Ethics

Rand Paul: It's Everyone's Fault But Mine!

By Ed Brayton

After his appearance on the Rachel Maddow show, Rand Paul immediately proved to be a desperate little whiner in the Sarah Palin category by blaming it all on the person asking the questions:

Rand Paul lashed out at the "loony left" for pressing him on his view of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in an interview with Laura Ingraham this morning.

"I've never really favored any change in the Civil Rights Act," he said. "They seem to have unleashed some of the loony left on me."

Paul called the Civil Rights Act "settled" but suggested he does view federal regulation of private business on matters of racial discrimination as fundamentally unconstitutional.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).