It continues to distress me when otherwise reasonable people casually mention that Ron Paul seems to be a sensible choice on the GOP side. His being accidentally right on marijuana and foreign wars is nothing to hang your hat on, and for gays his lies about thinking government should not be in the marriage business (while supporting DOMA) should be easy to see through.

More disturbingly, his racist newsletters were widely known about during his last campaign. (Paul has claimed he didn't know they existed until 2001, but video of him addressing them in 1995 has just surfaced.) I don't know how on earth his supports can pretend they don't exist or that he wasn't aware of every word in them.

Now, check out this fundraising letter (screed???) from 1993 that was on Paul's stationery and that bore his signature. He of course is now saying he never wrote it and disavows it. It's INSANE, race-baiting and has still more great content for the gays. And by "great" I mean "not great."

I overheard some progressive collegiate types in Evanston, Illinois, saying how Paul made sense on some issues but deciding, "Ultimately, though, he's crazy. And it's not okay to have someone crazy in the White House." No kidding. It's bad enough that he's a congressman.