Sickening Hit Piece on Rand Paul Published in NY Times

[56ktarget]

You start out in 1954 by saying, "******, ******, ******." By 1968, you can't say "******" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "******, ******."
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-Lee Atwater


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[GunnyFreedom]

You start out in 1954 by saying, "******, ******, ******." By 1968, you can't say "******" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "******, ******."
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-Lee Atwater


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Whatever the heck you just said, you'll apparently have to take it up with this Lee Atwater, because I don't get it.

 

[56ktarget]

The censored part is the n-word
Lee atwater was an advisor of U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, chairman of the Republican National Committee, and one of the architects of the "Southern Strategy" that appealed to southern racists.

 

[Anti Federalist]

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.

Secession, please.

And I'm not being flippant or snarky...I'm serious.

There's no talking to people that think like the people in those comments.

Freedom and liberty, to them, is a musty old idea, best left dead and buried, entirely unsuitable and impractical for our modern go-go world and anybody who wants freedom is really nothing but a closet racist.

We can leave peaceably and separate, fight it out, or be swallowed up and destroyed.

 

[otherone]

Whatever the heck you just said, you'll apparently have to take it up with this Lee Atwater, because I don't get it.

Racism is the McCarthyism of the 21st century.

 

[56ktarget]

Lee atwater is saying the republican party actively tried to appeal to racists.

 

[otherone]

Freedom and liberty, to them, is a musty old idea, best left dead and buried, entirely unsuitable and impractical for our modern go-go world and anybody who wants freedom is really nothing but a closet racist.

Some people believe that we won't have a truly equal society until everyone's Rights are trampled on...

 

[AuH20]

You start out in 1954 by saying, "******, ******, ******." By 1968, you can't say "******" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "******, ******."
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-Lee Atwater


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http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/770072-i-ll-have-those-*******-voting-democratic-for-the-next-200

“I'll have those n%$%^&s voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One]”

 

[Origanalist]

Secession, please.

I'm about to the point where I'm not really into the "please" part anymore.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

The censored part is the n-word
Lee atwater was an advisor of U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, chairman of the Republican National Committee, and one of the architects of the "Southern Strategy" that appealed to southern racists.

You won't find very many fans of any of them around here. What to they have to do with us, or Rand Paul?

George Wallace was a Democrat, Governor of Alabama, and he sicced dogs and firehoses on anti-segregationist demonstrators. Should we liken you to George Wallace just because you are a Democrat?

 

[GunnyFreedom]

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/770072-i-ll-have-those-*******-voting-democratic-for-the-next-200

Aye, LBJ was a straight up monster, and one of the worst racists in modern times. But it's OK because he was a Democrat.

 

[Saint Vitus]

lol @ that article, Rand has done nothing but distance himself from his father and libertarianism since he became senator, and yet he's going to be attacked like he's a carbon copy of him. That's why Rand's "strategy" is ultimately going to blow up in his face.

 

[Origanalist]

Aye, LBJ was a straight up monster, and one of the worst racists in modern times. But it's OK because he was a Democrat.

Well, it was ok because he believed in big government. Big government can't be racist.

 

[angelatc]

Just for future reference, there is a site called www.DoNotLink.com .

It allows you to link to a page without driving up their page rank. Here is an article talking about how it works. It is more than just a URL shortener. http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/do-not-link-donotlink-ethically-criticize-seo-nofollow/

 

[Origanalist]

Just for future reference, there is a site called www.DoNotLink.com .

It allows you to link to a page without driving up their page rank. Here is an article talking about how it works. It is more than just a URL shortener. http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/do-not-link-donotlink-ethically-criticize-seo-nofollow/

Nice. You should put this in a thread of it's own.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Instead of this alleged 'dog whistle' racism from Rand that supposedly nobody but Mr 56k can hear, how about legit overt racism from the woman he supports:

“I love this quote. It’s from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years. Mr. Gandhi, do you still go to the gas station? A lot of wisdom comes out of that gas station” – Hillary Clinton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Mq8kOXV_E

"You f-ng Jew bastard!" - Hillary Clinton http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/18/uselections2000.usa

 

[AuH20]

Well, it was ok because he believed in big government. Big government can't be racist.

[Let me channel LBJ and those elitists for a second]
Those minorities are too dumb to take care of themselves. They need big government and we need their votes.

 

[Origanalist]

 

[Occam's Banana]

Just for future reference, there is a site called www.DoNotLink.com .

It allows you to link to a page without driving up their page rank. Here is an article talking about how it works. It is more than just a URL shortener. http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/do-not-link-donotlink-ethically-criticize-seo-nofollow/

Nice. You should put this in a thread of it's own.

I agree. I'll definitely be using this from now on & I recommend that others do so as well.

 

[Lord Xar]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...and-paul-aide-has-history-of-racial-comments/

"Americans aren't wrong to deplore the millions of Mexicans coming here now," hewrote in 2007. "A non-white majority America would simply cease to be America for reasons that are as numerous as they are obvious – whether we are supposed to mention them or not."


That same year, discussing a racial disparity in school suspensions and expulsions, he wrote, "there are probably more black youth who deserve to be expelled ... who never receive proper punishment out of fear of accusations of 'racism.'"


In 2004, he lamented a "racial double standard" that meant that "Not only are whites not afforded the same right to celebrate their own cultural identity – but anything that is considered 'too white' is immediately suspect."

Another 2004 post declares that "not only was Abraham Lincoln the worst President, but one of the worst figures in American history" while arguing that "John Wilkes Booth's heart was in the right place" when he assassinated the president.

Like others say, I see nothing here that is offensive or racist. Is a white man not allowed to voice an opinion? I share a lot of this same opinion too, and I have a biracial child with a black female. If he expanded on the victo'crat mentality breed into these subcultures by lib/dem/statist policies/progaganda, I think he would have made a bigger splash in truth and draw the correlation between that AND the possible trend towards a big government nanny state etc..