Rand Paul would have walked with MLK? Show of hands

[rurallib]

me - I am finding that one a bit hard to believe myself.
He may have been where King was marching, but not on the same side I am guessing.

[SoCalDem]

1. Nope.. Rand would have been one of the guys in a pickup truck

taunting black people as they tried to go on about their business..

He cannot pretend to think otherwise. He would have done what his pals did, and since the races did not "mix" back then, he would have been a harrasser...not a helper..

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Not if MLK walked into a segregated lunch counter...

[pipi_k]

3. Who knows

what anyone "would have done"?


All any of us knows for sure is what someone either did, or did not do.


Not what he will, or would have, done.

It's possible he might not have walked with MLK.

But I don't see how people can say with such certainty that it absolutely positively would not have happened. Like they have some secret knowledge of what's in another man's mind and heart, whatever stupid and ridiculous things came out of his mouth.

Just like people who never give a hint, through their words, that there's anything ominous or sick underneath can turn around and do things that are sick and depraved.


Words mean shit.

[Bumblebee]

4. why even bother asking this?

and as a poll to boot?

[rurallib]

9. because I got tired of hearing it repeated on news shows

it is one of those little nuggets that get glossed over, yet settles someplace in the bottom of the brain.
'Rand Paul is really a good guy. He says he would have marched with King.'

[Gman]

5. Did his father march with MLK?

Of course he didn't. Ron Paul could have, but he didn't. Rand Paul was raised with his father's beliefs and he espouses those beliefs well. If Ron Paul would have communicated to his son the importance of the good work MLK did, it would show in what Rand Paul advocates. But Rand does not advocate for the same social justice issues as MLK did, so it's not much of a stretch to say he would not have marched with MLK.

I personally think he would have been the front person holding a firehose on the protesters back then.

[Still Sensible]

6. Yeah, he would've been one of the guys

with the dogs.

[Union Yes]

7. Not if he wanted to keep favor with the Teabag movement, he wouldn't.

I voted no.

Ain't no way in HELL that Rand Paul would've marched with MLK.

[bullwinkle428]

8. The Pauls have used racist, bottom-feeding scum as advisors for years now.

"Repeatedly during Ron Paul's political career, his associates used the same kinds of inflammatory rhetoric used by Buchanan in order to attract support and raise money, all while Paul himself pretended not to know what they were doing and saying in his name. Paul could always cover himself by saying, just as Rand Paul says now, that his opposition to civil rights statutes is purely constitutional and has nothing to do with bigotry."

"No wonder Sanchez and Weigel concluded with a forthright condemnation of Ron Paul's dishonesty on race. "Ron Paul may not be a racist," they wrote, "but he became complicit in a strategy of pandering to racists." The same polite formulation could be applied to the hard-line activists behind the Goldwater campaign in 1964, or the "Southern strategists" of the Nixon White House, or the "populist conservatives" of the George Wallace campaign, many of whom still remain active on the right today."

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/