Rand Paul Dismisses His Supporters’ Assault On MoveOn Activist As ‘Jockeying Back And Forth’

[Ian David]

Rand Paul Dismisses His Supporters’ Assault On MoveOn Activist As ‘Jockeying Back And Forth’

Last night before a debate, supporters of Kentucky GOP Senate nominee Rand Paul tackled a MoveOn.Org member to the ground and “stomped on her head” within feet of the candidate. Activist Lauren Valle suffered a concussion and spent the night in the hospital, and is now “leaning toward pressing charges” on the unidentified attacker wearing Rand Paul gear.

Predictably, Paul took to Fox News to defend himself this morning. The friendly news outlet significantly downgraded the severity of the head stomping, saying the woman’s “shoulder stepped on.” For his part, Paul — whose treatment of a woman during his college years has become a campaign issue — dismissed the incident as mere “jockeying back and forth,” as if the woman had also attacked the men who tackled her:

HOST: Political banter inside and now we have a brawl outside. As a female protester getting roughed up during demonstrations in the parking lot while Rand Paul and Jack Conway were debating on the inside in Kentucky. Her shoulder Stepped on after being stepped on after being heckled by two men there. <...>

PAUL: And there was a bit of a crowd control problem. I don’t want anybody though to be involved in things that aren’t civil. I think this should always be about the issues. And it is an unusual situation to have so many people so passionate on both sides jockeying back and forth. And it wasn’t something that I liked or anybody liked about that situation. So I hope in the future it is going to be better.

Watch it:

More:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/26/paul-dismisses-stomping/




See also:

Let's List the violent attacks by the Right Wingers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9389907

Rand Paul and the Curbstomper himself, Tim Profitt: http://twitpic.com/313tkl #KYsen #p2
http://twitter.com/SandiBehrns/status/28819859136

[LaurenG]

1. There you have it, Ron Paul is a big liar who cares about nothing but winning.

I hope the people of Kentucky see straight through this guy who thinks stomping a woman is just ‘Jockeying Back And Forth.’



Idiot!

[prolesunited]

2. Carrying a sign

and stomping on a person's head is not equivalent in any universe.

[FSogol]

3. Self-certified eye doctor can't see what is wrong w/ armed campaign staffers stomping on women's

heads? Why am I not surprised?

Rand Paul = :puke: