Sunday, May 23, 2010

Rand, Sarah, and Jack ( Webb)


Death, taxes and in 2010 NOTHING goes away!
Sunday morning finds Rand Paul back peddling his curly haired self silly, but facts are facts:

In a May 30, 2002, letter to the Bowling Green Daily News, Paul's hometown newspaper, he criticized the paper for endorsing the Fair Housing Act, and explained that "a free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin."

In the Rand Paul universe it is 100% legal for IBM to only promote men to the higher up floors, perfectly legal for Woolworth's to NOT server African Americans lunch. Jewish, black, brown, female, gay... what ever, his staunch libertarian views are it is the private business owners right to work with or serve who ever he wants, YOU have the right to not go to any business that does discriminate. These are his words, not Rachel's or mine.

Mama Grizzly Sister Sarah came running to his defense with her usual - and beyond tired - clamoring of blame the lame-stream media. From Huffpo : "Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accused MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Sunday of conducting a "prejudiced" interview with Rand Paul, in which the Tea Party candidate infamously aired skepticism about the reach of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Speaking to "Fox News Sunday," the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee said that Paul was being subjected to the same biased media coverage that marked her run for office, before offering her Tea Party-backed candidate a bit of advice."
Dr. Paul himself chimed from a rather odd interview done, I guess, yesterday morning on Breitbart tv. ( for those that don't know, Brietbart is sort of a super right wing Drudge Report, which itself is just a right right talking point marching..( and yes, Matt is as gay as Liza singing " all the single ladies.....") Watch it HERE, if you have any interest.

People are saying ( you know what THEY say ) that Dr. Paul has not been tested, that he is " a breath of fresh air" and that he just did not know to do a little CYA when doing interviews. One interesting thing I read this morning was that the overall decline in newspapers led to this not coming up in the GOP primary in Kentucky. BUT, one thing that Dr. Paul learned , in just one day was to take up his godmothers mantra and start blaming the media!
After trying to back track from the things that he actually said his lesson learned from all of this: " I need to be very careful of certain networks "! NOT , that : " all citizens of the United States have the right to go where ever they please, and that even when private, discrimination is wrong ", but " I need to watch who I talk too"
Breath of fresh air, my ass. This talk was old when I was a kid. Only then Strom and Dick and their ilk wrapped it in Dixiecrat wrapping, not a Tea Party one. This is the first bright light shined on their little tea party, and it is not holding up so very well.

Cokie said it best this morning on what ever the ABC Sunday morning show is
called these days " Rand Paul, may not be a racist, but his ideas ARE racist ". I grew up in the land of wink wink racism. Some of Mr. Paul's followers say that allowing business or people to just out right discriminate, puts it out in the open, you know who are you dealing with. That also makes the balcony for colored folks.....

1 comment:

Jeff said...

Your right on with this post Kyle. I would not be surprised to see R. Paul quitely go away and see the Godmother start back-peddling her previous statements on R. Paul. OR maybe not.....maybe so many people are too busy watching LOST, drinking beer, working, etc....that this whole thing goes unnoticed by the big scheme of things. Maybe it's only being noticed by a few that read up on political issues. That would be history repeating itself.

You know, I have listened to his interviews several times, this past weekend, and I still can't get past the blatant in your face remarks about private businesses doing business with who they want to do business with. It's a shame. I think the federal government is too big, I think they have pushed the socialist envelope too far (not just Obama, but several presidents/congresses in the past several years). I think budget cuts need to be made. I don't believe they should tax and spend their way out of the financial hole they have made. I think there are too many special interest groups getting their way and I think there needs to be real immigration reform in this country. But instead, one of the so-called leading "grass-roots" groups, that is for smaller govt., puts up a raciest up for senator in KY. There goes all the publicity on this idiot.