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We’ve already set aside several boxes of popcorn for one of 2010’s most anticipated comedy stories, when idiot Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning will make a fool of himself daily in the process of losing his Senate seat. And now the hilarity might start even sooner, because Ron Paul’s child, Rand (”The Son”), might primary Bunning. Rand Paul has the exact same views as his father, so it should take about two minutes of money supply babble before Bunning gets uncomfy and calls Rand a faggot. [CNN]
“Rand Paul”??? For reals? Shit, this might be even better than whatever the hell Palin does next.
I suspect that calling Rand a faggot is the “Smurt” play in the state whose initials are named after KY Jelly. But then again, Jim Bunning was well known to throw at the heads of opponents so they could lay off what Ted “Fucking” Williams called his “Little Shit Slider.”
I had to look up wiki to see if any of Ron’s other kids were given batshit names like say “Gault”, “Ayn”, “Furry” or “Blimp.” Nope. Only Rand. Sucks to be you, Rand.
I have been giggling manically ever since I heard this news. If Bunning ends up dropping out before the primary I am going to cry a thousand tears.
WTF? Rand! Srsly, dude, WTF?
You’ve got to be kidding if you expect even the dizzy children of the Wonquette commentariat to believe that Ron Paul named his son after Ayn Rand.
‘Go Galt’ is slang terminology I don’t understand. Did it have to do with a big, long novel that nobody told me I had to read?
If Rand tries to crowd the primary, Bunning will give him the high, hard one.
Rand is self promoting like a crazy man. The vice president of the University of Kentucky’s Students for Liberty Club wrote about how much he admired Ron Paul (shocking) last week and 3 days later Rand Paul was here at UK speaking. He can’t be worse than Bunning, or can he?
How come “Rand” looks exactly the same age as “Ron”?
RoscoePColtraine: I read it for the sex parts. I was 16. I was bored. It was long.
The End.
I’m not exactly sure how a Kentucky “Democrat” will turn out so I guess I’m rooting for the Senate candidate from Paultardia(?)
Really? Rand? Doesn’t naming your child after Ayn Rand count as child abuse?
Laura Palmer: Grayson would be worse than Bunning. He is smart enough to be predictably conservative, but not crazy. If he wins he would hold that seat for decades. Keeping Bunning in and Grayson out is the only way the Dems can pick up this seat. Plus, Bunning has to stay in till the end for my personal amusement.
Bunning was pretty sexy as a filly…
Actual psychopath vs. Scion of the Paultards? This is like Wonkette’s own Ali/Frazier.
V572625694: So what’s he named after, then, the Remington Rand typewriter? Wait a sec - that’s how a Russian immigrant named Alisa Z. Rosenbaum became Ayn Rand in the first place, after she saw a Rand typewriter.
I said it before so I’ll say it again: ppl who give their kids names like Rand, Ayn, Roark, Dagny, Francisco, Dominique, etc. in honor of Ms. Rosenbaum and her series of novels/scribblings should be laughed into oblivion. Why not? Their kids will be.
And ppl who CHANGE their names to something they think is more pleasing to the world of Randians should die in a fire and then be drawn & quartered.
I’m tearing up. This is the best news I’ve had in, well, forever.
RoscoePColtraine: I didn’t read the book either, but from what I’ve read between the lines here on Wonkette, I think to “go Galt” is when the boss (or chief engineer, or something) of an Important Industry (buggywhips? wintergreen gum?) decides to shut down operations and withhold their oh-so-vital Industrial Might, as a big F.U. to meanie governments who want to get all these tax monies and impose regulations and other icky stuff.
So, the result is the Ordinary People get mad at teh governments, and let the Industrial Giants take over the world, and everything is perfect, the end.
Hey, it’s no stupider than supply side economics.
Wow, Rand. I didn’t know someone named that actually existed but now that I do, thanks to Wonkette, I wish I didn’t. Though I’m not surprised.
