Rand Paul, Civil Rights  

I agree. When you increase these laws, that is when things get ridiculous. Then business owners are forced to serve. In my opinion private business is PRIVATE. I do not mean that business owners should be discriminating. If they plan to make a living, they cant!

Thank you for your response. I read the link you povided and yes that was very biased. If he is so bad, why did he just win?

Well, I don't think he is bad, and I'm glad he won, I personally think they got a good man for the job, But bad people do get into such public offices and higher all the time. :)

I think we agree here, that being said, let me ask you, people complain all of the time that decent candidates dont run, doent this explain it? Career politicians wont get themselves stuck in this but the average Joe/Rand will.

It does indeed. Most people don't have a thick enough skin and wise enough words to fight like this. I hope he and his family can stick through this. It truly is a rare person who can play both sides of the game and still be the good guy. A very rare person indeed.

very rare, your right!If the reporter would just report facts that would make a world of difference.

Annie, I did not watch the Rachel interview, wanted to get that out now. Regarding a gotcha question, isnt that the idea? Not just her show, but all of these "news" shows.
I understand your point on the comparison. I think what he was trying to do was compare government interference in private business.
here is a video clip of him explaining
http://www.cnn.com/video/...

This is a question that Rand should have taken more time to answer more throughly. KNowing Rand and Ron Paul the way I do (not personally but politically) I know exactly what he meant but a lot of people don't...so it can be twisted.
No he is not racist. No he does not think people should discriminated against based on a handicap or skin color. But he does believe that private companies should not be regulated by the federal government. He believes in "free market" or "free trade". Where business owners run their business how they want....and the consumers are the ones who decide if they want to buy things from that business. If a company or business owners makes stupid rules that offend people...than consumers won't buy from them...which will make them go out of business. So therefore to stay in business companies will run their companies according to what the consumer wants. It is putting the power and control back in the hands of the consumers. The everyday people. It is freedom of choice for both sides. The business owner gets to decide how he wants to run his company...the consumer decides based on those decisions if they want to do business with that company.

Lets say for the sake of arguement that some stupid company owner decided he did not want to sell his product to people based on skin color....well you know what would happen don't you? It would be all over the news. Everyone would know about it. Poeple of all races would be mad and not do business with that company which would leaad to it going out of business. So the checks and balances are there. It is just not controlled by the federal goverment but by the actual citizens of this country.
He is saying that business practices should be dictated by the consumer not the federal government. That is all.

On a side note....good to see you back annie...I hope you are feeling better. I have been thinking about you this past week and hoped you were doing ok.

lil, thank you for more clarification on the subject. I really hope people understand what his point was and what his stance really is.

Oh laglen...as you have seen from this interview and others...reporters are going to twist this to make him look bad. Instead of actually explaining the full version of what he believes. It is easier to call him a racist than call him a "free market" believer. Sense when has the news cared about the "truth"?
that does not sell papers and cause the ratings to go up. It is all about causing contraversy and getting the high ratings.

So be prepared for this to get blown way out of proporation with people screaming racist instead of people screaming free marketist.

oh I know it. It is sad that they have to make it up. This is why it is hard to get good people to serve.

Very true...you could not pay me enough to go into politics as a profession. Imagine having to deal with those crooks, criminals and unethical jerks on a daily basis...and that would just be your fellow elected officials...then you add the lobbyists to that mix...nope..not worth the head ache. I don't think any sane person WOULD want to serve with those jerks.

dont forget the immoral reporters!

Nope we can't forget them...so putting it all together...does not sound very fun does it? Most honest people would just say screw it and not bother to run. But when ones does....they get torn apart. So the power hungry, unethical jerks are the ones voted in. And we wonder why our country is in the state it is in?

yep. We reap what we sow