Rand Paul’s Midterm Democrat Opponent Tries to Convince Voters Paul Is Racist, Quickly Gets Embarrassed – Opinion

Rand Paul of Kentucky is an extremely popular senator in his area. Unseating him will prove difficult. Paul is an incredibly straight-talking individual who often finds it embarrassing to those who try to exploit the people and ignore their rights. Paul’s work during the pandemic in uncovering the truth about everything from the hypocrisy of the Democrats to the lies of Dr. Anthony Fauci will go down in history as some of his greatest moments while in office.

Paul appears to many of his constituents as a hero, so defeating him would mean divorcing those who are not in that mindset. If you’re a Democrat, how do you do that?

The same way Democrats try to defeat everyone nowadays…you call them racists. That’s what Paul’s challenger Charles Booker is doing, but he’s taking it to a very bizarre level.

Booker’s new campaign ad portrays Paul as someone who supports lynching, particularly black Americans. Booker talks to a camera and wraps a noose around the neck. He tells the tale of blacks being hanged by their necks because they were racist. Booker informs the viewer that Paul voted in favor of an anti-lynching bill at one time.

Lynching is an instrument of terror. This was done to destroy hopes of freedom. Three of my uncles were killed in Kentucky by it.

This historic election has made it clear who the winner is. Rand Paul may want to divide us, but hate won’t win this time.

It’s time to move forward, together. pic.twitter.com/oYxuqKFdWR

— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) June 1, 2022

If you were to just go off of Booker’s ad, you would think Paul is a horrible person. Paul is still a bad choice, despite the absurd image of Booker with a noose pulling the ad towards try-hard territory. Booker even mentions that Paul said he’d oppose the Civil Rights Act.

The issue is that Booker doesn’t actually go into why Paul voted against the anti-lynching bill, or why he said he’d oppose the Civil Rights Act, but interestingly, USA Today did and it makes it clear that Booker is (and this may shock you) exaggerating about his opponents positions and racist character.

According to USA Today, Paul actually praised the Civil Rights Act but due to his libertarian beliefs, didn’t like the idea that private business owners could be told what they can and can’t do by the government:

“I abhor racism. I think it’s a bad business decision to ever exclude anybody from your restaurant, but at the same time I do believe in private ownership,” said Paul, who went on to be elected to the Senate for the first time later that year. “But I think there should be absolutely no discrimination in anything that gets any public funding, and that’s most of what the Civil Rights Act was about, to my mind.”

It’s actually a very common position held by both the right and members of the left. Although he was against government interference in American business’ private affairs, he repeatedly stated that he supports the Civil Rights Act.

Booker actually lied here.

But the anti-lynching legislation is Booker’s main focus, and as USA Today highlighted, Booker isn’t even telling half the story:

Paul placed a hold on the original Emmett Till Antilynching Act in 2020 and later sought unanimous consent from the Senate for an amended version of the bill that he indicated would ensure it didn’t apply to crimes that resulted in relatively minor injuries like bruises and cuts.

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At the time, Paul said lynching is “a tool of terror that claimed the lives of nearly 5,000 Americans between 1881 and 1968” and defended his stance on the bill, saying: “I seek to amend this legislation, not because I take it or I take lynching lightly, but because I take it seriously — and this legislation does not.”

Paul then submitted his own proposal called “Marie Thomspon Antilynching Act” in 2021, which was not approved by congress. He eventually cosponsored the Emmett Till Antilycning Act, which was a revised version with Senators. Cory Booker from New Jersey and Tim Scott, South Carolina

Again, we can see how Booker’s ad is way off base and that Paul isn’t the monster he wants to convince Kentucky voters that he is. This is more embarrassing to Booker than for Paul. The only people who are going to believe Booker’s claims are the ones who really, really want to.