Cenk asks the Power Panel — Cheryl Contee (JackandJillPolitics.com), David Pakman (“The David Pakman Show”) and Michael Tomasky (TheDailyBeast.com) — to tackle a tough but persistent question: Is Ron Paul racist? Contee says, “It gives Ron Paul a certain amount of baggage, despite his current moderate and libertarian leanings.” Pakman adds, “Whether or not Ron Paul is personally a racist guy, I think it’s actually worse if…he thought that, strategically, it made sense to include this racist stuff” in his “Ron Paul Political Report,” or hired someone who did.