There’s Crazy and Then There’s Crazy
by digby
It’s too easy to dismiss John Boehner, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, David Vitter, Virginia Foxx and even Rand Paul and Sharron Angle as merely a gaggle of crackpots and misanthropes unworthy of being taken seriously. All of them have won Republican primaries and some have won general elections. Inasmuch as they can implement their ideas and the agendas of the corporate CEOs and lobbyists who finance their careers, they’re actually dangerous to our families and our country.
Two progressive public interest political action committees, Blue America and Americans For America, have teamed up to help expose some of the real dangers behind these characters. Today we’re releasing our first video: Think Crazy.
Howie’s writing up the crazy TanMan John Boehner, Amato’s got the kooky Grizzly Mama and I’ve got my favorite nutty Li’l Libertarian Teabagger, Rand Paul.
What can I say about Rand? That he’s a fringy wingnut who calls himself a libertarian but believes women’s bodies are owned by the state? That he’s a self-accredited ophthalmologist who rails against socialist Medicare while taking millions of dollars from the program (because doctors have a “right” to make a comfortable living)? That he’s a misinformed misanthrope who thinks that the Americans with Disabilities act requires two story buildings to install elevators and that unemployed workers need “tough love” rather than unemployment insurance? That he’s a deluded (or mendacious) fool who thinks that civil rights for African Americans could have been achieved through voluntary efforts on the part of bigots? Well, he’s all those things and more.
After all, he’s a man who uttered these ridiculous words the night he won the nomination:
“We’re from the Tea Party and we’ve come to take our country back.
Rand Paul is not just a crazy politician. He’s not even a crazy libertarian, at least in the classical sense. He’s a crazy preacher and he’s spreading the Bircher gospel, wrapped up in libertarian/Tea Party mantle. He’s pure kook, from top to bottom.
Let’s not forget that he’s also a crazy Republican — and fits right in with the new mainstream of the Party.
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