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Will Rand Paul Spell Trouble For The Right?

May 26, 2010 by  

Will Rand Paul spell trouble for the right?Although he has been called "the darling of the Tea Party," Rand Paul’s select comments since his win in the Kentucky Republican primary last week have some GOP members scratching their heads.

Just hours after Paul declared his victory, he gave an interview in which he implied that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 limited businesses’ rights to set their own policies and decide which customers or clients to serve.

Although he later tried to qualify his statement by saying that he supported the act and would not press to repeal it, the damage appeared to be done.

Criticism came not only from Democrats but also many Republicans, with Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, saying Paul’s philosophy "is misplaced in these times."

"I don’t think it’s where the country is right now. The country litigated the issue of separate but equal," Steele told the Fox News Sunday show. "I think in this case Rand Paul’s philosophy got in the way of reality."

However, the controversy has not stopped there, as Paul stirred more controversy by saying that President Obama’s criticism of British Petroleum for the Gulf oil spill was "un-American."

Prior to the primaries, the Senate Republican leadership failed to endorse Paul, instead throwing its support behind his opponent Trey Grayson. ADNFCR-1961-ID-19796561-ADNFCR

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  • Norm

    Rand Paul is as extreme as one can get. He faults Obama for criticizing BP and the disastrous, and yet unfixed, oil spill?!
    BP is as big a terrorist, in effect, as Al Quida ever was. What right does the private sector have to destroy and control the US as if their quest for gold supercedes all safety and environmental concerns? We have seen in Louisiana and in the the coal mines of West Virgina greed and arrogance at it’s best.

    Even the Republicans can’t stand Paul:

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/05/republicans-embrace-rand-paul.html

    I think we may see a Democratic take the seat.

    • Steve

      And you Norm, are still a blind liberal……so what else is new?

    • http://?? Joe H.

      ab norm,
      yeah and your idol Obummer is letting them dictate to HIM what they’re gonna do!!! He has no cahones!!!!

    • JC

      Adherence to the Constitution is seen as extreme by both sides of the floor, and that’s because it seriously curtails their party in the beltway and the never ending expansion of government.
      Go Rand Paul!

  • http://PersonalLibertyDigest Paul W. Brock

    He should have made the point that the Civil Rights Act trumped property rights. Property rights are the basis of our liberty. Example: You are a person with strong religious values and you refuse to rent to an unmarried couple or gay couple. The Civil Rights ACt changed from a law to protect Americans who happen to be black, to a law that did not allow Americans the free use of their property. Discrimination is bad but not illegal privately. It is wrong no doubt and government buildings, jobs, etc should not discriminate after all we are all taxpayers. But, when they go into a private home or business and dictate conditions, that is an invasion of privacy, property rights etc. PB

  • http://mac1000@embarqmail.com j.w. moseley

    those same republicans can not understand how palin enfuses alot of the american people with refreshing and exciting energy, and the hope
    that the old tired washington machine (all incombent republicans and democrats) wake up one day and just quit for they are worthless as politicans elected to protect and defend the constitution so do i fell rand paul will hurt the republican party i hope so because his message is honest and full of promise for those like me who want to see all of you worthless in washington to just go away! get a life moron and stop asking stupid questions for the progressives you make it look to obvious! the end!

  • http://www.deovolente.net DeoVolente

    Our founding fathers would be amazed that Rand Paul’s defense of private property rights could be considered radical or even controversial. I find his honesty refreshing even though it doesn’t fit the template of modern American politics.

  • American liberal

    PG….. Does not trusting the Media include Fox news , Glenn Beck and Rush Ilmbaugh?…because I can agree with not trusting the media as a whole… A person needs to remain skeptical of all media and rely on your instincts after taking in as much information as you can…. In other words , I doubt just listening to Msnbc or Fox news will give you a real source of truth…are they biased?.. You bet they are

    • CJ

      Very lame attempt, as with most liberals, to point a finger at one fractional part of the big picture and claim it as the whole. Nothing is perfect and they are quick to point it out. But drawing attention to something that makes up a small fraction defeats even your agenda. You put roadblocks in progress by wasting our time on trivial, meaningless, or insignificant points to make you feel self-important at the expense of the majority. How little and selfish of you. Keep it up, you’re not helping YOUR case and building ours.

