Rand Paul Aide Resigns After Confederate Views Stir Controversy
Source: Huffington Post
An aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) whose past remarks on the Confederacy and Abraham Lincoln stirred controversy earlier this month has resigned.
In an email to the Daily Caller posted Sunday evening, Jack Hunter said he has left Paul's office to further pursue a career in political punditry: Ive long been a conservative, and years ago, a much more politically incorrect (and campy) one, Hunter said in an email. But theres a significant difference between being politically incorrect and racist. Ive also become far more libertarian over the years, a philosophy that encourages a more tolerant worldview, through the lens of which I now look back on some of my older comments with embarrassment.
Hunter, a self-professed "Southern Avenger," came under fire after the Washington Free Beacon reported on his pro-Confederate views. Hunter, who co-wrote Paul's 2011 book, has said Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth's "heart was in the right place" and that he "raise[s] a personal toast every May 10" in honor of Booth's birthday. He also has worn a Confederate flag mask during public appearances.
Paul defended Hunter in an interview with The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman, calling his aide "incredibly talented," but acknowledging that his racially charged writings were "absolutely stupid."
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/rand-paul-aide-resigns_n_3634390.html
Too late. Can't put the dixie flag back into the toothpaste tube.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Honest_Abe
(155 posts)Rand Paul said that what he wrote was stupid, not that what he believed was wrong. No one can see into a man's heart, but I believe Rand Paul is as racist as they come. He just knows to avoid saying anything overtly racist, so as to avoid offending some moderates.
calimary
(81,295 posts)Glad you're here. Yeah. He knows what he wrote was "stupid" because it revealed more about his inner feelings and positions than he wanted the world to know. 'Cause it looks bad. Not because it IS bad. They're all about shallow surface appearances. Cosmetics. They might as well be the Real Housewives of Max Factor.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Other than that, though . . .
"Huirrah, hurrah, for Southen rights, hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!"
calimary
(81,295 posts)They're all fine with it - until they get caught. That's the only "morality" they embrace.
Honest_Abe
(155 posts)I've been here for many years. I just don't post unless In have something to say.
SCALA13
(69 posts)I've been snooping around DU since 2007,but barely got the balls to start posting last year.I'm not all into social networking.
John2
(2,730 posts)racists are very clever. Don't pay too much attention to their words, but their actions. He should have fired him on the spot really.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)The dude will be on Fox this week talking about how the Liberal Media made him quit.
Welcome HA
went to a libertarian? meeting once here in Michigan, years back, yet the palpable distaste I felt from those white people discouraged me from ever returning. libertarian worldview is the same as klan, tea party, modern day jim crow republicans. He's a fucking racist pig, who should go find the rock he crawled out from under and return. Who knows, he may find zimPIG hiding under there.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)calimary
(81,295 posts)"Stand with rand" MY ASS, Medea! Why are you fraternizing with the enemy - with YOUR enemy? rand paul cares as much about the issues you really care about - as I care about catering to George Zimmerman.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)"Take a look on Democratic Underground
They have the gov't paid trolls out, trying to limit the outrage & rebellion on there.
If that is the reaction of hard core Dems to the news stories on the NSA, I want to stoke up some more of it.
Lots of traffic on DU.
It's the most popular Dem internet site, except for Huffy Po - where everything meaningful gets censored."
http://www.dailypaul.com/288556/clapper-and-feinstein-get-caught-lying-big-time#comment-3103138
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)All in the 'honest criticism of Obama' vein, and all seem to spout the same lines of crapola at the same time.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)teabaggers that phone into progressive radio shows. It's almost like the two extremes have congealed, and become one big old glob of ODS.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014523420#post22
APPLY LIBERALLY AS NEEDED...
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Paul himself won't have to apologize for, or admit to, anything.
rurallib
(62,416 posts)Nor will Randy's tacit approval.
Note that Randy did not fire the racist.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Alas.
Mr. David
(535 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)When will these people ever get over the fact that they got their asses kicked in the civil war?
Orsino
(37,428 posts)But they are more than cynical enough to pander to racists.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)wow...like the Zimmerman juror.
Sicko.
Progressive dog
(6,904 posts)the toxic waste he floated on remains.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)a member of the Kentucky League of the South still employed by Rand? If so is his head next on the chopping block????
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)where bigotry reigns.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Tom Hastings
(13 posts)I am so sick of libertarians and republicans trying to deny they are racists. Republicans are obviously liars, and everyone knows it. But libertarians hide behind this facade that their philosophy offers a real alternative to status quo electoral politics.
For the past decade I have been way too patient quietly listening to them rant about the way they would do things if only they had power. But so much of their policy makes no sense:
You would let bridges fall?
YUP!
You would let potholes rot away all our roads?
YUP!
You would end all foodstamps?
YUP!
You would end all forms of welfare?
YUP!
You would shut down Medicare and Social Security?
YUP!
Well, how on Earth would you replace these essential programs?
Libertarian just stares at me as if he is drunk and stoned: Duuhhhh, like what do you mean?
Well how would you feed the hungry and hospitalize the dying and educate the kids?
Duuuhhhh, like dude none of that is necessary. Just let them nigros starve. Let them die in the street. They don't need school anyway. You know THEM PEOPLE are born stupid anyway.
Wait, I'm confused. Are you talking about the whole USA or just some nonwhite ghetto full of gangbangers you hate?
Dude, it's all the same now! USA IS NONWHITE NOW! So now we got to starve the whole USA!
And that shallow, brainless racism is at the heart of their whole policy platform: Libertarians don't have any brilliant solutions to anything. They are simply racist republican klansmen in thin disguise.
They would let your bridges fall and your highway decay into potholes, so long as they can also starve some nigros n Mexicans. That is their idea of a Libertarian Paradise.
But if USA was still 100% white, they would fill our potholes and keep our bridges and infrastructure in perfect condition.
There is no deep libertarian philosophy. Libertarian ideals are just shallow racism in thin disguise. Especially in the Deep South, "Libertarian Idealism" is an oxymoron.
Edward Maya, LOVE STORY: TRIBUTE TO MEXICO