excellent interview of Kentucky GOP/Tea Party Senate Candidate Rand Paul was far more illuminating than Paul would like us to think. (I would refer you as well to Bob Cesca's excellent article on the matter.) Paul says that he opposes racial discrimination, that he abhors racism. His objections to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he would have us believe, stem only from those clauses in the bill that relate to private business. So while he would never support allowing the government to discriminate on the basis of race, or gender, or religion, or disability, or sexual orientation, he also opposes allowing government to tell private enterprise what it can and can't do. But he's no racist.
Maybe not. But he is a Libertarian, just like his Dad, Texas Congressman and former Presidential Candidate Ron Paul. He supports limited government, and favors privatization of a broad range of institutions and social services currently administered by the government. So ultimately, if he had his way, it's conceivable that our National Parks, our social service administrations -- like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid -- even our public education system could be privatized and put in the hands of private businesses. Private businesses like those he thinks should be exempted from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
School systems that are designated as "Whites Only"? A privatized Social Security Administration that refuses payments to gays and lesbians? Medicare that excludes people with disabilities? Rand Paul would tell you that none of this would ever happen. He'd tell you that liberals are out to distort his words and his record. He'd tell you once again that he's no racist. But if you take his statements on the Civil Rights Act -- his own words -- and you combine them with his Libertarian views, what you get is an America none of us would ever want to see.
Think about it.
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Maybe not. But he is a Libertarian, just like his Dad, Texas Congressman and former Presidential Candidate Ron Paul. He supports limited government, and favors privatization of a broad range of institutions and social services currently administered by the government. So ultimately, if he had his way, it's conceivable that our National Parks, our social service administrations -- like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid -- even our public education system could be privatized and put in the hands of private businesses. Private businesses like those he thinks should be exempted from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
School systems that are designated as "Whites Only"? A privatized Social Security Administration that refuses payments to gays and lesbians? Medicare that excludes people with disabilities? Rand Paul would tell you that none of this would ever happen. He'd tell you that liberals are out to distort his words and his record. He'd tell you once again that he's no racist. But if you take his statements on the Civil Rights Act -- his own words -- and you combine them with his Libertarian views, what you get is an America none of us would ever want to see.
Think about it.
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I would also suggest the Lamestream Media take particular note of Rachel Maddow. THIS is how you're supposed to do your job, Media.
We don't want too much government except when we do. We're bipolar on this subject.
And kudos to you for having me employ "malevolent" even before I've had my coffee this morning. :)
Always great to bounce ideas back and forth with you, my dear. Hoping to see you soon.
e.g. Why didn't the Govt inspect that meat packing plant and why does my kid have E. Coli now?
Uh, maybe because they took the Grover Norquist idea of drowning the Govt in a bathtub and don't allocate enough money for enough inpectors and...
The disconnect is mind-boggling...
His world view can't imagine that, No Virginia, you don't have a 'right' to be a racist.
Usually anyone with a brain, when given a concrete example, and 10-12 years, can figure this out. If Rand was driving in a town in KY with his kid and pulled into a business so that the kid could use the restroom...and the business refused to allow the kid to do so and the kid had to go in a field...how would that make you feel, Rand? As a person? As a man? As a father? Think it's still ok?
Yeah, the racism is only the tip of the iceberg with this whackadoodle. No regulation of Wall Street. Hey Obama, quit picking on poor BP. The hits just keep coming. And media, stop making him looking a gigantic pile by reporting his words in context!
Beyond the obvious, it also points out white entitlement. He claims that he wouldn't do business with those who refused service to a certain race. Ok, but that's just because he knows that he could still go into 90% of businesses. What ya givin' up, Rand? The nut doesn't fall far from the tree. (or as Bill Maher said last night, crudely, the shit doesn't fall far from the bat).
It's almost as if he was educated with textbooks based on the curriculum from the Texas School Board or something...
So, I hope Rand and his curly mop top is embraced by the teabaggers and, thus, the GOP... They were already on the verge of being a regional, Southern party...started to look like they might make gains....and then came AZ and Rand Paul. Ooops!