Monday, April 27, 2015

Rand Paul And His Cool Sunglasses

Rand Paul sun glasses which are money makers for his presidential run have run into difficulties. His Ray-Ban sunglasses made by Wayfarer Brand have been asked by the company to take the product off his website. The reason, Rand Paul's campaign had been selling the Ray-Ban glasses without the company's consent. The glasses have the imprinted "Rand" logo on the side and Jane Lehman, who handles the corporate media at Luxottica, Ray-Ban's public relations firm, says  "it was without consent."

Some believe he was going after the look of JFK, who wore a certain sun glass on his campaign. A caption on his site says " I can hear Senator Bentsen now "I knew Jack Kennedy and your not Jack Kennedy." Well, you and I may not be Jack Kennedy but Rand likes Ray-Bans and now we all can own Rand branded Ray-Bans"

Well we may all want these amazing cool JFK look-a-likes but can we afford them at $150.00 a pop?
The site continues to say"$150.00 is more than you might normally pay for sun glasses but these are Ray-Bans and even more, they are indelibly marked with the Rand Brand...and as always, it's a contribution to the Rand Paul for President campaign."

Is this the same man who cries and bemoans the congress for overspending and gorging the peoples monies. It may seem a small example but does it show something in his nature that it's wrong to spend the congresses money incorrectly but it's OK to over price a sun glass for my presidential campaign, after all I need the money in order to run, they all do it. Don't they? I need to ask permission to sell them on my website? Why bother me with small technicalities. I'm running for president.

My feeling, if you will do it for a website, will you do the same for larger matters? Like spending our tax dollars? Rand Paul described the product as "the intersection of politics and cool." Mr. Rand there is nothing cool about doing something without permission and then overcharging the people. In fact there is rather something wrong with it. And this could possibly show another side of Rand Paul we would really not like to see.








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