states to enforce instead of it being federally enforced.
He proposes repealing the 17th amendment and returning to the system of having US senators selected by state legislators, not elected by popular vote! Likewise, he favors the keeping the Electoral College (The system that inflicted the second Bush administration on the world). He would not have ordered the operation to take out bin Ladin.
He proposes repealing the 17th amendment because he sticks by his values that we should stick to the constitution. Technically speaking, the 17th amendment should have NEVER been ratified in the first place.
It is never a good idea to put strict ideologists in a positions of power.
I am willing to give it a shot and see how things go. Politicians these days dont represent the people, they represent corporations. This is fully shown in the SOPA/PIPA proposals that initially had a huge backing by politicians.
His stance on many things is that it should go to the individual states to make up their minds instead of it being something that the federal government should enforce. Why does the federal government need to step in so much? Why cant states handle things? Doesnt the state have a much closer tie with their people than the government?