Rand Paul won the GOP nomination for senator from Kentucky. If elected, he would replace the loony Republican and former baseball player, Jim Bunning.
Bunning is mainly remembered for being a loose canon, even by GOP wing-nut standards, and for holding up unemployment compensation during a period of the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.
Kentucky can pick ’em, and I’m not talking about the Kentucky Derby.
Rand is the son of uber-libertarian, Ron Paul, who ran on a no-government platform for president in 2008.
But what about Rand?
Valerie Strauss, who writes The Answer Sheet for the Washington Post, gives a run-down of Rand’s views on education based on an NEA questionnaire.
- A national voucher program.
- No federal regulations concerning public schools. No reauthorization of NCLB.
- No federal funds for public schools.
Strauss reports that Rand Paul’s web site calls for less taxes for schools so that parents can home school.
The move to the right by National Democrats on education issues has served to feed and encourage what once was considered GOP fringe positions, moving them to the present level of acceptability.
Fred Klonsky 
I agree, Rand is a neocon in libertarian clothing. He can’t be trusted.
A racist who opposes the Civil Rights Act of ’64 for impinging on business that don’t want to serve African-Americans, gays, etc… Check out his interview with Maddow.
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/05/19/rand-paul-suggests-private-business-should-be-able-to-deny-african-americans-service-gets-demolished-by-rachel-maddow/