Rand Paul, in his now infamous interview with Rachel Maddow, defending his opposition to Federal laws banning racial discrimination in businesses like public restaurants:
MADDOW: Hold on just one second. Until the year 2000, Bob Jones University, a private institution, had a ban on interracial dating at their school, their private institution. If Bob Jones University wanted to bring that back now, would you support their right to do so?
PAUL: Well, I think it's interesting because the debate involves more than just that, because the debate also involves a lot of court cases with regard to the commerce clause. For example, right now, many states and many gun organizations are saying they have a right to carry a gun in a public restaurant because a public restaurant is not a private restaurant. Therefore, they have a right to carry their gun in there and that the restaurant has no right to have rules to their restaurant.
So, you see how this could be turned on many liberal observers who want to excoriate me on this. Then to be consistent, they'd have to say, oh, well, yes, absolutely, you've got your right to carry your gun anywhere because it`s a public place.
If Rand Paul can't tell the difference between someone who happens to have been born black or white or brown or yellow and someone who voluntarily decided to carry a gun (or walk into a restaurant without a shirt), then he's as dim as Sarah Palin.
More likely, his pseudo-intellectual nonsense is a rhetorical flourish intended to distract the public from his archaic views on Federal anti-discrimination laws.
Either way, he's not fit to be a United States Senator in the twenty-first century.