I no longer play peacemaker when violence erupts because it is a bad idea; I have the busted mug from my younger days to prove it.
"Stepped-on activist says she was no threat
The liberal activist who was hauled to the ground before a Kentucky debate, with a Rand Paul supporter stepping on her face, said she posed no threat to the Republican candidate for Senate and the violent attack was unwarranted.
“Violence is never justified,’’ Lauren Valle told the Globe last night, a day after she was treated at a hospital in Lexington and the video of the attack flooded the airwaves and Internet.
I'm sure the lying, war-promoting paper loved hearing that.
Valle, 23, who grew up in Falmouth and Dedham and graduated from Noble & Greenough School, said she was part of a MoveOn group that planned to present Paul with a satirical award that conveyed the Republican Party’s marriage to corporate America.
That the same MoveOn that used the antiwar sentiment of this country to elect Democrats in 2006 and then move on?
Thought so.
Paul, a Tea Party favorite, was arriving for a debate in Lexington with Democrat Jack Conway.
I'm not a big Rand fan (keep reading).
The person who struck Valle with his foot blamed police for not intervening.
“I’m sorry that it came to that, and I apologize if it appeared overly forceful, but I was concerned about Rand’s safety,’’ Tim Profitt said.
A judge will decide whether Profitt should face criminal charges....
For Valle, the attack was the latest in a series of high-profile demonstrations.
Oh, she is a PROFESSIONAL PROTESTER, huh?
Earlier this year, she was arrested with a group of Greenpeace activists protesting the BP oil disaster in Louisiana. In 2008, she was detained in China for calling for independence for Tibet.
“I’m looking to speak truth to power,’’ she told the Globe.
Well, POWER KNOWS the TRUTH, you controlled-opposition idiot!
You need to SPEAK TRUTH ABOUT POWER!
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And CUI BONO from the soft-prop provocation?
"Democrats put scuffle at Paul rally in TV ad
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Democrats are replaying the high-profile scuffle involving Rand Paul supporters and a liberal activist in a TV ad that argues the Republican Senate hopeful is “stomping on Kentucky.’’
The 60-second ad, called “The Rand Paul Stomp,’’ contains video of Lauren Valle, a Massachusetts native and MoveOn.org activist, being pulled to the ground and then stepped on by a Paul supporter before a debate Monday night between the Republican and Jack Conway, his Democratic opponent.
The ad’s airing comes as Conway tries to make inroads with female voters.
You know, the TIMING of all this SURE DOES REEK!
During a campaign stop yesterday, Conway called fallout from the skirmish a potential game changer in the vitriolic race and accused Paul’s campaign of not being forceful enough in condemning the attack.
With ALL the PROBLEMS we have THAT is the "game-changer."
There is NOTHING WORSE than a DESPERATE DEMOCRAT!
Paul’s campaign, which denounced the attack and disassociated itself from the supporter this week, said the ad was a sign of desperation by Democrats not eager to discuss the bad economy.
Paul, a Bowling Green eye doctor and Tea Party favorite, and Conway, the state’s attorney general and a former Louisville lawyer, are vying for the seat held by US Senator Jim Bunning, who is retiring.
Not one of mine.
Paul is the son of US Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican who ran for president in 2008....
Yeah, but he is not like father.
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Also see: Kentucky is Crazy!
