Well now I’m not as upset about her head getting stomped on.
EDIT:
Moved out of graveyard.
This is weird.
Clayton -
OH THE HORROR!!!
I love how progressives are so terrified of the real free-marketeers (and Rand Paul is more closely aligned with that than most Republicans, anyway). Then they show their true socialist side when they freak out and wail that the Paul family are corporate shills.
Anyway, what I like about that type of debate is that it shifts the two-party paradigm into more philosophical territory where you can engage in political theory and not Maddow/Hannity soundbite wars.
Ravochol: “… but then, that makes sense, because hardly any of Rand Paul’s positions are truly libertarian.”
Tru dat!
Interpersonal utility comparison fail.
The horribly ironic and hypocritical thing about the assault was that the guy who stomped her was wearing a “Don’t Tread on Me” badge:
^ that’s funny and sad at the same time
I saw Rand Paul on TV the other day. He seems very unclear about his own opinions about things.
Even the war, something his father is very clear about, presents difficulty for him. He seems to know that ‘nation building’ isn’t something we should do, but won’t out and out say that the war is wrong and that we should bring the troops back. I don’t think he even says it is a failure. Like some of the dodges about ‘creationism’ in the schools he falls back on ‘having debates’ or ‘living it open’. When it is very clear people just want his own opinion and moral judgment about it. Not what how he thinks it will be resolved.
I’m not sure about his other positions. I suspect you have to lose your spine to get in the mass tea party movement. And go more towards the right on cultural issues. Which is a shame.
Though, there are certainly worse people out there to spend your time making fun of. This guy isn’t even in office; as I said, empiricism is everything. If he did something, fine, but until then it seems like a stretch to say he is worse than a whole congress and senate who are, for the most part, out of their minds with corruption.
Tea party, strike 1. Other parties, strike 100 million.
Ravochol,
Are you saying that ending Social Security(even if nothing else was touched) would not be a good thing?
Dude, Bunning was just saying take the unemployment benefits money from the unspent TARP or stimulus funds.
Guys, if you don’t understand horse-race two-party current events politics, then don’t talk about it.
RIght, because never talking about something is a great way to learn to understand it.
There’s nothing compassionate or libertarian about paying people not to work, with other people’s stolen money. In fact, it creates arbitrary rigidities in the labor market, elevates the unemployment rate (people prefer leisure to labor), and creates an additional incentive to inflate.
## Right Wing Bloggers on Stomping: It Was Faked, It Was Staged, She Deserved It
Charles Johnson
WINGNUTS • Tue Oct 26, 2010 at 1:08 pm PDT • Views: 3,231
I don’t want to believe the ugly comments at almost every right wing blog about the woman assaulted by Rand Paul supporters last night. Has the entire wingnut blogosphere turned into a pack of rabid animals?
Jim “Dim” Hoft thinks Lauren Valle deserved to be stomped on the head, and he’s digging into her background to prove it: UNHINGED LEFTIST Who Lunged at Rand Paul Is Paid Far Left Activist.
Ann Althouse immediately tried to claim the incident was staged: Finally some good news for Democrats.
And then there’s Free Republic:
The left gets a taste of their own medicine. Sorry, at this point I have no pity…I’d like to stomp a few myself…
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My thoughts are there is a smelly rat involved. We all know how much they lie.
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per the photo - it’s on her upper back / shoulder area as to contain her…
I love it whent he leftist cry like little babies when they don’t get their way - and the press writes this article as if completely shocked…
The media and the socialist need to grow up - this isn’t 6th grade anymore…adult US citizens have had enough of glorified hollywood types fromt eh media and other org’s like Move On telling them what’s best for them…
she got exactly what she dished out -
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A whole lot more of the commies should be on the ground bleeding…..
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She was in disguise and attempted to approach Rand Paul. How would they know her intent? They should have stripped her down to make sure she didn’t have a bomb or gun on her.
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Clearly a case of assault with intent… this bitch was a hit bitch from soros. I hope she suffered some sort of permanent damage.
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Lets see….she is a liberal so she is already a) Ugly, and 2) brain damaged.
I can’t figure out what more you can do to liberals other than driving a stake through their heart and setting them on fire in the sunlight.
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I dont have a problem with this…
I dont F’ing care if the leftists do…
Honestly, Im game for putting any leftist POS who even thinks about acting stupid in the GD hospital.
It is NOT our fault it had to come to this. but it HAS come to this and its our duty to MAKE them understand that its in their best interests to go the F away. We have always been able to put these people down but have shied away from it because we know that once we start to cross that bridge we have to go all the way. We gave up A LOT to avoid this from happening but the F’ers just kept on pushing… Now they have pushed us onto that bridge and we ARE going to cross it. Enough is enough…
Act like a F’ing IDIOT at your own peril.
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I’d have shot the b**** and been done with it.
It goes on and on in that vein, for hundreds more comments.
At Hot Air a few people are not down with stomping MoveOn activists, but a lot of them are cheering:
This patchouli wearing, no shaving socialist will be the darling of the morning commie news shows tomorrow.
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Most likely another MoveOn thug in disguise. Let’s see how fast they find him.
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Miss Valle is a professional protestor utilized by Moveon.org, Greenpeace and others. She’s been arrested several times now. She knew rushing Paul would invoke a response by his supporters. Nice that there was a camera RIGHT on the scene to capture this event huh?
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THIS PERSON WAS A CONVICTED FELON WHO WAS CHARGING A SENATE CANDIDATE IN A DISGUISE.
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I still see nothing wrong.
Next time this happens and someone doesn’t knock the B*tch out, I’ll probably regret, but i’ll crack a smile when her bomb goes off.
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Sorry to say it, but Our Idiot President’s stupid rhetoric only inflames these people.
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So this protestor who got stomped on was with MoveOn.org?
And the problem with this is………..?
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War is he11. And move on dot org declared war on America a long time ago.
The beeyotch is a professional agitator. Now if she were run over by a D9, that would be newsworthy. But this?
{Tap, tap, tap} Crap, my givead*mn meter’s on the fritz again.
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Who the h*ll knows what was in her hands,
after all,she could of been trained,er,
educated by Ayers for gawd sakes!!!
There’s more, of course, but I can only handle reading so much rabid vitriol.
you can’t handle reading it, so you post that nonsense here so that we can read it?
gee thanks
The word “Black Flag” operation popped into my mind upon seeing the video. Even if the dude was an insider it is not out out of the question that the desperate folks (I do not know why since Rand Paul is not Libertarian in the slightest bit.) in both major parties are afraid of this election.
As for eliminating progams that help the “underdog”, I can not see how any of those government programs help the underdogs. In fact all of them hurt the lower classes. The worst are in order of damage: Medicare-Government sponsored price fixing scheme for health care thus raising the cost, Social Security-System that steals trillions from poor young folks and gives it to rich older ones where the poor younger ones would be much better off investing 15% of their incomes on their own, Minimum Wage-Prevents poor folks (Mainly African-American Men) from competing with higher priced-more skilled union labor, Public Works-Steal precious capital away from job/wealth creating activities that help society, etc
Maybe I am horribly naive but assuming people on both parties are terrified of Rand Paul and willing to do devious underhand things to stop his campaign, why would having someone who is not Rand Paul stomp on a liberals head going to help with that?