The Political Time-Out Chair - Rand Paul & Sarah Palin

First, do Kentuckians understand that if he won, he would be in such a minority that his ability to affect any of his true libertarian ideologies will be slim and none?

Second, do Kentuckians really understand the difference between his not supporting segregation, and his opposition to public regulation of private enterprise... and that his views on this are clearly very, very far from the mainstream?

Third, do Kentuckians recognize his chances to modify Title IX of the Civil Rights Act are those slim and none ideologies mention before?

Fourth, do Kentuckians realize he will have opportunities to vote on legislation that uses the commerce clause to regulate private businesses, but getting the EPA "off their backs" does not serve them well when mining accidents occur? (Historical Data on Mining Disasters: http://www.usmra.com/saxsewell/historical.htm)

If Mr. Paul is bating or pandering to his political base with suggestions that "no one cares about Kentucky except other Kentuckians", he is wrong and selling Kentucky and Kentuckians very short in the process.

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1. "With all due respect, Mr. President, you're wrong, and you need to stay out of Kentucky affairs. And you need to keep the EPA out of our affairs because we need jobs, and we're not going to get jobs with a busybody EPA that's in our way."
2. Earlier this week, Paul sat down for a Fox News interview in attempt to dispel allegations that he forced a female friend "to take bong hits," among other changes, during the years he was enrolled as a student at Baylor University.
3. “The simple fact is that in 1964, we, as a nation, repealed one widely-exercised right – the right of private property owners to serve on public accommodations whom they want – and replaced it with another right, that is the right of the entire American public to use public accommodations,” George Will said. “We were correct to do so and in the process, we refuted an old notion: that you cannot – and this may offend some libertarians – the notion was you cannot legislate morality. Yes you can,” Will said. “We did.”
4. His Ideas Are 'Self-Destructive' The New York Times' Ross Douthat calls Paul's philosophy "self-marginalizing, and self-destructive. Like many groups that find themselves in intellectually uncharted territory, they have trouble distinguishing between ideas that deserve a wider hearing and ideas that are crankish or worse.
5. "Wall Street Journal Condemns Paul's 'Bad History' The newspaper writes in an editorial, "it's important to understand why Mr. Paul was wrong even on his own libertarian terms. ... he was wrong on the Constitutional and historic merits. ... He owes his supporters, and his own libertarian principles, better than that."
6. Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, a Democrat, was more direct: “The entire commonwealth of Kentucky, Republicans, Democrats and independents, ought to be scared of Rand Paul.”
7. Asked if he might even potentially vote for a candidate other than fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell —the current Senate minority leader — to head the GOP’s efforts in the Senate, Paul responded: “Maybe.”
8. And in Kentucky, Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul told local reporters who approached him after an event that they ought to submit their questions in writing.
9. Paul's defense of himself is that his take on the Civil Rights Act has nothing to do with race and so he is not a racist. But by the same token, the fact that Paul's view on the Civil Rights Act is so dominated by his libertarian ideology that he cannot even admit race and segregation into the calculus is exactly why this is relevant to Paul's candidacy, why it's an issue and why it's among the best evidence we have in understanding how he'll vote on legislation that comes before him. If this isn't about race, then it is about all questions relating to federal regulation of private enterprise. As a senator, Paul will be faced with that question frequently. And his views on it are clearly very, very far from the mainstream.

Read more:

1. http://www.kentucky.com/2010/08/15/1393048/paul-says-obama-doesnt-care-about.html#ixzz0wo9jz8jw

2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/12/rand-paul-runs-sharron-angle-media-playbook_n_680658.html

3. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/george-will-rand-paul-is-frivolous.html

4. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Precriminations-Conservatives-Make-Case-Against-Rand-Paul-3721

5. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Precriminations-Conservatives-Make-Case-Against-Rand-Paul-3721

6. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/05/rand_paul_may_not_be_a_racist.html

Libertarian Party Vice Chairman, Joshua Koch said Wednesday that Rand Paul has been a black eye for Libertarians because of stands he's taken on issues, including his criticism of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Party is considering running a candidate in the Kentucky U.S. Senate race.

Koch was quoted saying, "The reason why we would even consider running somebody in this race is because we're not going to let Rand determine what a Libertarian stands for," he said. "I'm here to say Rand does not have the Libertarian ideology."

Rand Paul has nothing to fear it seems, but himself and has been awarded a Permanent Timeout Bench.

Great on salads, but an oxymoron in political debate...

Palin, May 23, 2010: "I don’t know why the question isn’t asked by the mainstream media and by others if there’s any connection with the contributions made to President Obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the administration. If there’s any connection there to President Obama taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there, and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the Gulf of Mexico — now, if this was President Bush or if this were a Republican in office who hadn’t received as much support even as President Obama has from B.P. and other oil companies, you know the mainstream media would be all over his case in terms of asking questions why the administration didn’t get in there, didn’t get in there and make sure that the regulatory agencies were doing what they were doing with the oversight to make sure that things like this don’t happen."

FactCheck, May 24, 2010: Republican candidate John McCain and his ticket-mate Palin took in nearly three times the amount of money from the industry’s political action committees and employees as did Obama and running mate Joe Biden from industry employees: about $2.4 million compared with $890,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. (The Obama presidential campaign did not accept any PAC money.) Obama, however, received about twice as much from British Petroleum’s executives as McCain did: $71,051 compared with $36,649. Neither received money from BP’s PAC.

Since 1990, oil and gas industry interests have contributed $188.3 million (75 percent) to Republican candidates for federal office and $61.4 million to Democrats (24 percent), the center says.

FactCheck.org

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/05/sunday-replay-5/

Appearing on the Fox Business Channel Wednesday night, Sarah Palin 's remarks on the victory of Rand Paul, the Tea Party GOP candidate for Kentucky Senate were insightful...

"Seeing kind of that libertarian streak of his -- that is what we need to balance out the leftist liberal overreach of government that's in power right now," Palin said. "Rand's gonna be great, plus on social issues, right there, he's got some great positions."

Don't bother asking Sarah what those "great positions" are without submitting your question one week in advance.

Sarah Palin take your honorary rocker in the timeout corner until you can contribute something of substance when you speak... I'm guessing "leftist liberal overreach" is the new hand-script.