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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Candidates join Perry's Virginia lawsuit

Candidates join Perry's Virginia lawsuit
December 31st, 2011
04:40 PM ET
9 minutes ago


(CNN) - Four candidates left off the Virginia Republican primary ballot joined Rick Perry Saturday in suing the state's board of elections over laws they say are "unconstitutional."
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum joined the lawsuit, originally filed Tuesday, challenging provisions that determine who can appear on the primary ballot.

On Wednesday, Gingrich cited fraud as the reason he didn’t make it onto the ballot, laying the blame on one of their paid volunteers.
"We hired somebody who turned in false signatures. We turned in 11,100 – we needed 10,000 – 1,500 of them were by one guy who frankly committed fraud,” Gingrich said.
On Saturday, Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond said they were looking into the petition fraud case, but that their top priority was getting on the ballot.
All five candidates filing the lawsuit failed to qualify for the ballot.
Huntsman, Bachmann and Santorum did not file petitions with the Virginia State Board of Elections that would have allowed them a place in the state's primary. Gingrich and Perry filed petitions that were later rejected by the Republican Party of Virginia for not meeting requirements.
Virginia requires candidates to obtain 10,000 signatures from registered voters in the state, with at least 400 signatures coming from each of the commonwealth's 11 congressional districts.
In the lawsuit filed Tuesday, Perry said the statutes of Virginia law that regulate access to the ballot were "among the most onerous in the nation and severely restrict who may obtain petition signatures."
In their release Saturday, Bachmann, Gingrich, Huntsman and Santorum request the board of elections add their names to the ballot, saying it will avoid "unnecessary costs and expenses to the state and the parties" that would be incurred by moving the lawsuit forward.
Immediately after his petition was rejected by the Virginia GOP, Gingrich said he would launch a write-in campaign. It was later determined that Virginia specifically prohibits write-in candidates in primary elections.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul both successfully filed petitions to appear on the Virginia ballot.
The state holds its Republican primary on Super Tuesday, March 6.
–CNN Political Producer Shawna Shepherd contributed to this report.

Santorum's closing argument on Iowa TV

Santorum's closing argument on Iowa TV
December 31st, 2011
02:40 PM ET
12 minutes ago

mug.steinhauser

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - With three days to go until the Iowa caucuses, Rick Santorum's campaign is going up with a new TV commercial which says the former senator from Pennsylvania is the most qualified Republican presidential candidate to take on President Barack Obama.
The Santorum campaign says the ad starts running statewide in Iowa on Saturday. A top Santorum aide tells CNN the 30-second spot, which will be accompanied by radio commercials and direct mail, is the campaign's closing ad in the Hawkeye State and will run through Tuesday's caucuses, which kick off the primary and caucus calendar.

"Who has the best chance to beat Obama? Rick Santorum. A full-spectrum conservative, Rick Santorum is rock-solid on values issues. A favorite of the tea party for fighting corruption and taxpayer abuse. More foreign policy credentials than any candidate," says the commercial's narrator.
The ad concludes with the narrator saying that "Rick's "Made in the USA" jobs plan will make America an economic super power again. Rick Santorum... a trusted conservative who gives us the best chance to take back America."
Santorum, once a long shot in the race for the GOP nomination, has surged to third place in the two most recent polls of likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers, by CNN/Time/ORC and by NBC News/Marist.
The campaign says the 30-second spot will also begin running next week in New Hampshire. The Granite State holds the second contest in the race for the White House, with its January 10 primary coming one week after the Iowa caucuses.

Friday, December 30, 2011

Newt Gingrich Campaign Ads



Newt Gingrich's 2012 campaign for president
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Newt Gingrich's 2012 campaign for president a Hot Woman wile for every one that will be cold soon. Yes They Will. Newt Put a End to Detroit as the Moter city. Your Next

Winning Our Future | 20 to 1
Uploaded by WinningOurFuture on Dec 27, 2011



The SuperPAC Winning Our Future has launched a new television ad airing on broadcast and cable television throughout Iowa. The New York Times reported: "The group, Winning Our Future, has produced a TV ad that echoes Mr. Gingrich's version of his economic accomplishments while speaker of the House, which he is making the focus of a weeklong bus tour. They include welfare reform, tax cuts and balanced budgets." Here's the script: VO: The Republican establishment wants to pick our candidate. When a principled conservative took the lead, they outspent Newt Gingrich 20 to 1, attacking him with falsehoods. Conservatives need someone who's fought for us. Newt balanced the federal budget, reformed welfare, cut taxes and created 11 million new jobs Newt will take on radical judges and fight against abortion. Don't let the liberal Republican establishment pick our candidate. Newt Gingrich. Winning Our Future is responsible for the content of this message.