From Rand’s wikipedia page:
“Paul’s successful treatments of a playground-injury cataract (5-year-old Brandon Nelson of Bowling Green) and of keratoconus (61-year-old SaVannah Logan of Adairville) were described by the local Bowling Green Daily News.”
Miracle worker! Clearly these are the signs from scripture that the true messiah has finally arrived! Is Rand not our God??! (Tangentially, “Rand” would be a pretty cool name for a biblical-era pagan god, or of some alien king on Star Trek…)
Lascauxcaveman: In Ayn Rand’s fantasies the people were brilliant scientists and entrepreneurs whose success was limited by bureaucracy and politics. In real life they tend to be failed corporate bureaucrats and politicians who couldn’t succeed as scientists and entrepreneurs.
smartypants: smartypants:There were sex parts? I must have fallen asleep during those. Did I miss anything interesting?
smartypants: Lascauxcaveman: Thanks for the help. I think I kinda get it now. I remember this book because of the big strapping dude on the front cover. The story should have had more of the strapping dude in the story IMO.
Georgia Burning: Funny, my dad was all over that Libertarian shit when I was a kid, and I sorta got into it too, as it sort of made sense to my simpleminded self. It was a simple theory, within the limits of my attention span. Not requiring, in fact discouraged by, any real knowledge of how the world works.
I still couldn’t get past the first 20 pages or so of any of the Ayn Rand books we had lying around. And I was the kid who eat a Michener novel for breakfast, then spend the rest of the day browsing the ‘S’ encyclopedia.
That so-and-so Rosenbaum, choosing my family’s name for her nom de dunderhead and then writing the wingnut “Gone With the Wind.” And it’s a nice Jewish family name, too — from Galicia in southern Poland, despite its English twin (perhaps Anglicized; I don’t know for sure). Couldn’t we just refer to him as Rosenbaum Paul from now on? Please? Rosey Paul seems apropos, don’t it?
Vartan84: re Star Trek, wasn’t Yeoman Rand the token blond-in-red-miniskirt?
President Beeblebrox: I used to think the RAND Coporation was named after Ayn Rand.
Sorry to disappoint, but his real first name is Randall, according to Wiki, which is never wrong.
Personally, I think he’s even more likely to be called TEH GHEY because Rand is his nickname.
Wow, big day for sports trading cards. You need to make up something about Arne Duncan and dig up his old Australian basketball card.
RoscoePColtraine: I think Going Galt means to give the longest, most boring speech possible = Is Speshul.
Sen. Bunning, the only way to make this right is to resign so your governor can appoint a Democratic replacement.
It’s your only choice.
Please.
chascates: He has actually threatened to do this. Numerous times. Now if the old coot would just go through with it.
Dave J.: That’s it! From now on I’ll only refer to the good doctor Paul as “The Randfather”.
You know, at least during the Reagan Admin9istration, they knew that the Randians were nuts. Now it seems like every other commentator on FOX is either with Heritage or the Rand Institute. It would be like if commentator on MSNBC was from Code Pink or ANSWR, except they would all be insane.
That’s it! From now on I’ll only refer to the good doctor Paul as “The Randfather”.
Or “Abu Rand” like they do in the Middle East.
Thank you for not showing him in his Tiger’s uniform. Detroit’s dealing with more shame than it can handle.
Vartan84: There’s another Rand by the name of Rand Simberg. He is a space blogger. And a libertarian. Who defended price gouging after Hurricane Katrina: http://www.transterrestrial.com/?p=5544
Trey Grayson, the KY Secretary of State just formed an exploratory committee to run in the primary against Bunning. Bunning says he’s still running, and bashed McConnell openly this week. Without the Repbulican machine behind Bunning, Grayson probably has the best chance of winning the primary. For anyone interested, Rand Paul is on Youtube, and considering his dad, should not be counted out. Believe it or not, KY does have some hardcore liberal areas, and conservatives will lean on someone like Grayson for an easier win in November.