Rand Paul’s Neo-Confederate Staffer Sought Mass Deletion Of His Own Columns

[Purveyor]

Jack Hunter, a top aide to Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), allegedly tried to have dozens of his own columns removed from the Internet.

According to an editor at the Charleston City Paper, Hunter asked for his own columns to be deleted because they “no longer reflected his current worldview.” 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.

“It was solely for appearances only,” Haire said. “It was not heartfelt. It was not true. It was simply to protect his boss, Rand Paul, as he plots a path to the White House in 2016.”

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, which the Anti-Defamation League has called “an implicitly racist group.”

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.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. How long did it take him to realize his crap was crap. Probably his puppet master pointed out

it might "hurt" Rand's chances of being elected as president it changed. Now Rand is setting himself to be disliked by his conservative family values folks and those already offended by crap written by Hunter.

[MisterP]

2. "you're not gonna open with that, are you?"

[arcane1]

3. EVERYTHING ties back to Seinfeld

[Scuba]

4. Cockroaches hate light.

[Always Randy]

5. Sir, have you no decency?

This is proof in the pudding of the Ran Paul's family racism. If the Republicans nominate him , they are acknowledging they want to return to Jim Crow days.--

Paul had his wife quit her job at a right wing PR agency yesterday.....I guess he is finding out that racism is not as cool as he thought.

I hope the DNC has copies of all of his ignorant writings.

[radicalliberal]

6. This makes my blood boil!

It was only a few months ago when little Ayn Rand Paul spoke at Howard University to tell the students how great a friend the Republican Party (I'd call it "The White People's Party&quot is to black Americans.

I despise these cowardly, lying politicians! The big lies conservatives tell about their civil rights record during the 1950s and the 1960s are so outrageous that even Goebbels and Hitler would be scandalized by them!

Today we have white Republicans who hate the very founder of their party! There are white Republicans who call Abraham Lincoln a Marxist! You've already read about little Ayn Rand Paul's staffer.

Well, folks, this is the bitter fruit of the "Southern strategy" (well, actually, only part of it), which was started by Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964 and intensified by the Nixon administration. My wife was a Republican ever since she was a young girl, but she left the Republican Party because of all the unrepentant white segregationist so-called "Democrats" who were invited into her party.

This is all I can say about this now. I'm so mad, I'm speechless.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Naturally the Howard students didn't buy a word of it

and ambushed him in the Q+A....

[radicalliberal]

11. The jerk is unashamedly two-faced.

First, he says he would have marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. Yeah, I bet! (I noticed his father didn't. I wonder why. ) Then he says he would still vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act even to this day!

(By the way, he's not said a word about the Supreme Court ruling that has gutted the Voting Rights Act. I wonder why. )

Either he thinks blacks are complete morons who are willing to believe anything and everything he says simply because Lincoln freed the slaves (as if that has any bearing upon politics today); or he's completely stupid himself and is totally ignorant of political conservatism's long sorry, pathetic record on civil rights. He's either one or the other. Frankly, I can't decide which is worse!

Either way, he's a repulsive clown!

[radicalliberal]

12. I would have loved to have seen that!

[yellowcanine]

7. A lot of what passes for Paulist libertarianism is prettied up neoconfederiate states rights with

a dollup of truther/birther conspiracy theories thrown in and held together with nihilism and objectivism as a philosophy to justify what would otherwise be unjustifiable points of view. If most Paulites actually understood what Ron and Rand Paul were about they would have nothing to do with them imo.

[Sunlei]

8. those cracker pauls are republican political material for sure.

[Vic Vinegar]

9. how can secessionists call themselves conservatives

Funny how the Tea Partiers and libertarian cultists can somehow propose a platform that is so reactionary it throws back to before Lincoln, the constitution, & 1776. But then again all of their rhetoric and policy comes from the modern aristocratic Koch brothers, the Austrian school of economics and the British controlled American Heritage Foundation.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. This website is temporarily offline

http://www.southernavenger.com/