Sen. Paul's mistaken worry

Cute, but typically off-topic:

"I’ve come to New Hampshire today because I’m very concerned," joked Sen. Rand Paul in New Hampshire today. "I want to see the original long-form certificate of Donald Trump’s Republican registration."

Described as "a Tea Party favorite" by The Hill, Paul's principal worry about Trump is his political record of a liberal bent; which is to say, Paul wants a true "conservative," and he doubts Trump's credentials. "Let’s look to Republicans who not only talk the talk, but walk the walk," he added. "If we find the right candidate, I see no reason why we can’t win in 2012."

If Paul were genuinely interested in educating his Tea-Party base, however, he'd be delivering a quite different, very simple message: Grow up. 

Yesterday, for example, after being presented the nth proof of Obama's place of birth, professional Tea Partier after professional Tea Partier appeared on MSNBC and squeezed doubt and suspicion into every answer to every question about the birther issue. One said we can't be absolutely certain about any proof, another said there remains a 10-20 percent that the released certificate is a fraud, yet another said further verification is needed, etc. etc. 

Sen. Paul, your party, your base, your "kind" doesn't need a true conservative just yet. What it needs first is some maturity. Then you can worry about 2012.

Comments

[reflectionephemeral]

"What it needs first is some maturity. Then you can worry about 2012."

If only it worked that way...

[Betsey]

"Sen. Paul, your party, your base, your "kind" doesn't need a true conservative just yet. What it needs..."

I was so sure, from the many other posts you've written that I've enjoyed immensely that this sentence was going to be finished "...is a nanny."

[MinneapolisPipe]

Breaking News:

Afterbirthers Demand To See Obama's Placenta

WASHINGTON–In the continuing controversy surrounding the president's U.S. citizenship, a new fringe group informally known as "Afterbirthers" demanded Monday the authentication of Barack Obama's placenta from his time inside his mother's womb. "All we are asking is that the president produce a sample of his fetal membranes and vessels—preferably along with a photo of the crowning and delivery—and this will all be over," said former presidential candidate and Afterbirthers spokesman Alan Keyes, later adding that his organization would be willing to settle for a half-liter of maternal cord plasma. "To this day, the American people have not seen a cervical mucus plug, let alone one that has been signed and notarized by a state-certified Hawaiian health official. If the president was indeed born in the manner in which he claims, then where is his gestation sac?" Keyes said that if Obama did not soon produce at least a bloody bedsheet from his conception, Afterbirthers would push forward with efforts to exhume the president's deceased mother and inspect the corpse's pelvic bone and birth canal.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/afterbirthers-demand-to-see-obamas-placenta,6866/

[Anne Johnson]

Perhaps Sentator Paul's only interest is trying to set up more favorable conditions for his Daddy to run? If so, then his fathter is no "true conservative" either. He's about as radically anti-government as you can get, yet he wants the highest government job in the land. I find that disturbing. I do not trust and would never vote for anyone who runs on a platform of "government is the problem". In what other line of work can one claim hatred of the very profession for which they want to work? Who would hire the prospective auto mechanic who says in the job interview, "The world would be a much better place if there were no cars in it". Who would trust a babysitter who says they can't stand children? Running for a job in which you are involved in making decisions that affect the entire country is serious business and yet we continue to elect anti-government zealots to high office then wonder why our government is so dysfunctional. And the democrats do not help the situation by cowering in fear of the republicans and nodding their heads in tacit agreement of the right's every insane utterance. Why are they not out making the case for the government and what it does for people? Maybe the real debate should be about government's proper role in our lives not if it's good or bad? Now one more question before I'm finished ranting: If Obama is such an awful president, then why have so few republicans officially announced their candidacy for 2012? I mean shouldn't they be falling all over themselves jumping into the race, to defeat this so-called marxist, communist, socialist, fascist, Kenyan muslim atheist whatever? If they are so worried about our nation being caught in the Kenyan clutches of Obama the Awful, then how come so few of them have stepped up to save the day?