  • Dean in Denver

    Better to SAY some things that may be wrong but DO the right things rather than SAY the right things and DO everything wrong as in John RINO McCain and RINOlympia Snow, and so many others of Republican ilk who have tried to out Democrat the Democrats. Republicans leaders have betrayed their base, and I think we should not re-elect any of them, from the bottom of their cess pool with the likes of Newt Gingrich on up.

    • http://naver samurai

      What about Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, etc., are they really the people you would choose to run this country? Get off of the koolaid. Don’t forget, these individuals are behind in the polls or are in very tight races . People and the TEA PARTY are tired of these spinless, brainless libs we have now and want them out. Here we may have to fight North Korea soon and how can we do it? “Osama” sent extra troops overseas (which he promised not to do), Clinton cut our military numbers by 50%, and now Obama bin Laden is talking about cutting their pay. If you think these are better than the GOP, you really need to go somewhere else to live. I hear Iran is nice and warm this time of year.

      • Mark Are

        The reason doctors like politicians to operate on because they have no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains, no spine, and the head and the ass are interchangeable.

      • Future??????

        I say – Mark for President!

      • Steve

        ROFL, now THAT’S FUNNY Mark. Maybe that anti-American liberal that posts on here is a politician because your description fits him to a T.

      • Pathfinder

        I have not heard anyone (other than the Dems and the libs themselves) claim that Reid, Pelosi, et al are better than the RINOS. Those of us who are fed up with “moderate” and liberal republicans also know that Demoncrat libs and “moderates” are even worse. What I AM hearing is that citizens are fed up with BOTH parties. Hence I now vote libertarian. RINOs will destroy this nation as surely as the liberals. They will just do it a bit more gradually. (Kinda like driving off of a cliff at 30 mph compared to 60 mph) It is time to kill the RINO party (figuratively not literally) and form a truely CONSERVATIVE second party. We need many more people in office like Ron Paul and Rand Paul. We must return to a truely LIMITED GOVERNMENT.

  • Patriot

    American lib again more name calling no facts or truth. Stright out of the Progessive playbook when you cannot win on facts or truth just call people every name in the book to distract the REAL ISSUES! Blah! Blah!!!!!

    • Mark Are

      I bet American Lib knows all about tea bagging from experience first hand.

  • Patriot

    Actions speak louder then words, I do not believe one word our Preidents says, I know Rand Paul knows how important our traditions are, our President has a disgraced us “WE the People” too much to take!

    Our Heritage, culture and traditions are being trampled. The proof is this weekend, for the first time in our history the most important day to remember our troops especially for the ones that made the ultimate sacrifice for us. On Memorial Day our Commander in Chief will not be there to lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, this is a slap in the face to all that have served and shows the complete lack of respect of our traditions and how important they are. This is an outrage anytime, should even be more magnified since we are in 2 wars and there are serious conflicts brewing throughout the world. By the way he will be vacationing back in Chicago, would it be so hard for the President to fly back for this occasion. Seems like he can fly at the drop of the hat to Copenhagen for the biggest fraud on the world public meeting, but cannot for our traditions! Sad times America, but we will overcome this, this too shall pass!

    It is all about actions and his actions show a complete lack of respect to the American people. I am really trying hard to support our President, when these things happen I question he is truly one of us!

    • JLC

      Patriot, you beat me to the punch, and I agree with every word that you wrote. Perhaps at least one “hitch,” in one of the armed services should be a prerequisite for eligibility to be elected to the office of Commander-in-Chief!

    • Mark Are

      He isn’t “our” President. He is a usurping, lying, communist, ILLEGAL ALIEN from KENYA who has been placed in that position by COMMUNIST money and that is that. He CAN’T BE THE PRESIDENT because he won’t even prove he is a citizen. So he can go to hell, hell, hell.

