Courtesy of Jay Smooth:
ht to Rachel!
Summed the whole thing up rather nicely, I'd say.
Rand Paul on the Rachel Maddow show
Man, that was spectacular
If you didn't see it; basically Rachel was asking Rand Paul whether he would've supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act and she asked him that same yes or no question about ten times in a row and Rand Paul did some of the most acrobatic question dodging I have ever witnessed in my life.
I mean, just in case you didn't see it let me show you a clip of what that interview would look like if it was a scene from the classic Shaw Brothers film, "Fist of the White Lotus"
Scene of Monks in dramatic Gong Fu action:
Rachel's voice, "Should Woolworth's been allowed to stay segregated? Sir, just yes or no?"
Rand's voice, "You now what interesting historical... then cuts of Rand saying 'interesting' several times."
Random Rand quotes "I would've marched with Martin Luther King because I believed in what he was doing"
Return to Jay Smooth
Hmm, that man is a question dodging master. I think he has a black belt in "Here's the interesting think jujitsu". Some people are taking this interview of proof that he is a racist. That he supports discrimination. Now I don't know if Ron[sic] Paul is racist. I don't think this interview proves that he supports racism. But is does happen to prove that his ideal government is one that would open lots of doors for racism. And make discrimination of all kinds easier than it is now. Does that prove he is some sort of 'hard core' racist that doesn't care about black people? No. But it does suggest that he's such a 'hard core' purist Libertarian that he cares more about this abstract set of principles then he cares about any actual people. That he's committed more to these rigid abstractions then he is to protecting the basic rights of human beings in the real world.
And if that's the case then it means that this Civil Rights Act things is just the 'tip of the iceberg'. That means that there are a whole lot of situations where Rand Paul has to describe his beliefs in detail his beliefs are going to sound really wierd and and alienating.
And I think Rand Paul knows that and that's why he's trying so hard not to describe his own beliefs in plain English. And that is the part that really bothers me. It's not even the real idealogical stuff so much as the craven weasly insulting our intelligence non-answer giving cynical political hackiness of that performance.
That this candidate who is supposed to be the alternative to politics as usual when push comes to shove would rather give the same old weasly political non-answers then show the courage of his convictions and speak from the heart about his wierd alienating beliefs.
Rand Paul stop weasling.
Transcript courtesy of ontheleftcoast.