Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is a terrible person. He’s always been a terrible person, one who attracts terrible people. This is a man that has said that most people receiving disability benefits are “gaming the system.” So, whether he is lying on national television about how Obamacare has forced his wife to wait on the phone for hours with insurance companies—she is on his Senate insurance plan—to making bad gay jokes in order to attack same-sex marriage initiatives, Paul is a real hypocrite’s hypocrite.
Recently, an effort by the Paul family to blame Sen. Cory Booker for telling citizens to “get up in the face” of their elected leaders hit the media landscape. Paul’s wife, Kelley, wrote an op-ed to defend and protect her husband from all of the protesters flooding the capital over the confirmation of possibly rapey and clearly middling talent Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Rand followed that up in a chat with Leland Conway on iHeartRadio Tuesday. Rand said this:
I fear that there’s going to be an assassination. I really worry that somebody is going to be killed and that those who are ratcheting up the conversation, they have to realize they bear some responsibility if this elevates to violence.
That’s interesting, Rand. Sounds scary, Rand. Remember this, Rand?
Now, in Rand’s defense, he’s had to face some actual violence in recent years. In June of 2017, he was on the field when a man opened fire, shooting Rep. Steve Scalise during a congressional baseball game. Rand was also the target of an alleged assault by one of his neighbors in November of last year. Of course, as much as the right wing of the country tried to spin the narrative that the assault was the result of the neighbor’s liberal politics, in fact it seems to have been a feud about lawn management and community standards.
Of course, Rand once had this exchange with presidential candidate Donald Trump.
"Do we want someone with that kind of character? With that kind of careless language?" Paul said about Trump. "I think there's a sophomoric quality about Mr. Trump … about his visceral response to attack people on their appearance, short, tall, fat ugly."
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"I never attacked him or his looks, and believe me, there's plenty of subject matter right there," Trump said.
That was followed about a year or so later with Paul leading a delegation to Russia as Donald Trump’s water boy.
Paul’s statement about fearing aggressive rhetoric brought some truly patriotic responses. Some were funny, and some were much more serious, like this one from the father of Parkland, Florida, school-shooting victim Jaime Guttenberg.
There was also the reminder of what a raging bigot Paul really is.
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