Doctor Senator Rand Paul is America’s greatest case of nepotism and whoreishness. Not only is he much meaner than his kindly old radical father, the deity Ron, but on the foreign policy side, there aren’t very many (and will probably be ZERO by the time this campaign ends) similarities to his father’s minimalist war & torture view, the one that appeals to certain young lefties and left-libertarians. Rand Paul is running a statewide race in Kentucky, after all! He can’t just be full-on Paultard all the time, if he wants to win.
The excellent Adam Serwer of The American Prospect has a counter to the notion that Rand Paul somehow managed to win a 2010 Republican primary in Kentucky without throwing out any red meat to the wingnuts, particularly in the area of civil liberties and the War on Terror. He links to a Rand Paul press release from last November that we’ve wanted to post about but keep forgetting, every morning for the past six months. Time to cross it off the list!
BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United States Civil Courts.
“Foreign terrorists do not deserve the protections of our Constitution,” said Dr. Paul. “These thugs should stand before military tribunals and be kept off American soil. I will always fight to keep Kentucky safe and that starts with cracking down on our enemies.”
Dr. Paul believes in strong national defense and thinks military spending should be our country’s top budget priority. He has also called for a Constitutional declaration of war with Afghanistan.
Ha ha ha, do you, too, enjoy that last sentence? If gives the statement Balance. But we can’t have a declaration of war with Afghanistan because we’re not actually at war with Afghanistan, just with certain folks inside it who we don’t like and who aren’t the official holders of state power. This is why American foreign policy is so weird and illegal.
Rand Paul wants to torture and bomb everyone, in order to get elected to the United States Senate. He is like most Senators in this regard, although most of them have more qualifications for national elected office.
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That picture represents what happens when you try to clone PAtrick Duffy using dead skin cells and a refurbished E-Z Bake Oven.
Never go full Paultard.
And that’s why they call them Schmibertarians.
He’s been going downhill ever since his stint as the main character in Bioshock.
When fascism comes to the United States, it will come wrapped in press releases and bearing a copy of The Fountianhead.
Drats! we just had Karzai in DC! Victory was ours! Damn you Obama.
Isn’t that a bit of a comb-over that Presumptive-Senator/Doctor Paul is sporting? Appearances don’t matter to anyone around here, of course, where we’re all focused on issues’n'shit. But doesn’t a comb-forward express a certain character deficiency, a certain fundamental dishonesty, an attempt to fool the voters?
Discuss.
“Dr. Paul believes in strong national defense and thinks military spending should be our country’s top budget priority.”
So you’re saying it’s NOT? Really.
The blimp of the Son will never equal that of the Father.
[re=580749]norbizness[/re]: If he’s Patrick Duffy, maybe this is all a dream sequence.
[re=580750]mumblyjoe[/re]: Not without protection, that’s *fur* sure!
[re=580759]Sharkey[/re]:
Hah. Only he’s more the villain, right?
I have said on occasion that it speaks to the intellectual poverty of objectivism when it can be thoroughly debunked by a video game.
We should all know that, when libertarians talk about “freedom” they don’t actually mean freedom as in protection of our actual Constitutional rights, such as the many protections afforded to the accused; they mean the imaginary freedoms to not pay taxes and do whatever the hell they want with their private property without government interference, even if it hurts or kills others.
The big freedoms, they either don’t care about or actively oppose.
So he’s the W of Paultards. Hey, if my daddy was Dr No, I’d probably have some serious daddy issues too.
[re=580765]Sharkey[/re]: Funny thing about that. Here’s 2008:
608B — Social Security
386B — Medicare
209B — Medicaid & SCHIP
481B — DoD
145B — Global War on Terriers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_federal_budget
Osama & buds were rumored to have quite the chuckle over Randies comments: Kenfuckingtucky they chortled, we wouldn’t screw their sheep never mind step our pointy little shoes in that backwater jerktown. Hahaha they were rumored to have said while pissing in their robes.
“I will always fight to keep Kentucky safe”? I thought the only thing residents of Kentucky are in danger of is Type 2 Diabetes and whatever disorder Jim Bunning has that kept him constipated for the last 20 years.
The bulb sure glows dim in his old Kentucky dome.
Blow up that love shack, baby!
[re=580773]JMP[/re]: As the representative of a immoral and greedy military industrial coporation, I support Junior Tard’s crusade of freedom from govenment regulation that prevent The Company from implanting hostile xenomorphs into unsuspecting citizens and freezing them for transport back to Earth.
I’ve been to Kentucky. The Muslins can have it.
Doctor Senator Rand Paul is America’s greatest case of nepotism and whoreishness.
Oh great — way to get Dubya and Lynn Cheney mad at you.
[re=580762]Tommmcatt[/re]: I knew my mother-in-law had picked a real loser as her new boyfriend when I found out that his email address was ShruggedAtlas. Anyone who is over 18 and still thinks Ayn Rand is cool needs to be smacked around a little.
RE: The picture…doesn’t he look like he cold wants to slap someone?
[re=580772]Tommmcatt[/re]: He does sort of look like he’s been severely beaten by a golf club in the distant past.
