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Rand Paul Gives Thumbs Up to Advisor with Racist, Neo-Confederate Past

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What is Rand Paul’s problem?

In his latest head scratcher, the senator is defending an aide with a history of pro-secession and neo-Confederate comments.

Paul’s media staffer Jack Hunter has called himself the “Southern Avenger” for several years in his role as a provocative radio show host. It went public earlier this week that Hunter had endorsed Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and wore a Confederate flag mask during public appearances.

So apparently the prerequisites for being a Paul staffer are racial insensitivity and strong hints of white supremacy.

Because since then, Hunter has worked closely with Paul on several different projects. Hunter helping write Paul’s book, The Tea Party Goes to Washington, serving as his foreign policy advisor and overseeing his social media.

“Are we at a point where nobody can have had a youth or said anything untoward?” the senator asked rhetorically in  an interview with The Huffington Post.

Unfortunately for Paul, untoward doesn’t even begin to describe Hunter quotes like this one:

“Americans aren’t wrong to deplore the millions of Mexicans coming here now,” he wrote in 2007. “A non-white majority America would simply cease to be America for reasons that are as numerous as they are obvious – whether we are supposed to mention them or not.”

Although Paul has condemned some of Hunter’s comments this week and claimed he had a “zero tolerance policy for anybody who displays discriminatory behavior or belief in discriminating against people based on the color of their skin, their religion, their sexual orientation,  his votes speaker louder than his words.  Just yesterday Paul voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a bill which all Democrats supported which imposes a ban on workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that Rand is following in his father’s footsteps, as it’s almost as if he is positioning himself to be a John Birch Society favorite just like Dr. Ron.  

If Paul can accept policy advice from a racially inflammatory “Southern Avenger,” how can we take anything else he does seriously?

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