And Suddenly Rand Paul and the tea party as ICON face the main question from 64-65

I was there then, and I get this, HOW COULD HE LEAVE THIS AN OPEN QUESTION, ESPECIALLY ON MSNBC?

RACHEL MADDOW: 'Should Woolworth lunch counter should have been allowed to stay segregated? Sir, just yes or no.'

RAND PAUL, the Tea Party darling who on Tuesday became GOP nominee for U.S. senator from Kentucky: 'What I think would happen -- what I'm saying is, is that I don't believe in any discrimination. I don't believe in any private property should discriminate, either. And I wouldn't attend, wouldn't support, wouldn't go to. But what you have to answer when you answer this point of view, which is an abstract, obscure conversation from 1964 that you want to bring up. But if you want to answer, you have to say then that you decide the rules for all restaurants and then you decide that you want to allow them to carry weapons into restaurants.'

PLAYBOOK: Say what?

'MORNING' JOE SCARBROUGH: 'He needs to come up with an answer today, or Kentucky will be Arizona: a battleground for ugly, racial politics. He has 24 hours.'

Agree with Joe.
The answer is a no brainer.
THE SINGLE issue of the last half of the 20th century that the federal govt was good for was equal treatment under the law, ie ..desegregation. Individual property rights can never be allowed to masqerade as an excuse for BIGOTRY which results in unequal treatment under the law.

Rand Paul should effectively, immediately and decisively CRUSH THIS ISSUE.

TODAY.

Any weasel words on this and the dems gain a seat, and the tea party will have to BLAST HIM and separate themselves from his ilk. If the tea party does not, and he does not, not only will they lose me and people like me, they will FRINGE THEMSELVES and this kind of movement for a generation. This is a big one.

The main worry here is 'the sins of the father being visited yadda ... '

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