Rand Paul's Exhausting Week

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where the rubber meets the road

Rand and his silly mouth.

You're right, Rand, you've come with a message from the Tea Party: we don't much care for blacks and oil companies are our friends.

Would you support a company or business that actively discriminated blacks (or any other group of people)?

Do you think others would?

Do you think that would be a good way to run a company?

Do you think you could profit and employ well with a racist company?

I don't think racism is very effective, and therefore not every law against it is necessary.

that all business people are rational folks who value the bottom line over their own particular prejudices and paranoas. How cost effective was apartheid over the course of its half century of existence? How cost effective was Jim Crow? Racists often take actions that are self-defeating, both in the short and in the long term.

"Therefore not every law against it is necessary."

I see. Care to elaborate? The Civil Rights Act of 1964? The Voting Rights Act of 1965? The Fair Housing Act? The Civil Rights Restoration Act? Which particular law against racism would you be willing to scrap as "unnecessary?"

You don't think racism is very effective, but nonetheless it exists in many forms.

Therefore you believe not every law against it is necessary, but without enforceable laws to protect the vulnerable from the predatory those very practices would still be in effect.

We are a nation of laws. Laws are necessary to protect society from corruptions of every kind.

If you think there's nothing wrong with allowing businesses to act like racists, then you support racism.

Period.

Welcome to DU.

some people are so ignorant of history of the USA, they all seem to think all Americans were always pure and wonderful people.

It wasn't until Rachel Maddow grilled Paul after the primaries that people started understanding what Libertarianism is and some of the things teabaggers stand for.

Now, Gregory and his ilk act like they've just had an epiphany: These guys think the Civil Rights Act should not apply to private business? The president is not allowed to criticize BP Oil after it has created one of the biggest environmental disasters in history and shows no signs of knowing how to stop it?

The MSM never took the time to inform and educate voters on these candidates and their positions. They're too busy making the teabaggers more of a political force than they really are because it's an easy way to generate division and controversy in this country.

Republican party is thrusting out all these fringe extremists into the lime light? We have seen Sarah Palin, and now this guy. Do the Republicans think White Supremists make excellent Congress members?

We thought the Bush years were bad,..Can only imagine the nightmare of who "Tea Party" Republicans think could next run this country.

Oh my gawd...this video is so funny! And true! Now I understand!!

VIDEO: Atlas Ducked

"A deconstruction of libertarian philosophy and Rand Paul."

http://www.thepoliticalcarnival.net/2010/05/video-atlas-ducked/

Yes, it's true, it's true!!!!

:rofl:

IRONY:



- So. According to Rand Paultard here, he wants a world where his own namesake and ideological guru, could be legally turned away from a hotel or restaurant (and at one time frequently were), or kept from buying a house in one of the "nicer areas......"

And although he now claims that the media "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/24/rand-paul-maddow-was-fair_n_587107.html">has not been fair to him." I can only hope that some one asks him that very question.

And while we're at it, maybe he can likewise tell us where he stands on Church-State separation, and on Creationism -- a wonderful example of which can be easily found at the Creation Museum right there in http://creationmuseum.org/plan-your-visit/map/">Petersburg, Kentucky and whom he'll be representing if he's elected their Senator.

- Yes, I'm, sure they'll be shitting bricks in those Kentucky woods, hills and hollers when they get a load of his answers on those pesky religious questions! Yee-Haw!!!