In Response To “Looney Left,” Rand Paul Says He Supports Civil Rights Act

Yep, the left tied him up, beat and tortured it out of him.
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Oh well it will sell with his supporters.

Thank you Michael for balancing out the truth of the matter with Laura’s cross-examination of Rand Paul. While I believe many of his libertarian beliefs should be challenged, and brought to light. Madcow’s deliberate distortion of what Paul actually stands for is more of the same we see right here and on other liberal sites.
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“Deomonize them, distort what they say and mean in order to obtain that Gotcha momemt”.

All this talk about Government not dictating to private business is just a very convenient way to discriminate. What Paul seems to be saying is “I abhor racism in all it’s forms, but hey, it’s the free market after all. If it results in resegregation, so be it. And I dare you to prove I’m racist”. And this seems to be the thought process of a LOT of the tea party movement. Don’t tell me that movement was started because of “Big Government” They didn’t show up until Obama was inaugrated. Racism is the main energy behind it wrapped up in a “big government” bow. They long for a time when they felt superior to all other races in this country and were given deferential treatment because of it. That’s what’s behind the “take my country back” mantra.

In the law biz we call this “friendly cross,” and it’s not a respected practice.

Laura Ingraham – enabling bigotry since… well, forever.

A blogger points out that the Jim Crow laws were an infringement on private businesses. There is more to his discussion than the quote below.

The Pauls seem to concede to the validity of the Act’s overturning of discrimination in public settings, such as transportation. But why aren’t they — as libertarians — outraged that Jim Crow laws themselves infringed on private property and free exchange of goods?

http://raggedthots.blogspot.com/2010/05/a-pauling-view-on-civil-rights.html

If Rand Paul becomes the face of the Tea Party movement, they’re in for one hell of a wild ride this summer and fall. The Kentucky race is probably the one I’m going to follow more than any other.

“looney left”

Is reeking redundancy

Rusty, have you ever heard of the phrase ‘attack the messenger’? It seems to be your favorite tactic.
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Rand Paul’s extreme ideology supports segregation? Well, that’s Rachel Maddow’s fault.
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Sarah Palin comes off as an ignorant talking point repeater? Well, that’s Katie Couric’s fault.
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Etc, etc…
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Or do you just want a media that throws softball questions to your beloved right-wing candidates?

Rand Paul needs to clarified the position he takes issue with in the commerce clause.
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@3:00 he states that “we just kept going round and round”. No, he evaded talking about what he believes and stuck to his talking points.
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No Guns On Premise-get that. On Maddow’s show he stated that Liberals may “blur the distinction” because of that right of a private owner.
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Title II in the Civil Rights Act: “outlawed discrimination in hotels, motels, restaurants, theatres, and all other public accommodations engaged in interstate commerce, exempted private clubs–without defining the term “private”.
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Ingrams asks, “Oh, isn’t that about Health Care Reform?”
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Rand Paul, maybe the left/middle/right would like you to expound on that.
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“Rusty, have you ever heard of the phrase ‘attack the messenger’? It seems to be your favorite tactic.”

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You wrote this with a straight face? It is what the cabal of leftists here do daily to Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, Fox News and and conservative who has the temerity to have an opinion.

newrusty: If you saw the whole Maddow interview of Ron Paul, she was curteous and patient. She gave him many chances to clarify his position on public accomodations. He hung himself.

“You wrote this with a straight face?”
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If I had a dollar for every time you insulted a liberal here, I would have enough to buy a car you would pay $25K for.
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You do not know anything about cars, either.

“”Rusty, have you ever heard of the phrase ‘attack the messenger’? It seems to be your favorite tactic.”

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You wrote this with a straight face?”
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No, that isn’t the right wing tactic at all!

I posted on this issue on another thread last night after hearing the Maddow interview.
It brought back memories of living in Washington State and seeing signs when I was a child. In a restaurant: We have the right to deny service. We all knew what that meant.
There were apartments and hotels that still would not rent to black people.
Later I worked in a bar that had a hitching ring by the front door. There had been a signed removed that said tether your Indian.
My husband and I owned a small motel at the beach in Washington. I was visited by ladies who also owned motels. They explained how I could avoid renting to black people (this was after the Civil Rights Act). I kicked them out.
Whose rights are being infringed upon: The business owner or the person being excluded? How can there be a need for further discussion on this?

This is the same interview without any tough questions and a slightly humbled Rand Paul.

Now he is saying that he might have made an exception for the civil rights movement.

He had no problem with buses being integrated, but, in 1964 city buses were a private business in most places.

A number of years earlier (maybe ten years or more – all before my birth so it is not obvious to me) the character Ralph Cramden on the Honeymooners drove a bus for a private company in New York (which was, in real life a private business, as the subways once were).

So, if it is a private business on wheels, he is 100% in favor of regulating it, but, if it is stationary, he has gone from opposing it to being iffy about it.

Poor Rand!

His father to my knowledge never championed any racist and social-intolerance planks. He’s just a commerce lunatic: protectionism, gold standard, etc.

Rand dupes KY GOP’ers who themselves have tired of Mitch (although Progressives know why, the clown is clueless), into annointing him for unspecified (read, go backwards…) change, and the guy makes multiple errors in his first week on the national stage.

Indeed it was even easier this week exposing him as a RWNJ, than it was for Palin. Even in KY, he has to face a general electorate in the fall that includes substantial segments of Progressives and minorities in the Louisville, Covington and Lexington areas. He’ll have to carry independents big, and now they’re most likely running from the tent.

More interesting than this dolt running his mouth to defeat, is the rebuke of total joke Mitch McConnell. Ineffective all over the lot now, his days as Senate minority leader are numbered – as I predict is true for the always entertaining Michael Steele as well.

Couple months ago, Rahm Emanuel went on 60 Minutes talking about the coming split in the GOP and takeover by extremists. Now in Utah, Kentucky and Maine we are seeing it take form.

Bye, bye GOP…

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“Laura Ingraham – enabling bigotry since… well, forever”
Flownover,
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You wouldn’t know fair reporting if it hit you in the head.
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Laura Ingrahams is a very fair and honest reporter.
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Your comments show you have no respect for the truth. All you care about is your distorted political beliefs. Thed truth be dammed.
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If you were a reasonable person you wouyld understand the correctness of Newfreedom’s comment.

Love the way all you Liberals pile on any republican.
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Obama can make an a questionable comment one day and his spokespersons can spend the next few days trying to explain what he really meant and you have no problem with that.
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Let a Republican do the same and you are like a bunch of piranhas that smell blood in the water. You are a bunch of hypocrites.

Michael,
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Thanks for showing balance on this report.
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As you know there are two sides to every story and truth is usually somewhere in between.
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When people are rational enough to understand this concept they then have the desire to get all the facts so they can make intelligent decisions.
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Again thanks for the fairness. That often doesn’t happen here on swampland.