Rand on Cnn right now

[lynnf]

7:35am EST

on the Tea Party movement...

[reardenstone]

7:35am EST

on the Tea Party movement...

I saw it. I know he has a campaign to run but I really thought he was dismissive about the anchor's question about divisive language from some Tea Party leaders like Tom Tancredo who sounded very bigoted. It drives me nuts when they continually invoke and elongate the pronunciation of Obama's middle name.

Tancredo, a former presidential candidate known for his opposition to illegal immigration, drew the battle lines between the tea party movement and the leadership in Washington in his opening speech.

"People who could not spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House -- name is Barack Hussein Obama," he said. "The revolution has come. It was led by the cult of multiculturalism aided by leftist liberals all over who don't have the same ideas about America as we do."


Rand missed an opportunity to admonish that kind of behavior then turning around to say it may be a fringe minority.

I don't know about this, but I am willing to bet that the "Obama-Joker" poster makers and the ones who are very vitriolic may in some cases be the oft mentioned "party crashers" who are bent on making the movement look crazy and foolish.

[0zzy]

I saw it. I know he has a campaign to run but I really thought he was dismissive about the anchor's question about divisive language from some Tea Party leaders like Tom Tancredo who sounded very bigoted. It drives me nuts when they continually invoke and elongate the pronunciation of Obama's middle name.

Tancredo, a former presidential candidate known for his opposition to illegal immigration, drew the battle lines between the tea party movement and the leadership in Washington in his opening speech.

"People who could not spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House -- name is Barack Hussein Obama," he said. "The revolution has come. It was led by the cult of multiculturalism aided by leftist liberals all over who don't have the same ideas about America as we do."


Rand missed an opportunity to admonish that kind of behavior then turning around to say it may be a fringe minority.

I don't know about this, but I am willing to bet that the "Obama-Joker" poster makers and the ones who are very vitriolic may in some cases be the oft mentioned "party crashers" who are bent on making the movement look crazy and foolish.

whaaaaat? The Obama Joker poser was kickass, made by a college student for the fun of it.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/obama-joker-artist.html

[jabf2006]

It's a shame. Paul goes on national TV and can't even definitively separate himself away from the fringe crazies in the Tea Party movement for fear of alienating the rest of it; and its the fringe that the CNN host highlights.

[sofia]

It's a shame. Paul goes on national TV and can't even definitively separate himself away from the fringe crazies in the Tea Party movement for fear of alienating the rest of it; and its the fringe that the CNN host highlights.

"fringe crazies" are Americans too.

The moment Rand starts apologizing for the "crazies" to appease CNN......it will never end with the media. Anyone who cant make distinction between Rand and some "fring" followers is too stupid to even reach out to anyway.

[0zzy]

YouTube - Rand Paul "Tea Party Movement Is About Constitutional Government!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuvoRAz8cD4)

enjoy

[brandon]

I really don't see a problem with what Tancredo said

[jkr]

^niether do i

[cswake]

If Tancredo said corporatist then I wouldn't have a problem with it.

[reardenstone]

I really don't see a problem with what Tancredo said

It is not what he said but the intent of response he was looking for. He wanted to whip the TP'ers into a frenzy with what could almost border on ethnic prejudice.
It is also that it was not smart at all to do that. He seemed to forget that the press would be replaying it ad infinitum, but maybe that is what they want so that they can further complain that the press is out to get them.

The chess game goes deep which is why I wish we would start a larger Revolution Tea Party movement that keeps neocon corporatist money out.


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[dannno]

It is not what he said but the intent of response he was looking for. He wanted to whip the TP'ers into a frenzy with what could almost border on ethnic prejudice.
It is also that it was not smart at all to do that. He seemed to forget that the press would be replaying it ad infinitum, but maybe that is what they want so that they can further complain that the press is out to get them.

The chess game goes deep which is why I wish we would start a larger Revolution Tea Party movement that keeps neocon corporatist money out.


(I finally broke 100!)

Precisely.

No need for that crap.