Commentary: Is Rand Paul the New Sarah Palin?
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America it is time to celebrate! Happy days are here again. Just when we thought Sarah Palin may have run out of dumb things to say here comes Kentucky’s Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for senate. Rand, aside from being incredibly boring, unlike Palin who is always good for a laugh, appears to be at the least ill-informed or at the most crazy like his racist father, Ron Paul, one time darling of the Progressives.
On Wednesday good ole Tea Bagger Rand (TBR) decided to go on the Rachel Maddow Show. After all that is where he announced his candidacy so how dangerous could it be? Rachel, unlike occasional blowhards Olbermann and Mathews, interviewed him with dignity and aplomb, her trademark style. During this interview TBR decided that maybe the 1964 Civil Rights Act may not have been such a good idea because businesses should have the right to refuse service to anyone they please, without consideration to race or creed. Well now that was a shocker and for a moment even the normally unflappable Maddow was nonplussed. Now TBR may not be the brightest light in the sky and at the moment he was carrying about a half-stringer of fish because he didn’t pick up on the changes taking place around him, e.g. body language and etc., and proceeded to plow forward saying that he would probably have voted for the Civil Rights Act, but one never knows.
Naturally a frantic GOP, through the surrogacy of the Tea Baggers, managed to gasp in surprise and then recover, sending TBR back in front of the cameras yesterday to deny that he had anything but the greatest love and affection for the Civil Rights Act and all persons associated with such landmark legislation. The MSM, scenting blood in the water, spent no little time sending the story viral, with analysis after analysis of probably one of the most idiotic Palin/Bachmann-like statements since “I can see Russia from my house.”
Now by this time you would think the story over but you would be wrong. You see in the interim one time Progressive favorite Ron Paul, closet racist, started whining at the press telling them to stop picking on his son:
In a sometimes testy exchange with reporters in the Capitol on Thursday, the elder Paul said liberals were treating his son unfairly and reporters were hoping to stop his political momentum with “gotcha” questions based on out-of-context remarks.
So that brings us to just a couple of hours ago when the following took place:
Taking another unconventional stand, Kentucky’s Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul criticized President Barack Obama’s handling of the Gulf oil spill Friday as anti-business and sounding “really un-American.”
Paul’s defense of the oil company came during an interview as he tried to explain his controversial take on civil rights law, an issue that has overtaken his campaign since his victory in Tuesday’s GOP primary.
“What I don’t like from the president’s administration is this sort of, ‘I’ll put my boot heel on the throat of BP,'” Paul said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business.”
You see the Obama administration has used the “boot heel” phrase to describe its commitment to holding BP accountable for the spill and its cleanup. That personally made me happy along with everyone else in America who has the most basic understanding of the Gulf Coast oil spill.
So, within 48 hours TBR has demonstrated to the nation that Sarah Palin is reincarnated in his own body and that soon he too will be able to see Russia from his house….MJS
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The Caribou Bimbo and Rand brains put together is about the size of a tires lug nut. They have got to be the most ignorant two people on this earth. I cannot believe the people in Ky even considered this moron, what were they thinking?? I guess to much inbreeding and lead poisoning from the white liquor stills has scrambled their teeny little brains. The Tea Buggers are now thinking that they have the power, but someone needs to tell them that in primaries, republinuts win, and democrats win, we will see what happens in Nov. My feeling is that the republinuts will not gain anymore than two seats if that, the dems will sweep again, thank God, cause this country cannot handle any republinut ideologies anymore, that is why this country is in the shape it is in right now.
I have an adopted daughter living in Kentucky Allen and she is on the right as are her neighbors, friends, family, and just about everyone else. She is not sure why she loves The Palin et al she just knows she hates Obama and doesn’t know why … Kinda like Oso 🙂 🙂 🙂
I hope he gets a guest shot on Palin’s teevee show.
Osori, of course Obama sucks ass, like all heads of empires do. Neapolitan is good ice cream. LeBron will be playing elsewhere next season. Anything else? 🙂
LOL I hear ya.
While we ridicule Paul, why not step back and recognize what the Democrats just did? They finished gutting the Senate financial reform bill so it won’t offend Wall St.Obama sold us out again but instead of being angry, liberals are happy we got kicked in the nuts and we’re ridiculing Paul. Why don’t we ridicule Obama? He’s the one just caved to the banks. Paul said something stupid. Obama by stepping back and avoiding confrontation and working in the background to gut financial reform has set us up for an even bigger economic disaster.
A little perspective may be in order.
Aw man, you just totally harshed my buzz. I’ll have to look at it tomorrow when I am more awake.
