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    WSJ: Paul's Remarks Dominate TV Talk

    Republicans Are Peppered Over Paul's Remarks

    By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON and VICTORIA MCGRANE

    WASHINGTON— Republicans on Sundays sought to neutralize criticism of GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul's remarks questioning aspects of a landmark desegregation law, and his support of racial discrimination by property owners expressed in a 2002 letter to a Kentucky newspaper.
    [PAULsub] Zuma Press

    Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul talks with supporters this week at the Bowling Green Country Club following his primary win.

    Mr. Paul, the antiestablishment tea party candidate who won the party primary in Kentucky last week, has told the Louisville Courier-Journal that he opposed provisions in the 1964 Civil Rights Act banning racial discrimination by private businesses. He told MSNBC on Wednesday that while he abhorred racial discrimination, he questioned the federal government's power to force restaurants to serve minorities, against the wishes of those businesses' owners.

    On Sunday, Democratic Party officials suggested Mr. Paul's comments were more than a misstep by a new player on the national stage. They pointed to a letter Mr. Paul wrote in 2002, in which he supported "unofficial, private discrimination—even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin."

    Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said on ABC News's "This Week" that he "wasn't comfortable" with Mr. Paul's remarks about the 1964 civil rights law. "Any attempt to look backwards is not in the best interest of our country certainly, and certainly not in the best interest of the party," he said.

    But he added that he had spoken with Mr. Paul, and that he "will be four-square with the Republican Party, in lockstep with moving forward on civil rights, not looking backwards."

    Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, appearing on the same show, pointed to a letter that he said Mr. Paul had written to the Bowling Green Daily News, defending racial discrimination in housing, in some instances.

    Mr. Paul's 2002 letter, an electronic copy of which was viewed by the Wall Street Journal, reads, in part:

    "A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination—even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

    "It is unenlightened and ill-informed to promote discrimination against individuals based on the color of their skin.

    "It is likewise unwise to forget the distinction between public (taxpayer-financed) and private entities. A society that forgets this distinction will ultimately lose the freedoms that have evolved and historically been attached to private ownership."

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    "promote" discrimination?

    Really.

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    I have to wonder if any of those unprincipled, uninspired GOP establishment mopes have ever heard of Barry Goldwater.
    YouTube - Barry Goldwater explains his vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Firing Line (1966)

    Then you have Lindsey Graham invoking the Commerce Clause. What's next from that progressive tool? The "Good and Welfare Clause"?



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