Last week came the latest embarrassment, astonishing news that Sen. Paul employs a former radio shock jock and Confederate sympathizer Jack Hunter, who calls himself the “Southern Avenger,” has appeared in public in a Confederate flag mask, boasted of secessionist views and venerates John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
...Mr. Hunter, who claimed to toast John Wilkes Booth every year on his birthday, also seemed OK with killing a president who holds objectionable views — such as saving the Union while abolishing slavery. Sen. Paul, with well-known presidential aspirations, might be a little nervous about having a guy like that on staff.
But the much larger issue is Sen. Paul’s shocking lapse of judgment in hiring Mr. Hunter, then insisting on keeping him on staff after reports surfaced about his extremist views.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Rand Paul stands by his man at own peril
A good editorial in today's Courier-Journal:
