Comments on: Rand Paul Rally in Lexington, Kentucky: Analysis and Commentary

By: Blue Bluegrass » Blog Archive » Rand Paul Returns to His Hitler Roots

Blue Bluegrass » Blog Archive » Rand Paul Returns to His Hitler Roots — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:02:37 +0000

[...] Rand Paul is channeling Hitler again. Okay, so this time, it wasn’t quite as disgraceful as last fall in Lexington, when he directly compared the President of the United States to Adolph Hitler. [...]

By: Blue Bluegrass » Blog Archive » The Unbearable Lightness of Being Rand Paul: Kentucky Senate Candidate Doubles Down on the Crazee, Rushes to Defend Joe Barton and BP

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:01:15 +0000

[...] this cracker invoke someone like Milan Kundera in any way, shape, form or fashion. On top of his invoking Kurt Vonnegut at a Lexington speech last fall at Bar None, and considering that Rand Paul’s speech compelled Joe to compare him to Steinbeck’s [...]

By: Blue Bluegrass » Blog Archive » Rand Paul’s Principled Positions on Racism, and His Not So Coincidental KKK and White Supremacist Ties

Fri, 21 May 2010 10:02:30 +0000

[...] Paul compared Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler in October 2009 during a Lexington [...]

By: Blue Bluegrass » Blog Archive » A Little Something for the Rand Paul Crowd

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:45:05 +0000

[...] knows by now how Rand Paul, Glenn Beck, and the rest of the teabagging set love to explain how Obama is Hitler. Jon Stewart may have unintentionally fed the beast: look for the teabaggers to take this as real, [...]

By: Blue Bluegrass » Blog Archive » The Dangers of Militias, Teabaggers, and Christian Extremists

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:07:17 +0000

[...] The Kentucky State Militia whose members committed the criminal attacks of 2002 is remarkably similar in name to the Kentucky Militia now beating the drums of paranoia and governmental attacks on its citizens. The chilling fact is, the militia members identified above as criminals who fire on deputies (such as Steve Anderson) are the ones who just before their criminal acts were saying the same things that are being reported in this Courier article. What is even more disturbing is that just like Rand Paul is currently courting these people as political allies, in 2001, they were being courted by state elected legislators. Recall that 9 days ago in Lexington, Rand Paul was wooing teabaggers by bragging about taking target… [...]

By: Tracy Saboe

Tracy Saboe — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:17:33 +0000

Regarding the Hitler meme.

I think Rand would be the first to say that Bush’s policy’s were a lot like Hitler’s too. Obama’s policies really aren’t that different from Bushes. Not in practice anyway. Lots of liberals called Bush Hitler. So, I guess I fail to see the difference. The economic definition of fascism is nominal private ownership of property, but the state tells you everything you can and can’t do on it. It’s characterized by a hyper-regulatory state and the merger of corporate and government interests. Any economic textbook will tell you that.

If Haliburtin and the Military industrial complex aren’t examples of that I don’t know what is.

If government takeover of the Auto and Banking industries aren’t examples of that, I don’t know what is.

Both Bush and Obama are fascists.

Tracy

By: Tracy Saboe

Tracy Saboe — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:11:54 +0000

As a leftist, are you really going to root for Grayson over Rand? Rand is opposed to the bank bailouts and all the corporate welfare — Grayson’s being funded by senators that supported and voted for all that.

Rand wants to bring the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq. Grayson is a typical Republican warmonger.

Even if you don’t agree with everything he says and believes in, I would think you’d at least root for him over Grayson in the Republican Primary.

Tracy

By: Bob Layton

Bob Layton — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:07:25 +0000

Thanks, Bruce. Once someone equates Obama with Hitler, in their mind, any steps are appropriate. Add that to the submachine gun packing Arizona nuts at an Obama appearance, and it’s a concern approach a certainty that they are going to do something terrible. Handicapping this primary, I think Rand Paul is favored right now, and that’s an amazing situation in itself. There’s a lot going on at these teabaggings.

But in Kentucky state races, it doesn’t carry over. The horse racing and expanded gaming issues are going to be the strongest change elements, in my opinion. You’ve got some interesting races in 2010 in and around Jefferson County. Seum’s seat and Gary Tapp’s, for example. I think both of those could be picked off next year, even though Seum will be an incumbent.

By: Bruce Maples

Bruce Maples — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:44:46 +0000

Don’t usually stop by; after reading this, will be by more often. Thanks for posting this — excellent analysis. The environmental stuff I expected, some of the other stuff I expected. But being so quick to buy into the Obama=Hitler meme just is amazing.

By: Bob Layton

Bob Layton — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:35:47 +0000

Thanks. The interesting thing to watch will be this: as the Republicans here and in places like upstate New York tack even harder to the right (as shown by the shocking idea that Newt Gingrich is now labeled as in the more moderate part of the Republican Party), will they alienate the middle?

Rand Paul can win a primary, and the teabaggers can take out Republicans in primaries that aren’t extreme enough for their tastes, but are they condemning their party to a loss in the general election because the independents and swing voters will run away from the primary extremist choice?