[JLS]

Maybe this Rino is learning a tough less. It may be too late though.

[jtal]

I’m glad to see Dr. Paul is fighting back instead of going all mealy-mouthed after he won the primary.

[Migraine]

I WISH Rand Paul had smacked somebody in the media down; trouble is, he’s been reduced to jello by their collective chorus against him.

He’s like Ralph Kramden in the Honeymooners, when caught in one of his many misstatements: “hommina-hummina-hommina-hummina”...

Sorry, them’s the facts.

I am confident he will recover and go on offense; but he’d better pull some alinsky stuff on the MSM and the Dem NGOs (civil rights industrialists).

[griswold3]

I would love an independent thinker who does not suffer fools lightly.

[reaganairport]

Rand Paul: George, when does my honeymoon period start?

The 12th of Never.

Did he really expect anything different?

[junta]

He needs to include his state as being villified by the DNC and their media.

[sickoflibs]

I like you Rand but you stuck your foot in a load of crap here. Serves you right for thinking libs on MSNBC were your friends.

[VRW Conspirator]

Stephie used the tried and true method of “have you stopped beating your wife?”. RP did the right thing by not answering the question but addressing the issue nevertheless. Thank goodness SOMEONE finally threw the former KKK kleagle, Robert Byrd, back in their face when responding to charges of racism.

[ckilmer]

hey rand paul is a competent speaker.

great.

[Buckeye McFrog]

didn’t they learn ANYTHING from the Katie Couric ambush of Sarah Palin???

[Deb]

At some point the “moderates”, “mavericks” and “out-siders” will learn the media only loves them, and thinks they’re cute & funny, when a weapon is needed to defeat a hated Republican.

[nathanbedford]

In America all politics is not local but ultimately racial.

The purpose of this line of questioning whether conducted by Rachel Maddow, George Stephanopoulos, or NPR is not just to disadvantage a Republican candidate it is to utterly delegitimatize him, to render him a political pariah, to in push him beyond the pale, to destroy him and functionally kill him off.

The options which Rand Paul might have chosen in the face of this assault included the Trent Lott option which is to tear his shirt in front of the camera, grovel, and beg and plead ceaselessly for forgiveness until we are all sick unto death of the whole pathetic scene. To his credit, Rand Paul chose quite the opposite reaction, he chose to counterattack, to delegitimatize George Stephanopoulos, to discredit him as a journalist, to question his motives, to render him as unworthy as a toad of the Democratic Party.

I have been advocating this course for years on my about page and glad to see that at least one politician has the right instincts.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"Rand Paul smacks down Stephanopoulos for reading DNC talking point memo"

It should be easy to obtain a copy of the Dem Talking Point Memo Du Jour. The MSM should be ambushed by QUOTING BACK the memo point to the interviewer along the lines of:

"Thank you for that question. I believe you are referring to today's Democrat Talking Points Circular - point number 5. More correctly, you should have asked me.....etc. etc."

When that happens a few times, they might start asking some real questions.

[SoldierDad]

Well, there you go again (as Ronald Reagan would say). George Step-on-all-of-us acting as the lap dog of the DNC.

[frposty]

I wish Rand Paul had let Stephy finish describing the source of his assertion, and I wish Rand had fully answered all questions asked him. I like his feistiness. I like him. When a politician does poorly in an interview I always blame it on the politician unless there was sneaky editing of the interview. Palin deserves what she got in the Couric interviews, but fortunately they didn’t discourage her and she’s a huge powerhouse now. We don’t know Rand yet.

[phredo53]

Seems to me he was probably hoping to appeal to some independents by going on msnbc. He should’ve rehearsed their tactics more before he went on. He ended his own honeymoon. Better start learning some debating skills in a hurry.

[fortheDeclaration]

Rand needs to get off national TV and concentrate on his State race.

[rfp1234]

Good to see someone fight back! No Macaca Moment for you, Snuffalopagus and the rest of the lib hyenas.

[leprechaun9]

STEP ON THE POPULACE is showing his CLINTOOOOOON knee pads again!

[spodefly]

ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/DNC -- All one organization, filled with members of the "Monkey Collective", whose job is to support the collectivist political class and promote unlimited, unbridled government.