A new crazy has been awakened in the Tea Party. Rand Paul, the Tea Party candidate, who won the Republican Nomination for Senate over the preferred mainstream GOP candidate in the State of Kentucky on Tuesday night has shocked even a few of the Republican leadership.
His response to the question, posed by liberal Rachel Maddow,who asked if a private business had the right to refuse service to a black person? was "Yes". Cool, huh? After all the stuff that has gone on in this country for 200+ years; the civil war; the civil rights act of 1964 - enacted the year this old fart graduated from high school; the beatings and hosings that were seen on nightly news broadcasts; Rosa Parks; Dr. Martin Luther King; , and so many low and high points in the struggle to gain equality, this idiot bigot, in one three-letter-word answer, affirms something that is still practiced by too many people in the country - racial prejudice.
Mr. Paul, of course, has spent the better part of the last couple of days attempting to backtrack on this position a bit. Saying in further interviews that he would have voted for the Civil rights act had he been in the Senate when it came up for the vote. He also said he abhors bigotry. Yada, yada, yada.
He further attempts to explain his view as that of a libertarian - simply defending the right of a business owner to choose to serve whomever he/she wants, without Government interference. Problem is, Mr. Paul, there are laws. Oh - whoops, I forgot - you and your kind only want CERTAIN laws. Like against abortion and Gay marriage. It's okay for the government to intervene then. Just not when it comes to serving nigras (That's probably how you refer to African-Americans behind closed doors).
Interesting, too, that the day before you answered that question for Rachel Maddow, you had a little interview on NPR where you exercised your concerns about the Americans with Disabilities Act. Seems that law is a bit too stringent for you also. I'd bet you're a big supporter of those new laws in Arizona too.
He's a real man of the people, Mr. Paul is. He even had his victory party at a country club. A place where most of the Tea Party probably couldn't get in.
Demagoguery is alive and well in Kentucky, and the Tea Party has a new hero. If he gets elected to the Senate in November, maybe they will have a candidate to run for President in 2012.
Ain't we lucky?
Old Fart Mike
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Paul is a liar.
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