Sickening Hit Piece on Rand Paul Published in NY Times

[AuH20]

Howie from Massachusetts:

This is the radical right fringe of U.S. politics! These folks would like to see seniors starve and go without medical care, give huge corporations a free reign to create more economic mayhem, try to bring racial and ethnic hatreds back into the political mainstream, let those who pollute the environment make up the rules for water, soil, food, and air safety, and have voters believe that no government is our single hope for the future. Yuck!!! Find another country to be part of...

Alex, I'll take Death Panels for $800...........................

 

[phill4paul]

Too much TRUTH for ya?

No, too much horse shit. You're so full of it that it spills out into any thread you enter anymore. AF wasn't insulting him. I will not be jubilant over the slings and arrows Rand faces just as I wasn't over those Ron endured. You're full of shit and have no where to forcefully expel it except on these forums. Take a break. Go join a knitting circle and bitch about that one "bad" neighbor.

 

[LibertyEagle]

No, too much horse shit. You're so full of it that it spills out into any thread you enter anymore. AF wasn't insulting him. I will not be jubilant over the slings and arrows Rand faces just as I wasn't over those Ron endured. You're full of shit and have no where to forcefully expel it except on these forums. Take a break. Go join a knitting circle and bitch about that one "bad" neighbor.

I called YOU on exactly what you were doing and you hate it.

Yup. Just wait until the primaries.

Too bad.

 

[phill4paul]

I called YOU on exactly what you were doing and you hate it.


Too bad.

LE, you're head is so full of horse shit that you can't see with your eyes or think with your brain.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Viglink breaks the link for us now, you know.

Then again, I guess an unbroken viglink url probably would still count as a reference to Google, and thus raise its search relevance.

I don't know how viglinks work. It may be best to break links to hit pieces just to be certain.

Breaking the link would also serve not to encourage hit-piece authors who hope to draw traffic to their sites by kicking hornets' nests like RPFs.

 

[asurfaholic]

I know its not always going to be roses and unicorns... But damn

 

[otherone]

At 5-foot-7 or so, he will sometimes step in front of a lectern, lest he disappear behind the microphone as he talks about the evils of taxation or a Big Brother “surveillance state.”

The hack is a statist AND a staturist.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

comments worse than the article. No sense even addressing people that stupid and obstinate about it. One guy claims he can't win the presidency because he wears a toupee. Mind you I am certain that it won't matter at all to the nutter that Rand does not in fact wear a toupee.

 

[AuH20]

Talk about programmed to serve the state and foolishly believing that he is part of the state:

There are questions I wish reporters would ask the senator: Do you support social security, medicare, medicaid, and ER care regardless of ability to pay? Do you support universal public education for children? Do you believe people should have to pay taxes? How would you collect them? Do your tax policies favor the rich? Do you believe the black helicopters of the UN have already launched to take your guns, knives, copies of the Constitution, and superhero comic collections? I have no interest in whether the senator has curls and a rumpled jacket. Others can undoubtedly think of better questions than I can, but please ask some real questions of the senator rather than simply being thrilled about his views on cannabis.

 

[AuH20]

If you have read most of the comments, most of the commentators hail from Massachusetts, California, Oregon and Washington. Very revealing I may add. I suspect they have surrendered all logic years prior.

"Libertarianism or variants of it are too simple to govern such a complex society as the United States?" Really? I remember there being a particular founding document of significant fame that was very clear in it's parameters. Like they say the devil is found within the details & the most vile megalomaniacs have been ecstatic with the historic opportunities that the progressive movement has provided them. Nothing is sacred and things can change at a whim! Thus, your rights & property are truly negotiable in their world.

 

[Bryan]

OK, everyone. Let's please keep it civil and go by the Site Guidelines. (See my sig).


Thanks!

 

[AuH20]

Battered spouse syndrome:

Rand Paul's views would be acceptable in 1800 in the mid-est. Then the next neighbor was miles away and you were on your own. If you did not feel you could survive or could not handle the stress, you could move to New York City. Today we depend on others, the government and employers. Rand Paul is 200 years too late. That is the nicest thing I can write about him and his ideas.

Tell the citizens of Louisiana this after Hurricane Katrina.

 

[AuH20]

The world is too complex for us to stop the wanton theft & abuse:

Libertarianism's appeal has always been its promotion of the self over society and a simplistic--if not vapid--view of the complexities of the real world. I very much doubt whether a true believer like Rand Paul will do anything to broaden the appeal of an ideology that simply cannot account for or cope with a three dimensional world.

The three dimensional world begs that we accept this new era of neofeudalism.

 

[NewRightLibertarian]

If you have read most of the comments, most of the commentators hail from Massachusetts, California, Oregon and Washington. Very revealing I may add. I suspect they have surrendered all logic years prior.

"Libertarianism or variants of it are too simple to govern such a complex society as the United States?" Really? I remember there being a particular founding document of significant fame that was very clear in it's parameters. Like they say the devil is found within the details & the most vile megalomaniacs have been ecstatic with the historic opportunities that the progressive movement has provided them. Nothing is sacred and things can change at a whim! Thus, your rights & property are truly negotiable in their world.

There is no injustice they wouldn't subject you to, as long as a mob of idiots voted for it to be so.

 

[AuH20]

Rand Paul, Corporate Raider in Main Street clothing?

With Chris Christie's presidential chances looking more and more doubtful, it seems corporate interests now have to scrape the barrel a little bit deeper to find a candidate who can promote their nihilistic agenda of unrestrained greed and social disintegration from behind a carefully contrived facade of white-bread suburban respectability.

Rand Paul presents an unprecedented challenge for the corporate media in terms of creating a marketable commodity. Christie was an unprincipled, opportunistic bully: a predictable product of big money in politics politics, whereas Paul represents a more malevolent strain of corporatist extremism. Christie simply wanted to expropriate the few remaining pockets of middle class wealth for his corporate sponsors, Paul's list of "associations" suggests a darker and far more sinister intent. It will be both fascinating and terrifying to see if and how the corporate media can convince the American middle class that it would be better off "picking cotton and singing songs."

 

[LibertyEagle]

It just makes you wonder how many of them are paid to comment on such articles.

 

[56ktarget]

Can anybody actually refute the article section by section, instead of just posting quotes? This article may or may not be a hit piece, but you don't help you argument by just posting quotes.

 

[AuH20]

Can anybody actually refute the article section by section, instead of just posting quotes? This article may or may not be a hit piece, but you don't help you argument by just posting quotes.

Those are actually reader comments. Not quotes. I should have stated that earlier.

 

[ravedown]

It just makes you wonder how many of them are paid to comment on such articles.

there are PR agencies that specialize in this practice, particularly on MSM sites. You can expect a fair % of the responses are paid political operative groups repeating dem. talking points and ad hominem attacks.

 

[matt0611]

Can anybody actually refute the article section by section, instead of just posting quotes? This article may or may not be a hit piece, but you don't help you argument by just posting quotes.

Oh please. The article doesn't actually make any arguments. Its mostly just repeats of:

"This guy that's associated with this institute that his father is associated with said this or that (with almost zero context) and oooh look how extreme that view is!".