Posted on 05/21/2010 4:19:18 AM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010
Since last Tuesday, it’s been morning after week for Kentucky Senate Republican candidate Rand Paul. While he recorded interviews at NPR and The O’Reilly Factor today, he didn’t waste any time booking himself for the toughest interview he could find. Tonight, that interview was on The Rachel Maddow Show. Don’t be deceived by the lack of shouting– this was by far the most heated exchange of the night across cable news.
It wasn’t the first time Paul was on the program– in fact, he had announced his candidate for Kentucky Senate on The Rachel Maddow Show months before. But last night’s interview was almost like a science experiment: put two of the most ideologically pure people in the politi-media world together to challenge each other on one of the issues they each care about the most. For Paul, that issue is the rights of the individual and the danger of the federal government stepping over them. For Rachel Maddow, the issue is institutional discrimination and the moral obligation to abolish it. That, at least, is how each one of them saw the respective problems and successes of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which Paul had been coming under attack for allegedly opposing.
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there will be a lot more of this...the do damage presidency requires it.
I suspect that you are incorrect. I'm all about individual rights and property rights, etc. However, in this instance, the subject is larger than a debate such as allowing or not allowing smoking in one’s restaurant. Refusing blacks the right to sit at a lunch counter because it's private property had to be addressed. What I am wondering is how is it that when conservatives catch a tail wind and have an opportunity to make some gains they instinctively blow their feet clean off. To put it more simply, why did Rand Paul feel the necessity to be stupid?
Since Congress has no authority to legislate for the States, I can't say I blame him.
We either have a right to our property, or we don't. There is no 'middle ground'.
"When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 1821
You really believe there would be whites only resturants all across America if nanny hadn’t put a stop to it?
Well than Ms. Maddow has a bit of a problem, since her colleague Chris Matthews appears to stick up for Dr. Paul. Here’s the video:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews#37263295
Barry Goldwater opposed it as well as.
I think you're forgetting something. Fox actually has a spectrum of viewers, while MSNBC's audience of TWO are nothing but rabid socialist America-haters.
No. But, I do believe that whites only restaurants would have prevailed much longer than it did. Btw, just a side note, I am old enough to remember going into Sears and Montgomery Wards and observing water fountains labeled White and Colored, segregated cafes and movie theaters. Oh yeah, I also remember the big sign across main street Greenville, Texas stating “the blackest land and the whitest people”. So, this gross inequity needed to be addressed sooner than later for sure.
Which ones Maddow?
Of course, the Marxists are trying to manufacture some outrage here, but I don't see voters swayed with this leftist tack and demagoguery.
Both of them?
How come in movies we get lesbians like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct yet in real life we get Rosie O and Maddow?
My God, Dead, that is alot of ugly so early in the morning.
I watched the entire ~20 minute exchange, and I thought Dr. Paul did quite well. If I was him, I think I’d have been a little more direct on specific examples, but it was not a bad showing.
Jay-sus-F-ing-Kee-rist! That ain’t right, making a guy look at that mega cottage cheese ass in spandex this early in the morning (or any other time of day, for that matter).
That one activity alone should make conservatives pause and consider his judgement, possibly his sanity. Some people have such large egos that they think they can actually fly.
Politicians are an entirely different species.
Mr. Paul should explain the differences between Barry Goldwater’s opposition to the bill and and Al Gore Sr.’s opposition to the bill.
The woman...er whatever, is a complete idiot!
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