  • American liberal

    Just more proof that the right is wrong….and they have nobody capable of running a campaign… Can you imagin them running our country again….? America won’t survive another ” so called conservative government”….this country has evolved past the good old Boy country that the Tea baggers would like…

    • Robin from Arcadia, IN

      American Liberal… You still can’t get it right, can you? I don’t think you are funny, if that is your intent. Our country is in the crapper and you still can’t see the forest for the trees. It’s really too bad that the dems couldn’t just stay on their side of our country and let the Republicans live on the other side. Put up a fence and no going back and forth. Republicans would survive and prosper. The other side wouldn’t. It would be a great experiment, don’t you think? You would be surrounded with all the other nut cases who think the way you do and I would be surrounded by common sense, decency, morals, and values…

      • Paul

        I believe they have a place like that already,they call it the grt state of california.I call it the bancrupt state of california.

    • CJ

      Yes, we can imagine it. AND by the way the liberals are going, with their rant of anti-constitution and not supporting the laws, it is EXTREMELY likely the liberal agenda will be squashed because it is not only illegal, but abusive to the common worker. There is only so much money in the country, and it is impossible for the average joe to work as hard as the liberals can spend. Eventually, the liberals will learn they are out of money and the public wants to have something for their hard work… besides supporting some lazy bum who thinks they are entitled to a free ride at other’s expense. Keep pushing, libs, and you will not only waken the sleeping giant, but they’ll be VERY p/o’d.

    • http://naver samurai

      Evolved into what? A country where so many people want to be given hand outs and not work for a living? A country where our current leadership, Obama bin Laden, has done everything he can to impliment socialist ideals and tear up our constitution? One where “Osama” says he’s for off shore drilling, but refuses to act when there is an accident currently in the Gulf of Mexico? A country where Obama bin Laden says that he is a christian during his campaign, but then tells everyone that he is a infidel muslim after he’s elected? Gee, if this is the evolved country you are talking about, I can’t wait till we get back to the ways of our christian founding fathers.

    • Jim H.

      Am Lib, I sure don’t want a country ran by tea baggers, but a country ran by people supported by the Tea PARTY movement would be just what we need NOW.

    • http://Comcast Snazzee

      To American Liberal,
      I think that you post this garbage just to tick everybody off. You shirly can’t be that ignorant.

      • JC

        Nope! He really is that ignorant.

      • Steve

        Yep, ignorant, stupid, moronic, immature, blind, deaf, uneducated, noncomprehensive, pathetic……should I go on? ;-)

        I don’t know why anybody even responds to him anymore. I don’t even read his posts, except when I see someone else answer him, and then it’s just for the entertainment value when they beat him to a bloody pulp.

    • Mark Are

      Well, I guess I’d have to look at it like this…get 1% – 3% of the population PISSED OFF ENOUGH that they UTILIZE THE REASON for the 2nd amendment and WE WIN. PERIOD. That would be 3 MILLION to 9 MILLION PISSED OFF GOOD OLE BOYS WITH FIREARMS taking the country back. Would YOU want to stand in the way of some folks who just want to be left the F alone?? That is ALL we want. To be left alone. To be FREE to do whatever we want as long as we don’t damage someone else in their life, liberty or property. PERIOD. And you and your ilk with the tea bagging line…it is getting really old. And it just shows what kind of disgusting moron you are.

      • Pathfinder

        Obviously, you lie when you claim to only want to be left alone. You also want to pick my pockets. But you are not even brave enough to do it yourself. You send a government tax collector to do it for you. If you really were willing to just be left alone, and to leave me alone too; there would not be a problem in the first place. But instead you insist on stealing the fruits of my labor and redistrubiting the wealth. That is what is making much more that 3% of the populace so angry.

      • Hmmm?

        It looks as though someone has hijacked the “Pathfinders” good Libertarian name, and is using it to attack good conservatives on this site. Pathfinder is a Libertarian, as am I, and I smell the anti-American Liberals, or timr, or dumbasos words in a couple of these posts.

  • PG Hall

    Proof that Americans MUST be skeptical of ALL news reporting and listen to the interview of the candidate – not the 6 hours of analysis where anchors discuss every possible intent of every word
    uttered and every expression made.

    Also, we need to study a candidates ties, voting records and not their speech. No matter WHAT they say, nothing speaks as loud as voting records. We are living in a time where we cannot trust the media to be unbiased. If you are going to vote, you should know who you are voting for and why. I don’t think Obama was deceitful in what he said as a candidate, I think Americans just were not willing to look at his record… and listened to the media more than the man.

