Paul's Comments are the GOP's Problem

Candidates can raise any issue they wish in a campaign but it's troubling that forty years after the Civil Rights Act was passed people still support ignorant candidates like Rand Paul and the GOP declines to comment on his racist remarks.

GOP Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul's comments about opposing the section of the Civil Rights Act that makes it a crime for businesses to discriminate on race is repugnant and comes out of nowhere like his candidacy.  While he admitted to NPR: “I haven't really read all through it [the Act] because it was passed 40 years ago", he told reporter Rachel Maddow that businesses such as restaurants should have the right to discriminate against certain people coming into their establishments.

Paul explained to Maddow that he's not "in favor of any discrimination of any form. I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race." If this is true then he shouldn't oppose the part of the Civil Rights Act which bars businesses from discrimination on race. I'm sure some of Rand Paul's best friends are black too but he sounds disturbingly like a racist to me and evidence supports that. Much is revealed about a man by the company he keeps. In December 2009, Paul's spokesperson Christopher Hightower resigned after the blog Barefoot and Progressive revealed that for two years on his MySpace page he posted "Happy Nigger Day" next to a photo of Martin Luther King and a photo of a black man being lynched.

Candidates can raise any issue they wish in a campaign but it's troubling that forty years after the Civil Rights Act was passed people still support ignorant candidates like Rand Paul and the GOP declines to comment on his racist remarks. Once again the GOP gets a bad name.