Winning Our Future: Newt Gingrich- Proven Conservative Leader
Uploaded by WinningOurFuture on Dec 18, 2011


America needs conservative leadership. Now is the time for Newt Gingrich. Paid for by Winning Our Future. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. www.winningourfuture.com

Newt GinGrich 2012
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Newt Gingrich - Balanced Budget Done!
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We Stand with Newt. 2012

Michele Bachmann Campaign Ads



Michele Bachmann Enters 2012 GOP Field
Uploaded by PBSNewsHour on Jun 27, 2011

Read more: http://to.pbs.org/jTkzxe Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann formally kicked off her campaign for the GOP nomination in Waterloo, Iowa, on Monday.


Michele Bachmann: Television Ad: "Waterloo"
Uploaded by teambachmann on Jul 6, 2011


Republican Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann talks about her Iowa roots and her efforts to fight wasteful spending in Washington.



Michelle Bachmann Campaign Ad
Uploaded by unknownchiken1 on May 26, 2011





Michele Bachmann on Immigration: We Can't Settle
Uploaded by teambachmann on Sep 29, 2011

Michele Bachmann discusses her views on securing the border and tuition credits for illegal immigrants. For more information, visit http://michelebachmann.com.

Michele Bachmann: Believe It
Uploaded by teambachmann on Aug 2, 2011



Republican Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann says "no" to raising the debt ceiling and the job killing policies of Barack Obama. Learn more about Michele Bachmann for President at michelebachmann.com

Michele Bachmann: A Leader with Midwestern Roots

Uploaded by teambachmann on Aug 15, 2011



Michele Bachmann discusses her path to success, which started with her childhood in Iowa. For more information, visit MicheleBachmann.com.

Rick Perry Caampaign Ads

Rick Perry's drunken speech (3 minute edit)
Uploaded by tmabomb on Oct 30, 2011



Scotch? Roofies? Muscle relaxants? Your guess is as good as mine. The Texas governor is loopy as a jaybird in this New Hampshire address. Great campaign, buddy. http://thumpandwhip.com

Rick Perry Anti-Gay Ad - "Strong"
Uploaded by lapk on Dec 7, 2011



I'm not ashamed to admit that I uploaded this video without permission, but you don't need to be a political expert to know there's something wrong with a candidate who wants to represent the American people yet disables the comments on their videos and doesn't allow discussion or free speech. Rick Perry's original upload does not allow comments -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAJNntoRgA -- Feel free to express yourself here.

Romney's Remedy
Uploaded by RPerry2012 on Oct 9, 2011

http://www.RickPerry.org

Rick Perry: Time to Get America Working Again
Uploaded by RPerry2012 on Aug 13, 2011



We will not sit back and accept our current misery...because a great country requires a better direction...because a renewed nation requires a new president. That's why, with faith in God, the support of my family, and an unwavering belief in the goodness of America, I am a candidate for President of the United States.

Part-Time Congress
Uploaded by RPerry2012 on Dec 26, 2011



It's time for a part-time Congress. http://www.rickperry.org


Rick Perry: On the Road from Iowa 
Uploaded by RPerry2012 on Dec 23, 2011



Problem/Solution
Uploaded by RPerry2012 on Dec 14, 2011



Rick Perry and Sheriff Joe Arpaio on the Sean Hannity Radio Show
Uploaded by RPerry2012 on Nov 30, 2011


Mitt Romney Campaign Ads


NO BAMA! Mitt Romney 2012 Campaign Ad


Uploaded by Democrats4MittRomney on May 29, 2011


"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." -Theodor Seuss Geisel Mitt

Romney in 2012!

He's right
Uploaded by mittromney on Jun 22, 2011



When President Obama took office in 2009, he told us that he "will be held accountable." He also told us that, within his first term, he would turn around a struggling American economy and put the country back on the right track. He said, "if I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition."

