On Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton joined Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes at a campaign event and spoke on her behalf. This was a pretty big deal, as it showed that Grimes is truly a credible threat to toppling Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) this November. Having the popular ex-President campaigning on your behalf can only boost your chances come election time.
Well, the Junior Senator from Kentucky, Republican Rand Paul, had to get his two cents in before the event. In a clip that aired Tuesday morning on MSNBC, Paul made the following statement:
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You know, it concerns me. The thing is, I think workplace violence is a serious thing. If the president of your network had relations with a 20 year-old girl who was there from college, I think the president of your network would be fired. If that’s what Bill Clinton did multiple times, really they ought to be concerned about being associated with him.
Did you catch that? In pretty clear terms, Rand Paul not only called Bill Clinton a sexual predator, he stated that Clinton committed violence against women in the workplace. He is stating that Monica Lewinsky was assaulted by the President between 1995 and 1997, when their sexual encounters took place. Paul is also making the point that anyone else that did what Clinton did would have been fired from their job and ostracized.
Rand Paul has been beating this drum for a while now. Mostly, it has been seen as a way to try to discredit Hillary Clinton prior to the 2016 election, especially since Paul sees himself as a potential candidate. Now, with Bill Clinton going out on the mid-term campaign trail in areas where President Obama isn’t overly popular, Paul appears to be doing it as a way to directly attack the former President.
His previous claims and attacks were already over the line. Plus, they just came across as desperate, seeing as the nation already came to terms with the Lewinsky scandal over 15 years ago. Now, he has decided to take it up a notch to the point where he not only should be forced to apologize, but perhaps the US Senate should think about censuring him for these abhorrent comments about a former Commander-In-Chief.
Absolutely everything he said on Tuesday morning was an out and out lie and completely inappropriate. First off, how was there any ‘workplace violence’, as Paul directly stated? Is Paul stating that Bill Clinton punched or physically hurt Lewinsky in some way? Because Lewinsky has always stated that the sexual encounters between the two were consensual.
Also, he has constantly referred to Lewinsky as a ’20-year old’ college girl. The fact is, Lewinsky was 22 at the time of her first encounter with Bill Clinton and she’d already graduated from college. She had also already carried on another affair with an older, married man prior to getting involved with the President. She wasn’t a young, naive, little girl barely out of high school. She was an experienced, adult woman who had already finished her college degree. It is extremely dishonest for Paul to keep saying that Lewinsky was younger than she was.
Why does Paul need to completely embellish the actual facts of this affair? If the Lewinsky scandal was as horrible as he keeps making it out to be, nearly 20 years later, why can’t he just discuss it honestly? Why does he have to make up so much stuff? The reason is because Rand Paul is a pathological liar. Once he tells something dishonest, he has to keep building on it and adding to it. The lie has to keep getting bigger and bigger. That is all he knows. He can’t help himself.
And to think…this man wants to be President!
H/T: Daily Kos
Justin Baragona is the Managing Editor at Politicus Sports as well as Senior Editor at PoliticusUSA. He was a political writer for 411Mania.com before joining PoliticusUSA. Politically, Justin considers himself a liberal but also a realist and pragmatist. Currently, Justin lives in St. Louis, MO and is married. Besides writing, he also runs his own business after spending a number of years in the corporate world. You can follow Justin on Twitter either with his personal handle (@justinbaragona) or the Sports site’s (@PoliticusSports).
