A Comment I Wrote About Rand Paul
I write a lot of comments on web sites and blogs. If I ever run for office, my opponent will have no trouble doing oppo research on me, as I have left my thoughts all over the place in digital format.
Most of these comments are off-the-cuff and context-dependent, so I don't repeat them here. But, I wrote one tonight over on Page One that I thought was good enough to share. So, in response to an earlier commenter named Lisa Glaas:
First, Ms Graas — thank you for having the courage to actually sign your post, and with your real name and website! Good on you. I took a look at the site — nice look.
Second — won’t get into the argument about the abortion issue. You won’t change my mind, and I won’t change yours, so no use wasting the bits.
BUT — I will note that I thought it wasn’t possible for Kentucky to have a worse Senator than “Money-Bags” Mitch and Jim “I’m-Being-Followed” Bunning. But I never counted on Rand “I’m A Doctor Cause I Say So” Paul.
Here’s a man who believes that our seniors should pay a $2,000 deductible before their Medicare kicks in. Hmm — my mother’s SS is under $2,000 a month, so if she got sick in January she’d just have to starve till the next month.
Here’s a man who believes property rights trumps civil rights. Here’s a man thinks we were too hard on poor BP.
And here’s a man who belongs to an organization that believes Obama won the election through hypnotism.
Your side keeps throwing the reasonably functional candidates under the bus and substituting people like Christine “I Dabbled In Witchcraft But Don’t Touch Your Wand” McDonnell. As long as the Republican party is somewhere between John Birch, Pat Robertson, and David Duke, you will be either attacked or ridiculed by anyone who can read and think.
And if you really, truly think that Rand Paul would make a better United States Senator than Jack Conway, you are either a Republican whose loyalty has surpassed your ability to read and think, or you are a single-issue voter whose focus on that issue has blinded you to the rest of the picture.
Those persons who want Kentucky and the country to move forward will vote for Jack. Those who want to shove a stick in Obama’s eye by electing a horrible senator will vote for Rand Paul. I choose progress, not craziness. I can only hope that the rest of Kentucky does the same.
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 10:02PM
Reader Comments (4)
Except that isn't true. He doesn't want to enact a $2000 deductible for medicare which is clear to anyone who watches the entire speech Conway stole a few words from. Here, watch yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erKTAE03SRk&feature=player_embedded Conway has already had political watchdog organizatins deem three of his attack ads against Rand 'false' 'false' and 'mostly false', and I'm sure they'll get around to addressing this one eventually, too.
Furthermore, Rand Paul says what he thinks and lets the voters choose, unlike Conway who pretends to be conservative while he plays progressive to the 'netroots' out of state. I'm not sure who he is lying to, but it is one or the other. Moreover even in the course of this election he hasn't been able to stick to his positions.
Rand Paul is the adult in the race, while Conway is mouthing focus group tested lines.
Jack has taken some conservative positions that I have disagreed with, true. And, in the case of the Bush tax cuts, I've called him on it.
As for the attack ads being "false" -- can you provide a link? A "watchdog" run by Rupert Murdoch or Faux Noise doesn't count.
As for the clip -- I've listened to it, and Rand Paul clearly stated that a $2,000 deductible was a possibility. You don't think so? Fine -- take that off the table. You've still got the BP comment, and the Civil Rights Act comment, and wanting to abolish multiple departments including the Department of Education, and ... and ... and. Rand Paul has so many bad positions it would take an entire web site just to list them.
Jack Conway has been an effective public servant for many years. Rand Paul may be an adult in years, but his thinking is still stuck in teen-age infatuation with Ayn Rand and "just get rid of government and everything will be fine" reductionism. Conway is clearly the better choice.
Jack needs to get a real job, one where he has to rely on his dissensions to feed his family or pay his bills. Any rumor that Jack is anything other than a left of center democrat whose opinions bend with the political winds is just stupid. Conway is a career Politician who will, after being elected, follow the party and its policies blindly.
Rand, for all that he is, will be Rand. That is a conservative, a man who has had a business and succeeded in it, and a man the people can trust to do as he says, like it or not.
Why you ask, because he is not a career Politician who needs to stay in office to make a living. Let’s see Jack go into the private sector and make it. That is without daddy’s money and the influence he peddles now as a career Politician.
Dump Jack into the pile of all those who think they know better than the Americans they represent. Liberal policies, progressive agendas, contempt for the electorate that puts them in office is the mainstay of Democrats and Jack.
"live on his dissensions" -- I don't even know what that means.
Since when does working in one job make you smarter than another job? Rand Paul may be smart, but he's way wrong on almost everything. And "Rand being Rand" as a Senator is one of the scariest things I can think of.
As for Jack being left of center -- hooray! I hope he is. We need more liberals.