    Paul was a tea party candidate supported by disgusted Americans for which I am one. I do not really know anything about his politics and do not live in KY, but America has sadly become a more racist country – not less racist in my opinion. I never considered myself racist in any fashion until this admnistration took over. I would probably never vote for a black candidate again. It has absolutely nothing to do with the color of the skin, but about my freedom to disagree with someone being construed as racial. If I disagree with his policies, I am a racist. If I disagree with healthcare? I am a racist. If I do not support the bailout, I am a racist. No matter what – if I do not agree with this man, I am a racist. This is unfair, unfounded and unamerican. So sad the damageObama has caused by bringing up HIS race. IT should NEVER have been a factor and was not a factor to those of us who voted him into office.

    • Joyce from Loris

      You are so right! Race has been thrown in our face every since this guy started running for office! I have never considered myself to be a racist either, but I have been called one so many times because I disagree with him and his policies, that now I just accept the fact that they think I am a racist. Oh well! So be it. I agree with Rand that private businesses should make their own decisions about all of their business. If a person does not like their policies, don’t do business with them. They is the freedom that Americans were raised on. Your choice.
      The tea party movement is Americans that remember those days, and want them back!

    • Bill

      I would disaggree with your assessment of the racial factor in the vote for Obama.

      97% of blacks who voted voted for Obama precisely because he is black.
      that is racsist no matter how you paint it.

      My analysis of racism in this country is that it is increasing. But increasing from those wgo claim to be the victoms of racism, not from those who are accused of being racist.

      • libertytrain

        Bill, I think I agree with all you say here -

    • KELLI2L

      Your comments are perfectly stated and I feel the same.

      I looked over Obama’s voting record and decided NOT to vote for him – but your right – sooooo many voters did not….they listened to the MSM talking heads instead …and this is what we got – hope they have learned a lesson but I doubt it. . .

      • http://?? Joe H.

        KELLI2L,
        perfectly right! The libbies are so programmed to vote the mainstream without checking ANYTHING, theywould vote for a goat in a party hat if the MSM told them to!!!

    • JC

      Agreed. We’ve never been more divided. Thank you Kenyan Imposter for all your destructive social engineering so far.
      Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot.

  • OneDamnAngryAmerican

    This reminds me of how blacks (I do not condone hyphinated races) continue to inform the world that the US Constitution doesn’t even consider them to be “whole” people. If you read the US Constiution (and not the Confederate States Constitution, written by Democratic Senators during a lunchean they had in Alexandria, Virginia after President Lincoln declared that slavery was immoral) you will notice that the words “white” or “black” do not even appear in it. The white race and the black race are not in the document. The only race that is, is “Indian,” which in today’s political climate should read “Native American.”

    Have any of you ever been in a store that has a sign posted that reads, “We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To Anybody!”

    This is not a racial comment. It is a statement that declares that you, the customer, are inside/on “private” property and if you do not behave in a civil manner, you will not be served! What a concept, huh?

    So, now this comment is spun and twisted to make it a racial one, which it isn’t.

    But, then, of course, members of the Democratic party have already passed laws pertaining to what you can or cannot do in your own home (private property), so why not do the same inside the business that you own?

    Of course, if you believe in the “aspects” of private property and private ownership of a business, then of course, YOU ARE A RACIST!

    Too bad we have so many people representing us in elected office who have no clue about anything other then how they can become millionaires from the “sweat” of the American people. (Tax dollars pay their salary!)

    If anybody wants to know what Rand Paul meant when he said what he said, WHY NOT ASK HIM!?

    Duh!?

    • Mark Are

      Isn’t it wonderful to live in a “free” society? Where everything from cradle to grave is taxed, regulated, has a law against it, etc.? But we are in Iraq fighting for “freedom”. GAG ME WITH A PLACE SETTING!

      • JC

        Actually we’re in Iraq dying for “book entries” for outfits like Halliburton and a few more.

      • Pathfinder

        I remember that Ronald Regan warned us of this. I recall he said that as we continued to veer left we would end up in a country where everything was either mandatory or forbidden with nothing optional.