Mitt on the Road: New Hampshire State House
Uploaded by mittromney on Oct 25, 2011



"This team of people around me, this is the volunteer team that will turn out voters on Primary Day, which by the way, will be the first primary in the nation as it ought to be." -- Mitt Romney

Mitt on the Road: Allentown, PA
Uploaded by mittromney on Jun 30, 2011



"I could assure voters, that if I were President of the United States, I would spend every waking moment doing what I could to get Americans back to work. I would focus my energy and passion on the economy and getting Americans good jobs."

The Facts Behind Mitt Romney's Allentown Campaign Ad
Uploaded by NieuwsuurNewYork on Jul 29, 2011



Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently shot a campaign ad in Allentown, PA. In the video he is pictured in front of Allentown Metal Works, a metal factory that President Obama visited in 2009 and that was forced to close its doors earlier this year. Romney argues that the closing of the factory shows that President Obama's economic policies have failed. Dutch correspondent Tom Kleijn of TV show "Nieuwsuur" travels to Allentown, to check the facts behind Mitt Romney's campaign ad. Kleijn talks with the mayor of Allentown, Ed Pawlowski, union leader Jerry Green and a former employee of the plant, John Harold. DP: Remco Bikkers

Jon Huntsman Campaign Ads

Jon Huntsman Official 2012 Presidential Campaign Ad
Uploaded by verykooldude1997 on Jun 22, 2011


 Campaign ad launching his 2012 presidential bid


Uploaded by on May 24, 2011



Not endorsed by or affiliated with Jon Huntsman or anyone from his campaign. Produced by www.verumserum.com. Music by Diego Massanti, Argentina - Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.


Jon's Business Experience
Uploaded by Jon2012HQ on Jun 22, 2011




Unelectable
Uploaded by Jon2012HQ on Dec 28, 2011



"Unelectable" highlights Congressman Ron Paul's racist and homophobic newsletters and asks the question, "Can New Hampshire voters really trust Ron Paul?"


Restoring Trust
Uploaded by Jon2012HQ on Dec 7, 2011



"Restoring Trust" highlights America's deficit of trust in Washington, the current path to economic recovery and in it's leadership in general.

Ron Paul Campaign Ads

Ron Paul Conviction Ad
Uploaded by ronpaul on Jul 13, 2011



http://www.ronpaul2012.com Ron Paul's first television ad of the 2012 campaign "Conviction" highlights his role as the national leader of the strong opposition movement against raising the country's debt ceiling. Ron Paul is the only national leader with the experience, record, and credibility to stand up to the debt limit scheme, cut the spending now, and save our dollar. Find out more about Ron Paul at http://www.RonPaul2012.com and learn how you can help him win the Republican nomination for President and Restore America Now. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be the first to see future ads.

BEST Ron Paul TV ad. The campaign needs to use this!
Uploaded by guyinrichmond007 on Nov 6, 2007




THE ONLY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NOT SPECIAL INTERESTS! No amnesty for illegals, lower taxes for everyone, no Iraq war, foreign policy the way our founding fathers wanted, and a 20 YEAR CONGRESSIONAL TRACK RECORD to PROVE that he actually votes the way he believes! A doctor, a former service member in the military, and married for over 50 years. This man is the real deal!

RON PAUL's new ad, Must Watch!!! (Ron Paul for President)
Uploaded by KRSchannel on Aug 15, 2011



CLICK HERE http://www.krsnovels.com RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT, Give him a chance, will yaa!

Ron Paul vs Michael Moore on Larry King CNN
Uploaded by SuperB3NJ4M1N on Aug 22, 2011



Wow, this video has gotten a ridiculous amount of traffic compared to everything else, and really to me is one of the least informative videos I have on my channel. I would really encourage all of you to check out my channel and look at some much more serious issues that are addressed in the videos. "Only an educated and informed public can stop them in their tracks" - Jim Tucker


Ron Paul - Campaign AD Collection 2012
Uploaded by Amathyst80 on Dec 4, 2011



If you would like to donate to Ron Paul's campaign, please visit this website. http://www.ronpaul2012.com/

Obama runs first TV ads of 2012 season

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President Barack Obama's re-election team released the first round of TV ads of the 2012 political season.
Amping up recruiting efforts, Obama called on volunteers to help with his campaign in the two 30-second spots. His widespread grassroots effort helped carry him to the White House in 2008, so he's looking to recapture the feel-good magic.
In the first ad Obama goes the empowerment route, telling voters "It's up to you to fight for the values we all share. Don't sit this one out." In the second spot, Obama encourage supporters to get involved in the "movement." Obama says, "It all starts with you, making a decision to get involved — because we've got so much more to do."
The ads run on national satellite – more of a "tiny" advertising effort, according to his campaign.
Will Obama be able to revive the enthusiasm of his base? Tweet me your thoughts or drop me a line in the comment section below.

