It just keeps on getting better and better all the time!!!
It doesn't get better than this! Eh?
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_ ... 9_7_30_110
This is absolutely disgusting. This is the absolute pits!
Rand Paul supporter stomps on woman's head
Tuesday, Oct 26, 2010 00:33 ET
By Steve Kornacki
A little while ago, I posted my analysis of Monday night's final debate between Rand Paul and Jack Conway, concluding that the GOP nominee had evaded tough questions and avoided making any costly gaffes.
What I didn't know at the time was what happened outside the debate just before it started. It was there that a female activist from MoveOn, who was attempting to deliver a facetious award to Paul for his corporate-friendly views, was set upon by Paul supporters and knocked to the ground -- at which point one of the Paul backers stomped her head. The whole scene was captured on video by a local Fox station, with the footage leading its late newscast. So while Paul probably avoided generating any damaging headlines during the debate, his supporters, it seems, did the job beforehand. Footage of the attack (and an interview with the victim) is below:
Woman stomped by Rand Paul Supporters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txU55iFG9UA&feature
Republicans are so low now, they have to look up to see the pits!
I subscribe to the MoveOn Newsletter which I get in my E-mails.
Sometimes I'll receive as many as three of four MoveOn updates in my E-mails during the day.
OK, here is some more.
http://www.salon.com/news/rand_paul_jac ... cky_debate
And here is some more really good stuff!Topic:
Rand Paul vs. Jack Conway
Rand Paul's final debate strategy: Play dumb
Monday, Oct 25, 2010 23:04 ET
By Steve Kornacki
Jack Conway and Rand Paul
Rand Paul pitches his candidacy as an outlet for voters who are tired of "career politicians." But in the final debate of Kentucky's Senate campaign on Monday night, he behaved exactly like one, ignoring direct questions that he didnâ??t want to answer and nimbly changing the subject whenever the conversation veered into uncomfortable territory.
Take, for instance, the subject of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Unless you've been in a coma for the past six months, you remember Paul's notorious interview with Rachel Maddow back in May, when he objected to Title II of the act, which outlawed discrimination in restaurants, hotels, motels and other establishments that engage in interstate commerce. "Had I been around," Paul told Maddow, "I would have tried to change that." Only later, after a torrent of criticism rained down upon him, did Paul publicly state that he would have supported the entire '64 Act.
When he was asked at Monday's debate to calm any concerns voters might have on the issue, Paul played dumb. "I never said that I believed anything remotely regarding segregated lunch counters," he said. "I never said I was for a repeal of the Civil Rights Act." Then, without elaborating any further, he claimed that the entire controversy was manufactured by his Democratic opponent, Jack Conway, who "doesn't want to talk about a balanced budget and term limits and reading the bills." Before you knew it, Paul was praising the Tea Party movement and bragging that he'd drawn 1,000 supporters at a recent rally in Paducah.
That's the kind of night it was. The one-hour debate featured several calls from viewers, one of whom asked Paul about his habit of wading into controversy and then blaming the media and his opponents for twisting his words. Specifically, the caller -- and later, the moderator -- quizzed Paul about his past declaration that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme." Sure, the comment is years old, but it was uttered on a statewide public affairs show and it seems consistent with the libertarian philosophy that Paul and his father are known for. But confronted on Monday, he wouldn't own up to saying it, avoiding the issue with more complaints about Conway's attacks.
"It's sort of hard to argue against a straw man argument that they developed that aren't my positions," he said. (He also dismissed the caller's question by saying, "I think this wasn't an undecided voter.")
At another moment, Paul sniffed at "the fiction of jobs saved" by the stimulus program enacted last year. The moderator interrupted to ask if Paul believed economic conditions might be better now had a larger stimulus program been put in place. His response was dismissive.
"The people who are saying that, Krugman and others, were wrong about this, didn't predict this coming," he said. Actually, Paul Krugman, the economist and New York Times columnist, did predict from the moment the stimulus passed early last year that it would be insufficient and estimated that the final compromise that won it Senate approval, a cut of $86 billion in the package's size, would alone cost the economy 600,000 jobs. But pretending Krugman never wrote this served Paul's purposes just fine; better to pretend advocates of more stimulus are just making excuses for the failure of the initial package to fix everything.
More maddening than Paul's slipperiness, though, was the realization that he'll probably get away with it. Kentucky is a conservative, Obama-phobic state, after all, and the climate of 2010 couldn't be worse for the Democratic Party. A generic, boring Republican (like Trey Grayson, the Mitch McConnell disciple defeated by Paul in the GOP primary), would be ahead by about 15 points right now. But Paul, with his provocative antics, has tested Kentuckians' desire to vote against the Democrats. Still, while his polling advantage is smaller than it should be, he is nonetheless ahead -- and has been for the entire campaign.