    • nickwolf

      I own 13 restaurants and I already have the right to call the police to expel anybody who acts outrageously. I don’t have the right to not serve them because of their religion or color. What a pathetic false on its face arguement!
      Since when is progress a bad word?? as opposed to what “lack of progress” “Go backwards”?? Stay the same?? None of the founding fathers envisioned that! Thats why they left change and progressive change open to legislation by representatives, duly elected. After the election you don’t get a say. Failure to obey a law of the land is criminal and in some cases Treason.

      Tea Baggers have no faith! They don’t follow the teachings of Jesus Christ ? They also have no Country! They are by definition of George Washington “Traitors” to the United States! “These laws were not passed by a King, they were passed by the Representative majority in Virginia, THEY ARE THE LAW OF THE LAND ! “. He then put down the insurection (The Whiskey Rebellion) by point of bayonnet with a Militia formed in another State and marched to Pennslyvania to put down the Whiskey Rebellion, who also used the Tea Party Slogan! George Washington called it what it is ….Treason!
      23. The Whiskey tax affected Washington more than anyone else, he was at that time the biggest whiskey distiller in the Country?
      24. You are dupes, blinded by ignorance and hate and being led by the noses by your real enemies, the super rich corporations that stop any regulation on your behalf. You are therefor MASOCHISTIC PONYBOYS FOR THE CORPORATIONS! Not Rebels at all….just cowardly slaves.
      25. The things the t-baggers say are slanderous, false and Hate crimes….they have no basis in truth. The Majority elected representatives of the United States of America are not “Fascists” …. but all of you are UnAmerican Dog’s.!!!
      26.Just because an election does not go your way, does not give you the right to not follow the law. Your Racist, unintelligent rants have no basis in facts, you don’t debate the points with true Americans…you are afraid of the Truth. You are afraid of other opinions, which would easily falsify your slanders. Your representatives are brain dead bigots who destroyed our Country over the last 8 yrs…..We the People are not letting you back in Power! You should pray that your side does not get the chance to finish the job on the destruction of the middle class.

      27. Keep shouting people down in town hall meetings, threatening old ladies with guns and your little bag strings will be cut and
      28. your lies neutered! By the MAJORITY!

      • Jim

        Pretty ignorant post for someone who claims to have 13 restaurants Nick. You are either lying about the 13 restaurants, or you’re just ignorant because a big businessman such as you would never be supporting the tax and spend liberals. Either you like paying outrageous taxes to the liberals, or you don’t have 13 restaurants!
        Which is it Nick?
        You also don’t have a frickin clue what the TEA party movement is about, or you would support them. It stands for T.axed E.nough A.lready
        Do you have a lot of illegal aliens working at your restaurants that you don’t have to pay taxes on Nick?? You are not a patriotic American Nick.You’re an IDIOT!

      • http://?? Joe H.

        Nick,
        you own 13 restaurants?? More like you eat at 13 of them when they let you!!!! You wouldn’t know the meaning of American if it biatch slapped you!! your hero has already admitted he is a muslim, he is already caving to Arizona because they are gaining support, and he is screwing the gulf thing so bad it’s like his very own katrina!!!

      • Ted Crawford

        Nick, you claim we are slaves to the corporations. If that is true, we are so by choice. We make that choice by our buying habits. If we don’t like a corporation for any reason all we need to do is to not purchase their goods or services.
        We don’t have the same options where it comes to government. Only the government can force us to comply with their rules! If we chose not to restrain our government then we are,truly, in danger of becoming “unwilling” slaves too it!
        Your claim that change is progress is equally false. To “move foward” into a form of government that is equally agregious to the one that our Founders rejected these 200+ years ago, would not be considered progress by most!!! The term Caveat Emptor applies equally to government as it does to corporate!!!

      • http://xpatv.com Joe

        What is nickwolf’s problem. This is my first time on this thread and everyone seems reasonable and many have different thoughts. But nick, he just rants. He has to be a full blown liberal. I can say this because over my many years I have noticed a liberal will try to out shout you, call you more derogatory names and spout talking points they hear from these so called educated leaders we have. They always assume they are more intelligent than anyone else and have a total disregard for any other opinion than theirs.
        Nick I think you need a few valium and some quite rest before you dive off into another rant. Remember you may have a point but when you are shouting and called me ignorant and stupid you do not have my attention or support for any point you have.

