Ron Paul Aide Is Too Sexy For The Net, Too Sexy For The Net

Note: This item incorrectly had Richard Connelly’s byline on it for awhile. It’s by Steve Olafson. Apologies to all.

Question: How sexy are Ron Paul-style Republicans?

We intended to post a YouTube video that might have addressed the above
question, but before we did so, we decided to place a call to the Washington
office of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, the Republican from Brazosport and one-time
presidential candidate.

We didn’t want to talk to Paul. We wanted to talk to Rachel Mills, his press secretary who last week caused a small stirring in the
loins of the Internet that ended prematurely.

You can’t see the aforementioned YouTube viddy now. Rachel took it down
after we called her. (The best we can do is show you this frame of her from her video.)

By way of explanation, the video was in the vein of a one-woman comedic skit
in which she spoke directly to the camera, talking about what she wanted in
a fella. In the political vernacular of the gag, she was looking for a
“candidate” — preferably one who believed in “Constitutional protection,”
an oblique reference to safe sex. Va-va-voom!

She then, more or less, vamped for the camera and laid down a few other
sexual innuendos and double entendres.

Some found it clever; others, not so much.

Said one commenter on a thread at RonPaulforums.com: “Practice safe lunch;
use a condiment.

By the way, should this be considered NSFW?”

L. Golden, a Paul constituent in the 14th Congressional District, was among
those put off by the display, telling us:

“The
problem I have is that there is ZERO coverage of our Congressman in
District 14’s news media. This is what a press secretary is supposed to
be doing, correct? Instead, we have this video circulating on the
internet. It’s distasteful, downright inappropriate and does not
reflect well on Dr. Paul and whoever hires and manages the
congressional staff. In addition, this person’s salary is paid by the
taxpayers…for doing what?? ”

We talked to Rachel on the phone last night and she said she wished we
didn’t write about this video.

In her own defense, she said she performed in the video on her own time. She
didn’t want to talk about this during office hours, either, asking to speak
to Hair Balls via her “personal cell phone” after work. (Yea, taxpayers!)

She’s only billed as “Rachel” in the video and not as Paul’s press
secretary. Nevertheless, she said she decided to pull the video after
getting our phone call.

“I don’t want to upset anybody,” she said, most especially Congressman Paul,
whom she said she greatly respects.

Mills, who once ran for a state House seat in North Carolina and marketed a
pin-up
calendar featuring herself and other Libertarian women wearing bras and
panties, called her now-deleted video a “casual, fun thing” and nothing
more.

Mills appears in a few other videos on the “Ladies4Liberty” YouTube Channel. She’s the
“waitress” in the “Unidine” vid, a sketch that equates universal health care
to a restaurant where the customers are told they can’t pick from the menu
and must eat whatever they’re served.

It’s not the least bit sexually
suggestive and no one’s complained about it yet, so far as we know.