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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHoward University students eat Rand Paul's lunch and send him home hungry.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/11/rand-paul-at-howard.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-rand-paul-goes-to-howard-u-in-peace-receives-quiet/2013/04/10/f60bec46-a217-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html
I love college students. They wasted no time in dissecting Paul's meme about the 21st Century Republican Party being the best thing since sliced bread for black people based on what the 19th Century Republican Party did. And then he pulled a Rick Perry trying to name drop the first black senator and blanked on the name Edward Brooke, which he managed to render "Edwin Brookes" after prompting from the audience. Note to politicians everywhere: If you are going to name drop, at least make sure you correctly remember the name you are dropping.
Compounding the agony, he went on to question whether the audience knew that the NAACP was started by Republicans? The audience didn't take the patronizing well.
Yes, several could be heard grumbling. Of course they would, one woman informed him. Paul dug himself in deeper. I dont know what you know, he said.
If Paul runs in 2016 he may make the 2012 Clown Show look like an academic seminar.
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Howard University students eat Rand Paul's lunch and send him home hungry. (Original Post)
yellowcanine
Apr 2013
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I don't. If he had shown them some respect, maybe. But he was condescending and arrogant.
yellowcanine
Apr 2013
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Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)1. Hey Typewriter Boy!!! Punchbowl? Meet Turd.
shenmue
(38,502 posts)2. In a way, I hope he does run.
That will make it easier for our candidate to squash him like bug.
JHB
(37,132 posts)3. Rand Paul/Dunning-Kruger 2016!
"We know our bullshit tastes great because we swallow it ourselves!"
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)5. Rand Paul/Lucius Malfoy '16
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)4. I have to
give him credit for at least having the guts to speak; I can only imagine how awkward it felt to announce your opposition of parts of the CR Act, and then go on to speak in front of a black audience. Rand was basically going into the Lion's Den with a sausage necklace on.
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)6. I don't. If he had shown them some respect, maybe. But he was condescending and arrogant.
Going in front of a hostile audience and sticking to your guns is one thing. Doing it to name drop and be condescending is something else entirely.