Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:55:27 pm
In an interview with the Russian propaganda network “Russia Today” (a whacked out conspiracy show pretending to be legitimate news; RT often features Alex Jones and other conspiracy advocates), Rand Paul says we should forget that pesky 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and take away the citizenship of children born ...

Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:33:30 pm
Here’s Ron Paul, on the Alex Jones show again. Nobody seems to think this is odd. Cue Twilight Zone theme. [Video]

Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:03:23 pm
Check out Rand Paul, doin’ the campaign staff shuffle. And gettin’ the GOP establishment makeover. Ditchin’ his dad’s cronies. Not talkin’ ‘bout civil rights no mo’. No, no, no. Doin’. The campaign staff. Shuffle. BOWLING GREEN — Kentucky senatorial candidate Rand Paul said Tuesday he’s planning a campaign staff shake-up a ...

Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:03:57 am
According to Public Policy Polling, only 58% of Republican primary voters in South Carolina support the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In case you were wondering how Neanderthals like Rand Paul continue to get elected. UPDATE at 5/25/10 11:20:40 am: Meanwhile, according to a poll at the bottom of this page, Fox News ...

Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:48:25 am
At ReligionDispatches, Sarah Posner has some more data on Rand Paul’s crackpot brand of libertarianism, which is inexplicably mixed with fundamentalist Christianity: Rand Paul: We Wouldn’t Need Laws If Everyone Were Christian. Appearing on The Brody File, Rand Paul, who believes that portions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act need ...

Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:50:12 am
Tea Party “activists” in New Jersey are looking for the next scalp. Far right race baiter (aka the most influential conservative in America) Rush Limbaugh says Rand Paul is a victim of an “attempt to tar the entire tea party movement.” And Dick Armey also says Rand Paul is a victim of ...

Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:41:23 pm
Sarah Palin holds a pity party, with Rand Paul as the guest of honor: Rand Paul is Learning What It’s Like to Be Me, Says Sarah Palin. Palin said that Paul is seeing firsthand how “gotcha” politics work after the libertarian-leaning Republican spent days on defense spelling out his support ...

Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:31:18 pm
Did you think there was a possibility that the GOP would disavow Rand Paul and his absolutist libertarian craziness? Well, forget it. GOP leaders see Rand Paul (and the tea party movement he represents) as their ticket back to power, and they’re fine with his views on the Civil Rights Act. Sen. ...

Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:55:10 am
Rand Paul’s getting all the media attention for his ludicrous comments about the Civil Rights Act and the BP oil spill, but he is actually far from the most extreme Republican nominated last week. Meet Arthur Robinson, who won the GOP nomination for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District. Mr. Robinson is so full ...

Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:09:43 am
Rand Paul says he’s too exhausted to appear on Meet The Press tomorrow, but he’s not too exhausted to give interviews to the local Kentucky press, and he says Louisville is still segregated. Which means the Civil Rights Act didn’t work. (In Rand’s private universe, that is.) And in the same ...

Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:41:10 pm
News is going around Twitter that Rand Paul is now trying to cancel a Sunday appearance on Meet The Press that he committed to doing on Wednesday. He’s scared of … David Gregory? The Paul camp is in full tilt damage control mode. Only two other guests have ever bailed out of ...

Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:32:58 am
The Washington Post’s Michael Gerson says Palin, Dobson, and DeMint must repudiate Rand Paul or accept his extremism. And I have to ask — in which universe does Gerson think that’s going to happen? All three of the wingnuts he names are completely aligned with Rand Paul and his dad Ron, ...

Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:47:43 am
Today Rand Paul said that President Obama’s criticism of British Petroleum is “un-American,” because after all, “accidents happen.” Yes, really. Taking another unconventional stand, Kentucky’s Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul criticized President Barack Obama’s handling of the Gulf oil spill Friday as putting “his boot heel on the throat of BP” ...

Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:54:45 pm
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Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:41:26 pm
Not surprising, since Ron’s views on the Civil Rights Act are (at least publicly) even more extreme than Rand’s: Ron Paul Rises to Son’s Defense in Civil Rights Dust-Up. It’s a conspiracy by the left, of course. Default wingnut response to setbacks. Rep. Ron Paul said Thursday the criticism of his ...

Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:36:22 pm
The Page One blog in Kentucky points out that Rand Paul made his views on civil rights and discrimination perfectly clear in a letter to the editor of the Bowling Green Daily News in May 2002: Rand Paul Made Same Racial Comments in 2002. From Rand Paul’s letter: Decisions concerning private ...

Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:39:38 pm
As Rand Paul does his best to dodge and obfuscate his position on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it should be pointed out that he’s simply being a chip off the old block. In 2004, his father Ron Paul was the only member of Congress who voted “NO” on a ...

Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:36:31 am
On the Laura Ingraham show this morning, Rand Paul decided to announce: “Yes, I would have voted for the Civil Rights Act.” (You have to wonder why he couldn’t answer “yes” last night when Rachel Maddow repeatedly asked this very question.) “These are settled issues in the Civil Rights Act,” ...

Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:16:45 am
Well, Rand Paul really stepped deep into the muck yesterday with his painful waffling about the Civil Rights Act. The right wing blogosphere is in full-throated excuse-making mode this morning. Even Dave Weigel is desperately trying to spin this as being a “principled libertarian” stance, because as a libertarian himself ...

Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:10:42 pm
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Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:45:13 pm
The John Birch Society is exuberant at Rand Paul’s victory; they see it as a vindication of their ideology: Rand Paul Victory. (Google cache link.) Conservative, libertarian, and constitutionalist grassroots activists, who have coalesced to form not one organization, but a collection of like-minded groups collectively called “The Tea Party,” ...

Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:19:36 pm
In an interview with NPR’s Robert Siegel, Rand Paul says he now has a clear Tea Party mandate. Shudder. Then he proceeds to dodge the question of whether he would have voted for the Americans with Disabilities Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. [Video]

Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:59:23 pm
Neo-Nazis say: The RAND Paul Money Bomb! Help Elect Rand Paul to U.S. Senate - Stormfront. (Google cache link.) Hmm. How much of Rand Paul’s campaign money came from Stormfront readers? Just wonderin’. His dad had a similar issue, by the way. Curious. Ron Paul: No Problem with Donations from Neo-Nazis.

Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:08:15 pm
CNN is calling the Kentucky primary race for Rand Paul; Paul exploited the tea party connection for all it was worth, but the reality is that this is more of a victory for the Ron Paul populist movement and the resurgence of paranoid John Birch Society-influenced ideology. At this point, you ...

Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:31:05 pm
Sheriff’s deputies in Kentucky have been removing Rand Paul’s loony supporters from polling places, after numerous complaints of harassment, voter intimidation, and electioneering: Deputies called to remove campaign workers. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — State and local officials say backers of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul have been removed by sheriff’s ...