Rand Paul's State of the Union

It might not have been on every cable channel, but the Tea Party's State of the Union response by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is well worth your time:

Comments

[Apatheist ?_??]

I watched the first couple episodes of The Following instead of the SOTU. Pretty good despite Kevin Bacon's mediocre performance because James Purefoy is awesome and criminally underemployed over his career.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

I bet you watched that over House of Cards

[Apatheist ?_??]

It's on the list to watch!

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

So you watched a guy who has a cult following that kills innocent people instead of watching Obama?

[Archduke Pantsfan]

One's about a guy with a cult following that kills innocent people, the other is a show with Kevin Bacon

That's better.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Well at least he has some sort of intellectual basis for his killings.

[darius404]

Anyone else just getting some stupid rap song when trying to view this on YouTube?

[Apatheist ?_??]

No... you racist.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Nvmd I started getting this instead. Something must be up.

[darius404]

Yes, that.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

nope. working good here

[darius404]

It's still happening to me. This time it gave it to me as an advertisement, then when I was able to skip past it the video was again replaced with the rap video.

[John C. Randolph]

I'd really like to support Rand in 2016, but he's got to apologize for endorsing that douchenozzle Willard first.

-jcr

[Groovus Maximus]

Meh, I can overlook that, as I'm pretty sure even he figured Shit Flopney had no chance, but since he is a Republican (note: not "Repubican") I suppose I can overlook that. To build up a possible 2016 run, he does have to "play ball" to some degree.

May I remind you GJ is a former TEAM RED as well, and I would have voted for him had be been on the OK Ballot.

[Brandybuck]

Yes, because meaningless endorsements are far more important that stuff like actual votes on the floor of the Senate.

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

Exhibit A in why no one within sniffing distance of power gives a crap about what hardcore libertarians think. You can never please them.

[darius404]

I'm sure glad we all think alike. Saves me from having an actual opinion of my own.

[Emmerson Biggins]

Was it on any tv channel?

I was pissed when I couldn't find it. I flipped back to Rubio (on mute) at least three times. I thought i'd get some reward for that.

The whole sipping water thing and wiping his mouth off looked pretty bad with no sound.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Yup. It's all the media will focus on for the next few days.
Obama's lies all but forgotten

[darius404]

It was actually worse WITH sound, since he stops talking to make his desperate grab for the water. Really I think he just didn't want to wait to keep speaking, but that combined with his rushing through his speech didn't look good. Rand was a lot more casual and took time to say stuff, he didn't feel the need to rush.

[Cyto]

Why bother to do the rebuttal live? As long as you are playing to an empty room, you might as well go with a slickly-produced pre-recorded presentation.

[cavalier973]

Equal time!

Here's the highlight of Rubio's speech: http://deadspin.com/5983866/le.....low-motion

[Blueman]

That dude needs a water hat. Like a beer hat, but with water.

[Paul.]

This speech was good, simple, to the point.

[A Serious Man]

And hence why he is unelectable.

[Atanarjuat]

Yeah, that is Rand Paul's strength as a speaker. It was a bit less simple than some other speeches he's given, though, and actually got a bit technical, especially when he was defining sequestration. He loses his relaxed, conversational tone when he goes into detail like that. And let us not forget that he's speaking to Americans, people of the new land; the common clay of the new West. You know...morons.

[gaijin]

You know...morons citizens.

fify

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

His voice was kind of whiny, a couple of notes higher than usual. I noticed his dad does the same thing when consciously trying not to sound like a crazy extremist.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A button-down collar? Why didn't he just deliver this speech from a pig farm sucking on a wheat stalk with Shain from Buckwild.

[Josua]

He would have been a great president in 2000, 2004, or 2008. But now, what does it matter anymore? I agree with him. Five other people agree with him. The rest of country took a double-tap from the Stupid Gun straight in the face. I must be a super-villain, because I'm surrounded by idiots. Tell Bond the new Aston Martins are boring (too sleek). Get a Jaguar XKR-S.

[RenkBooo]

Dude that looks liek its gonna be really good.

http://www.Total-Anon.da.bz

[brlfq]

I watched the speech on UHF. Reception was kinda poor. Kept getting scrambled with two guys at a desk discussing medicinal shark cartilage.