Sorry! I disagree Oso. I congratulate the president on a job well done. It is yet another magnificent legislative achievement by the president 🙂 🙂
Paul clearly backed himself in a corner here/stepped in it. And, yes, he has shown himself to be unyielding advancer of a cause. But, to compare him to Palin is ludicrous. 1) The fellow’s a doctor (I doubt if Palin has ever even passed chemistry) and 2) at least he’s smart enough to articulate a philosophy. All that frigging Palin ever does is talking points/gibberish.
Will writes:
“All that frigging Palin ever does is talking points/gibberish.”
Thus the comparison…..I don’t care how many degrees Rand Paul has. He is more like The Palin than not when it comes to talking to the press.
Seems like you guys have a new whipping person.
Yup. Ain’t it great! You Righties seem to have an endless supply of idiots….
First there was The Bachmann followed by The Palin and now The Paul. Wonderful!
Just to be fair to The Palin, she never said “I can see Russia from my house.” That was Tina Fey as The Palin. Easy to mistake one for the other, granted.
Safe to say that’s the last time I’ll start a sentence with “Just to be fair to The Palin.” 🙂
That’s right Stimpson, no more of this: “Just to be fair to The Palin” thing.
I did know that Stimpson but it is much more fun to attribute it to her 🙂
WEll good gods!
@ Jess… something vexes thee? LOL I share your frustrations!
@ Infidel very very good one~! I peed my pants.
@ Mad Mike… gee, that was good. Real good. You sound like Keith Olbermann, I thought you didn’t like him? LOLOLOLOL But YOU DID. Course, I adore Olbermann…
and the beat goes…drums keep poundin’ rhythms to the ….
🙂 Gwen, I don’t like stupid people very much and this guy is one of the stupidest I have come across in a while, especially if they are going to have a say in what happens with the country. That and I am like a crack addict, when it comes to politics, I try to stay away, then something happens like this train wreck of a man. I don’t have that many people my own age in real life, almost 29, as involved in politics as I am, so if I want to have any decent discussion about politics, I have to come online for it.
Jess you would love kicking it with my actual kid, she’s also 29 and very political, when she was a sophomore she would go to SF to protest Mumia being incarcerated. Plus she is a poet who’s currently reading a biography of Edna St Vincent Millay.
She and I have probably crossed paths at some point, if she has been there. I went a couple times and did the prop h8 protesting at city hall. That was where I got arrested for sitting down in traffic and refused to get up. They carted my narrow butt to a nice little holding cell at SF jail for an afternoon with several new friends. Good times, I sent the jail officers pizzas the next day, thanking them for their hospitality, they really were cool people. Have no idea who Millay is at all, other than what you and Bee were talking about here the other day.
LOL! Thanks Gwen. I do like Olbermann, at least most of the time. It is just that sometimes his passion overcomes his common sense, just like me 🙂
TBR has demonstrated to the nation that Sarah Palin is reincarnated in his own body and that soon he too will be able to see Russia from his house….
Russia is so 2008. Nowadays everyone in coastal Louisiana can see Britain, or at least its Petroleum, from their house.
I think the Paul family can probably see the planet Neptune from wherever they originally came from.
Infidel writes:
“I think the Paul family can probably see the planet Neptune from wherever they originally came from.”
I cannot stop laughing!!!!!!!
INFIDEL – MMA needs a good comedy/satirical writer, you have a biting wit, how about it?
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You’re just like really bossy you know. Did it, because I kind of like venting here and I don’t want to be on your wrong side. AYUP, I am a suck up like that, it’s very sad and pathetic all at the same time.
Jess you have the uncanny ability to make me laugh and I love your loyalty to our little web magazine!! You are A1A in my book 🙂
Well most of you, I had already known from your postings either at Bee’s place or JR’s place or Mr Harpers house, so this is just another place with like minded and really funny people I can come visit. That and I am really a social butterfly person, that loves being “among” people, after I get over the initial shyness. I like staying with my own kind, you know caring, compassionate, smart, good looking, funny people. I won’t tell you all which one you all are or may be, but I am all of them, just for the record.
Us good looking people aren’t valued enough. And what really sucks is when one realizes there aren’t many cute years left!
Poor Rand. All you nasty liberals just picking on him. Look what you made him do now. He may not be going on Press the Meet with old bootlicker Gregory this weekend because you have all been mean to him. Now off to the corner and think about what you all have done to this poor, poor misguided racist pig.
=^..^=
I have grave concerns about this guy.
My gravest concern is that something happens to him. I want this guy to be the Kentucky candidate in November. Then again the Dems are known to take the best advantage and turn it into their worst defeat.
