Well I must say. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for Republicans in general, but this is just shocking. Josh Marshall is reporting that Rand Paul, teabagger icon and son of a libertarian conservative so hardcore that he hung on to his high school pledge to name one of his children after Ayn Rand, may be ungracious, perhaps egotistical, and something of an elistist? Mr. Marshall had better knock off this scurrilous rumor-mongering lest the younger Mr. Paul take his secret, genius plan to save America from the socialist one-world-government and go home to his high-tech volcanic lair where he and the other supermen will style their wavy, wavy hair and mock us poor schlubs out here in the salt mines of mere adequacy.
… not just elitist, but messianic! How could I have forgotten messianic? Atlas wept.
May 19, 2010 at 10:51 am
Great stuff. More please. Its so easy Mr. Legacy Paul to get behind eliminating the Dept. of Education for schlubs if your rich daddy can afford private schools
May 19, 2010 at 11:03 am
yay! The return of the prodigal! Welcome back, Tfish!
May 19, 2010 at 11:56 am
Behold – McConnell doth vexeth wroth at the epic bitch-slappage of his anointed candidate by this magical son of Ron.
Wonder of wonders: yea verily, the Chosen One will turneth their Mountain Dew into Dom Perignon & their Cheetos into caviar.
May 19, 2010 at 12:34 pm
His father has some sort of a wierd likeability factor, which I frankly don’t see, but others do. He’s kind of arrogant in a humble way.
Jr.’s an outright asshole. This boy relies more on churl than charm. His act may grow old, and fast. Also, too, did anyone see his speach? He combined Obama, Mugabe, and Copenhagen in some Glenn Beck dog whistle thingy I didn’t get. I was waiting for him to bring up the Tri-Lateral Commission and other Bircher blast’s from their hit parade past.
Keep him talking. He’ll be sure to put his free-market libertarian foot in his rather ample mouth. The oftener, the betterer!
May 19, 2010 at 3:23 pm
What’s amazing is that I don’t think he’s even really libertarian, at all. He took the messianic self-involvement and the hilarious sense of entitlement and left the rest behind.
May 19, 2010 at 3:47 pm
That explains the hair!
May 24, 2010 at 10:53 am
Yeah, but the rest that he left behind is pretty secondary to most libertarians.
May 19, 2010 at 1:06 pm
The surreality of Jon Stewart’s comedy show becoming America’s most trusted TV news is being challenged by the news becoming America’s funniest comedy.
If you like sick dark humor, that is.
May 19, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Entertainment. Funny thing, when you watch TV in other countries, except for the US imports, it’s mostly informative.
But hey, even PBS, or what remains of it, is solely dedicated to food or travel.
I am waiting for Rick Steves to burn one in Amsterdam coffe houses.
May 19, 2010 at 1:57 pm
We’re a country adrift, living through a time of major sea change into something rich and strange.
May 19, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Good ol’ Mr Steves is on the record in favor of marijuana legalization. He likes Amsterdam and I’d move there if I had the euros.
May 19, 2010 at 4:42 pm
So he’s a stoner? Maybe that explains why he’s so insufferably boring.
May 19, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Too bad it’s not Rand’s older brother Ru instead.
May 19, 2010 at 6:30 pm
I thought he was his sister.
May 19, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Oh. Good point.