Former George W. Bush Speechwriter: Rand Paul Gave 'Aid & Comfort' To Rioters

[jct74]

here's another hit piece on Breitbart if anyone wants to get in early on the comments

h ttp://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/17/MO-GOP-Exec-Director-Rand-Paul-s-Comments-on-Demilitarization-Race-Unhelpful

 

[surf]

"aid and comfort" for the enemy (American people). for some reason, even with the Former Bush Speechwriter's pointed remarks, i'm having a tough time getting that worked-up because Sen Paul is not defending the moral superiority of the police

 

[Brett85]

And the comments are disgusting. I just don't understand how so many conservatives who want to limit the power of the government in general blindly trust the military and the police.

I'd say at least 75-80%, if not more, of the comments are anti-Rand.

I doubt if very many of them even want to limit the power of the government in general. A lot of these people are really no different from people on the left. It's just the opposite side of the coin.

 

[jct74]

damn... another hit on Rand Paul from Breitbart, that's at least 4 in the past 2 days.

h ttp://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/17/On-Ferguson-Libertarians-Playing-with-Fire

 

[Aratus]

i've been quiet over the past three days. if this speechwriter who knew the "W" quite well had said less in public than i did,
i would be way happier right now. this patterson fellow is one more total idiot who fails to comprehend that his strident voice
is only adding to the tension, angst and anger good people are feeling. i truly have a profound respect for senator rand paul.

 

[RonPaulMall]

This is why I advised Rand to say nothing about the Ferguson thing for now and simply use it to work Federal Militarization of the police in to his future stump speeches. He followed the latter part but unfortunately he jumped in to the fray right away and now that the initial story seems to be unraveling it makes Rand look bad in the eyes of conservatives because he is associated with the left wing media that was pushing what now looks like a false story.

 

[anaconda]

This is why I advised Rand to say nothing about the Ferguson thing for now and simply use it to work Federal Militarization of the police in to his future stump speeches. He followed the latter part but unfortunately he jumped in to the fray right away and now that the initial story seems to be unraveling it makes Rand look bad in the eyes of conservatives because he is associated with the left wing media that was pushing what now looks like a false story.

Rand didn't say the man shot was innocent. He just said African Americans get the shit end of the stick and that there's way too much military might in local police forces. And that everyone is afraid of the people that are supposed to serve and protect. I don't think it matters if the story was altered. Rand didn't say the man was innocent. If push comes to shove, there's about 10,000 easily referenced cases of cops killing people in situations where it was entirely unnecessary that Rand can justify his oped with.

 

[mosquitobite]

Rand didn't say the man shot was innocent. He just said African Americans get the shit end of the stick and that there's way too much military might in local police forces. And that everyone is afraid of the people that are supposed to serve and protect. I don't think it matters if the story was altered. Rand didn't say the man was innocent. If push comes to shove, there's about 10,000 easily referenced cases of cops killing people in situations where it was entirely unnecessary that Rand can justify his oped with.

Which ties right into the narrative that is coming from other angles: failed democrat policies are to blame for the lack of hope.

When life is reduced to the terms in which it is lived in the poorest and most neglected parts of Chicago or Detroit, the welfare state is the police state. Why should we expect the agents of the government who carry guns and badges to be in general better behaved than those at the IRS or the National Labor Relations Board? We have city councils that conduct their affairs in convenient secrecy and put their own interests above those of the communities that they allege to serve, and yet we naïvely think that when that self-serving process is used to hire a police commissioner or to organize a police department, then we’ll get saints and Einsteins out of all that muck.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/385518/who-lost-cities-kevin-d-williamson

If Rand bunted before, now knock it out of the park.

 

[RonPaulMall]

Rand didn't say the man shot was innocent. He just said African Americans get the shit end of the stick and that there's way too much military might in local police forces. And that everyone is afraid of the people that are supposed to serve and protect. I don't think it matters if the story was altered. Rand didn't say the man was innocent. If push comes to shove, there's about 10,000 easily referenced cases of cops killing people in situations where it was entirely unnecessary that Rand can justify his oped with.

Too late for that. Damage is already done. And while Rand might have been focusing on the militarization of the police, nobody else in the media is, and that subtle distinction will not be picked up by the hoopleheads. All they see is the left wing media trying to gin up another "racism" story that ends up being complete hogwash and because Rand was on the same "side" as the media when they were doing that he gets caught up in it. You are right about 10,0000 other stories Rand could have referenced and that's exactly what he should have done once the furor of this thing had died down. Instead, he hitched his op-ed to what is looking more and more like a justified shooting and that is hurting not only his standing among GOP voters but also the particular cause he's trying to advance.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Excellent point, Rand was clear that the rioting was not justified, but this smear is attempting to blend rioters and protestors. One would think that a presidential speechwriter would have proper reading comprehension skills.

He reads just fine, but where he really excels is lying - that was, after all, his chosen profession.

 

[Aratus]

When we all are polite we talk about the Great Minds who entered PUBLIC RELATIONs or decided to earn a living in
advertising. Turd~blossom thoughts must be voiced about this crony of the "W" who evidently would go on the same
hunting trip as Karl Rove and Richard Cheney. I might opine "spin doctor" but Mark Twain would think character and
confidence artist. http://money.howstuffworks.com/con-artist.htm We know the dude was well paid and full of BS.

 

[jct74]

ANOTHER Bush speechwriter chimes in to attack Rand Paul today. Michael Gerson -- you might remember the name from some of the hit pieces against Ron in 2012.

Precisely because this effort is so important, it is also important to point out: The Kemp project, placed in Paul’s hands, would be an utter, counterproductive failure.

...

Paul has his own history. He employed, as a close Senate aide, a writer who styled himself the “Southern Avenger” and who authored a column titled “John Wilkes Booth Was Right.” This personnel decision would have been impossible to imagine from Kemp. But it points out the deep affinity between certain strains of libertarianism and the Lost Cause. While running for the Senate, Paul criticized the centerpiece of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — the part desegregating public accommodations — because it conflicted with his libertarian conception of property rights. And Rand Paul, of course, worked for a presidential candidate in 2012 (his father, Ron Paul) who claimed that the Civil Rights Act “violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty” and argued that the Civil War was a senseless mistake.

Meanwhile, Rand Paul’s 2013 proposal for a balanced budget in five years — which would have eviscerated large portions of the federal government and weakened the social safety net — was less of a blueprint for reform than a demolition order.

Paul has risen to prominence by employing a political trick, which is already growing old. He emphasizes the sliver of his libertarianism that gets nods of agreement (say, rolling back police excesses) while ignoring the immense, discrediting baggage of his ideology (say, discomfort with federal civil rights law or belief in a minimal state incapable of addressing poverty and stalled mobility).

read more:
h ttp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/michael-gerson-rand-paul-is-no-jack-kemp-on-outreach-to-african-americans/2014/08/18/2424e614-2700-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html