David Bernstein:
Rather, the point is that his campaign seems to be taking the same unfortunate position that Goldwater did in 1964; condemning racism in general on principled libertarian grounds, but providing winks and nods that support from racists for racist reasons would be welcome.

Paul and Thompson are the only major party Presidential candidates I would consider voting for in the primaries, although I have problems with both of them. Then again, I typically disagree with the Libertarian Party candidates on a couple of key issues, too. Point is, I wouldn't dismiss any candidate just for being imperfect.

Having said that, I wasn't aware that Paul had been accused of being racist, or of tolerating racism on the parts of others, but then I had never considered voting for him until this campaign. After reading the article (I had already visited Paul's website), I couldn't draw the same conclusions as you and Mr. Bernstein seem to have drawn. Maybe I just came in at the tail end of a longer issue, so I'm going to have to do some more homework. Thanks for the information.

RE: The Volokh Conspiracy - Ron Paul on Racism