Romney's first TV ad hits Obama (and is out of context)

22
Nov
2011
11:30am, EST
By NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro
As it typically does when President Obama goes on the road, the Romney campaign is bracketing the president's visit to New Hampshire today. But this time, it's doing it with its first TV advertisement of the race -- and it’s negative.
The ad begins -- featuring grainy video and ominous music -- with Obama campaigning in New Hampshire back in October 2008. "If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose," Obama is captured saying in the spot.



But, as the New York Times points out, “[T]he line, which is perhaps the spot’s most devastating moment, is also the one that seems to be the most taken out of context. In fact, at the time, Mr. Obama was referring to something that an aide to his then opponent, Senator John McCain of Arizona, had said in reference to the McCain campaign — not Mr. Obama, then or now.”
In fact, the Romney campaign pretty much admits this with its documentation of the ad's assertions.
OBAMA: “If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.”
Obama: “Senator McCain’s campaign actually said, and I quote, if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose.” (Senator Barack Obama, Remarks, Londonderry, NH, 10/16/08)
The Obama campaign pounced on Romney's advertisement, calling it "deceitful" and "dishonest." And the Democratic National Committee has accused Romney of being a "serial deceiver."
"Mitt Romney is a serial deceiver -- and his deceptions know no bounds," the DNC said in a release. "Romney will deceive about his own record, the record of his opponents and his positions on the issues. And when Mitt Romney is caught deceiving – he doubles down and deceives even more." 
The Romney campaign defended its use, saying the “tables have turned” on the president. “President Obama and his campaign are doing exactly what candidate Obama criticized,” Romney Communications Director Gail Gitcho said. “President Obama and his team don’t want to talk about the economy and have tried to distract voters from President Obama’s abysmal economic record.”
After hitting Obama, the Romney ad pivots -- with soaring string music -- to what he wants to do. He hits on Tea Party talking points: “getting rid of programs, turning programs back to states”; “get rid of ‘ObamaCare’; “moral responsibility not to spend more than we take in”; “high time to bring those principles of fiscal responsibility to Washington, D.C.” And, with a shot of a manufacturing worker, he says, he’ll “make America a job-creating machine like it has been in the past.”

