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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJosh Marshall: Rand Paul and the Sweet Smell of Your Own Crap
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/04/rand_paul_and_the_sweet_smell_of_your_own_crap.phpRand Paul and the Sweet Smell of Your Own Crap
Josh Marshall April 11, 2013, 12:02 PM 10498
Yesterday morning Sen. Rand Paul went over to Howard University. And it didnt go terribly well. One might say thats only to be expected in a case like this - perhaps even the whole point - since the aim is to break the ice between communities either antagonistic to each other or thoroughly out of communication. But its more an example of what happens when a staunch conservative steps out of the GOPs tightly-drawn racial nonsense bubble and hits an audience not dying to be convinced that the GOPs problems with non-whites are the results of boffo misunderstandings about a Republican party that is actually the best thing that ever happened to black people.
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The gist of what happened yesterday was that Paul took this clown show to an audience at an historically black college where, yeah, they actually do know that Lincoln freed the slaves and that Frederick Douglass was a Republican. And theyve even heard about the Dixiecrats. After I reading Benjy Sarlins account I was surprised Paul didnt introduce himself by thanking the crowd for welcoming him to the Democrat Party Plantation.
Rands surprise was akin to one of those old Bugs Bunny cartoons when Bugs nemesis walks over a loose floorboard and the board flies up and whaps the guy right in the face. You can become so lost in your own story that you confuse your conciliation with your aggression. The GOP is so deep into its own self-justifying racial alternative reality that theres some genuine surprise when the claptrap doesnt survive first contact with actual black people.
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Josh Marshall: Rand Paul and the Sweet Smell of Your Own Crap (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2013
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. Love Josh!
He can really turn a phrase.
Nice post.
R&
malaise
(269,219 posts)2. Beautifully written
He nailed it
immoderate
(20,885 posts)3. I'm always annoyed when people treat Rand Paul as some sort of intellect.
And my utmost thanks to the students of Howard University! They showed him life outside the bubble...
--imm
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)4. Love his way with a word! K&R
freshwest
(53,661 posts)5. His historical visit to the Planet of Black People was covered differently in libertarian circles.
'A respectful welcome,' one said. What they expect to happen?
I'm sure this dingbat will be the GOP candidate in 2016. Or run with his senate doppleganger, Paul Ryan.
Just think, PR & RP. Or RP & PR.
What is it about the GOP and the letter R, anyway?
I think they should run some people with several K's in their names.
babylonsister
(171,102 posts)6. K's!!!
What is it about the gop, period? They are so nutty, but dangerously so. It's the people who think nothing wrong is happening who worry me.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)7. Oh, just look a few pages deep into my Journal. It's all there...
Blue Owl
(50,529 posts)8. K&R
hatrack
(59,594 posts)9. Or, as was so eloquently stated at Romney's appearance at the NAACP in 2012 . . . .