By BaxterSo the Bob McDonnell Award for Self-Inflicted Political Wounds goes to teabagger darling Rand Paul. It's astounding that as a physician, Kentucky's Republican Senate nominee went on Rachel Maddow's show and completely forgot the famous medical ethic of "First, do no harm."
Thus has the hapless Dr. Paul earned his own personal "Tidbits and Cat Treats" post. Here are the questions that his ridiculous behavior has managed to raise in our furry little feline minds.
He stomped his Mitch-McConnell-approved primary opponent in a landslide on Tuesday — but couldn't manage to pull off a 48-hour press honeymoon afterward? Is this proof of gross incompetence, or total political tone deafness — or both? We cats hope both.
Flailing desperately at damage control, Paul has said, in essence, "Don't worry about the 1964 Civil Rights Act, I won't try to repeal it." Excuse us? Who, pray tell, was ever talking about repealing it? And why shouldn't we expect him to work from his first day in the Senate to undermine it? After all, if it's not good enough for the right wing when Democrats swear eternal allegiance to the Second Amendment, why should we believe a teabagger nutbag like Paul on civil rights?
How long will journalists let the Republican establishment skate by without commenting on this fiasco? Allowing the cowardly Eric Cantor to dodge the question with his usual lame "false choice" argument is unforgivable. Is Mitch McConnell getting chased by a hungry press pack? John Boehner? How about Michael Steele? The silence is deafening.
Better yet, what do the 32 African Americans running as Republicans this year have to say about all this? They should be asked about it — and then asked again, and again, and again.
Finally, where is Sarah Palin? Rand Paul was her Kentucky teabagger of choice. We can't wait for her to rush to his defense.
UPDATE: The embattled and perennially silly Dr. Paul has canceled a planned interview on "Meet the Press." No more interviews for him! After all, why should someone who wants to hold elective office ever have to answer questions?
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