Rand Paul is an...

[WilliamPitt]

Carry on.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That is perfectly hilarious, my dear Will!

You made me laugh, yes you did...

[New Orleans Strong]

54. I mean! n/t

[hifiguy]

2. You win DU for today, Will.

[whatchamacallit]

3. The only bigger fuckwits are those claiming you support him

if anything lies in the intersection of your ideological sets.

[leftstreet]

4. +1 It's making DU look stupid n/t

[hifiguy]

8. Eeyup. It's as simple as that.

[woo me with science]

9. +3

[Jack Rabbit]

10. I'm not sure I agree

There were the fuckwits with low post counts who mysteriously appeared last year with sophistry to the effect that any one who thinks that NSA domestic spying is a wholesale violation of the Fourth Amendment is a racist.

[WilliamPitt]

17. I...wait...what?

Who is claiming I support Rand Paul?

[whatchamacallit]

18. Ha, should have said 'we'

[WilliamPitt]

19. Actually, the "you" is the genesis of the brain cramp.

[whatchamacallit]

22. You know, you

2. used to refer to any person in general.
"after a while, you get used to it"

[Gothmog]

5. Agreed

I really do not think that the GOP donor class would let Rand Paul get close to the nomination

[LordGlenconner]

36. Why not?

He's a white male, wealthy and a bigot. Like Johnny Bravo he fits the suit.

[11 Bravo]

6. Works for me.

And you win the internet for the day!

[PeoViejo]

11. A professor of Doltish

with 3 stars.

[Xyzse]

12. Nice... I remember that from somewhere, I can't place it.

[a2liberal]

46. It's based off one of the show-end logos for Touchstone Pictures

[Xyzse]

50. That's It!!!!

Thanks, that would have bothered me, since I couldn't place it for a while.

[a2liberal]

55. Finally, my obsessive TV-watching pays off for something :-D (n/t)

[albino65]

13. The OP had similar things to say about President Obama n/t

[hifiguy]

14. Will Pitt has more credibility than 90% of DUers.

He is one of our best and brightest.

[Scuba]

25. +1,000

[raven mad]

41. +2000

Check out http://www.truth-out.org/

[Duval]

53. +3,000 n/t

[Owl]

61. +4,000

[cui bono]

56. Oh jesus fucking christ.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

[CreekDog]

77. and still more reliable than any shill for either Rand or Ron Paul here

[LloydS of New London]

15. Dang!

My guess was "asshole."

[Cirque du So-What]

21. When the titled was titled '...an',

that's where my mind went as well.

[trof]

27. Yeah, I thought it was a 'multiple choice':

1. Dork
2. Dipshit
3. Wanker
4. Doofus
5. Clueless
6. Jerk

[Liberalynn]

33. First word that came to my mind was asshole

[trof]

34. Look, I'm tryin' to keep it classy here.

[calimary]

71. I'm not! ASSHOLE! ASSHOLE! ASSHOLE!

NOT you, trof!!! "Asshole" is the word I thought of when I saw "rand paul is an..." A what? "...an asshole." rand paul would never be a asshole. He might be a Class A asshole. But not a asshole.


He would always be an asshole. And there we have our grammar lesson for today.

[AlbertCat]

80. 'multiple choice'

But they all need to start with a vowel to work with the "an".


Maybe an "h" as in "honorable man".... but we know that ain't right!

An hoser?

So how about

1. Ass
2. Idiot
3. Amateur
4. Ignoramus
5. Imbecile
6. Inferior


"Inferior"... also being an adjective made think you could put adjectives beginning with a vowel in front of each noun and it'd work.

1. Undeniable Dork
2. Obvious Dipshit
3. Infantile Wanker
4. Unquestionable Doofus
5. Unbelievably Clueless (actually an adverb modifying an adjective)
6. Unmitigated Jerk


We must keep up superior grammar standards!!!!

[Fuddnik]

16. Why do you support Rand Paul?!!!!

Just the very mention of his name makes you an irredeemable Paul-Putinista.

That's what I've learned on DU lately.

[Scuba]

26. At least 33 DU members are willing to admit they believe that!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025441785

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

40. I think some of those are going with the snark.

But there's certainly another OP out there that shows that at least 50 seem to think so.

And I still don't get the Putin-Paul tie in, since none of our pro-Russian Propaganda people seem to be anywhere near any of the Paul posts.

[Fuddnik]

57. I've never had anyone on ignore, but a few of them earned in that post.

[cui bono]

58. I was going to mention the group of 50 I think you are talking about...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5441289

[cui bono]

59. Here's 50 who are being serious and not kidding around...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5441289

[stonecutter357]

76. Push poll. eom

[Dragonfli]

47. It is important not to take that too seriously, there is a bit of a Meta push on

In truth I am sure there are Paulbot trolls here, but I am even more sure they are very rare as MIRT does a really good job of nuking them at the door. Some people just need to find a way to smear other posters that disagree with them and all it really accomplishes is making them look bad, others perhaps really believe they see them everywhere, like ghosts under a child's bed, I feel sorry for those rather than angry as it must be very hard to go through life feeling that much paranoia and fear.

I think you will find that when someone pushes too hard to stir the META pot, the hosts handle it well.

So don't take the nonsense too seriously, it is meant to stir shit and emotion and ignoring it gives them no power to do so over you and so is the best response to it.

