I think there’s a lesson here not just for Rand but for all the Republican candidates—the reductio ad absurdum argument is supposed to be used against your opponents. You’re not supposed to vividly highlight the inherent absurdity of your own positions, you silly rabbits.
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Wow. What part of the American Dream don’t you understand, Rand?
Whatever happened to “work hard & follow the rules” and “follow your bliss” and
“be all that you can be”??
Just pissed all over that, didn’t ya?
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GOP Prez nominees seemingly take every opportunity to criticize and alienate everyone that isn’t a white conservative, yet expect to cobble together an electoral coalition that will land them in the Oval Office. Mexicans are rapists, murderers and drug couriers. The LGBT community wants to destroy the institution of marriage and civilization in general. All Muslims are aspiring terrorists and bent on imposing Sharia Law on the nation. Women are whiny baby killers that have forgotten their place in life, and “Make me a sandwich, now!!!” Blacks want everything for free, along with being cop killers. Academics are peddling lies and intent on destroying the economy by pushing lies about climate change and the effects of burning coal. Those concerned about gun safety and gun violence are Hitler sympathizers plotting a new Holocaust. They all look you in the eye and announce they’re insane, then plead to be elected President. We’re doomed.
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It must be a stylish rock Rand lives under.
Bless his uncaring heart.
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The solution is to vote for democrats and thereby get the crazies out of office.
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Republicans are successful at ginning up fear and loathing, especially leading up to an election with an “other” as their opponent. They cultivated fear of Obama for the last 7 years, and harvested a majority in Congress to show for it. I don’t think had their opponent been a white male they’d have had the same success. Fear and suspicion of Obama drew people to the polls to vote GOP that otherwise had nominally non-crazy political leanings. Obama was the “other”. Unfortunately I can see Hillary being used to the same ends. Just as blacks, Muslims, atheists and gays are the “other”, so too are women, at least so far as being entrusted with the Presidency. Republicans will be every bit as brutal and hateful towards Hillary, if not more so, than they were with Obama. And misogyny runs rampant in this country, even among people you’d think were more tolerant of change and new faces in the Oval Office. I firmly believe the only people in the nation that hate women more than Republican men are Republican women.
Yes, voting Democrat is the solution to keeping a crazy GOP person out of the Presidency. If only it were that easy. If only the public could be depended upon to see through their insanity. If only being anything other than a white male didn’t cost you votes in an election once the GOP made it clear being anything other than a white, Christian, straight, gun-toting male was cause for alarm and suspicion (with voters buying it hook, line and sinker).
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Yeah, you know because everything’s the same and everyone is creating equal in GOP la la land. And you know discrimination “happens”…
I’m continually amazed at how people will vote against their direct self interest. An example: in the 80’s we heard from David Stockman about the wonders of trickle down economics he called “supply side”. The idea originated in the late 1800’s and we’re still waiting for that warm “trickle” down our legs.
As for GOP women? This comes to mind:
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And yet, and yet, a black Democrat did get elected President. Twice. No one said it would be easy, and of course it was anything but. Decades ago a Catholic was elected in the height of anti-Catholic fever. Even an aging Brooklyn Jewish socialist, is currently getting astounding support nationwide, in the face of anti-socialism propaganda everywhere and major pockets of anti-Semitism. Pardon me if I don’t succumb to the “sky will fall” scenario attendant on a woman’s candidacy. I suspect it’s time for that barrier to fall as well. Any entrenched obstacle costs votes, but that’s only part of the story, obviously. As is money.