In the last election cycle almost everyone on the center right used “voting for bills without reading them” as a campaign cudgel. So I think it is safe to say that we have some expectation of accountability for what our elected officials put their name to.
When talking about Presidents, we have an equal interest in their having a full understanding of what they are signing into law and every right to hold them to account for everything they put their name to, even though they may not have written a single word of it.
Ron Paul’s name is on the newsletters. He may or may not have written them. He may or may not have read them. His campaign and his supporters do not think he should be held to task for their content. They have even gone so far as to suggest that their is some massive Republican conspiracy to discredit him.
I think everything Ron Paul stands for deserves as much oxygen as it can get (for good or bad). But no matter what the effect of that vetting, no matter how well he does in Iowa and New Hampshire, I still don’t see a path to the nomination. (This does not make me a neo-con, by the way.)