      • Pathfinder

        Your communist rant does not impress.

  • 45caliber

    He sounds just like his dad to me.

    • Mark Are

      Who stands for LESS government interference in our lives, LESS waste, REAL money, NO WARS undeclared by congress…hmmm sounds like a bad guy to me. Sure wouldn’t want someone like that running the show. Those PSYCHOPATHS that have been for the past 50 years are so much better…

      • Pathfinder

        I also practice sarcasm. That is why I enjoyed your comments so much.
        I have become so fed up with both the democrats and the republicans that I now VOTE LIBERTARIAN !!

  • http://MSN AGD

    This little hiccup on Paul is only an attempt to defer the public away from the fact that Michael Steele, the big spender, even after having lost sooooo many republican supporters and contributers is still in the high seat of the party. It’s a lame attempt at trying to discredit the Tea Partiers. Poorly done! A sad attempt indeed. As the saying goes; “People in glass houses should not throw stones”.

  • http://gilmergagop.org By George

    So, Rand Paul is creating a controversy! Let it be so. He speaks to ur conservatism. What is needed is a fearless return to speaking to the truths of issues confronting us. We still seem to want to cling to the fears of offending ala, political correctness. It’s time to recognize that the RNC is not for us and that Paul focuses on what we all instinctively know to be true. That is clearly a step in the right direction. Let’s start the verbal, ideas war before the real shooting starts. We have got to get our heads out of the sand. Go get ‘em Rand!

    • http://personalliberty.com Jessica

      By George, you are wrong about one thing: the RNC is for us. The goal of the Tea Party Movement is not to form a third party, but to take back the Republican Party from the RINOs and the tired old dinosaurs whose only goal is to get re-elected and stay in power. Forming a third party would be a fatal mistake. That’s how Bill Clinton got elected, when Ross Perot suckered a bunch of Republican voters into splitting the electorate. Too late, the people who voted for him realized that he was just a crazy old fool with lots of money and an ego problem.

  • http://www.queencityconsultants.com/ William Thomas

    The Tea Party endorsed Paul, and they are not supposed to be a political party, but their forum had Rand Paul Google ads top and bottom and they provided a table for him at their gatherings. They say they charged him for the table, but to me accepting his money constitutes endorsement. I am sorry to see this because I feel the overall mission of the Tea Party movement is necessary, and I fear candidate endorsement will destroy their mission.

    He is not my sweetheart! But then I don’t care for his opponent in this election. I am glad his opponent is getting out of State Government. Maybe then we can get an Atty Gen that will do something about State Sovereignty in Kentucky.

    • KELLI2L

      ACORN wasn’t supposed to be a political organization either but they did for Obama – what the Tea Party did for Rand Paul. . . Tit-for-Tat – or – Whats Good For The Goose Is Good For The Gander !!!

      • Pathfinder

        The tea party to ACORN comparison is not quite correct. ACORN has been shown to practice election fraud including ballot box stuffing (one person and many votes) as well as registration of non-citizens (not eligible to vote). To the best of my knowledge the tea party has not done any of these. Legal support of a candidate is a far cry from the unlawful tactics of the left.

      • Randolph

        Amen to that. Also, so far as I know, the tea party people are not using the internet to collect campaign funds from every country in the world that dislikes freedom.

  • HFlashman

    Give that Senate seat to the Democrats. This is what the Tea partiers have wrought. Fringe candidates who can win primaries rigged by special rules and gerrymandering preventing a broad based modrate voter their say, and unable to win general elections for any office but dogcatcher.

    Paul may have good soundbites for his radical base, but in reality few would support 1/10th of what he would propose to have done. Like the farmer who brags about not being dependent upon the government for anything and supports people who are like Paul…and who raises gov’t subsidized crops, sowed by gov’t supported research produced seed, with gov’t provided water brought by gov’t built aqueducts and taking every tax break possible while his parents draw SSI and are relaint upon Medicare for health care.

    • KELLI2L

      That’s funny…I considered Obama to be the fringe candidate….and he has proven to me that he indeed is on the fringe….

