Rand Paul and the war of the NoZes.

Politics have obviously long been a passion in my life. It has truly become a love-hate relationship though. Politics these days have become so visceral that it really isn’t as much fun as it is a struggle, an ugly wrestling match with faux wrestlers if you will.

I may have fantasized during portions of my life that I would some day run for office. It was never really serious because I had seriously engaged in the study of fun as a younger man. I was never in serious trouble. Nevertheless, there was a time in my life during college when folks at the little country store up the road told people who were looking for my place that they only had to drive for about a mile and look for the house with people on the roof. In other words, I never thought I would ever be elected to any serious office. I did think about running for the archaic office of Inspector of Hides and Animals here in Jefferson County — a non-paid, unfunded, position with no reason for being these days — but the county already had an inspector and the office was soon rustled off to oblivion by the Texas Legislature.

There was no way I thought I could ever pull the wool over anyone’s eyes that I had a good time as a younger guy. But apparently some politicians think they can do so. Some pols think they could go to college in one state, party like a big dog, throw furniture and TVs out hotel windows at Spring Break and 20 years later get elected in another state. This seems the mindset of Kentucky Tea Party senatorial candidate Dr. Rand Paul, according to an article on GQ magazine’s Web site.

The article reports that an unidentified woman said Paul was a member of the locally infamous “NoZe Brotherhood” at Baylor University. The brotherhood is a secret society that pretty much has dedicated itself to having fun and raising Hell at the nation’s largest Baptist university located in Waco. However, the GQ story reported that actions of Paul and another student seemed to go a little overboard when they purportedly kidnapped a woman who was acquaintance of Paul’s and tried to force her to smoke bong hits of pot as well as worship the “Aqua Buddha” at a creek outside of Waco.

This was all in 1983, about the same time I was having a lot of fun my ownself. The woman involved in the incident said it has been blown out of proportion and that Paul and his friend was just “messing” with her even though she described what happened as being “hazed.”

I never ran for office because I used to party a bit. Here is Rand Paul running for office even though he apparently did some partying too and perhaps even went over the line at least once. Who knows where the truth is in all this. When someone runs for office with a big-time following a lot of money can help make old hurts hurt less. I’m not saying Dr. Paul did. It just seems like politics has to be  taken with a big ball of perspective, much more so these days than in days past.

One wonders if Rand Paul is elected to the Senate he’ll show up to an office party wearing his old fake nose disguise from his days as a member of the NoZe boys?