Wow talk about wild accusations and fear
mongering. In his blog today about the 20th anniversary of the
Americans with Disabilities Act, Michael Tomasky practically crowns
Rand Paul as the new leader of a radical GOP. Claiming that it is with
“great confidence” that the
GOP of today would never have passed the ADA he claims that
You might get eight or 10 of them to vote for such a
bill, because they would make the decision as a party that overall they
didn’t want to be seen as picking on people in wheelchairs, but
the distance from only a handful of Republicans opposing that bill to
Rand Paul’s comments in May is one marker of how extreme the GOP
has become. Guardian
Talk about stereotyping and dare I say profiling?
Tomasky implies in his statements that
anyone who is conservative must be against people with
disabilities. He gives tremendous credit/blame to a candidate who
hasn’t ever been elected to office as representative of all
conservatives views. Whatever happened to letting a candidate be
a candidate no matter
how his comments are perceived by either side and letting voters
decide. I guess that tried
and true tactic of fear is just too great a temptation to resist.