Former Rand Paul campaign manager David Adams — who sauntered off into the sunset after Paul’s epic national implosion in the days after he won the Republican nomination for Senate in Kentucky — is defending his decision to allow Paul to hoist himself on his own libertarianism in that infamous Maddow interview.
In a recent interview with liberal Kentucky blogger Barefoot and Progressive, Adams says he sat in the room watching while Paul spent 18 minutes sputtering through a discussion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act — but that he thinks the end result was not that bad for Paul. Besides, he says, if Paul was going to catch flack for his views on property rights as they apply to civil rights, there was nothing Adams as campaign manager could do about it.
“Good question, I suppose,” Adams said when the blogger asked him why he didn’t pull the plug on the Maddow interview as it devolved into a debate about the merits of the ’64 Civil Rights law. But Adams also said that critics of the interview aren’t paying attention.
“Go back and watch that entire 18 minutes,” he said. “I think that the people who do that, we have had a lot of people complain about it initially, or complain about the dustup, who went back after the fact and said, ‘I watched the whole 18 minutes, I understand what he was talking about, it made sense to me.”
What’s more, he said, Paul’s unique brand of Republican politics weren’t going to be contained by keeping him off Maddow.
“If that was the issue that was going to cause real problems,” Adams said of the cvil rights interview, “it already would have by now.”
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