The Future of the Obama Coalition

Better late then never!   NOVEMBER 27, 2011, 11:34 PM


For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.
All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.
It is instructive to trace the evolution of a political strategy based on securing this coalition in the writings and comments, over time, of such Democratic analysts as Stanley Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira. Both men were initially determined to win back the white working-class majority, but both currently advocate a revised Democratic alliance in which whites without college degrees are effectively replaced by well-educated socially liberal whites in alliance with the growing ranks of less affluent minority voters, especially Hispanics.
The 2012 approach treats white voters without college degrees as an unattainable cohort. The Democratic goal with these voters is to keep Republican winning margins to manageable levels, in the 12 to 15 percent range, as opposed to the 30-point margin of 2010 — a level at which even solid wins among minorities and other constituencies are not enough to produce Democratic victories.
“It’s certainly true that if you compare how things were in the early ’90s to the way they are now, there has been a significant shift in the role of the working class. You see it across all advanced industrial countries,” Teixeira, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said in an interview.
In the United States, Teixeira noted, “the Republican Party has become the party of the white working class,” while in Europe, many working-class voters who had been the core of Social Democratic parties have moved over to far right parties, especially those with anti-immigration platforms.
Teixeira, writing with John Halpin, argues in “The Path to 270: Demographics versus Economics in the 2012 Presidential Election,” that in order to be re-elected, President Obama must keep his losses among white college graduates to the 4-point margin of 2008 (47-51). Why? Otherwise he will not be able to survive a repetition of 2010, when white working-class voters supported Republican House candidates by a record-setting margin of 63-33.
Obama’s alternative path to victory, according to Teixeira and Halpin, would be to keep his losses among all white voters at the same level John Kerry did in 2004, when he lost them by 17 points, 58-41. This would be a step backwards for Obama, who lost among all whites in 2008 by only 12 points (55-43). Obama can afford to drop to Kerry’s white margins because, between 2008 and 2012, the pro-Democratic minority share of the electorate is expected to grow by two percentage points and the white share to decline by the same amount, reflecting the changing composition of the national electorate.
The following passage from “The Path to 270” illustrates the degree to which whites without college degrees are currently cast as irrevocably lost to the Republican Party. “Heading into 2012,” Teixeira and Halpin write, one of the primary strategic questions will be:
Will the president hold sufficient support among communities of color, educated whites, Millennials, single women, and seculars and avoid a catastrophic meltdown among white working-class voters?
For his part, Greenberg, a Democratic pollster and strategist and a key adviser to Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, wrote a memorandum earlier this month, together with James Carville, that makes no mention of the white working class. “Seizing the New Progressive Common Ground” describes instead a “new progressive coalition” made up of “young people, Hispanics, unmarried women, and affluent suburbanites.”
In an interview, Greenberg, speaking of white working class voters, said that in the period from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, “we battled to get them back. They were sizable in number and central to the base of the Democratic Party.” At the time, he added, “we didn’t know that we would never get them back, that they were alienated and dislodged.”
In his work exploring how to build a viable progressive coalition, Greenberg noted, he has become “much more interested in the affluent suburban voters than the former Reagan Democrats.” At the same time, however, he argues that Republican winning margins among white working-class voters are highly volatile and that Democrats have to push hard to minimize losses, which will not be easy. “Right now,” he cautioned, “I don’t see any signs they are moveable.”
Teixeira’s current analysis stands in sharp contrast to an article that he wrote with Joel Rogers, which appeared in the American Prospect in 1995. In “Who Deserted the Democrats in 1994?,” Teixeira and Rogers warned that between 1992 and 1994 support for Democratic House candidates had fallen by 20 points, from 57 to 37 percent among high-school-educated white men; by 15 points among white men with some college; and by 10 points among white women in both categories. A failure to reverse those numbers, Teixeira warned, would “doom Clinton’s re-election bid” in 1996.
Teixeira was by no means alone in his 1995 assessment; he was in agreement with orthodox Democratic thinking of the time. In a 1995 memo to President Clinton, Greenberg wrote that whites without college degrees were “the principal obstacle” to Clinton’s re-election and that they needed to be brought back into the fold.
In practice, or perhaps out of necessity, the Democratic Party in 2006 and 2008 chose the upscale white-downscale minority approach that proved highly successful twice, but failed miserably in 2010, and appears to have a 50-50 chance in 2012.
The outline of this strategy for 2012 was captured by Times reporters Jackie Calmes and Mark Landler a few months ago in an article tellingly titled, “Obama Charts a New Route to Re-election.” Calmes and Landler describe how Obama’s re-election campaign plans to deal with the decline in white working class support in Rust Belt states by concentrating on states with high percentages of college educated voters, including Colorado, Virginia and New Hampshire.
There are plenty of critics of the tactical idea of dispensing with low-income whites, both among elected officials and party strategists. But Cliff Zukin, a professor of political science at Rutgers, puts the situation plainly. “My sense is that if the Democrats stopped fishing there, it is because there are no fish.”
“My sense is that if the Democrats stopped fishing there, it is because there are no fish.”
As a practical matter, the Obama campaign and, for the present, the Democratic Party, have laid to rest all consideration of reviving the coalition nurtured and cultivated by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The New Deal Coalition — which included unions, city machines, blue-collar workers, farmers, blacks, people on relief, and generally non-affluent progressive intellectuals — had the advantage of economic coherence. It received support across the board from voters of all races and religions in the bottom half of the income distribution, the very coherence the current Democratic coalition lacks.
A top priority of the less affluent wing of today’s left alliance is the strengthening of the safety net, including health care, food stamps, infant nutrition and unemployment compensation. These voters generally take the brunt of recessions and are most in need of government assistance to survive. According to recent data from the Department of Agriculture, 45.8 million people, nearly 15 percent of the population, depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to meet their needs for food.
The better-off wing, in contrast, puts at the top of its political agenda a cluster of rights related to self-expression, the environment, demilitarization, and, importantly, freedom from repressive norms — governing both sexual behavior and women’s role in society — that are promoted by the conservative movement.
While demographic trends suggest the continued growth of pro-Democratic constituencies and the continued decline of core Republican voters, particularly married white Christians, there is no guarantee that demography is destiny.
The political repercussions of gathering minority strength remain unknown. Calculations based on exit poll and Census data suggest that the Democratic Party will become “majority minority” shortly after 2020.
One outcome could be a stronger party of the left in national and local elections. An alternate outcome could be exacerbated intra-party conflict between whites, blacks and Hispanics — populations frequently marked by diverging material interests. Black versus brown struggles are already emerging in contests over the distribution of political power, especially during the current redistricting of city council, state legislative and congressional seats in cities like Los Angeles and Chicago.
Republican Party operatives are acutely sensitive to such tensions, hoping for opportunities to fracture the Democratic coalition, virtually assuring that neither party can safely rely on a secure path to victory over time.