    • Pathfinder

      GOD!! Who let that RINO lose. The only thing I find in the middle of the road are dead skunks and yellow lines. As for general elections: we can thank media bias, election fraud (ACORN), and RINO undermining of true conservatives for that. Remember scozzafava (spelling ?)helping the democrat to win when she lost her primary ?

  • michaelnatlanta

    The REAL TEA PARTY has been revealed in Ran Paul’s gaffe. The truth, often times, hurts.

    • JC

      gibberish

    • Pathfinder

      WHAT GAFF ?? There was no gaff !! Has it ever occured to you that compulsory integration is as evil as compulsory segregation ? Let people VOLUNTARILY seperate or join together as they see fit.

      • http://PersonalLibertyDigest Bruce D.

        Well put Pathfinder. I have often thought that but I never heard people talk about. Isn’t it a basic right to associate with who you want to. What kind of a society is it that forces someone to associate with another. Certainly it cannot be a free society.

      • Randolph

        A society that forces one to associate with another is a society that believes there is strength in diversity and evil and weakness in being united in the ideas of true individual freedom of expression and lifestyle … in other words, a socialistic society bent towards communism would do that.

    • Joe Kidd

      What gaff?

      Wasn’t the word “gaff” invented to describe Joseph Bidens’ tendency say stupid things? Now you want to stick it on Rand Paul just because he is not a lunatic liberal?

  • Robin from Arcadia, IN

    Rand Paul is new to politics. I am sure he didn’t realize that when he says what he believes that it could cost him in the political arena. I would still support him if I lived in Kentucky. Michael Steele has done little to help the Republican party. Rand Paul may be just what we need to stir the pot!

    • http://charter.net Earnest P.Taylor

      I have been registered as a Republican for many years and have voted Republican because I thought the best candidate was a Republican, NOT because I thought the PERSON running for office was the BEST PERSON for the office.

      I also heard part of Rand Paul’s speach and I would vote for him over anyone being aproved by the the Republican or Demacratic leadership Parties.

      If I had the oppertunity to vote today Rand Paul would definatly have my vote.

  • Cheryl

    I agree with Rand, he clarified his position. It’s refreshing to hear someone tell the truth for a change. Maintain your position and don’t back track. The people are with you.

  • http://www.helpawhiteguy.com Reggie Brian

    Politicians are good at spinning bad news into good news: “Hope and change!” “Free healthcare!”

    Medical doctors are used to giving bad news: “You have cancer.” “Your son did not survive surgery.” “You need to lose some weight.” These are not value judgements, but only the facts. This is what we pay them for.

    Now you have someone trying to spin Dr. Paul’s statement that he does not agree with something that was done in this country 50 years ago. I am pleased that he answered the question with a truthful answer. I am also pleased that this seems to be a habit with him.

    This is the kind of person who I want to fill the office, not someone who just tells me what I want to hear.

    “Sorry to say, your child really did die on the operating table yesterday. I only told you that she lived so that you would re-elect me as doctor.”

  • http://www.helpawhiteguy.com Reggie Brian

    Let me see if I have this right:

    The RNC has failed to deliver in the House, the Senate, the Oval Office, and Supreme Court.

    I should listen to them.. why again is that?

    • Tank Stephens

      Let me see if I have this right, the Dems have their man in the Oval office, and they control Congress. Their man in the Oval office promised “transparency” and televising issues to be decided on C-SPAN. Everything they have done has been anything but transparent. Crammed down the throats of Americans a Health Care bill that the overwhelming majority of Americans did’nt want and did it with shady, back room I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine tactics by a President who by his wifes own admission is not an American citizen(here it on youtube)”when we took our trip to Africa and visited his home country of KENYA…, tell me why we should trust or listen to them?

      • Mark Are

        Tell me why should listen to ANY of them! Demoncrats or Republicdrones?

        They are ALL of the same PSYCHOPATHIC ilk except for maybe two. Rand Paul and Ron Paul.

      • JC

        The only thing transparent about Obama is that we can see right through him.

        Rand Paul is not really a Republican, thank God. We’ve had enough of them too.
        What we need is a Constitutionalist…in fact a whole house of them would be best for all.

