Rand Paul: The “Oakland” of Politics

 

 

By Nicholas Stix

Since showing presidential ambitions, Rand Paul’s political career has consisted of genuflecting to philo-Semitic Jews (hey, I like that!), black supremacists (I don’t like that!) and Hispanic supremacists (or that!).

The endless triangulation is not to further some greater cause, but arch opportunism, with nothing behind it.

One of my readers, Stan D Mute, argues that if one does not submit on these matters, the media will destroy him. However, if one surrenders to the media, then one is no longer a man, and has nothing to offer voters.

Another of my readers, E. Newton writes,

Rand Paul is a disaster waiting to happen. He is weak and he is confused, but he sure is ambitious. And blind ambition, a trademark characteristic of politicians, has been leading to disaster for a long time.

The Countenance Blogmeister simply calls him,

The New Jack Kemp.

Some very vocal publicists have promoted the idea that the younger Paul is some sort of (secret) America First messiah. (Apparently, you have to vote for him, to find out what he’s for.) I can only see three sorts of people who would take him seriously: Glibertarians from the Ron Paul cult, who have transferred their devotion to the father’s lack of charisma to the son; GOP apparatchiks, who want to seem edgy and rebellious, so as to fool the “rubes,” the way they fooled them into thinking that George W. Bush was a conservative Republican; and people who have read the Paulists and/or the apparatchiks, without being aware of the background.

As Gertrude Stein once said of Oakland, so too must it be said of Rand Paul, “There’s no ‘there’ there.”