Good News, Rand! You Can Duel Rachel Maddow And Keep Your Senate Seat After All

[Mass]

Hard to believe that KY has elected this guy for their senator.

Just say you screwed up. That would be simpler and less embarrassing that this crap.



http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/04/2881341/good-news-rand-duel-rachel-maddow-senate-seat/

On Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that he would challenge MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and other critics that have accused him of plagiarism to a duel, except that he’s worried about a quirk in Kentucky law that could limit his job prospects. “If dueling were legal in Kentucky, if they keep it up, you know, it would be a duel challenge,” Paul told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “But I can’t do that, because I can’t hold office in Kentucky then.”

Kentucky law does indeed, require state officers to swear that they “have not fought a duel with deadly weapons within this State nor out of it, nor have [they] sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel with deadly weapons, nor have [they] acted as second in carrying a challenge, nor aided or assisted any person thus offending, so help me God,” but even if this law did apply to federal officials like Paul, it is doubtful that such an application would be constitutional.
The Constitution places three limits on who may serve in the Senate — a senator must “have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States,” and they must “be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.” Moreover, the Supreme Court’s decision in Powell v. McCormack strongly suggests that these are the only limits that can be placed on who is allowed to serve in the Senate. As the Court explained in Powell, a “fundamental principle of our representative democracy is, in [Alexander] Hamilton’s words, ‘that the people should choose whom they please to govern them.’” So if the people of Kentucky want someone who matched rapiers with Rachel Maddow to represent them, that’s their business.

[gopiscrap]

1. what a fucking neanderthal!

[pinboy3niner]

2. Paul already lost his duel with Maddow's rapier wit

He should have known better than to show up for a battle of wits unarmed.

[The Second Stone]

3. Ouch!

a “fundamental principle of our representative democracy is, in Hamilton’s words, ‘that the people should choose whom they please to govern them.’” So if the people of Kentucky want someone who matched rapiers with Rachel Maddow to represent them, that’s their business.

And we all remember how that ended for Hamilton.

[JoePhilly]

4. So he wants to duel Rachel over what he called "making a mountain out of a mole hill".

He says its a non-issue ... but he wants to kill her for it.

[rustydog]

7. Most cowards get really riled up when they preceive a threat

This punk is probably so used to legislatively bullying people that he doesn't know what to do face to face with this obviously dangerous threat to his life and sell-being on planet earth, Rachel Maddow.

She only reports what is out there and he is attacking the messenger. He's been caught with not only his hand in the cookie jar of plagiarism, but there are still crumbs on his lips. what a piss poor excuse for a true man. His daddy should be proud.

[atreides1]

5. Under the rules

First off he would be considered a coward for challenging a woman...but we already know that Ron's little boy is a chicken shit bastard to begin with!

She could pick someone to take up her cause and as the one challenged she would be selecting the method...whether it be pistols or swords...swords being preferred.

[rustydog]

8. I forgot about that! yes, take up the challenge

she can choose MMA and ask Jon Jones to stand for her. We all know the Repug will choose Chucky Norris!

LET'S GET READY TO CRUMMMMMMBLE!

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. Fifty bucks on Rachel. nt

[Brigid]

11. Put my money on Rachel too.

Word around here is that she's a good shot.

[NuclearDem]

12. I'll get in on that too.

[JPZenger]

9. Persons Challenged Gets to Choose the Weapon - Rachel picks words, at 3 paces

Rachel should accept his duel. That gives her the right to choose the weapon. She should choose a war of words on her show, with the 2 of them sitting 3 paces apart. If he is nice they can even meet at MSNBC's old NJ studios, which is near where Hamilton and Burr had their duel.

[Gothmog]

10. Rand Paul is an idiot

Rand Paul will not be the GOP nominee in 2016. He is far too stupid to survive the process

[Ganja Ninja]

13. I wish Rachel would publicly challenge him to an arm wrestling match.

[Gothmog]

15. Rand Paul is now throwing his staff under the bus

It took a while but Rand Paul is finally making the move that most pundits have been expecting. Rand Paul is now blaming his staff for these issues http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rand-paul-blames-plagiarism-on-staff-implements-new-citation-policy

Sen. Rand Paul's office on Tuesday admitted in a statement that some of the Kentucky senator's speeches were poorly sourced and not properly vetted, after several news reports accused him of plagiarism.

Doug Stafford, Paul's senior advisor, said that the senator always uses his own ideas, but relies on staff to provide support.

"Sen. Paul also relies on a large number of staff and advisers to provide supporting facts and anecdotes – some of which were not clearly sourced or vetted properly," Stafford said in the statement.

It is clear that Paul did not write these speeches and so it was only a matter of time before Rand Paul used his staff as scapegoats.

[Gothmog]

16. A Baylor Journalism Professor has some choice comments for Rand Paul

Rand Paul attended Baylor for three years but never earned a degree. Rand Paul was accepted into Duke Medical School and so Paul never graduated from Baylor.

A Baylor journalism professor has some choice comments about Paul's lack of ethics. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/journalism-professor-would-flunk-rand-paul-for-an-unambiguous-case-of-plagiarism

But on Wednesday, Paul lashed out at his critics once more.

"I'm being criticized for not having proper attribution, and yet they are able to write stuff that if I were their journalism teacher in college, I would fail them," Paul told National Review's Robert Costa.

Darden was not moved by that assessment.

"It appears that the Senator from Kentucky is choosing to attack the messenger rather than specifically address what appears to be an unambiguous case of plagiarism," he said in an email. "Had one of my Journalism students made the same mistakes, I would fail them for each individual assignment and refer the case to the appropriate university office that deals with honor code violations."