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Anyone taking the view that Ron Paul is incompetant has given up any claim on being interested in the truth, rather than inscoring cheap political points against a candidate they don't like and bullying his fans. Harris puts it well:
"When those issues were published, Paul was a full-time medical doctor and a busy family man, as well as an in-demand speaker and a student of politics and current events ― in short, a man with tremendous demands on his time and energy. He had recently ended an exhaustive presidential race, returned to private practice, and was not in Congress or involved in electoral politics. He had given up control of his newsletter business; he kept only a minority share in the newsletter that bore his name. He made an ill-advised decision to turn the newsletter over to others, to let others write it and edit it and publish unsigned articles in this newsletter with his name in the title. He apparently failed to closely monitor it. That turned out to be a ghastly error."
This is the blatant fallacy that lies behind the statement, ?If Ron Paul can't even run an 8-page newsletter, how can we expect him to run an entire country?? Ron Paul wasn't ?running? that newsletter. In fact, he had long since relinquished responsibility for it. Over the course of several years, during which dozens of different newsletters were released, a few objectionable issues managed to slip out under his nose while he was delivering babies professionally, speaking publically, and tending to five children. Are we to denounce him for not having superhuman powers?
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