Because Libertarians Believe …
Libertarians believe that no government is the best government, the Easter Bunny, that fake hair looks really real, that traffic signals are an unwarranted police invasion of your rights, and that you can have your cake and eat it too.
Rand Paul wants it all, all, all. Apparently he believes that he can run for every position on the ballot and chose between the ones he wins.
Kentucky law says he can’t run for both senate and President. He’s going to fight the constitutionality of that because what the taxpayers of Kentucky really, really need is (1) a man who cannot make up his mind, and (2) the expense of a special election.
“The basis of the lawsuit would be that the U.S. Constitution lists the qualifications for people to run for either U.S. House or Senate and they are either citizens of the United States, resident of the state, and for Senate 30 years of age,” University of Kentucky College of Law professor Josh Douglas told TPM. “So the argument here is that saying you can’t be a candidate for more than one federal office is an additional qualification so it violates the qualification clause of the U.S. Constitution.”
I have to tell y’all that I think a Rand Paul presidential run would be a blast. You know how he made up his own qualifying board to be able to practice medicine in Kentucky? Hell, if he doesn’t win the presidency, he could just make up his own country.
Baby “we don’t need no stinking laws” wants a job as a lawmaker. Wake up America and good morning, Kentucky. The man has disqualified himself from any and all elected positions.
1Back when Tom Daschle of South Dakota,Senate Majority Leader was considering running for Potus,SD wingnuts quickly passed a law saying Daschle had to give up his Senate seat to run for another office. Of course the wingnut guv of South Dakota would have appointed a wingnut to replace him.
2randpaul, like other cartoon characters is laughable, but also like other libertoonians we need to cease laughing at them; quash their egos and arrogance and terminate tolerating them.
republi-can’ts, libertoonians and dixie-can’ts are a scourge on democracy. It is not a failing of democracy to stifle these politicians and their impulses. It is a failure of democracy to self-destruct by refusing to deal with them decisively instead of divisively.
3Laws? Pshaw. Laws are for the little people.
4To Rand Paul and his Teahadist brethern:
5In the words (written for him by Star Trek’s brilliant writers) of the great Vulcan warrior priest Spock, “After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.”
Okay, Micr, you made me go and google spockisms and I’ve spent too much time reading some of them.
Good one there.
6Or…. He could just have the SCOTUS….. crown him “King”.
7O he of the AquaBuddha had better watch it. There are still thousands of AquaBuddha posters out there just waiting to be put back in service again! Just can’t trust this boy. There are already more than enough con artists in politics these days and even though his con is a bit different (didn’t actually finish his schooling to be an eye doctor and then creating his own Board to certify himself) it fits right in with all the rest of the writhing wailing nutjob grifters.
8What Rand Paul believes is that the “Constitution”–his reading of it, anyway–gives him the right to make up his own laws as needed.
That isn’t libertarianism. Maybe monarchy?
Delusion?
9Rand Paul is a loon.
10Odds are very good that his little butt will be bounced off the presidential list well in time to devote his attention to running for the Senate. But wouldn’t it be fun if he lost both?
Libertarian philosophy has always struck me as, “Screw you, Jack, I got mine.”
11Libertarians recently tried to form a perfect community in Chile were they could follow their dreams unencumbered by regulations and restrictions to their freedom. Everyone did what they wanted, and you can already guess how long that lasted:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/15/libertarian-utopia-styled-after-ayn-rand-book-spectacularly-falls-apart-almost-immediately/
12LIbertarians can never see that the inevitable consequence of their system would be a new feudalism. The most powerful will be on top, and with no checks or balances, they will pretty much do what they want. They’ll basically own those who are in serfdom to them and don’t have to do a thing for them.
13He cab take Keisha Rogers with him to Looney Tunes United.
14Remember the current most famous Libertarians are the Koch brothers who believe that they should get to own the USA and make up all the rules and decide who gets to do what for the least amount of pay. It does look like the Dems are going to have to get noisier and be careful to tell the truth and maybe (gasp) cooperate and compromise? I am tired of the nutcases taking over the country.
15I guess the answer depends upon whether the Roberts Court decides whether a Rand Paul candidacy would help Republicans.
On a side note – the whole argument is specious (no surprise there). The state isn’t placing an additional requirement on qualification for the Senate, they’re merely exercising their rights under the Constitution to regulate elections. Funny how the right-wing Constitutional scholars either use or ignore the Constitution’s language regarding the federal government’s enumerated rights, depending upon whether the Constitution’s language can be twisted into supporting their position or not…
16I guess he likes federal rule better than states’ rights in the case, huh?
17@Teh Gerg
LIbertarians can never see that the inevitable consequence of their system would be a new feudalism.
it isn’t that they can’t see it, T. Gerg, it is that they all just assume they will be the Lords of the Manor and everyone else will be serving them.
Just like 17% of the American public believes they are in the top 0.1% in terms of income.
18Mark J has it! All libertoonians ASSUME … ’nuff said.
19I’m with Mark J on this one.
20“University of Kentucky College of Law professor Josh Douglas told TPM.” Ain’t nothing better than a good old cornpone Kaintuk education, neither.
21I cant add anything new to what’s already been said about his politics, but can one of you fine ladies at the TWMDBS, Inc. please tell me how he gets his hair to do that?
22I’m guessing his mama had real curly hair.
23Oh, sugarpie, it’s a perm. He gets it done regularly at The World’s Most Republican Beauty Salon and Ni**er Lynching Parlour. They run a special on Wednesdays: dollar off a haircut with every Democratic voter turned away.
Rand Paul hasn’t paid for a haircut (or tip, the cheapskate) since 1972.
24His reading of the qualification clause would allow him to sit in the Senate and be President (damn I had to cramp my fingers to get that posted) at one and the same time.
25Mark, I don’t think that Rand Paul’s hair actually grows. It sure doesn’t look organic. My guess is it’s some sort of mutant plastic that leaked out his ears.
26Teh Gerg: Every Libertarian thinks he or she will be one of the lords, and have lots of serfs to do the work. Every one of them thinks he or she is John Galt in the flesh. It’s crazy, like thinking you’re God because you read the Bible and go to church.
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