Republicans Should Repudiate Rand Paul's Civil Rights Stand

So says Peter Wehner on Politics Daily

The best news Democrats received from Tuesday’s election was not the victory of Mark Critz over Tim Burns in Pennsylvania’s 12^th District. It was the Senate primary victory in Kentucky of Republican Rand Paul, son of Rep. Ron Paul. The reason is that Democrats are going to take the views of the younger Paul, also a libertarian, and place them in bright neon lights. They understandably want him to become the face and intellectual representative of the modern GOP — especially on matters of race.

As much of the political world knows by now, Rand Paul has on several occasions indicated that he is opposed to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, at least the element of it that said that private businesses cannot discriminate on the basis of race. On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow asked Paul, “Do you think that a private business has the right to say, ‘We don’t serve black people?’” More…