In early book, Rep. Ron Paul criticized AIDS patients, minority rights and sexual harassment victims

In early book, Rep. Ron Paul criticized AIDS patients, minority rights and sexual harassment victims
December 30th, 2011
10:07 AM ET
2 days ago


mug.hamby

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - Texas Rep. Ron Paul has distanced himself from a series of controversial newsletters from the 1980s and 1990s that bore his name and included inflammatory and racially charged language.
As the newsletters burst into view, first during his 2008 presidential bid and again in recent weeks after he climbed to the front of the Republican race in Iowa, Paul has blamed the writings on ghostwriters. He said he was not aware of the "bad stuff," as he described it.

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But one of Paul's own books, published solely under his name, contains several passages that could be problematic as he attempts to push his libertarian message into the political mainstream.
In his 1987 manifesto "Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution after 200-Plus Years," Paul wrote that AIDS patients were victims of their own lifestyle, questioned the rights of minorities and argued that people who are sexually harassed at work should quit their jobs.
The slim, 157-page volume was published ahead of Paul's 1988 Libertarian Party presidential bid and touches on many of the themes he continues to hammer on the stump.
Returning again and again to the of concept of "liberty," he hails the virtues of the gold standard, attacks the Federal Reserve and defends the rights of gun-owners.
But the book, re-issued in 2007 during Paul's last presidential bid with a cover photograph of an ominous SWAT Team, has so far escaped scrutiny amid the latest furor over his newsletters.
In one section of the book, Paul criticized people suffering from AIDS or other contagious diseases for demanding health insurance coverage.
"The individual suffering from AIDS certainly is a victim - frequently a victim of his own lifestyle - but this same individual victimizes innocent citizens by forcing them to pay for his care," Paul wrote.
In another chapter on the rights of individuals outside of government – the central theme of Paul's libertarian philosophy - he sharply criticized the "absurdity" of politicians who try to bestow differing rights on various social and ethnic groups.
It's dangerous to craft a separate set of rights for groups like Hispanics, African-Americans, children, employees and the homeless, Paul wrote.
"Until all these terms are dropped and we recognize that only an individual has rights the solution to the mess in which we find ourselves will not be found," Paul explained.
"Every year new groups organize to demand their 'rights,'" he continued. "White people who organize and expect the same attention as other groups are quickly and viciously condemned as dangerous bigots. Hispanic, black, and Jewish caucuses can exist in the U.S. Congress, but not a white caucus, demonstrating the absurdity of this approach for achieving rights for everyone."
Paul also defended the rights of an individual to "control property and run his or her business as he or she chooses," without interference from "the social do-gooder."
In a passage first flagged by the Houston Chronicle in 2007, Paul then claimed that sexual harassment should not be a violation of one's employment rights.
"Employee rights are said to be valid when employers pressure employees into sexual activity," Paul wrote. "Why don't they quit once the so-called harassment starts? Obviously the morals of the harasser cannot be defended, but how can the harassee escape some responsibility for the problem? Seeking protection under civil rights legislation is hardly acceptable."
Paul's campaign manager Jesse Benton defended the book and said the candidate "has been speaking out for decades that rights do not come from belonging to a group."
"Rights come because we are all individuals, endowed by our creator, and Americans must look beyond race or creed and recognize that we all deserving of the same Liberty," Benton told CNN in an email. "This truth is a tenant of natural law and the only way we will achieve a color blind and truly free society."