Posted on 08/16/2014 3:43:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Robert Patterson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, said Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) gave "aid and comfort to the rioters and the protestors" with his op-ed in Time against the militarization of local police forces.
Appearing on Breitbart News Saturday, Patterson said that Paul was "outdoing" President Barack Obama's "attempt to show moral equivalence between the rioters and the police" with a Time op-ed that even Al Sharpton praised.
Patterson said that it is "another illustration of out-of-touch Republicans who are looking for love in all the wrong places" by "pandering to liberal and corporate elites instead of the middle america that the party needs to rebuild the center-right majority."
Patterson, who also worked for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, said Paul "wants the affirmation of the elites and the media" because it is "a lot more fun to be lionized to by the New York Times and Time magazine" and "sit in corporate luxury boxes" than to understand the middle class that Nixon and Reagan understood is "decisive" in any national election.
Patterson said the New York Times and other mainstream media elites "look down on average, ordinary Americans" because they think they "are not as sophisticated as their intellectual" and foreign friends.
But Patterson noted these voters got Republicans out of the wilderness in the 1960s and can do so again. Echoing themes from Pat Buchanan's Encouraging The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, Patterson said Ronald Reagan ran on a law and order platform to become California's governor two years after Lyndon Johnson's landslide. Two years after that in 1968, Richard Nixon carried 32 states to win the White House, and Republicans saw significant gains in Congress and governorships.
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“His father’s son.” “ Nut doesn’t fall far from the tree”, etc.
I am against the militarization of the police too
Rand Paul has shown to many what he truly is. I have never
liked that guy so my suspensions were justified. Praising Al, now. Mercy, he doesn’t know when to stop..
I was mostly OK with Rand Paul right up to the point he started outright lying to pander to low info voters about felon voting rights. After sinking to that low he seems to have become pretty adept at finding the lowest common denominator.
And dumb.
The Brown case has nothing to do with the issue of militarization of police.
He thinks he will somehow get some of the black vote and liberal vote while taking base conservative or Republican support as a given.
I never trusted him even when he said things that make sense
so am I. But that’s not the problem here. It’s crime. Especially crime created by the perpetual liberal welfare state.
I had high hopes for him. He’s a typical sellout loser.
But I'm not sure how law enforcement can deal with a full scale riot without it looking something like a military operation.
But he was for giving communities drones before he was for it or was he against it? The government knew the police forces had this military style equipment. Now, he’s all this. It’s okay, if they use it on the border and on the terrorists. Imo. And, they are not going to give that equipment up; not in today’s high technology world. See the Boston Bombing episode and that’s liberal land.
"When danger reared it's ugly head...
He bravely turned his tail and fled..."
In this instance, Rand Paul is way worse than his father, who at least recognized the nature of these animals in his newsletters in the 1990s, the same ones which were used to frame Ron Paul as a bigot. The father was once a realist on ghetto trash.
In this instance, Rand Paul is way worse than his father, who at least recognized the nature of these animals in his newsletters in the 1990s, the same ones which were used to frame Ron Paul as a bigot. The father was once a realist on ghetto trash.
Daniel Boone was a man, just a big man...
We had plenty of events in the past and not the police running around pointing guns at everyone trying to look tough.
The police in the past were way more professional and if they could not control it. Then the National Guard came in.
Sorry I don't want our streets to look like Afghanistan or some other 3rd world $hit hole.
So am I, but I wouldn’t make that case based on force exhibited in a riot atmosphere.
Make the case based on the equipment these agencies have. You can do that without the props that seem to justify the firepower
It was just a very stupid time for him to trot this out. It was just one more thing that would make it seem like the police were wrong about everything, to everyone.
Paul should know better. It couldn’t help but telegraph full speed ahead to the protesters and rioters.
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