Rand Paul's troubling ties to racists
The libertarian senator's new media guy has a pro-Confederate past filled with controversial comments
By Jon Terbush | July 9, 2013
Rand Paul’s neo-Confederate staffer sought mass deletion of his own columns
By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, July 18, 2013 18:56 EST
... According to an editor at the Charleston City Paper, Hunter asked for his own columns to be deleted ... Editor Chris Haire said he would have considered removing a few questionable columns, but Hunter was seeking to have a “cowardly” amount of his writing removed. The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication, reported earlier this month that Hunter was a neo-Confederate who celebrated John Wilkes Booth’s birthday. He believed the southern Confederacy was correct to secede from the United States. Hunter also had served as chairman of the League of the South ... The columns that Hunter had written at the Charleston City Paper compared Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler and said black people should apologize to white people for high crime rates, among other things ...
Hunter's not the first one, either
FLASHBACK: Paul Campaign Spokesman Resigned Over Racism On Myspace Page
Justin Elliott – May 20, 2010, 6:44 PM EDT534
... In December, Chris Hightower, the spokesman for Paul's senate campaign, was forced to resign after a liberal Kentucky blog discovered that his MySpace page had a comment posted around Martin Luther King Day that read: "HAPPY N***ER DAY!!!" above what appears to be a historical photo of the lynching of a black man. The photo and comment appeared to have been posted to Hightower's MySpace page by a friend, not by Hightower himself. The comment has since been removed but at the time it was discovered by the local blog it had been up for nearly two years. According to the Barefoot and Progressive blog, Hightower... wrote a MySpace post referring to "Afro-Americans" titled "Blacks don't like my Napalm Death hoodie":
So, I was in Rivergate Mall today in line to get some pizza and I noticed a group of Afro-Americans were looking at me with hate and whispering stuff ... About 10 minutes later, another group of Afro-Americans are giving me the same looks, it then dawns on me, there has to be something on this hoodie that is pissing off the Afro-Americans. And sure enough when I get outside the mall I look and bingo. KKK .... LOL!"
Perhaps sympathy for The Lost Cause just runs in the family:
Ron Paul: Free People Have the Right to Secede
... In a statement posted on his House of Representatives website, Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) spoke out in support of the secessionists, saying that their actions “raise a lot of worthwhile questions about the nature of our union.” Continued Paul:
Secession is a deeply American principle ...
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