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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you don't have anything to run on, use the Race Card

[youtube]https://youtu.be/DFwZQIf9qPc[/youtube][/quote]
When you’re a racist, attempt to reduce American history and using Rand Paul’s own voting record against him to “us[ing] the Race Card.”

That’s a powerful ad and powerful imagery at the end. When he says that lynching was used to kill his own ancestors it says it all. This isn’t some thousand-year old history, this is grandparents and great grandparents. And how many White Americans still have souvenirs of these lynchings in their attics? Because it was [i]our[/i] ancestors who participated in burning people alive, cutting off their genitals and burning them with cigarettes. And pols like Rand Paul would welcome that history back.

Here’s Booker’s page of what he believes in. https://charlesbooker.org/we-believe/ [/quote]

He is lying about Rand Paul's record.  
"The ad criticizes Paul for blocking anti-lynching legislation without saying Paul co-sponsored a new version of it." - AP

This ad is just horrible.

Not only are his claims blatantly false, his apparent need to push the race card is ridiculous.  He comes across as desperate.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/AP/status/1532429415313031169[/twitter][/quote]
Why a new version?[/quote]

A simple google search answers your question.

[quote]Paul previously held up an earlier version of the bill, arguing in 2020 that he wanted it "to be stronger."

In a statement on Tuesday in which he urged swift passage of the updated legislation, Paul said, "Strengthening the language of this bill has been my goal all along, and I'm pleased to have worked with Senators Cory Booker and Tim Scott to get this right and ensure the language of this bill defines lynching as the absolutely heinous crime that it is."
At the time Paul originally held up the anti-lynching bill in 2020, Senate supporters had hoped to pass the measure by unanimous consent in a show of widespread support. It only takes the objection of one senator out of 100, however, to stall a bill if it is brought up via unanimous consent.

Paul explained his position on the bill at the time by saying, in part, "I don't think it's a good idea to conflate someone who has an altercation, where they had minor bruises, with lynching. We think that's a disservice to those who were lynched in our history, who continue to have, we continue to have these problems. And I think it's a disservice to have a new 10-year penalty for people who have minor bruising. We've tried to exclude that part from the bill, and we've been working with the authors to try to make the bill better."[/quote]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/02/politics/rand-paul-emmett-till-antilynching-act-senate/index.html[/quote]

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