[OnlinePoker]

20. WilliamPitt says Rand Paul is number 1.

I personally think he's number 2.

[seveneyes]

23. Undeniable vowel burner

[Scuba]

24. Perfect!

[OnyxCollie]

28. An excuse for Democrats to continue domestic spying and drone strikes.

'Cause if Rand Paul is against it, it must be good.

[Enthusiast]

29. Kicked and recommended!

[Liberalynn]

30. Well said!

[H2O Man]

31. Recommended.

Thanks.

[napkinz]

32. the REAL Rand ...

[Dragonfli]

49. Excellent compilation

[Autumn]

72. I would say that should be a stand alone OP but I'm afraid

that might make me a paulbot in some eyes. Kind of twisted but that what some of them do.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

35. Grammar?

Rand Paul is *a*

Carry on....

[Dragonfli]

52. I am sorry, but the grammar is correct.

it is always "an" prior to a word beginning with a vowel.
When people use the "a" where there should me an "an" it is like scratching a chalkboard to me, a personal pet peeve.

[cui bono]

60. Yup. Grammar liked it too!

So did Grampar.

[liberalmuse]

37. Thank you, Will.

I'm curious as to all the Ron Paul threads on DU lately? So far I've avoided them because he is a joke. I can't imagine any true liberal supporting this twit. He is in no way, shape or form anything close to being "liberal". Republicans are pretty revolting, but Libertarians are much worse IMHO. Most of them are diehard conservatives who are pretending to be open minded, or in truth, they're watered-down teabaggers who are too ashamed to admit to regular people that they vote Republican every single time. Too many Libertarians are self-centered bigots unwittingly trying to bring back feudalism, except they are too dumb to see that they would in fact be the serfs rather than the landowning lords. "Republicans who've smoked pot". Pot on a conservative brain is a damn waste of weed.

[GoneOffShore]

38. Irredeemable Fuckwit

I like it.

[raven mad]

39. May I steal this? LOL!

Perfect!

[FarPoint]

42. I would like to that he is an ANAL MEATUS.

[boston bean]

43. trying to bring Hillary down by using the likes of him, make me

want to

[snappyturtle]

44. Simply....superb! nt

[Dragonfli]

45. Why yes, yes he is /nt

[OilemFirchen]

48. Fucking used car salesman.

It's all the rage!

[XRubicon]

51. Nice!

[C Moon]

62. "I'm here to take my country back..."

[abakan]

82. I borrowed a speech from, George Wallace

I borrow all my speeches, don't tell Rachel Maddow she will make a fuss.

[kentuck]

63. ...accident waiting to happen...

...

[The Wizard]

64. opportunist

who recognizes his party's defects and is playing toward a general election rather than a primary. He's against foreign military adventures and the lost drug war and demonizing young black men. The only ones against those positions are angry old white guys, and they'd vote for Pol Pot (not that they'd know Pol Pot from good pot) as long as there's an R after his name.

[valerief]

65. You're such a wordsmith! And correct.

[philly_bob]

66. I'd be happier if we took on Ayn Rand & Adolescent Economic Libertarianism...

instead of Rand Paul's personality.

The postwar rise of Randian Libertarianism -- selfishness is good, the only freedom that matters is economic freedom -- is an American tragedy.

[spanone]

67. yes he is.

[blkmusclmachine]

68. The Pauls are "Christian Dominionists," yes???

New Apostolic Reformation types, yes???

[L0oniX]

69. Naturally. n/t

[CherokeeDem]

70. Yep!!

That he is!!!

[eridani]

73. Also a stopped clock

Right about a couple of things even though he is mostly a lightweight asshole.

[grahamhgreen]

74. & Opportunist.

[MarianJack]

75. I'm supposed to think that a POTUS will...

...be so afraid of a teenager that he has to run away from her? Oh, PLEASE!

PEACE!

[ladjf]

78. Why is Rand Paul's name all over DU?

He is a disingenuous idiot.

[LynneSin]

79. Not to be nitpicky but....

couldn't you say "<Name of random GOP politician here> is an Irredeemable Fuckwit"

Rand Paul could take a number and that's a long wait!

[Orsino]

81. Rand & Ron are like a push-me-pull-you...

...made from the back ends of two horses.

[lark]

83. Even a btoken clock is right twice a day.

Same thing for Rand.

[DFW]

84. Rand Paul is probably only under discussion at all......

.......because, like the broken clock, he is right twice a day, whereas the others, having no hands or numerals, aren't even that.

Interesting side note: I just got back over here to Europe today, but before I left D.C., I had an interesting afternoon with a friend who is a former Congressman from Louisiana who has served as a rep from BOTH parties, and now does freelance legal stuff for Native American tribes in Washington, that kind of thing.

He said that Rand Paul could sneak up on us precisely BECAUSE he is right twice a day. That is SO many more times than Cruz, Rubio and the other clowns under discussion (in the media, anyway), that he is news for now.

No, he doesn't deserve to be taken seriously, but how many Republican tickets since 1976 deserved to be taken seriously, and yet how many of them won? If he gets anywhere close to the Republican nomination, a billion dollars worth of Koch money will say he does, too, deserve to be taken seriously. Naturally, a billion dollars could convince close to half of our voters to take Bugs Bunny seriously. It's the billion dollars that deserve to be taken seriously, not the candidate they're promoting.

WE know that. At least 47% of our country does not.