Are the Democrats and Media letting Rand Paul off the hook on purpose?

[glarius]

Why is nobody.....either Democrat or media person.....mentioning what Rand Paul said to Rachel Maddow when he was asked to explain his positon on the Civil Rights Act of 1964? I'm referring to the fact that the first thing he said was not that companies refusing service to blacks was wrong or evil, but that it was "bad for business!"
This statement gives his thoughts on civil rights a whole new meaning!
I have heard the Rand Paul mess discussed endlessly for days and I have not heard even one person point out this very telling fact.
WHY?

P.S...I'm adding this because I guess I didn't make my point clear.
I'm trying to say that the way they can nail Paul is to point out this {"bad for business") remark as being his prime concern...thus showing what kind of person he really is.

[saltpoint]

1. Start to finish, Paul's remarks in the Maddow interview were disastrous.

Including that one.

[glarius]

3. They have discusssed ad nauseum everything he said

except his remark about bad for business. Why, I wonder?

[dkf]

2. Why is pointing out that discrimination is a bad business practice such an awful thing?

Isn't that rather obvious?

[glarius]

5. My point is that the first consideration should be that

discrimination is evil and wrong...NOT THAT IT'S BAD FOR BUSINESS!!!!!

[dkf]

14. When it comes to money right and wrong doesn't mean much.

Sad but true.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. not in areas with enough racists to make it a good business practice

[dkf]

15. No national chain could do that.

And they are squeezing out the mom and pops anyway.

[Motown_Johnny]

4. I would be more worried about privately owned hospitals refusing treatment

nobody is asking your question because we all know what free market purists want.

[glarius]

7. Doesn't anyone get my point?.....I'm saying

that if they want to nail Rand Paul they have his own words ("bad for business") to use. NOBODY DOES IT!

[stopbush]

13. They're going to let this wackadoodle nail himself.

Like his idiot father, Rand Paul will not be able to shut up. He has a full six months to spout idiocy after idiocy. Libertarians don't have the intellect to think through their own stupid positions and they don't have the intellect to realize when they've entered the psycho zone.

A full-out assault on this week's idiocies would be treated as the Ds ganging up on a newbie to politics. It's much better to sit back and let him implode, to watch his 20-pt lead lead erode as we move closer to the election.

Rand Paul can't control his own mouth, so the Rs certainly won't be able to control him. His statements will be used against him in the Fall campaign. He may be able to avoid appearing on MTP this week, but he'll have to emerge from his self-imposed cone-of-silence at some point, and that's when the fun will begin all over.

[msongs]

8. he must believe in equality for glbts then - keeping govt out of our private lives, right? nt

[SalviaBlue]

9. The Corp Media's job is to rehabilitate Rands image and make it

more palitable and acceptable. The more they repeat his opinions, the more normalized they sound.

They are not talking about him (or Sara) to show how outrageous they are, they are talking about them to make them seem normal and acceptable.

[blue sky at night]

10. I think you are forgetting...

the base he appeals to is as RACIST as the day is long....they just want "their" country back. So I say, don't do anything to change old "randy", just let him float on the breeze and let things shake out in the Fall Election. If the folks from Kentucky want him they can have him. IMHO he isn't a whole lot worse than any of the mainstream pukes, he doesn't speak in CODE like they do.

[glarius]

12. Don't you think that many people would vote for his "common sense"

remarks, which are what are being emphasized, but would be turned off him if they knew what he had said to Rachel? So far Rachel Maddow is the only person I have heard on TV to point out where his priorities lie.

[ladjf]

11. "The Moving Finger"

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.z'
-- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


Paul may have set an alltime record for shortlived political campaigned. Time for him to go back to his medical practice.