      • nickwolf

        Ten to one odds…one million dollar minimum bet…that I can go into a Court of Law and prove that President Obama was born in America. I have offered this out now for 9 months with no takers! Put up or shut up you slimy PIE HOLES !

        You have the John Birch Society sponcer your convention?
        Have Rand Paul interpret the founding fathers? They would throw up at his reasoning!
        The Civil Rights Act is the Law of the Land…it’s not up for reinterpretation from some delusional libertarian.

        RAND PAUL IS NOW UNELECTABLE IN THE UNITED STATES.
        His interpretations show he is delusional !

        Anarchy is no option in 2010! GROW UP and Join modernity.
        We can’t go back because we don’t want to . That would just help our enemies the super rich corporations who run everything. YOU ACTUALLY THINK YOU HAVE FREEDOM?
        OR THAT OBAMA WANTS TO TAKE IT?? HOW FUNNY! THIS COUNTRY IS OWNED BY THE CORPORATIONS AND THEIR LOBBYISTS.

      • Dave

        Hey nick, why don’t you take your foot out of your own freakin “extra large size” pie hole. As it is right now you can’t see past your nose cuz your foot is in the way?
        Rand Paul not electable? You ignorant buffoon, didn’t he just win an election? You left wing loonies sure like to scream a lot! Whats the matter you little prick? Didn’t your momma breast feed you enough, or did she turn you into a girlie man?

      • Joe Kidd

        Karl Marx would be proud of a rant like that. I am sure it would bring tears to his eyes.

        Joseph Stalin would weep with happiness to read that.

        Pol Pot would believe there is hope for America if he could just read that wonderful reasoning.

        Nikita Krushchev would smile at the thought that communism is finally burying America alive with out firing a shot.

    • Pathfinder

      Reggie, I like your statement, “Let me see if I have this right:

      The RNC has failed to deliver in the House, the Senate, the Oval Office, and Supreme Court.

      I should listen to them.. why again is that?” This is why I
      VOTE LIBERTARIAN !!!

  • Steve

    Who gives a rip what the RINOS think. From what I’ve read on here, Michael Steel is old news anyway. The RNC didn’t support Rand Paul, so do they really expect him to support their exact mantra?

  • s c

    Assuming that Paul doesn’t have Republican advisors working for him, this little circus is probably just a matter of yellow journalism types doing what they do best – staying away from objectivity because they get paid so well to be subjective and distort anything that might make this twisted regime look ‘bad.’
    Please remember that the RNC crowd can’t be trusted to provide America with leaders. America’s ‘journalists’ can’t be trusted to protect the First Amendment – let alone the truth.
    We’ll see how Paul handles the truth.

    • http://?? Joe H.

      sc
      I’ll bet he handles it a lot better than most of the progressives can!! they can’t handle the truth only the truth the progressive way, in other words a lie!!

  • Vicki

    Silly of Rand Paul to have actually read and understood the 1st Amendment. You know. The part about freedom of association.

    • Mark Are

      Why is it that telling the truth is “bad”? The civil rights act of 1964 has done more damage to race relations than good. But that is “their” agenda…keep us divided. Seriously, “affirmative action” isn’t discrimination? Having the “united negro college fund” isn’t discrimination? It is such BULL.

      • Barbara

        Thank you Mark. The Civil Rights Act started the “racial profiling” that is quickly spouted today and it stated with their “affirmative action”. At least Rand Paul is smarter than these media commentators……where is their intelligence?

      • KB

        Affirmative Action is a government imposition and that is clearly wrong. The United Negro College Fund is a private organization and they can associate with whoever they choose to.

      • 3rd worlder

        What Rand Paul probably said was that racist affirmative actions and diversity requirements are contradictaory to the civil rights act prohibiting discrimination. Unfortunately, the damage was done when the reporters swisted his words.

  • Jim H.

    I heard the WHOLE interview, as usual it was edited so it would be taken out of context.

    • KELLI2L

      I also heard the whold interview and yes your correct that it was edited for maximum “negative” impact up Rand Paul. . .

      Our media would like to forget that we all have the right to OUR own opinion and those opinions are often in opposition to the governments opinion. . .

      Rand Paul tells it as he sees it and it’s refreshing to not be lied to (or evaded) by a politician for a CHANGE. . .

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