Plasmids would be awesome in real life though, if they could just make them non-addictive.
[re=580793]SayItWithWookies[/re]:
It also is incorrect. America’s greatest case of nepotism and whorishness is clearly Paris Hilton.
Too bad, I thought that might be the only good thing to come of this. I guess we have another Mitch McConnel, but younger so he will be there a gazillion years if he wins.
[re=580781]MarSF[/re]: You forgot black people and the Union Army- both things that other historical groups who have “[fought] to keep Kentucky safe” have had to contend with.
[re=580772]Tommmcatt[/re]: I think what speaks even louder is that most objectivists won’t even realize it’s a denunciation.
[re=580778]V572625694[/re]: I stand corrected. I must be thinking of that chart on the back of the tax forms that shows where the tax money goes. (Obviously economics is not one of my strong points.)
[re=580795]MarSF[/re]: I’m sure you’re right about the boyfriend. But on the up-side, she might be getting some good sex. Those objectivists have a really high opinion of their own singularly powerful attractiveness. As a Pittsburgher like Ron Paul would explain, “Atlas, ‘n’at.
Strong stoner turn-out made the day.
[re=580795]MarSF[/re]:
Anybody under 18 who thinks that needs some smacking around, too.
[re=580759]Sharkey[/re]: Is a Paul not entitled to the sweat on his brow?
[re=580795]MarSF[/re]: Why IS Rand so inexplicably popular with the young folk? Those books are insiduous, disguising themselves as radical to seduce youth while turning them ever more establishment.
[re=580773]JMP[/re]: Amen. I’m an acutal libertarian, which means that I believe in robust regulation of the economy and the environment. One of a government’s major duties is protecting its people which includes protecting them from a fucked-up, lopsided economy and protecting them for being poisoned for profit.
[re=580827]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Actually we found out that he is a registered sex offender. Did a two-year stint in Federal Prison for sexy-talk with underage girls on the internet. I am not kidding.
[re=580773]JMP[/re]: I associate them less with ‘freedom’ than with something called ‘Sweet Liberty’, which seems to involve the things you mention.
[re=580836]Mad Brahms[/re]: “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”
::wishes he could take credit for this one::
[re=580821]Sharkey[/re]: Distinction must be made about discretionary vs. total spending. Social Security and Medicare have their own taxes that pay for them and those costs are largely fixed. Defense totally dominates discretionary spending, so your original point is totally valid.
“I will always fight to keep Kentucky safe” and that is why I am immediately terminating my campaign and moving to the Australian outback so that I am as far as possible from being able to do the good folk of the Bluegrass State any further harm.
Keep your mothers away from JDate, folks.
[re=580793]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Exactly what I was thinking. Hell, until Rand Paul starts a war to prove he is better than his father, the guy is just a piker.
[re=580764]V572625694[/re]: It appears to be a Brillo pad.
[re=580836]Mad Brahms[/re]: “Why IS Rand so inexplicably popular with the young folk?”
the answer is in your question. focus on the word “young.” i was introduced to rand’s work at age twenty, and even then i was already too old; however, had i been fifteen, i might have been a goner. instead, doc smith got me then.
[re=580836]Mad Brahms[/re]: It appeals to intelligent but unpopular young nerds, feeding into both their resentment at their social position and sense of intellectual superiority. By buying into Rand’s bullshit, they can easily get steered into a life of borderline-sociopathic douchebaggery instead of becoming successful and fulfilled geeks later in life as many of their fellow outcasts manage; it’s sad, really.
Very cool that he was named for Ayn Rand who wrote “ATLAS Shrugged,” and the only other famous Rand is the Rand McNally ATLAS.
[re=580780]libwakman[/re]: Could you try to write that comment again, perhaps in English?
[re=580845]slappypaddy[/re]: You never known when terrorists will attempt to bomb the capital of Kentucky … Frankfort. Or the largest city … Louisville.
[re=580873]JMP[/re]: Actually, it seems to me that they become infused with Rand’s unfounded sense of intellectual superiority and adopt that smug certitude thus never having a need to challenge themselves and remain emotionally and mentally stunted as a result. Although, in truth I’ve never been able to read this crap myself. I couldn’t get past the past the fact that Ayn is not a real name and hence anything beyond that was likely to be a lie as well, also.
I’d vote for him if he’d prescribe me some sweet herb for my ‘glaucoma’.
Wait a minute. I thought Papa Paul was going to save us billions of dollars by removing our military from foreign soils.
[re=580884]BobTheBuilder[/re]: Either way, it suggests he was conceived on top of a large book.
[re=580836]Mad Brahms[/re]: “Why IS Rand so inexplicably popular with the young folk”
Exactly, people of all ages can be narcissists, and far past the point where they should “know better”.
A smart KY Dem would get into a couple of those all-white mega churches in suburban Louisville, Frankfort, and Lexington, and give a talk about how Rand’s faith is in Ayn Rand and Jesus/love your neighbor-rejecting doctrine, while making sure the local TV stations were there in force. The Dem would end his talk by holding the Bible loft and saying “this is the Book I believe in, not some novel by an atheist Russian immigrant.” The Dem should win 55-45.
