Thursday, May 20, 2010
NOT UP TO "THE SHOW"
Rand Paul.
The face of the Tea Party.
I guess I will pick on him for awhile.
He was lifted from the minors to the majors on Tuesday when he won the GOP primary in Kentucky. Not your most centrist state to begin with.
He has stumbled out of the dugout pretty badly.
And stumbled over The Civil Rights Act of 1964. Not your most current actual issue but certainly the one thing that seems to underly much of the energy of the anti-Obamists. Racism.
The single thing the putative leaders of the baggers do not want to have stuck on them.
Rand Paul just stuck it on them.
Paul’s Views on Civil Rights Cause a Stir
He further broadened his whitey creds by defending his use of a pricey exclusive (no blacks) country club by an allusion to Tiger Woods.
Sort of that if they let Tiger into a country club then it was a sign of fading exclusivity. Or something.
Hey. Look at what he said.
They don't even get when they are being racist.
Now, I know Paul is not a member of the so called Tea Party. What an unfortunate moniker if he were. He is a Libertarian campaigning as a Republican with a strong support from the baggers. That is hard talk to say, let alone walk.
The Demos are going to have fun with this, I think.
I know that the bloggers will.
And it has already started. A group of GOP Senators weighed in against Paul's statements including Jeff Sessions! A noted racists. Here is more:
Paul apparently has said the same thing about the CRA in numerous interviews over a period of time.
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