Rand Paul warns of blue Texas : GOP needs people ‘with tattoos’

[cali]

Sen. Rand Paul, who represents Kentucky, said his home state of Texas could easily switch from a Republican stronghold to a Democratic voting block if the GOP doesn’t open its arms and take in more working class and more minorities.

“Texas will be a Democratic state within 10 years if you don’t change,” he said at a Houston dinner with Sen. John Cornyn, CNN reported. “That doesn’t mean we give up on what we believe in, but it means we have to be a more welcoming party. We have to welcome people of all races. We need to welcome people of all classes — business class, working class.”

He said the diversity outreach needs to go beyond ethnicities and target those with different looks that may not be norm for what people perceive as a Republican voter.

“We need to have people with ties and without ties, with tattoos and without tattoos, with earrings without earrings,” he said, CNN reported. “We need a more diverse party. We need a party that looks like America.”

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[KamaAina]

1. How about with rugs and without rugs?

[cali]

2. DUzy!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

3. I'm sure there are already plenty of Republicans with tattoos. What a dumb remark on his part.

Hey, Rand...maybe your party would gain more traction with the working class if you helped raise minimum wage, stopped rewarding companies for shipping manufacturing jobs to other countries and were generally less dickish.

[louis-t]

4. All talk...repugs throw up a little when they have to be inclusive.

Not in their nature. Maybe he said it while in the men's room fearing he'd be booed if he said it at the podium.

[Rex]

5. Notice that he is only talking about superficial things like physical appearance

and THAT is all the GOPukers care about - outside appearances. Of course Rand Paul is so fucking stupid and out of touch that he does not even know his OWN PARTY!

HELL, I have RWing relatives with tats all over their bodies! With earrings. Without earrings.

I also love the way he separates people into two groups - the business class and the working class. NOW which group do you think he agrees with and does things for...HINT: NOT the working class.

Also he separates the working class from minorities, which is WHY the GOP will keep dwindling - their hatred for the working class and minorities is known far and wide.

It is the reason the next House will be majority Dem.

[Blue_Tires]

6. +1

[Orsino]

7. I hear this rock 'n' roll stuff is big with the kiddies.

It's a shame our platform of strangling kittens with the entrails of food-stamp recipients doesn't play better.

[Bandit]

8. What you need and what you have are entirely different things

“We need a more diverse party. We need a party that looks like America.”

What you have is a bigoted Party of old bitter white people that would rather hate then bring in anyone that is different than them.

[OilemFirchen]

9. Pretty sure this guy's already a Republican:

No dearth of tattoos in your ranks, Rand.

[Rex]

12. IT shows how completely out of touch he is with his own party!

How can anyone be so shallow and stupid?

[ananda]

10. ROFL

That will never happen.

Austin is practically tattoo city, and will never go red.

[Motown_Johnny]

11. Leviticus 19:28

You know..."Leviticus". That same book of the bible which the haters use to claim that "God hates gays".

The book which spells out that you shouldn't have sex with your mother, or granddaughter or a whole host of other people (although it somehow fails to mention your own daughter). Or eat fat, or anything from the sea that does not have scales. THAT Leviticus.



Leviticus 19:28


http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A28&version=KJV

^snip^

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.






Tattoos! Piercings!

So now Rand Paul wants the Godless to join the Republican party. I guess it doesn't take much to sell such a flawed soul as his.

[Gothmog]

13. Juanita Jean had some fun with this story

http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/02/09/even-blind-squirrels-can-find-acorns/

Personally, I think he’s off by about 8 years. He says that Republicans should be more welcoming to “people of all races. We need to welcome people of all classes — business class, working class.”

Well, a good start would be to stop calling people by classes like we’re still in some kind of feudalism around here. And you might want to mention hooter toters. Y’all done hacked off a whole mess of us.

There’s a meme I’ve been saving just for when Ron Paul of Looneytarism comes up. Ta da! It’s now.

[Blue Owl]

14. Tattoos or Toupees?

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