Voter Suppression & Racism: Rand Paul, 'The Great Defender' Can't

[Playinghardball]

[iemitsu]

1. Rand Paul is as backwards in his thinking

as the word order in his name. What an ass?
I don't know how anyone could listen to him and be impressed enough to decide to support him with a vote.
Who did he run against, in Kentucky, who could possibly have been a worse choice for congress?

[Half-Century Man]

2. (Ayn) Rand Paul is very carefully excluding pesky facts from his opinions

I'm not in favor of handing over Nuclear weapons to someone who lacks empathy, sympathy, or the ability to admit short comings and mistakes.

The best custodian of a nuclear arsenal is the one who gets ulcers knowing they control a nuclear arsenal.

[freshwest]

3. +1

[freshwest]

4. Actually, Al leaves out some more damning videos of Rand's views, but it's simpler than that.

He's lying through his teeth, as usual:

Here's Where Rand Paul Can Find 'Objective Evidence' of Vote Suppression

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023476402

Not only that, but Rand Paul is a Second Amendment Solution, Tenther Movement guy.

http://election.democraticunderground.com/10023321236#post3

By Second Amendment Solution, he believes the federal government is not legitimate and should be forcibly stopped from carrying out the laws of the land against the poweful. You know, the government that fought a war to free to slaves, gave women the right to vote and all that other piddley stuff.

Rand says that it can all be done at the state level, or that churches will handle everything.

What part did they play, iother than to ratify the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, after a bloody Civil War?

http://www.blackhistory.com/content/60916/13th-14th-and-15th-amendments

And which Paul Ryan wants to get enough states red to repeal them?

By being a Tenther, he supports human and voting rights restricted by states run by racist demagogues.

IOW, he supports the Confederate position that the equal rights the Founders hoped to one day come to pass, was wrong:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014260932#post149

He is a member of the most conservative GOP groups and supports the corporate right to pollute and destroy the lives of the common man with no protection of labor:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x392850

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8879283

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x551585

Senator Rand Paul Submits A National Right To Work Bill

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014389452http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251294656

He has introduced over and over again laws on personhood:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251294656

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014152915

And believes any private group has the right to discriminate:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x466558

The GOP still follows the Southern Strategy started by Lee Atwater. Which was, and is, pure racism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater#Atwater_on_the_Southern_Strategy

He wants a banana republic with a plantation system in the end and those who vote for him expect to be spared the lowest rungs in society.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8391328

We really need to get a grip on who is being championed by so many as the only salvation for America. But it's an America that stops at the Tenth Amendment and goes no further to address the civil rights of its citizens.

The 14th that Paul Ryan wants to repeal includes Birthright Citizenship, Equal Protection and Due Process. Take those away and the fabled protection of the Fourth Amendment is just as moot as it was in the days of slavery.

And they'd be just fine with that, when you look at their position on the minimum wage, child labor, anti-union and the rest of it. A vote for Rand is a vote to destroy all the work of progressives.

[yoloisalie]

5. Actually, the reason why the voting time avg are higher

in Black and Hispanic areas is because we tend to live in high density areas and our voter turn out rates for the past few elections have surpassed that for whites. The video actually leaves out the most heinous part of the speech which was where he tried to poo poo the impact of voter ID laws.

The 20.2 mins voter time will be cut in half if these draconian voter ID laws were implemented cos a lot of African Americans for whatever reason tend not to have the proper ID to vote.

The section of the speech is below. Al missed a great opportunity to hit him even harder.