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Galraedia

(5,027 posts)
Sat May 12, 2012, 09:20 PM May 2012

Rand Paul: Obama's Views On Marriage Couldn't 'Get Any Gayer'

Source: Huffington Post

Rand Paul took a swipe at Obama's recent support of gay marriage on Friday, saying he "didn't think his views on marriage could get any gayer."

Speaking at an Iowa Faith & Freedom event on behalf of his father Ron Paul's Republican presidential campaign, the GOP senator mocked Obama's announcement that he had concluded "same sex couples should be able to get married."

“Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his views on marriage could get any gayer,” Paul said, according to Kathie Obradovich of the Des Moines Register.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/12/rand-paul-obama-gay-marriage_n_1511920.html?ref=politics#s=958068

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Rand Paul: Obama's Views On Marriage Couldn't 'Get Any Gayer' (Original Post) Galraedia May 2012 OP
Is that him trying to be funny? MrSlayer May 2012 #1
It's a double entendre Son of Gob May 2012 #6
All the Republicans are kind of "funny." TheWraith May 2012 #29
Begging your pardon, but Rand Paul is... 47of74 May 2012 #2
Rand Ex-Pat Pats Fan May 2012 #3
What's wrong with being named marybourg May 2012 #11
In the context Ex-Pat Pats Fan May 2012 #26
His full name is Randall Woody Woodpecker May 2012 #16
No he wasn't. emilyg May 2012 #30
Rand is a fraud who only won because the majority in Kentucky Dawson Leery May 2012 #4
he only won because of his last name and the mining corps gave a blank check to his campaign Blue_Tires May 2012 #45
jmowreader: Rand Paul couldn't 'get any insaner' jmowreader May 2012 #5
Say hello to the 48th Vice President of the United States. KamaAina May 2012 #7
and his views couldn't get any dumber. tool! Suji to Seoul May 2012 #8
Post removed Post removed May 2012 #9
And the problem? n/t lady lib May 2012 #10
Gee, why is Rand so "concerned?" MADem May 2012 #12
yeah, I thought freedom to marry who you want SemperEadem May 2012 #38
Every day, he and his ilk enlarge my view of the possible. hobbit709 May 2012 #13
And the Right Wing creepfest goes on. nolabear May 2012 #14
Thanks for the laugh Woody Woodpecker May 2012 #15
I am not sure what that means... Kalidurga May 2012 #17
Is Rand is Jr. High School? shcrane71 May 2012 #18
Is that a teenager controlling his brain? sakabatou May 2012 #19
What a moron meanit May 2012 #20
+1, i was thinking "he thinks he's still in high school?" alp227 May 2012 #27
The man uses more hair product than I do.... boppers May 2012 #21
If there's ever a case for retroactive abortion, it's Rand Paul. Zoeisright May 2012 #22
Shut up and help Obama fix the country that Bush destroyed. Gregorian May 2012 #23
Rand Paul couldn't be any more of a buffoon rury May 2012 #24
Another huge idiot heard from again Angry Dragon May 2012 #25
I wouldn't call it gay.... musical_soul May 2012 #28
So Aqua Buddha Sex Offender Gets Away With A Crime...... Grassy Knoll May 2012 #31
I think he's right, and despite his middle school humor, he doesn't quite realize how right he is. truthisfreedom May 2012 #32
The Paul's Are Meer Disciples Of Sen. Bob Taft DallasNE May 2012 #33
Poor baby. Grow up. n/t Fearless May 2012 #34
Dumb Mkap May 2012 #35
Rand Paul, his father and their "followers" davidpdx May 2012 #36
I hope he had a license to shoot that badger CreekDog May 2012 #37
LOL - that badger would have gotten a free Rmoney cut at Cranbrook bupkus May 2012 #40
the nut doesn't fall far from the tree....... bowens43 May 2012 #39
Ah, yes...Another Great American Statesman steel4ever May 2012 #41
Ah yes, a "libertarian." Actually, a fraud. Faygo Kid May 2012 #42
Every die-hard Libertarian I have ever met MurrayDelph May 2012 #44
+1000 Blue_Tires May 2012 #46
Rand Paul is one of the creepiest politicians ever in the history of this country. polichick May 2012 #43
That's not cynical, it's illogical. Trillo May 2012 #47

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
4. Rand is a fraud who only won because the majority in Kentucky
Sat May 12, 2012, 09:28 PM
May 2012

wanted to cast a vote against Obama(black).

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
7. Say hello to the 48th Vice President of the United States.
Sat May 12, 2012, 09:31 PM
May 2012


Unless, that is, we work our asses off to defeat his boss Rmoney.

