Yesterday, I caught a new spot for Campbell’s soup that boasts of the company’s “farm-grown ingredients.” I did a double take. “Farm-grown ingredients”? As opposed to what? Test-tube carrots? Magically conjured potatoes? I imagined Peggy on Mad Man presenting the idea to Don Draper. The scene did not end well.
I mention this only as a …
Sure, all those pundits on cable and inside the Beltway may be predicting a wave year where Dems lose the House and maybe even the Senate. But the tsunami hasn’t yet been reflected in three new CNN/TIME/Opinion research polls of registered voters in Kentucky, California and Florida out today. In fact, most races were tied or just within …
Last week, Rand Paul turned on Rachel Maddow. After Maddow invited him on her show, and painted his libertarian views as a proxy support for private sector segregation, Paul announced that he had been attacked by the “Looney Left.” So it goes. Politics ain’t T-ball. Yet we can all still hope that one day Maddow and Paul find a way to …
On the Laura Ingram show Thursday, Rand Paul said that he would have supported the Civil Rights Act in 1964, and still supports it. Though he retains some concern over government dictating to business:
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(via Taegan Goddard)
The electoral inadvisability of discussing his views on the 1964 Civil Rights Act have dawned on Rand Paul. He has abandoned his first instinct to defend himself on abstract, philosophical grounds and shifted to a more political tack.
“I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” he says in a statement, not …
UPDATE: Thursday on the Laura Ingram show, Rand Paul responded to last night’s Rachel Maddow interview.
The libertarian approach, which heavily favors private rights over government rights, has always produced some interesting conversations. Most libertarians, for instance, don’t own a bong or watch extremely violent pornography, but …
From the top of my Time.com story about last night:
This is how it goes in 2010 at the ballot box: old orders are upended, political lions become roadkill, chosen successors get left behind and the outsider, riding a wave of discontent, becomes the new front-runner.
In quick succession Tuesday night, the jittery inhabitants of
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There are a lot of races this week — perhaps the busiest primary week since the 2008 season. Here’s a story from me about the five top Democratic primaries. Obviously, as I mention, there’s also the Rand Paul/Trey Grayson smackdown in Kentucky on the Republican side which it looks like Paul will likely win in a victory for the Tea …
In an unusual move, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today endorsed his long time protege Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson for forced out, er, retiring Jim Bunning’s Senate seat.
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With two weeks to go before the Bluegrass State’s first …
Here’s a story from me out of Kentucky, where I went a few weeks ago to look at the GOP primary for Jim Bunning’s Senate seat. It’s hard to say who’s running a worse campaign, Rand Paul who has no message discipline and lacks charisma or Trey Grayson who doesn’t even post his events on his website (I’m still scratching my head …
