Rand Paul Vs Chris Christie-- Pass The Popcorn

Rand Paul was the only senator who voted against confirming James Comey as the new head of the FBI. Good for Rand! I'm glad he's got his wits about him despite the barrage of attacks and smears aimed at him by Establishment slob Chris Christie who's dead set on being the anti-libertarian Republican presidential nominee in 2016. Rand called Christie out for trying to make voters think he's somehow Rudy Giuliani or George W Bush. He's doing his best to paint Christie as the greedy, self-serving pig that he's always been. And he went on Sean Hannity's Fox TV show to do it.

“It’s really I think kind of sad and cheap that he would use the cloak of 9/11 victims and say-- ‘I’m the only one who cares about these victims.’ Hogwash! If he cared about protecting this country maybe he wouldn’t be in this gimme-gimme-gimme, give me all the money you have in Washington or don’t have, and he’d be a little more fiscally responsive and know that the way we defend our country, the way we have enough money for national defense, is by being frugal and not being gimme-gimme all the time.”

After Christie backed unconstitutional domestic spying by stoking terrorism fears-- and singling Paul out as an "esoteric intellectual" who's endangering the country-- Rand blasted back that “People who are flippant about privacy, flippant about the Fourth Amendment, and flippant about the Bill of Rights... they do an injustice to our soldiers. Our soldiers are laying their lives on the line for the Bill of Rights.” Far right propagandist Mark Levin, who tilts strongly towards fascism, says he's had it with Christie and doubts he would even vote for him if he ran against Hillary Clinton in 2016! Interviewed by Neil Cavuto, he said "we conservatives have been fighting against the Republican establishment for half a century. Whether they take the form of Chris Christie and Romney or whether they take the form of Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, and this country needs to move in a new direction, economically, constitutionally, when it comes to our Bill of Rights and so forth. I take this backstep to nobody in securing the border, securing the country... Guys like me have been voting Republican our entire lives and were taken advantage of and the base is under attack now. One of your colleagues there, Karl Rove, has actually set up a PAC to attack the tea party in primaries and so forth. I've had enough. I'm not going to be a sucker anymore."

Paul also attacked the rotund New Jersey governor with a reputation as a bully for picking a public fight with him. "I think it’s not very smart. He may have heard that the Republican Party is on life support in the Northeast. Republicans are in danger of becoming an endangered species, so it’s not smart for Republicans to be attacking Republicans." This is only going to get better in the next 15 months.

But the slob from Jersey isn't just attacking Rand Paul, he's attacking the whole state of Kentucky. At a press conference he pointed out that his state-- thanks not at all to him or his reactionary policies-- is a donor state and that they only get back 61 cents for every dollar they send to the Feds while Kentucky is a bunch of welfare bums who get $1.51 for every dollar they pay in. Tuesday Christie, who some inside the GOP refer to as the king of bacon-- suggested that "Maybe he should start cutting the pork barrel spending that he brings home to Kentucky. But I doubt he will because most Washington politicians only care about bringing home the bacon so that they can get re-elected."

Paul, a gentleman, offered to bury the hatchet and have a beer together. Christie, a boorish slob and bully, called Paul a wimp for giving in and turned him down flat, claiming Paul is trying to boost his name recognition by using Christie's popularity (which is patently absurd since Republicans favor Paul over Christie by significant margins). Offended Kentuckians-- as well as libertarian and independent-minded Tea Party supporters of Rand Paul-- can get even with Christie by helping state Senator Barbara Buono defeat him this November. You can do that here. That would take the wind out of the bully's sails!