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He's soooooooo 1950s....
CPAC Presidential Straw Poll Picks Guy Who Thinks Whites-Only Lunch Counters Should Be Legal
CPAC Presidential Straw Poll Picks Guy Who Thinks Whites-Only Lunch Counters Should Be Legal | ThinkProgress
With 31 percent of the vote, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) won the closely watched Conservative Political Action Conference presidential straw poll this weekend, dwarfing second place finisher Sen. Ted Cruzs (R-TX) 11 percent of the vote.
The son of libertarian icon and former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), Rand Paul has emerged as the nations leading spokesperson for an anti-government philosophy that would undo nearly all the accomplishments of the New Deal and the Civil Rights Era. As a Senate candidate in 2010, Paul came out against the Civil Rights Act of 1964′s bans on private discrimination including the bans on employment discrimination and whites-only lunch counters claiming that the right of private ownership should trump African Americans and other minorities right to be free from invidious discrimination. Permitting private discrimination, according to Paul, is the hard part about believing in freedom.
Nor are Pauls libertarian views limited to his skepticism towards civil rights protections. In 2013, Paul endorsed a long-ago overruled Supreme Court decision called Lochner v. New York. The Courts Lochner opinion relied on a fabricated right to contract that it and subsequent cases used to strike down various laws protecting workers from exploitative employers on the idea that if a worker signs a contract that forces them to work 16 hours a day for barely subsistence wages then it would somehow violate the workers rights to pay them more money for fewer hours work.
If you don't like Rand Paul's opinion on something, just wait five minutes.
Since Rand Paul won three of the last four cpac straw polls, they seem to mean just as much as the the winner of the Ohio straw poll before the last general.
That was Michelle Bachmann and she bought the votes.
Seriously, does it really matter who wins this not-real poll held at a gathering of the most far right in the country?
Hell Rep Steve Cohen wanted to join the Congressional Black Caucus because most of his constituents are lower class black people and he shares their concerns. They told him No, it was blacks only. Discrimination? You decide.Paul said the hard part about freedom is allowing people to make their own choices.
I suppose next we'll have black only or Hispanic only caucuses or black only college funds. Don't you hate things that discriminate against other races?
There are blacks who hate whites and would prefer to leave them out of certain things. They have that right. Don't see any white entertainers at the BET awards. That means they are exclusive.
Equal rights means we all have the same right to pursue happiness and we all have freedom. It doesn't ever mean that any of us have the right for force others to pay our way or accept us in their groups. Sucks that some are like that, but that's how it is.
I'd rather everyone be treated equal, but apparently not everyone sees it that way, even the left. It was liberals against equal rights to begin with and the attitude is not indigenous to one group. Most on the right I know don't have that stupid superiority complex. I see it more on the left and not surprisingly, the left is a bit louder about it when they see it on the right. I guess the rest of us are so used to seeing it on the left that we don't think anything of it.
Since Rand Paul won three of the last four cpac straw polls, they seem to mean just as much as the the winner of the Ohio straw poll before the last general.
That was Michelle Bachmann and she bought the votes.
Seriously, does it really matter who wins this not-real poll held at a gathering of the most far right in the country?
The only matter of interest is that the cpac thing is of such interest to the gop. Personally, I view it more as "oh holy shite, another tea bagger nut job, just marvelous."
based on that, at least 40% of americans are tea bagger nut jobs--------but they are not, they are patiotic americans who love freedom and the constitution. They are fed up with socialism and its destruction of our country. By 2016 that 40% could very easily be more than 60%.
the american people are not as stupid as you libs think they are.
If you don't like Rand Paul's opinion on something, just wait five minutes.
What is your problem with him. I just cannot wait.
If you don't like Rand Paul's opinion on something, just wait five minutes.
What is your problem with him. I just cannot wait.
Let's seeeeee...
One day, he's filibustering imaginary bomb-laden domestic drones. Literally the next day he's okay with a drone gunning down a liquor store holdup man. A liquor store holdup man. Hmmm...I wonder if that is some kind of black stereotype...
Then there is his scheme to bilk rubes out of their cash by starting a bogus "class action suit" against the NSA. He's taking advantage of their ignorance. There are already two large cases against the NSA which are quite a ways along. This was a pathetically obvious attempt to get cash for his personal gain.
Then there are Paul's contradictory positions on Syria.
And then there was his contradictory opposition to the sustained growth rate cuts to physicians.
Hope I didn't keep you waiting too long.
The GOP will not select a candidate who cannot or will not defend the difference between private association and public accommodation in service.
This thread is a perfect example of liberal horseshit. Not a word of truth in it. full of libtardian lies and innuendo.
Paul is for FREEDOM for everyone. EQUAL freedom for everyone.
What you assholes refuse to understand is that there is a price for real freedom. The price is that you are responsible for your actions, you are responsible to take care of yourself (unless you are truly mentally or physically unable).
The free cheese may be ending for you leeches, the american people are fed up with you.
One of your democrat heroes said it quite well "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" JFK understood freedom, obozo and most of you do not.
What do you think JFK meant when he said that?
That we should not have social programs?
The GOP will not select a candidate who cannot or will not defend the difference between private association and public accommodation in service.
The GOP will not select a candidate who cannot or will not defend the difference between private association and public accommodation in service.
I hope. But, I suspect the RW has now given us another wedge issue that will enrage the right who will then refuse to support the nominee.
in this day and age we don't need the Civil Rights Act. Nobody is going to be discriminated against. Nobody is going to be told to get up from a lunch counter or find another place to lodge. However businesses will once again have a right to refuse service to anyone. Mind your P's and Q's and you can get served anywhere.One of your democrat heroes said it quite well "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" JFK understood freedom, obozo and most of you do not.
Yes, your country asks you to follow Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
If you have a problem with that, perhaps this is NOT the country for you.
Rand Paul is racist scum.
This thread is a perfect example of liberal horseshit. Not a word of truth in it. full of libtardian lies and innuendo.
Paul is for FREEDOM for everyone. EQUAL freedom for everyone.
What you assholes refuse to understand is that there is a price for real freedom. The price is that you are responsible for your actions, you are responsible to take care of yourself (unless you are truly mentally or physically unable).
The free cheese may be ending for you leeches, the american people are fed up with you.
One of your democrat heroes said it quite well "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" JFK understood freedom, obozo and most of you do not.
It's grimly comical that you would have the indecency, not to mention the ignorance, to involke the name of President Kennedy in this conversation,
given that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was essentiallly the end product of JFK's initiatives in civil rights.
yes, it was, you reinforced my point, thanks.
Kennedy was NOT a raving far left liberal. He had the intelligence to understand that making citizens dependent on the govt was a reciipe for disaster.
the civil rights act would not have passed without GOP votes. Dems fillibustered against it. you really need a short course in american history.