Now that Rand Paul has the Republican nomination for a Kentucky Senate seat, the media mavens who see all opposing views as motivated by racism, homephobia or religious beliefs, have started up their engines of hate.
I listened as host Robert Siegel baited Rand Paul, asking whether the Civil Rights Act went too far since Paul has said that the Americans with Disabilities Act was an overreach of the federal government.
Paul’s response was,
“What I’ve always said is that I’m opposed to institutional racism, and I would’ve, had I’ve been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.”
“I think a lot of things could be handled locally. For example, I think that we should try to do everything we can to allow for people with disabilities and handicaps. You know, we do it in our office with wheelchair ramps and things like that. I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who’s handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. And I think when you get to the solutions like that, the more local the better, and the more common sense the decisions are, rather than having a federal government make those decisions.”
That was followed by an appearance on MSNBC (Rachel Maddow) where the smear machine moved into top gear.
I’m not a libertarian, nor do I live or vote in Kentucky, but I’m amenable to reasonable common sense views that would keep the Federal Government doing what it should be be doing, protecting our security, representing our interests with foreign nations, promoting our economic well being through international trade but otherwise staying out of our back pockets, our homes, our beliefs and our personal and cultural lives.
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