You knew this was coming.

[Cain]

Turns out the guy doing the stomping wasn't just any Rand supporter, he was his Bourbon County coordinator.

But he's apologized, so it's all OK!

That guy who smashed some MoveOn lady's head with his foot is "sorry that it came to that" and says he apologizes "if it appeared overly forceful." Oh yes, it may have appeared that way, but this is actually the way Kentucky gentlemen greet members of the opposite sex. It's a cultural thing you don't understand, but this man was forced to get that girl on the ground and stomp on her, out of custom and out of his undying love for America's most important uncertified ophthalmologist. "I was concerned about Rand's safety," Tim Profitt said. Awwww! Nobody puts Rand in a corner! How sweet! Also, it turns out this guy is actually Rand's "Bourbon County coordinator" and now "is currently being served with a criminal summons ordering him to appear before a Fayette County District Court Judge." So the two of them can chuckle about this over mint juleps.

Edit: the supreme irony of a man wearing a "don't tread on me" badge giving a stomping to a woman has only just occured to me, incidentally.

[Doktor Howl]

That wasn't an apology.

[Cain]

Expect to see a lot more of this

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/us/politics/27fraud.html?_r=1&ref=politics

Tea Party members have started challenging voter registration applications and have announced plans to question individual voters at the polls whom they suspect of being ineligible.

In response, liberal groups and voting rights advocates are sounding an alarm, claiming that such strategies are scare tactics intended to suppress minority and poor voters.

In St. Paul, organizers from the Tea Party and related groups announced this week that they were offering a $500 reward for anyone who turned in someone who was successfully prosecuted for voter fraud.

The group is also organizing volunteer "surveillance squads" to photograph and videotape what it suspects are irregularities, and in some cases to follow buses that take voters to the polls.

In Milwaukee last week, several community groups protested the posting of large billboards throughout the city that show pictures of people behind jail bars under the words "We Voted Illegally." The protesters said the posters — it was not clear who paid for them — were intended to intimidate people from voting.

In Houston, a Tea Party group called the King Street Patriots recently accused a voter registration group, Houston Votes, of turning in voter registration applications with incorrect information.

Naturally, so-called "voter intimidation" was in fact not only Constitutionally protected, but sanctioned by Jefferson, Washington and Jesus, when they drew up the Constitution together.

[AFK]

Well, this is consistent with their message of "taking back their America".  That is, to take it away from anyone who is poor or the wrong color. 

[Cain]

Incidentally, a little birdie tells me that there was a thread on FreeRepublic comparing the MoveOn woman being stomped by Rand's budding Self-Reliant Ubermeschen to, get this, Squeaky Fromme.

[Doktor Howl]

Incidentally, a little birdie tells me that there was a thread on FreeRepublic comparing the MoveOn woman being stomped by Rand's budding Self-Reliant Ubermeschen to, get this, Squeaky Fromme.

I saw that on CI.  LOL.

[Cain]

Which has reminded me, I need to reg over there still.

Rand is still apparently leading the race, btw

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Which has reminded me, I need to reg over there still.

Rand is still apparently leading the race, btw

Of course. The people that like him aren't gonna care... and the people that care weren't gonna vote for him anyway.

[Disco Pickle]

sooo, did she really expect to be able to get her picture taken with him, holding that sign??

really?

I'm figuring she would probably have been restrained by security if those shit necks hadn't done it first.

I get the feeling she was going for a publicity stunt. period.  picture or no.

mission accomplished!

[Doktor Howl]

sooo, did she really expect to be able to get her picture taken with him, holding that sign??

really?

I'm figuring she would probably have been restrained by security if those shit necks hadn't done it first.

I get the feeling she was going for a publicity stunt. period.  picture or no.

mission accomplished!

This, of course, excuses the whole thing?

[Disco Pickle]

sooo, did she really expect to be able to get her picture taken with him, holding that sign??

really?

I'm figuring she would probably have been restrained by security if those shit necks hadn't done it first.

I get the feeling she was going for a publicity stunt. period.  picture or no.

mission accomplished!

This, of course, excuses the whole thing?

Nothing excuses that fuck from mashing his foot down on her.  Or from those men tackling her.

She was going to be restrained, it just should have been done by the private security trained and paid to do that sort of thing.

[Doktor Howl]

sooo, did she really expect to be able to get her picture taken with him, holding that sign??

really?

I'm figuring she would probably have been restrained by security if those shit necks hadn't done it first.