Sometimes, you just gotta get in the pig pen if you want to clean out the sh*t.
From racist gynecologist to bigoted opthamologist, this clan’s manly mojo is fading fast.
I mean seriously, what’s Paul 3.0 gonna be, a judgmental dermatologist? A dyspeptic podiatrist? A fucking blogger?
“These thugs should stand before military tribunals and be kept off American soil.”
FUCK YEAH RANDY, THUGS, ALL OF THEM (especially the 13-16 year old ones, fuck those kids, amarite?)
I just had a sad realization: Nothing on the planet fuels “my” wonkette’s nasty hilarity than a Paultard or a PUMA. Since the latter is invisible, I was looking forward to some full-on gold standard, bunkered down, drugs legalized Paultardism.
But Jr is going to sell out, just to join the senate. Now it get it! He’ll get elected, then refuse to serve! Because that’s what AynRand would do to make a statement on the irrelevance of government.
Libertarianism is the ideological equivalent of adolescence. “Mooom, just leave me aloooone… but please continue paying for my housing, food, and safety.” You never see a libertarian moving to a minarchist paradise such as Somalia. They want their comfortable lives, they just don’t want to pay for it. In the end, they are the biggest free lunchers of all.
[re=580836]Mad Brahms[/re]: ME,ME,it’s all about ME!! While it is true that self-centered, narcissists come in all ages, being young is about being self-focused. Ask any two year old.
The Unified Federal Budget was begun by LBJ: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were added into the federal budget in order to disguise the enormous size of the defense buget. If you strip out these three transfer payment programs, you are left with the “discretionary budget” – what Congress has to approve each year. And, if you take the nominal defense budget and add to it the cost of three losing wars, the budget for the Dept of Veterans Affairs, add the defense portion of: the Energy Dept, NASA, the State Dept and add the portion of the interest on the national debt created by previous defense spending, you get to a number – one trillion dollars per year spent on past, present and future wars. How much longer until our Chinese, Japanese, Saudi and British financiers pull the plug on USA Inc?
[re=580898]TGY[/re]: the last time they had terrorists up that way was in the civil war. they called themselves confederates.
“I will always fight to keep Kentucky safe and that starts with cracking down on our enemies.”
Revenuers? Dentists? History teachers?
Uhh, I’m listening to Rand Paul fucking whiff a “Do You Agree with the Voting Rights Act” question on All Things Considered. Robert Siegel, “So, you’re saying that if you had been alive at the time, you would have marched with Dr. King but voted with Barry Goldwater?” The quote has not been altered. That interview was embarrassing.
Earlier, I asked what happens when the teabaggers, who are fascists, meet the Paultards, who are libertarians. Now I have my answer. Thanks, Wonkette.
The smiley wuz suppozed to go at the end.
[re=580828]What Fresh Hell is This?[/re]: Stoners turn out to vote? That would be a first.
Well, someone has to protect the bourbon. And the weed. For the love of god, protect the weed.
[re=580943]McDuff[/re]: Don’t forget that Ayn Rand was a Jew!
“Protect Kentucky”. You know KY has long claimed it’s northern border is *really* the north bank of the Ohio, in 1796. Usually that means trying to make fishermen in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, buy Kentucky fishing licenses. Last I knew, they’d been forced to leave Ohio and Indiana alone, but they still harrass Illinoisans. Who knows, maybe Rand will call-up all those KY Colonels, seize the north bank of the Ohio.
[re=581032]chascates[/re]: Evolution teachers!
[re=581032]chascates[/re]: Census workers? Seriously, Kentucky is the political equivalent of the skunk or the dung beetle, so toxic and gross that it has no natural enemies.
[re=580769]TGY[/re]: The Randfather contains more hot air.
[re=581081]zhubajie[/re]: Please. If anyone is protecting the banks of the Ohio it is Conway. After all, he was the one who went and took our big ass rock back after those meanies from Ohio stole it.
He’s like a human Predator drone, only minus the Predator part.
[re=581081]zhubajie[/re]: And it culminated in the little-known Cincinnati War
Haha. Rachel just outed this fucktard “dePhAULt” racist, numbnutz, loser. “Uh, it’s bad for big gummint to allow klansmen to whack niggers at the lunch counter, but I will defend to the death, the right of the hooded, hash-slinging counter owner to “let freedom ring” in the name of small (minded) gummint”. Haha. Go, Rachel.
[re=580778]V572625694[/re]: Actually, it seems the funny thing about that is this:
“The Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan are not included in the regular budget. Instead they are funded through special appropriations.”
From the Wiki.
I do have to agree with Paultard Sr. on that one.
While we’re at it let’s declare a Constitutional war against Klingons too.
Man, just when you thought that Palinistas were the dumbest rocks in the desert, the Paultards jump into the fray!
Is his head really that offset from his torso? Though, if ya need someone to peer around a corner…he’s the man.
It’s those damn Jim Beam sweats.
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