**Jess does idiot smack, upside the head** I know what this is because I get them from the aunts still (sigh) 🙂 Snap out of it, Conway has this in the bag.
yeah we do that too, I’m sure your aunts follow it with “pendeja!”.
No, my aunts are Japanese/white like mom. They do it Samurai style, back of the hand, where it hurts like a, well you know what.
so you get combined “take that” with “domo arigato”?
This is a time for rejoicing. If the republicans decided to run reasonable people we’d be in trouble. This way, only the odd kook will win.
Of course, if the people the republicans ran were reasonable they wouldn’t be republicans.
You got that right Truth!!
He has actually associated himself with Christian Reconstructionism. That makes even Mooseolini look sane.
It does make Mooseolini look sane!!! LOL!
Well said, but lets not underestimate the power of the ballot box, after all he got the nomination over the officially backed Republican candidate. That being said, if the Democrats play it serious and don’t go into mocking mode, this guy is extremely beatable in November.
Conway has already come out swinging, tying this to just Kentucky instead of it being a national deal. Conway is one to watch, kinda like Alan Grayson(but less smart assier).
Oh and we have Joe Scabrub saying this is the DFH liberals on MSNBC’s fault for Rand going all in on the stoopid. Man I wish he would just go to Fox and we could get Shep Smith on MSNBC. See, it is not Rand’s fault he has these views, it is ours because we asked about them, get it? There are so many days I wish stupidity was painful, so we would have less of it. This is one of them.
Rand Paul apparently has a deeply held conviction that corporations should be allowed to do what they see fit without oversight or accountability. He even goes so far as to say that that criticizing corporations when they hurt taxpayers and working families – as in the case of the massive BP oil disaster – is ‘un-American.’
As Attorney General, I’ve seen how corporations can take advantage of consumers – whether it’s oil companies that gouge Kentucky customers after a series of storms or pharmaceutical companies that commit Medicaid fraud. I have a deeply held conviction that we need a senator who will hold companies accountable. We have enough senators in Washington who are looking out for what’s best for corporations. My sole focus will be looking out for Kentucky’s taxpayers and families.
I love this guy. It has been a long time since I have been inspired to actually write something original. I hope he is around at least until the election.
He won because of his father’s cult status among teabaggers (and the appeal of his Palinesque wackiness to them), neither of which will be so weighty in the general as in the Republican primary.
He’s only been the nominee for a couple of days and he’s already circling the drain. He’s beatable all right.
AYUP and now he is canceling appearances on the Sunday shows. Press the Meat with David, I love me the republicans, Gregory who would just sit there and throw out softball questions to him. This would probably have helped him just a little, but no had to go all rogue like our girl Bible Spice did and refuse to talk to anyone, after the disaster that was the Couric what do you read interview. What a wimp when Gregory can’t get you to air your views. I would so love to be a fly on the wall now at Mitch McConnell’s office, see what turtle head has to say about him. I was talking to a friend of mine earlier about this, and told him I just love that he is just following the path the reps have set out, they just don’t talk about this out loud among polite society you know? They don’t want the regular Joe and Jane to know what they are all about. Too late folks, McConnell himself has said, the Teabaggers are now part of the republican party.
The GOP hates to admit the Tea Baggers are them……The Democrats are loving it!!!
You make a great point my friend. We know how far the Democrats can go to f**k up a wet dream….
$ister $arah, major grifter will come out with something even more stupid, to keep her name in the ether don’t worry. She will not stand for someone stupider than she is, I guarantee it.
Ok, I made this comment somewhere else today, I will make it here. We have old Ayn Rand RuPaul talking how unmerkin it is to be dogging the businesses right.
BRITISH Petroleum, owned by ummm not American company, working on rig built in South Korea by Hundai(sp) for Transocean, I might add a Swiss company. So then we have Halliburton, headquartered in Dubai(pesky taxes and rules) having its nasty fingers in the black tar pie. Oh and before the accident, they were flying the flag of the Marshall islands, so they did not have to do the cumbersome thing with the taxes and all. Where is any of this our issue, not to have it dealt with and get it dealt with by holding them responsible Ayn Rand RuPaul? This guy makes crazy eyes Bachmann look sane in comparison.
Now we have Rand Paul going on all the teevee progs that are owned by just 5/6 people, one of them an Australian, hellbent on destroying anything remotely progressive, damn I hate that word, LIBERAL.
In summation, ladies and gentlemen of the little box here, we have an American candidate for Senate, saying that our president is un American because he won’t back down for an international company. Hmmm, something VERY very wrong with this picture if you ask me.