You're the "King of Bacon": Rand Paul to Chris Christie

Bedford said:

You don't have the first clue about me, or liberals. We accept and respect reasonable republicans. You will never understand this.

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So being in favor of the civil rights violating policies of Bush/Obama is "reasonable" now.

Nilloc said:

So being in favor of the civil rights violating policies of Bush/Obama is "reasonable" now.

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I did not say anything about Obama/Bush. We are discussing Paul/Christie.

Did you read the OP? Maybe you should.

NightHawkeye said:

I rest my case.

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Good, because you don't know what you are talking about. You should stick to the silly pictures you always post.

Bedford said:

I did not say anything about Obama/Bush. We are discussing Paul/Christie.

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Paul/Christie got into this whole fight because Christie doesn't like Paul's civil libertarianism. Christie defended the civil rights violating activities of Bush/Obama. And he's the reasonable Republican to you.

NightHawkeye said:

And it is liberals here who are defending Christie.

Now, just why would any self-respecting liberal defend Chris Christie?

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Because he's as much of a neocon as obama is probably.

Bedford said:

I did not say anything about Obama/Bush. We are discussing Paul/Christie.

Did you read the OP? Maybe you should.

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You might want to... I dunno... read up on Christie, he supports the civil rights violating policies of Bush and Obama.

He only explained that what... a few days ago.

Nilloc said:

But really, why does that matter? Would it suddenly become less insulting because the person slaps the label of "comedian" on themselves?

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The question is whether we should expect the same sort of decorum from a US Senator or a person who has a show on comedy central.

NightHawkeye said:

And it is liberals here who are defending Christie.

Now, just why would any self-respecting liberal defend Chris Christie?

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It's not that I like Chris Christie (he supports a lot of things I oppose); the issue here is that he is a Republican who is being unfairly ostracized for putting his state and constituents and his country ahead of his party.

I wish all politicians acted this way.

variant said:

The question is whether we should expect the same sort of decorum from a US Senator or a person who has a show on comedy central.

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Pft, since when has anyone ever cared about politicians showing any class? If it's wrong for Paul to do it (and again, I highly doubt he was making a fat joke), it's wrong for Stewart to do it, yet I don't remember people wanting him to apologize. And for the record, I don't see anything wrong with what Stewart did.

Nilloc said:

Pft, since when has anyone ever cared about politicians showing any class? If it's wrong for Paul to do it (and again, I highly doubt he was making a fat joke), it's wrong for Stewart to do it, yet I don't remember people wanting him to apologize. And for the record, I don't see anything wrong with what Stewart did.

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Public representatives are held to a higher standard.

You can make an equivalence between a comedy news host and a senator all day if you like, it's just not reasonable, and it shows that you think what Paul did was obnoxious and base.

So, if you already agree with me on that point what is the argument you have again? That we should treat all people in all professions with the same standards?

Really?

variant said:

Public representatives are held to a higher standard.

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That’s neither true in practice, nor in theory.

variant said:

You can make an equivalence between a comedy news host and a senator all day if you like, it's just not reasonable, and it shows that you think what Paul did was obnoxious and base.

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No doesn’t. I’ve said multiple times I don’t think Paul was making a fat joke. But even if he was, how is that different than you, me, or Stewart doing it? I for one don’t think any of us doing it would be wrong. Jokes are jokes, no matter your profession.

variant said:

So, if you already agree with me on that point what is the argument you have again?

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What did I agree with you on?

variant said:

That we should treat all people in all professions with the same standards? Really?

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Absolutely. I wouldn’t be a good egalitarian if I didn’t. And I’m not talking about the phony semi-Marxian equality that politicians use just to get votes. Politicians are not angels incarnate. They have no more rights nor duties than you or I. I don’t accept the idea that there are multiple standards of morality, one that allows some people to do X, but forbids X to another group. That’s the way the oppressed are kept in line.

And if you really want to hold politicians to a higher standard, how about we start with, say, these issues:



Or the skyrocketing debt, and then we can debate whether Paul was making a fat joke or not. I wish the left was as outraged as Obama’s wars as they were about Paul’s comment.

The whole thing is pretty hilarious when you consider which of the two brought up the word, "bacon" to mean pork spending, someone want to guess who it was?

Oddly enough the article in the OP refrain from telling us that yet gave a link to the video:

Governor Christie: If You Ask Me A Question I'll Give You An Answer - YouTube

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"Most Washington politicians only care about bringing home the bacon so they can get re-elected."

To which Paul later responding by calling him the "king of bacon".

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Christie wasn't talking about turkey bacon.