I get the feeling she was going for a publicity stunt. period.  picture or no.

mission accomplished!

This, of course, excuses the whole thing?

Nothing excuses that fuck from mashing his foot down on her.  Or from those men tackling her.

She was going to be restrained, it just should have been done by the private security trained and paid to do that sort of thing.

Okay, that's reasonable.

How do you feel about Rand Paul's statement on the subject?

[Disco Pickle]

sooo, did she really expect to be able to get her picture taken with him, holding that sign??

really?

I'm figuring she would probably have been restrained by security if those shit necks hadn't done it first.

I get the feeling she was going for a publicity stunt. period.  picture or no.

mission accomplished!

This, of course, excuses the whole thing?

Nothing excuses that fuck from mashing his foot down on her.  Or from those men tackling her.

She was going to be restrained, it just should have been done by the private security trained and paid to do that sort of thing.

Okay, that's reasonable.

How do you feel about Rand Paul's statement on the subject?

As limp as my dick thinking about carrot top naked (FUCK YOU RWHN!)

He should have immediately condemned their action and said that's not the sort of behavior he wants in his supporters.

His father would have come out and condemned it and the people that would do that sort of thing.  

Interesting hypothetical would be how it would be being portrayed if it had been his security detail that ended up having to restrain her.  There was going to be video of restraint, but likely without a stomping.    We'll never know, but as a Senate candidate, I'm pretty sure he's been assigned a SS detail (not sure about that and have to look it up) and they're not known for their restraint when protecting politicians.

[Doktor Howl]

sooo, did she really expect to be able to get her picture taken with him, holding that sign??

really?

I'm figuring she would probably have been restrained by security if those shit necks hadn't done it first.

I get the feeling she was going for a publicity stunt. period.  picture or no.

mission accomplished!

This, of course, excuses the whole thing?

Nothing excuses that fuck from mashing his foot down on her.  Or from those men tackling her.

She was going to be restrained, it just should have been done by the private security trained and paid to do that sort of thing.

Okay, that's reasonable.

How do you feel about Rand Paul's statement on the subject?

As limp as my dick thinking about carrot top naked (FUCK YOU RWHN!)

He should have immediately condemned their action and said that's not the sort of behavior he wants in his supporters.

His father would have come out and condemned it and the people that would do that sort of thing.  

Interesting hypothetical would be how it would be being portrayed if it had been his security detail that ended up having to restrain her.  There was going to be video of restraint, but likely without a stomping.    We'll never know, but as a Senate candidate, I'm pretty sure he's been assigned a SS detail (not sure about that and have to look it up) and they're not known for their restraint when protecting politicians.

Two things:

1.  The sins of the son are not the sins of the father.  Ron Paul isn't responsible for what happened.

2.  He does not have an SS detail.  What he has is an Altamont-esque "detail" of thugs.

[Disco Pickle]

sooo, did she really expect to be able to get her picture taken with him, holding that sign??

really?

I'm figuring she would probably have been restrained by security if those shit necks hadn't done it first.

I get the feeling she was going for a publicity stunt. period.  picture or no.

mission accomplished!

This, of course, excuses the whole thing?

Nothing excuses that fuck from mashing his foot down on her.  Or from those men tackling her.

She was going to be restrained, it just should have been done by the private security trained and paid to do that sort of thing.

Okay, that's reasonable.

How do you feel about Rand Paul's statement on the subject?

As limp as my dick thinking about carrot top naked (FUCK YOU RWHN!)

He should have immediately condemned their action and said that's not the sort of behavior he wants in his supporters.

His father would have come out and condemned it and the people that would do that sort of thing.  

Interesting hypothetical would be how it would be being portrayed if it had been his security detail that ended up having to restrain her.  There was going to be video of restraint, but likely without a stomping.    We'll never know, but as a Senate candidate, I'm pretty sure he's been assigned a SS detail (not sure about that and have to look it up) and they're not known for their restraint when protecting politicians.

Two things:

1.  The sins of the son are not the sins of the father.  Ron Paul isn't responsible for what happened.

2.  He does not have an SS detail.  What he has is an Altamont-esque "detail" of thugs.

1. didn't say they were. 

2. yeah, I said I wasn't sure if it was SS.  now I'm actually wondering what senate candidates do for security (other than Joe Miller, who apparently prefers to use active duty military)

ill do some research when I get off work, swamped today.