Festivus creator on Rand Paul: 'I hate that guy'

The “Seinfeld” writer who created Festivus doesn't want Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to celebrate the fictional holiday



“I hate the guy,” Don O'Keefe told The Huffington Post’s "HuffPost Live" in an interview Wednesday. "I think he’s some form of lizard that’s crawled into a suit and somehow been allowed in the Senate.
“I strongly dislike it when elected officials with whom I strongly disagree try to co-opt a government holiday of mine for venal, immoral purposes that hurt our nation,” he added.

“I lost it when I saw that Rand Paul — whom my father strongly disliked before he died — was using my holiday to make warmed-over, 10-year-old talking points,” O’Keefe said. "My father was a strong, 1950s-era liberal Democrat [and] hated the reactionary nature of today’s Republican Party."

The 2016 presidential candidate marked Festivus early Wednesday by mocking other White House hopefuls and decrying government waste. He has spent much of the day tweeting barbs at a host of targets, including GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, his Democratic counterpart.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/264130-festivus-creator-on-rand-i-hate-the-guy