The Daily Caller Calls On Rand Paul To Throw His Dad Under The Bus

I would withdraw what little support I have for Rand if he shitropes his father.

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I would withdraw what little support I have for Rand if he shitropes his father.

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Liz Cheney tried to make political hay by throwing her sister under the bus, but it didn't work out to well for her.

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I think we can all agree that 600,000 deaths is wrong. What we may not all agree with Ron Paul on is his stance that slavery would have been abolished inside of 20 years without a bloody war.

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I thought his position was that slavery could have been eliminated peacefully with a buy-back program, which would have cost the country a lot less than the Civil War did.

And Ron is correct in both stances. I'm not sure why a politician would touch that issue though because it has no bearing on politics today and nothing good can come from saying anything other than "slavery was wrong and it's good that the union won and kept the country together"

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It's a two part-er
1. Slavery would have eliminated itself as mechanization reduced the demand for agricultural labor in the south, making chattel slavery unnecessary. Slavery dies out inside of 20 years.
2. Buy back program could have been instituted instead which would have ended it inside of 5 years and cost much less than the Civil War.

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I can go along with delay in the payments, but not delay in the emancipation. Bureaucracy is not a sufficient reason to counsel patience and delay to people who are enslaved.

I agree with him when he says that the language isn't the type of language that he uses, because there's no instance of him ever speaking like this in all his years in politics, and it's hard to believe that he could have been that careful with his language for that many years. However, I do wish Ron Paul would talk candidly about the newsletter rather just say he doesn't want to talk about it every time someone brings it up. What's his relationship to the writers? When did he become aware of what was being written? What did he do about it when he found out?

EDIT: As for how Rand fits into all of this, I give him the same slack that I gave to Obama over Jeremiah Wright, a man who said some irresponsible things about AIDS. If I disowned every close friend or relative who had ever expressed controversial politic views or made non-PC statements, not only would I be a hypocrite, but I wouldn't have many friends or relatives left.