Rand answers a question by Cliven Bundy at an event and people are having a cow!

[CPUd]

Wait, so a potential GOP primary voter in Nevada has some questions for Rand and asks him several questions, and Rand answers those questions thoughtfully and politely, and Rand is now somehow a "racist" simply for answering the guy's questions? What was he supposed to do, just ignore and shun a Nevada GOP primary voter?

Rand was already a racist in their eyes, this was just more confirmation for them.

 

[jct74]

When Cliven Met Rand
The lightning-rod activist brings the candidate on board with the movement to end federal control of western land.

by David Weigel
Jul 1, 2015 2:14 PM EDT

In the year since he won an armed standoff with the federal government, Cliven Bundy has taken on a new and unfamiliar role: Politician. He’s led a caravan of citizen lobbyists to Nevada’s legislature. He’s hosted at least one state senator at the Bundy Ranch. And this week, he got an extensive interview with Rand Paul. The Kentucky senator and presidential candidate stumped in Mesquite, just 15 minutes up the road from the ranch, and Bundy made the most of it.

“I didn’t ask for the time,” Bundy told Bloomberg. “I was happy to just shake his hand. But between him and his staff, they were interested. After the meet-and-greet, they picked me out and took me in the back alleyway, and said we’d get time to talk. He dealt with the media, then they found a room, and we sat for 45 minutes.”

Democrats and pundits lit into Paul. Nationally, Bundy’s 15 minutes of fame were remembered for one thing: His on-camera ramble about whether African-Americans had been “better off as slaves” than as people “living under government subsidy.” At the time, Paul had called the comments “offensive”—and yet here he was, talking to Bundy. Iowa’s Democratic Party shamed Paul for talking to a man “who speculated that Black people were better off as slaves.” Georgetown professor and MSNBC analyst Michael Eric Dyson called the meeting a “George Wallace moment,“ all the more offensive “in the aftermath of what happened in Charleston.”

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read more:
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-01/when-cliven-met-rand

 

[acptulsa]

This half an hour or so was 'extensive'? Cliven Bundy single-handedly 'brought the candidate on board'? With what, exactly? And how is the fact that the man may be racist--and certainly isn't politically correct--make it somehow reprehensible that someone discussed federal land management with him? Is racism a communicable disease? Can you catch it from giving a racist directions, the way giving directions to someone with the disease can cause you to come down with ebola?

 

[AuH20]

read more:
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-01/when-cliven-met-rand

Rand needs to go on the offensive, like he did with that abortion comment in NH. Enough with the bullshit.

 

[69360]

Politico thinks Oath Keepers are far right? Do they not know most of them are cops and military?