Tea Party Factors into Kentucky Primary Victory

[BubberMiley]

Surely you can see that, I don't even have to name examples.

That makes it easier when you have none.

[sharkman]

Yes Bubber, I'm afraid I have used coded words that only someone from the right can understand. Don't bother yourself further about it, it's just conservative gobbleygook.

[Jack Weber]

Yes Bubber, I'm afraid I have used coded words that only someone from the right can understand. Don't bother yourself further about it, it's just conservative gobbleygook.

It's OK...

Shady will translate your gobbledygook for us....

[sharkman]

Shady, do not translate as this is for us conservatives only. Liberals need to be kept in the dark on this one as they think Obama is not swinging the country to the left! I thank you.

[WIP]

Yikes! Rand Paul crashed and burned on the Rachel Maddow Showlast night! In fairness to a new politician, this is why politicians speak soundbite and never answer hard questions they haven't discussed previously with aides. No doubt that his teabaggers will be outraged by what that big, scary lesbian did to him.

Nevertheless, Rand Paul defended private business's right to discriminate that was alluded to in an interview he did with the editorial board of some podunk newspaper in Kentucky that did not follow up on the question. You would think that in the intervening weeks, somebody would have gotten to Paul and told him to have an answer ready next time a civil rights question came along...especially before returning to the Rachel Maddow Show! Instead he kept digging deeper and deeper. Now he's got himself into one hell of a ditch to try to get himself out of.

Paul's fault is not racism I suspect -- the worst racists cover their tracks in careful language. The problem is this stupid, blind adherence to libertarian doctrine that government is bad and should do less and less. There are likely many other issues, such as the Gulf Oil Spill or the Banking Crisis, where lack of proper regulation has led to disaster, and a doctrinaire libertarian is going to come across looking like a fool! For what it's worth, his old man has enjoyed a mostly free ride by the left for being anti-war, and his views on civil rights are the same, but never were put under scrutiny. Since Rand is taken more seriously, his crazy ideas are going to get a lot more attention.

One thing that gets me about the Republican or Tea Party libertarians, is that they believe in absolute economic freedom, but on social issues, the only thing they're libertarian about is carrying guns! Paul and other teabaggers support government surveillance under the excuse of fighting terrorism, and all of a sudden support mandatory federal identification cards as long as it only applies to Mexicans.