...looking to rent a room next door to Sarah Palin.
Posted on 06/01/2010 12:09:20 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Sarah Palin came on the national scene as the un-politician, a diaper-changing, gun-toting former beauty queen who represented the best in American values.
But since the 2008 election, Palin has shown she is just another politician. When Bill O’Reilly on Fox News asked her to respond to claims of John McCain’s staffers in the book “Game Change” that she came across as clueless when being prepped for her vice-presidential debate, Palin stonewalled. Instead of giving specifics and saying what actually took place, she attacked the claims as lies without elaborating.
When Kentucky senatorial candidate Rand Paul told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC that he opposes the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Palin said she sees similarities between how the media are treating him and the way the press tried to “get” her before the elections in 2008.
“I think there is certainly a double standard at play here,” Palin said on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
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And she was exactly right.
Rand Paul is no racist. He is a libertarian, and a constitutionalists in the strictest sense of the word. The media tried to make him out to be some kind of anti-black kook, which was nonsense. Why is Newsmax peddling this crap?
Whats up with NewsMax anyways?
Having a bad hair day?
Screw Kessler!! So Palin practices what Reagan preached, don’t speak evil of other pubbies. Palin really scares them.
Oh NO!!
Palin ALSO failed to comdemn a lot of other bad things!!
I think the media has discovered a whole new tactic with regard to their ‘Palin Problem” ... condemn her for an infinite number of things she DIDNT do!
And if she did comment about everything, some would say she makes too many comments.
Rand Paul was giving a theoretical answer to a hypothetical question...
He was NOT saying slavery was good, he was saying GOVERNMENT EDICTS FROM ON HIGH ARE BAD
And I agree with him
Seriously, when this country was founded the individual had the right to choose to associate or not associate with anyone for any reason.
Even private businesses should be able to “refuse service” to anyone of their choosing.
Racial discrimination is punished by the marketplace.
...looking to rent a room next door to Sarah Palin.
The fact that Palin didn’t criticize Paul makes her not the typical politician. She’s going to stick to her principles, and not abandon someone.
Err, no. In this instance, Paul was right and the WSJ was wrong. As Walter Williams has often pointed out, it makes no sense for the state to try to ban discrimination in private businesses. First of all, it's impossible, and you wind up substituting the state's favored races for the favored races of private owners. Which is what has occurred in the U.S.
But more to the point, if someone has a genuine animus against otherwise profitable customers just because of race, it's his loss. Those are customers who won't be stopping by.
It doesn't make sense to drag in the state to pick your customers for you, no matter how you slice it. Let's say you're discriminated against, as an accountant of race X, by all the race Y firms in town that won't hire you. Well, you can whine. You can also be wrong (maybe your math ain't so good). But if you're right, and X accountants are unfairly passed-over for work, that's good news. Hire your X brethren. They'll work for less. Go after the market, charging lower prices and eat those bigoted firms' lunch.
The same applies to restaurants, real estate, and so on. Who cares if they won't serve X or Y race? Cater to Xs or Ys and make out like a bandit.
NewsMax seems to have a thrown-together quality, logic- and philosophy-wise. They're supposed to be conservative, right?
Yesterday, I watched some video on the TX text book commission. They showed a man who was proud he is an activist. Know what he prized up about? Children being taught the Constitution because it says all "men" are created equal. Of course, men, before PC meant humans not just male animals.
I also listened to a white female, a black female, and a Hispanic male reject everything the Conservatives proposed. They did not want Jefferson Davis or the great Confederate generals mentioned; they didn't want anything said about States' Rights because the Civil War was ONLY about slavery to them. Jefferson nor any of the Founding Fathers were great because they held slaves.
I grew up in the South, and I certainly learned that although slavery was the underlying cause, people were concerned about States Rights. No one is any more, to our country's detriment.As for J. Davis, he had been both a US Senator and Secretary of War and did a good job of both.
There are so many ignorant, brainwashed people, now, how are we ever going to revise the revision of history? These idiots would not dare leave Hitler and Mussolini out, even if they were murderous dictators; however, we must not give any book space to Jeff Davis, Robert E.Lee, etc. because they were BAD.
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Palin endorsed Rand Paul, so I don’t think asking her questions about his statements is absurd. Palin is better at playing the victim than giving coherent answers.
Are you a Utopian? If you are, you belong on the other side of the aisle.
But expecting her to answer questions about soundbite excerpts of his answers without the context of the entire conversation -- which she didn't here -- is silly. She wasn't in the interview room with him, didn't participate in his discussions of the issue, and probably had not spoken with him about the question, so why would she have any further insight into the conversation worth commenting on?
There was nothing to criticize Rand Paul for. He ios not a raaaacist, nor did he say anything that was raaaacist in nature. So your post shows that you agree with the liberal/media narrative and Alinsky tactics.
- JP
another so called “right wing” rag shooting palin in the back?
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