People are missing the point if they are yammering about agreeing or not with what he said.
This was a political media setup from the get-go, a trap, and only a stupid politician would whine about it or fall into it. Rand Paul made a ‘newbie’ mistake and his walk-balk is an attempt to get out of the hole. Good for him for digging out. Next step is to move on.
He may say something you may agree with, but the liberals wanted some excuse to distort his words to make him out to be a racist loon. Even if he is not.
He did come around to the right answer, and NOW, anytime the issue is raised, he needs to say the EXACT SAME THING every single time it is raised so that NO NEW NEWS is made on the issue, and he pivots and says “Can we get back to the real issues of this race, such as ....” and talk about his real agenda.
Will the liberal media be ‘satisfied’ with the above strategy? Heck no, because they will have no more news to use this to beat him up.
I don’t know. He may come up with a better answer. I assume that he’s paying close attention to whatever effects his words might have in Kentucky. He could mention that those Jim Crow laws that forced businesses to segregate were all passed by Democrats.
And every time the reporters ask him about it - they’ll know that Rand Paul will tell them that the Democrats caused segregated lunch counters.
He could chuckle about it. “Ha ha, why do you keep asking me about this when you know that I’m just going to tell you that the part of the Civil Rights Act that I loved the most was the part that removed the Jim Crow laws. You know the Jim Crow laws that were, in every single case, signed by Democrat Governors, that forced private businesses to discriminate, to segregate. Yeah, I would’ve loved removing those Democrat segregationist laws. (Other parts, I didn’t like as much, but), Yeah, I would’ve voted for it, especially since it removed or nullified the Democrat Jim Crow laws forcing private businesses to segregate.”