sinsboldly wrote:
ah. . . .Ron Paul isn't running for anything.
RAND Paul ran in a primary for Senator from Kentucky as a "Tea Party" candidate. He had quite a win over the had picked successor from the Republican party and went on a program to announce his candidacy for Senator , got to talking Libertarian theory about the Civil Rights Act and announced to the world that private businesses should be able to decide whom they will serve and whom they will not.
that did not go over very well - and then the next day said that Obama was 'anti-American' to criticize BRITISH Petroleum Company. He later pleaded 'exhaustion' and canceled being on Meet The Press this Sunday.
Exhaustion? Sounds to me like he just can't handle being asked tough, "gotcha" questions, and judging from his behavior on the Rachel Maddow show, it seems he's not very good at the 'game' of politics. He avoided directly answering her questions about whether businesses should have the right to deny service to someone who is black. In a way, I don't blame him, because if he had, the media would have played it to death, and the pundits would have eviscerated him with their spinning and such. Still, if he's trying to win an election, he should be better prepared for interviews like this, or perhaps have better political advisors.
Personally, I think his position on the Civil rights act is a non-issue, because it's not like he ever made that part of his campaign, nor is it even conceivable that any part of the act could be repealed. His position seems very nuanced, and does make sense, but nuance doesn't work well in the world of simplistic soundbites in the twenty four hour cable news cycle. Frankly, I hate the way the media spins issues like this, but this just goes to show how I could never be a politician.
25 May 2010, 10:50 am
