Is Aqua Buddha Sweating Bullets?
This could not be happening to a nicer guy.
Top staff members from Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign have been indicted in the culmination of a long investigation into Paul campaign’s alleged payments to an Iowa state senator to endorse the former Texas congressman for president and the hiding of those payments.
Here’s what went down:
The Department of Justice indicted Jesse Benton, who is the grandson-son-in-law of Ron Paul and ran his 2012 Presidential campaign. Benton is also head of Rand Paul’s super PAC. Busy little bag man.
They can prove that in 2012 , Ron Paul staffers offered to pay Iowa state senator Ken Sorenson salary to switch from Bachmann to Paul. Then held back the $25k payment when it became public. Paul staffers then concealed payments to Sorenson by sending it labeled “Audio/Visual Expenses”
There’s a word for that — illegal.
And then there’s this —
Craig Robinson, a longtime Iowa Republican activist whose website the Iowa Republican played a crucial role in revealing the scandal, said the indictments should have a big impact on the 2016 GOP primary.
“If I was Rand Paul, I’d be sweating bullets,” Robinson told the Guardian. He added that the news raised big questions about the role of money of politics and “it would be a crime if Fox News doesn’t ask [Rand Paul] a question about” the indictments in Thursday’s presidential debate.
The price of a ticket just went up.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Cue the “blame the staffer/intern” excuse in 3… 2… 1…
1He should be sweating aqua tinted bullets! So, this has been in the works for some time? Hmmm. Ah, the revelations! Considering where RP is in the polls at this point and the fact that he had to do something as bleeping stupid as shred stacks of paper with a chain saw just to get some media coverage, the boy really should look at Plan B.
2Interesting; while it seemed that Poppa Paul was distancing himself from Baby Paul’s campaign, probably not for the reasons(s) I originally thought to be the cause. It seems Poppa Paul could be a liability, as well as the staff he re-gifted to Baby.
Of course the original reasons I thought Poppa was shunning Junior were due to something akin to integrity. What was I thinking; they’re Republicons after all, complete with shiny Libertarian and John Birch Society dog whistles.
Then again, I never bought Poppa’s flighty ‘dove’ status, either. As for Baby Buddha, he’s only anti-war, until he gets the messages from Charles, David and Shelly.
3On a brighter note, I hear Chick-fil-A is hiring. “Would you like fries with that?”
4Sweating bullets would only make him more popular with the base. He should be sweating flop-sweat.
5Well then – FOX will commit a crime tomorrow night. Raise your hand if you think Paul will be asked about this.
Yeah. Didn’t think so.
6Personally, I deplore the abandonment of the subjunctive.
“If I *were* Rand Paul…” is a condition contrary to fact. If Craig Robinson *was* Rand Paul, surely he would have chosen a more objectivist handle for his conversion. “Rex Robinson” or “Rand Robinson.” Since Craig Robinson *isn’t* sweating bullets, or even sweating, it seems that he could afford to expend some modest effort to learn to speak his mother tongue.
Sorry to go all pedantic in a comment forum, but myself is getting dang tired of people too lazy and stupid to learn how to express theirselfs in simple English. Its’ just not that hard, and it impacts the impression other’s have of yourall’s cred as a tool-using ape. Benghazi! Plethora! Arrrgh!
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