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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cliven Bundy Fans, What Say You Now?[/quote]

They say nothing.
What can they say?
Even under the security of anonymity no one with a shred of sense is going to open their mouth to defend this idiot's actions and ideologies.[/quote]

Well, your qualifier notwithstanding:

"Rick Perry, who like Paul is considered a possible 2016 candidate, refused to distance himself from the racist rancher. “I don’t know what he said, but the fact is Clyde [sic] Bundy is a side issue here compared to what we’re looking at in the state of Texas,” Perry told CBS. “He is an individual,” continued the owner of what used to be known as “Niggerhead” ranch. “Deal with his issues as you may.”

"Radio host and the Blaze contributor Dana Loesch, for example, responded to Bundy’s comments with a shrug of her shoulders, writing, “I hope no one is surprised that an old man rancher isn’t media trained to express himself perfectly.” Loesch did grant that, “at face value,” Bundy’s comments on race were “odd and sound[ed] offensive” but she also claimed that Bundy was, essentially, correct. “He seems to be decrying what big government has done to the black family,” Loesch wrote, “which big government has negatively affected not just the black family, but all families regardless of ethnicity [.]“ Loesch then went on to argue that Bundy was a distraction and that the larger issue of government overreach was in no way made less legitimate just because its mascot turned out to be an unreconstructed bigot."

and, for good measure:

"National Review’s Kevin Williamson, who once wrote a piece praising Bundy and comparing him to Mahatma Gandhi, told Talking Points Memo that Bundy’s racism didn’t have much of an impact on his argument. “Mr. Bundy’s racial rhetoric is lamentable and backward,” Williamson wrote in an email before adding that Bundy was “separate from the fundamental question here, which is the federal government’s acting as an absentee landlord for nine-tenths of the state of Nevada.” Williamson then compared Bundy to the men who died at the Alamo..."

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