Response to Galraedia (Original post)

MADem

(135,425 posts)
12. Gee, why is Rand so "concerned?"
Sat May 12, 2012, 10:00 PM
May 2012

You'd think he'd be a bit more "live and let live"--after all, isn't he one of those "Git gubmint outta our lives" types? So why should he care what people do? No one's forcing HIM to do anything, after all!

Call ME cynical, but I think old Rand could probably work out some of his conflicted feelings with a little psychoanalysis!

SemperEadem

(8,053 posts)
38. yeah, I thought freedom to marry who you want
Sun May 13, 2012, 07:04 AM
May 2012

without the government weighing in on it was one of the tennets of the liberarian philosophy... that and smoking weed...

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
17. I am not sure what that means...
Sat May 12, 2012, 10:08 PM
May 2012

my dumbass to English translator is broken. And the sky couldn't get any skier and water can't get any waterer, yeah I was right that doesn't work.

meanit

(455 posts)
20. What a moron
Sat May 12, 2012, 10:35 PM
May 2012

Rand Paul's comments make him sound like a junior high school jerk-off. He'll impress the knuckle dragging crowd, but that's about it. It doesn't take much to impress them anyway.

alp227

(32,050 posts)
27. +1, i was thinking "he thinks he's still in high school?"
Sun May 13, 2012, 12:10 AM
May 2012

but let's stay away from stereotyping people from Kentucky or the Appalachian/southern states as knuckle draggers. I know it's tempting, but please, there are plenty of sensible folks living there.

boppers

(16,588 posts)
21. The man uses more hair product than I do....
Sat May 12, 2012, 10:39 PM
May 2012

He also has a problem with other homosexuals....

er... I mean others who are homosexual....

Or something.

"doth protest too much" has come to mind an awful lot, lately....

I'm just waiting for somebody to notice that Rmoney spent 18-24 months of his life, only living with men, and never dating women, even after growing up and spending time in an "all male" school during puberty and early adulthood.

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
31. So Aqua Buddha Sex Offender Gets Away With A Crime......
Sun May 13, 2012, 12:38 AM
May 2012

Feels the need to bash the President, Hey Rand, I'm sorry
you dad is your cousin.

truthisfreedom

(23,154 posts)
32. I think he's right, and despite his middle school humor, he doesn't quite realize how right he is.
Sun May 13, 2012, 12:41 AM
May 2012

I think Obama's not going to go any more gay than he has already. I think he's gone as gay as gay America expects him to go. He went just as gay as his daughters asked him to. Just as gay as our America needs him to go. To help the oppressed. To make things fair. To make things just. And to lift up the oppressed.

Obama. Our dude.

DallasNE

(7,403 posts)
33. The Paul's Are Meer Disciples Of Sen. Bob Taft
Sun May 13, 2012, 01:18 AM
May 2012

Isolationists on foreign policy and Tea Baggers otherwise. They have more overlap with the late Sen. Taft than they do with Ayn Rand, especially the part about big government looking into everybody's bedroom.

Here Rand Paul is not only sick and perverted but highly disrespectful of the office of the Presidency. In the process he disgraces the office of the United States Senate.

Mkap

(223 posts)
35. Dumb
Sun May 13, 2012, 04:43 AM
May 2012

I didn't think they could get more dumber

The sad thing is RuPaul, Bachman and the rest of the tea party will be in office for awhile as long as they keep getting the dumbass vote. The GOP thrives on undereducated ignorant redneck vote and Paul and Bachman sound dumb enough to get those kind of voters

 

bupkus

(1,981 posts)
40. LOL - that badger would have gotten a free Rmoney cut at Cranbrook
Sun May 13, 2012, 07:09 AM
May 2012

Proving that these GOP assholes really deserve each other. But why are we forced to deserve them too?

Because enough Americans vote for them. Because enough Americans are just that f'ing stupid.

 

bowens43

(16,064 posts)
39. the nut doesn't fall far from the tree.......
Sun May 13, 2012, 07:06 AM
May 2012

His father is a clueless idiot and he is a clueless idiot....no surprise there.

Faygo Kid

(21,478 posts)
42. Ah yes, a "libertarian." Actually, a fraud.
Sun May 13, 2012, 09:36 AM
May 2012

He and his father are totalitarians of the worst stripe. Period.

MurrayDelph

(5,301 posts)
44. Every die-hard Libertarian I have ever met
Sun May 13, 2012, 11:52 AM
May 2012

follows the view that "Everyone should be free to do what I want to do!"

Trillo

(9,154 posts)
47. That's not cynical, it's illogical.
Sun May 13, 2012, 03:34 PM
May 2012

If President Obama was for gay marriage and against hetero marriage, then maybe Paul would have an intelligent point.

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