Rand Paul Accused Of Hypocrisy For Accepting Medicare Payments (Mediaite)

Rand Paul, image via Wikipedia

by Jon Bershad
Mediaite
June 16th, 2010

Get ready for the second round of “Meet Rand Paul” on the cable news shows. Just a few weeks after the Kentucky Senatorial candidate was accused of being too Libertarian after criticizing the Civil Rights Act, his opponent, Jack Conway, is now claiming he’s not Libertarian enough. The charge? Paul, who strongly opposes government handouts, receives a large amount of Medicare and Medicaid payments from his ophthalmology practice. These are pretty damning accusations. If there’s anything in politics that’s worse than being called a racist, it’s being called a hypocrite.

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CNN’s Erick Erickson: Rand Paul Is What Happens When “Joe The Butcher” Runs For Office (Mediaite)

by Frances Martel
May 22nd, 2010
Mediaite.com

The fallout from Rand Paul’s Civil Rights Act PR disaster keeps pouring down the cable news wires, and conservative pundits are being asked to explain what was going through Paul’s mind during that fateful interview with Rachel Maddow. Yesterday, Rick Sanchez asked RedState.com editor and CNN contributor Erick Erickson that very question, and Erickson remixed a 2008 meme to explain why people like Paul say the darnedest things: that’s what you get when Joe the Butcher runs for office.


Sanchez noted that the mainstream Republican Party had been relatively mum on the matter, and asked Erickson what that was all about. On the one hand, Erickson noted, there are many Republicans that don’t support him and never did. On the other hand, he continued, some Republicans “just don’t want to keep the story perpetuating when they feel it shouldn’t be a story.”

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