Still More Controversial Rand Paul Comments

There is more sloppage from the mouth of the Republican Senate candidate from Kentucky, Rand Paul.  I read the term ‘sloppage’ once in a book about the contents of a chamber pot spilling out and that is what comes to mind when I now hear Rand Paul speak.

Rand Paul, without prior campaign and elected office experience was not ready for prime time, and should never have been nominated for the U.S. Senate.  He might have thought about running for the school board first so to understand some basic rules of the road about elections and serving the public.  All that is now being underscored by his latest gaffes and missteps, in addition to the racist remarks that he made earlier in the week.

First he took the side of BP, the company that is responsible for the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico as oil continues to roar out of the broken pipe.

What I don’t like from the president’s administration is this sort of, ‘I’ll put my boot heel on the throat of BP,”‘ Paul said in an interview Friday morning with host George Stephanopoulos. “I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business.”

Then he took the side of corporate interests in the mining disaster.

In that interview, Paul talked about the April 29 Dotiki mine collapse that killed two workers in Western Kentucky, saying “sometimes accidents happen.”

It was of course after the sloppage continued that someone on Rand Paul’s staff with the experience that he lacks yanked him off the interviews slated for this Sunday morning.

As I said on this blog here and before, Rand Paul was not ready for prime time, and should not have considered a Senate race as his first moment in the electoral field.