Viewed in this context, Conway probably needed a dramatic slip-up by Paul to gain the traction he needed from this debate. Instead, most of the time was spent on issues on which, in Kentucky in 2010, Paul just can't lose He bashed Barack Obama's "2,500-page healthcare takeover bill," railed against members of Congress who don't read every page of every piece of legislation, and claimed that the Wall Street reform bill is "exactly wrong and, I think, very dangerous for our economy." And on and on.
"This election is about which agenda you want," he said at one point. "Do you want President Obama's agenda, which believes in government as the mode of stimulus?"
From a policy standpoint, Paul was on shaky to laughable ground. But politically, his rhetoric is likely to resonate with Kentucky's swing voters, who are motivated primarily by their own anxiety. All they know is that Democrats run everything in Washington and that joblessness hasn't been this high in decades. Paul's claims that individual Obama policies are wrongheaded, counterproductive, and downright dangerous sound about right to them.
There's not much that Conway can do about this. He played a lot of "me too" on Monday, bashing the Wall Street bailout and cap and trade and arguing that the healthcare reform law needs to be altered (but not junked completely), but his party label makes it unlikely that voters who are preoccupied with these issues will support him. His stage presence also left something to be desired. While Paul sat up straight and spoke forcefully and with inflection, Conway's delivery was subdued and he spent far too much time looking at his own lap while speaking.
Maybe between now and next Tuesday Paul will wander into one more political landmine, one explosive enough to erase the five- to seven-point lead he now seems to enjoy. But he avoided doing so on Monday
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_ ... index.html
OK, I'm really pissed off now!
Paul, MoveOn respond
GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul declines to condemn an
attack by his supporters on a MoveOn protester
Tuesday, Oct 26, 2010 11:27 ET
By Emma Mustich
Paul, MoveOn response
Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Ron Paul
speaking on FOX this morning in response to
news of his supporter's attack on a protester
This morning, Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul and MoveOn publicly responded to the attack by Paul supporters on a MoveOn protestor outside the Kentucky senatorial debate Monday night.
Speaking on Fox, Paul conspicuously declined the opportunity to condemn the attack. "It's an unusual situation to have so many people, so passionate on both sides, jockeying back and forth and it wasn't something I liked or anybody liked about that situation," he said. "So I hope in the future it's going to be better."
Watch video of Paul's television appearance, via TPM, below:
Rand Paul Discusses Stomping Incident On Fox News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncz0esowrPQ&feature
MoveOn, for its part, is demanding that the woman's attackers be "brought to justice," and is calling on Paul to condemn the attack directly. The group's full statement:
â??We're appalled at the violent incident that occurred at the Kentucky Senate debate last night. Numerous news reports clearly show that the young woman--a MoveOn supporter--was assaulted and pushed to the ground by Rand Paul supporters, where one man held her down while another stomped on her head. This kind of violence has no place in American society, much less at a peaceful political rally.
Our first concern is obviously Lauren's health and well being. She is recovering, and we will release more details as we have them. We are concerned that no arrests have yet been made, and we hope those responsible will be brought to justice quickly, and that Rand Paul will join us in condemning this horrible act.â?
I absolutely HATE AND DESPISE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!!!
The Republican Party inspires hatred! It has become America's NAZI Party!
OK, I admit it!
The Democratic party is far from perfect!
We do have some Democrats who are real screw-ups in the party, and I'm getting disgusted with both parties these days.
But hey!!! At least, we Democrats don't go around knocking people down into a gutter, and stomp on their heads!
Bush ruined this country! Clinton only ruined a dress!
But, I'm really not surprised by all that is happening these days.
Here in my home state of Texasshole we have the Texas State Board of Education (Indoctrination) wanting to remove Thomas Jefferson from the history textbooks and to replace him with John Calvin, a raving maniac who a few centuries ago had people tortured to death in the name of his religion.
And then, the Texas State Board of Indoctrination also wants to insert their Creationist fairy tales into all the science textbooks and eventually remove Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
And now, we have ultra-right-wing conservatards beating the holy crap out of people out in the streets during political debates.
The USA is going down the sewer!
Our schools are run by sports fanatics who advocate jocks bullying students around in our schools.
The Republicans love sports, and hate science!
The Republicans hate the poor, and the elderly, and the physically handicapped.
And the Republicans hate intellectuals! THEY ARE MORONS!
I fear for my own life!
I'm afraid that some day, while I'm out riding around in my JAZZY power chair (which I need to get around because I have arthritis in my knees and ankles) that I'm going to be attacked and beaten to death by some low-life donkey-fucking redneck yokels while my JAZZY power chair is being smashed to pieces, and people aren't going to to jack-shit to stop it! They'll just stand around slack-jawed and drooling and laughing while the mayhem is going on, then they'll just go home to their single-axle trailer homes, swill down some more of that cheap Buckhorn beer and get drunk while watching football on TV, then they'll beat the holy crap out of their wives and kids, rape their daughters, and screw the pooch, and give the goldfish and parakeet cause for alarm!
Yeah! I know if said this before.
But I got these whack-jobs pegged real good.
Ah! God bless America!
Don't ya just love it???
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
