Washington Post: Running for Senate, Rand Paul lights a fire under Kentucky GOP

[BamaFanNKy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

Running for Senate, Rand Paul lights a fire under Kentucky GOP

LOUISVILLE -- Rand Paul believes he was born to lead the anti-establishment movement sweeping the GOP.

"I would say if there is a candidate who comes from the movement, who has never been a politician," Paul said, "I'm it."

While Republicans across the country, from Scott Brown in Massachusetts to Marco Rubio in Florida, have succeeded in tapping into the anger of the "tea party" crowd, Paul, the third son of the anti-tax icon and Texas congressman Ron Paul, is a product of it. The insurgent GOP primary candidate, who wants to succeed retiring Sen. Jim Bunning in Kentucky, is being heralded as the second coming by a constituency long suspicious of government, protective of privacy and assured of America's chosen-people status.

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[jabf2006]

I think some people on here might nit-pick parts of the article, I thought it was a fantastic piece which portrayed the entire Paul family very well!

[BamaFanNKy]

I think some people on here might nit-pick parts of the article, I thought it was a fantastic piece which portrayed the entire Paul family very well!

No! Not anyone on this site.

[Cardinal Red]

Certainly not perfect (i.e. a puff piece) but overall a strong piece for Rand. Getting out the news of his endorsements to a national audience is crucial as is the mention of his first ad, which will draw a valuable distinction (though I realize not a universally popular one on this site) between his views and his father's. For Republican primary voters in KY and important national conservatives the campaign needs to have a little distance from Ron Paul for Rand to win.

This article presents Rand Paul to an establishment audience (i.e. Washington Post readers) as an acceptable candidate for them to get behind. If we can neutralize establishment opposition, we will win this race.

[squarepusher]

finally getting some big press

[KAYA]

This article took negative shoots constantly, especially the 2nd half.

[jabf2006]

This article took negative shoots constantly, especially the 2nd half.

Point proven.

[Bruno]

This article took negative shoots constantly, especially the 2nd half.

fortunately most readers don't read past the first few paragraphs.

[Cowlesy]

fortunately most readers don't read past the first few paragraphs.

Exactly.

That article looked like a bunch of scribbles in a notepad. There was no clear breakdown of policies or positions from what I could tell. Sophomoric at best.

[specsaregood]

Sophomoric at best.

Well they do try to write newspapers to an 8th grade reading level, so I guess that analysis indicates the article is rather advanced.

[jabf2006]

Exactly.

That article looked like a bunch of scribbles in a notepad. There was no clear breakdown of policies or positions from what I could tell. Sophomoric at best.

I don't think it was supposed to be a hard-hitting in-depth analysis of Paul's views on the issues.

It was a puff piece to showcase the Paul family.

[Matt Collins]

Well they do try to write newspapers to an 8th grade reading level, so I guess that analysis indicates the article is rather advanced.

Don't forget inverted pyramid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid

[Bergie Bergeron]

Check the comments...

[KAYA]

I think some people on here might nit-pick parts of the article, I thought it was a fantastic piece which portrayed the entire Paul family very well!

Point proven.

Well your wrong. This may have been a fair article from Keith Olbermann's perspective.

He criticizes population-control policies by saying governments fear "too many breathers," as in humans.

Rand Paul's former spokesman, Christopher Hightower, left the campaign after liberal blogs discovered racist language on his MySpace page, an incident that only added to the critique that Paul's followers are prone to conspiracy theory and paranoid extremism.

Hmm, wonder what the WSH Post is doing here? These little snips throughout the article paint a picture.

[jabf2006]

Well your wrong. This may have been a fair article from Keith Olbermann's perspective.



Hmm, wonder what the WSH Post is doing here? These little snips throughout the article paint a picture.

Are either of those quote lies? You can't expect a 100% positive article about him. Rand Paul is a controversial figure and it would be dishonest of WaPo to leave out the controversy.

The "too many breathers" line wasn't written as an insult, more of a curiosity; it was also left for the second half of the article.

The part about Hightower was also true and placed even further down in the article and followed with this:

'"He was asked to resign," Paul said of Hightower, insisting he had zero tolerance for "associations with anything unsavory." But, he added, "to tell you the truth, it's a little unfair to even the guy though." Paul said the offending passages were written by someone else and buried in a "subspace on MySpace" and that in 100 hours of car time together he never heard Hightower use "any racist terminology." '

It might have been the most honest reporting of the Hightower incident I've seen in the MSM.

So no, I'm not wrong. Overall is was a very positive article, and people here would nit-pick it.

[KAYA]

Are either of those quote lies? You can't expect a 100% positive article about him. Rand Paul is a controversial figure and it would be dishonest of WaPo to leave out the controversy.

The "too many breathers" line wasn't written as an insult, more of a curiosity; it was also left for the second half of the article.

The part about Hightower was also true and placed even further down in the article and followed with this:

'"He was asked to resign," Paul said of Hightower, insisting he had zero tolerance for "associations with anything unsavory." But, he added, "to tell you the truth, it's a little unfair to even the guy though." Paul said the offending passages were written by someone else and buried in a "subspace on MySpace" and that in 100 hours of car time together he never heard Hightower use "any racist terminology." '

It might have been the most honest reporting of the Hightower incident I've seen in the MSM.

So no, I'm not wrong. Overall is was a very positive article, and people here would nit-pick it.

I never accused the article of lies, only of painting a certain picture which feeds into the tin-foil hat, right-wing extremist, kook fringe, racial, southern, stereotype. The dinosaur media plays off of that stuff. Don't you just love how the writer first quote of Rand's wife starts with "Y'all" then later goes onto quote her saying that her ancestors "fought the Indians with Daniel Boone.", then immediately the writer transitions into illegal immigration? Do you think that was by accident or design?

You want to see fair, check out Neil Cavudo's upcoming interview with Rand today, and if you want to see favorable then checkout the much demonized Glenn Beck's past interview with Rand.

[jabf2006]

I never accused the article of lies, only of painting a certain picture which feeds into the tin-foil hat, right-wing extremist, kook fringe, racial, southern, stereotype. The dinosaur media plays off of that stuff. Don't you just love how the writer first quote of Rand's wife starts with "Y'all" then later goes onto quote her saying that her ancestors "fought the Indians with Daniel Boone.", then immediately the writer transitions into illegal immigration? Do you think that was by accident or design?

You want to see fair, check out Neil Cavudo's upcoming interview with Rand today, and if you want to see favorable then checkout the much demonized Glenn Beck's past interview with Rand.

She probably said "y'all", I talk to smart people in the South every day that say "y'all", "y'all" does not make Paul look poorly in Kentucky; the point about Daniel Boone was to acknowledge her deep roots in Kentucky, which again, would not make Paul look poorly in Kentucky.

The entire article is by design by definition.

The article made Paul's family appear happy, loving, and down to earth. You're looking too deep into it; you're feeding the tin-foil hat, right-wing, kook fringe, southern stereotype (may I add paranoid, or is that assumed within the tin-foil hat label?).