Joan Walsh, Salon: Dim and divisive Rand Paul self-destructs, again
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/27/dim_and_divisive_rand_paul_self_destructs_again/Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is what you get when traditional and corrosive American nepotism meets the 21st century GOP echo chamber: a pampered princeling whose dumb ideas have never been challenged by reality.
If you missed his star turn Sunday on “Meet the Press,” go watch it. I am honestly not sure what was most ridiculous or offensive: attacking Hillary Clinton for something her husband did, or declaring that “if there was a war on women, I think they won.”
Leave that question aside for a moment. Paul’s performance was most interesting for the window it gave us into his character, as the indulged but slightly dim scion of an eccentric political family whose every utterance, all his life, has been treated as important. At some points in interviews with the freshman senator, including this one, you can see the wheels turning in his head, maybe a little slowly, as he winds up to deliver what he thinks is a political hum-dinger. It’s the oily crazy of Rand Paul being adorably Rand Paul: saying what he thinks is brave and leader-like, but that thing turns out to be simply nutty.
Then the media collectively scrunches its forehead and tries to decide if he’s brave or nutty.
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She nailed him.
Then the media collectively scrunches its forehead and tries to decide if he’s brave or nutty.
Well he's more like Mr. Peanut and unlike a purple heart, does that help?
Students expect and are entitled to fairness. That is wrong. What on earth is he thinking?
Cher
For those that live in the North you probably don't see too much of it, but dipshits like that are quite common here in the South. It's basically historical revisionist closet racism thinly veiled as Southern heritage claptrap. At work the other day I heard a couple of mouth breathers discussing how the "War of Northern Aggression" wasn't fought over slavery. 
Can we get that as a campaign sign?
The GOP War on Women is easy (and fair) pickings but his economic beliefs are equally scary. 
"And the reason we don't think government grants work, we spent $1 trillion in the stimulus and they said it was $400,000 per job, because you give it to the wrong people. Nine out of ten businesses fail so if government picks who they're going to give the money to, to create jobs, nine out of ten times they're wrong and they pick the wrong person.
So what I would do, and what I have asked with my economic freedom zones, is dramatically lower taxes but don't pick who you give it to. Give it to the businesses that are already started and that consumers have already voted for. But that's different than what we've been doing in the war on poverty for 50 years."
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/54182774/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/t/january-rand-paul-dick-durbin-michael-chertoff-jesselyn-radack-carolyn-ryan-michael-powell-mike-murphy-loretta-sanchez-chuck-todd/#.UuasrhDn9D8
So government spending should only go to already established winners in the capitalist marketplace, Rand? More for those who need it the least. Brilliant. 
It is the republicans that are waging a War on Women.
Republicans are refusing to vote/pass the Violence Against Women Act.
Republicans are refusing to vote/pass the bill for equal pay for women.
Republicans have been passing state laws that mandate trans-vaginal-ultrasounds.
Republicans do NOT support affordable contraception access.
Republicans do NOT support women.
Do not let them bamboozle you!
Throw all the republican bums OUT-of-office in 2014
We can't let the GOP turn this around onto us - it is THEM that are the bad guys regarding The War on Women
