Following the bitterly partisan, acrimonious confirmation battle over Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., warned in an interview on Tuesday that heated political rhetoric has the potential to turn deadly.

"I fear that there's going to be an assassination," Paul told a Kentucky radio show. "I really worry that somebody is going to be killed, and that those who are ratcheting up the conversation ... they have to realize they bear some responsibility if this elevates to violence."

Paul's comments came the same day former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton declared that Democrats "cannot be civil" with Republicans any longer.

Paul's wife, Kelley, revealed in a Breitbart News interview on Friday that she sleeps with a "loaded gun by my bed," has updated her home's security system and has "deadbolts all around my house." Kelley also wrote an op-ed published by CNN in which she called on Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., to tone down his rhetoric; in June, Booker suggested his supporters “get up in the face of congresspeople.”

The Kentucky senator reiterated his wife's criticism on Tuesday. "When people like Cory Booker say get up in their face ... What he doesn't realize is that for every 1,000 persons who want to get up in your face, one of them is going to be unstable enough to commit violence," Paul said.

Last week, Paul was chased and verbally harassed by anti-Kavanaugh activists at Washington's Reagan National Airport. And last fall, Paul was attacked and beaten in his yard in Kentucky by his neighbor -- an episode that a Kentucky Democrat joked about earlier this year.

Paul was attending the congressional baseball practice last summer when a gunman opened fire, hitting House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., in the hip and injuring two Capitol police officers and an aide. The episode was very nearly a "massacre," lawmakers said.

"When I was at the ballfield and Steve Scalise was nearly killed, the guy shooting up the ballfield, and shooting I think five or six people, he was yelling, 'This is for health care,'" Paul told host Leland Conway on Tuesday. "When I was attacked in my yard and had six of my ribs broken, and pneumonia, lung contusion, all that -- these are people that are unstable, we don't want to encourage them."

REPUBLICAN SENATOR RECEIVES GRAPHIC TEXT MESSAGE OF BEHEADING, SEES PERSONAL INFORMATION LEAKED AFTER 'YES' VOTE ON KAVANAUGH
The uncorroborated sexual assault accusations against Kavanaguh, Paul said, didn't justify keeping him off the Supreme Court, much less the partisan rancor surrounding his confirmation. (Paul, who was initially skeptical about Kavanaugh's constitutional views on privacy, ultimately became one of the 51 senators who supported his confirmation.)

"We don't want this to be the standard, that anyone can accuse anybody of anything," he continued. "That would sort of be the standard they had in Venice in the 15th century, when people would put their complaints into the mouth of the lion .... And you'd put your complaint in, and people would lose their head over that."

Paul then echoed President Trump's comments at a ceremonial swearing-in for Kavanaugh in the East Room on Monday evening, as well as dramatic remarks by Maine moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins last week. The president apologized to Kavanaugh "on behalf of our nation" and, before thanking Collins, emphasized that "in our country, a man or a woman must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty."

"You are presumed to be innocent," Paul agreed. "I just feel really sorry for Kavanaugh and his wife and his children for having to go through that."
Hundreds of protesters have been arrested by Capitol Police in the past three weeks, with some briefly staying in jail. Kavanaugh, his family, his accusers and lawmakers all received death threats.

Protests outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the first day Kavanaugh publicly sat on the bench for oral arguments, were relatively sparse. On Saturday, when Kavanaugh was formally sworn in, demonstrators outside banged on the Supreme Court's doors and attempted to claw their way inside.

And a teacher in Minnesota announced she had resigned this week after asking on Twitter, "So whose gonna take one for the team and kill Kavanaugh?" Supreme Court justices receive protection from the Supreme Court Police and the U.S. Marshals Service while in Washington, D.C., although they must ordinarily request protection on domestic or international trips outside that metropolitan area.

On Tuesday, President Trump suggested some of the demonstraters in the nation's capital were paid to protest, and were angry primarily because "they haven't gotten their checks." Some of the anti-Kavanaugh protesters who accosted senators on Capitol Hill have ties to liberal billionaire George Soros.

A 27-year-old Democratic congressional intern was arrested last week and accused of posting the personal information of at least one Republican senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Kavanaugh. The intern, who has since been fired, was denied bail on Tuesday.

Also speaking in a radio interview on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he was proud of his Republican colleagues for standing up to what he called "mob tactics" during the Kavanaugh confirmation battle.

McConnell also said that he would have no problem appointing a conservative justice in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election if Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg were to retire from the bench. He distinguished that hypothetical from the situation with failed Obama nominee Merrick Garland in 2016 because at that time, different parties controlled the White House and the Senate.

"It will depend largely if the Senate is in Republican hands or Democratic hands," McConnell said, saying it is exceedingly rare for a lame-duck president whose party does not control the Senate to nominate a Supreme Court justice.

The GOP is currently favored to retain control of the Senate after November's midterm elections, buoyed in part by a newly energized base after the Kavanaugh fight.

"This has been like a shot of adrenaline to Republican voters who probably were not as interested or energized in an off-year election with the president not on the ballot," McConnell said. "I think they overplayed their hand. I think the tactics turned off people and turned on our base."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rand-paul-warns-of-assassination-after-kavanaugh-confirmation-i-really-worry-someone-is-going-to-be-killed

The Democrats new motto, support us or you get clipped.

The media is fueling a lot of anger. The liberal spin is making bottom feeders believe the are owed a living. I'm watch CNN right now and they are saying tax cuts took away healthcare. Republicans are against socialism and support hard work. Democrat supporters are getting Desparate to stop republicans.

I've noticed at work that the ones who complain they need money, are the first ones to volunteer to go home when things get slow and never volunteer for ot. These types love socialism. The ones volunteering for ot are the ones who don't need the money. Just want a better life.

Man charged with building a 200lb bomb. He planned a suicide mission at the national mall on election day. CNN

Yup, I read that and the bomb was a working bomb! What's worse is the guy is only looking at a maximum of ten years and he is showing NO remorse!

We've already had two assassination attacks. One against Congressman Scalise and one against Senator Paul. All because the Looney Left is fueling the hatred and anger.

PEOPLE fuel hatred, not the 'left' or the 'right'. not democrats or republicans.

Lets not forget the elevated threats on the President when OBAMA was in office, I doubt that was 'the left' or 'the democrats'

lets not forget #45 admiringly remanaissing about how protestors used to be 'carried out on stretchers' or how protesters should be punched in the mouth or how two men who beat a mexican for being mexican were 'passionate' supporters.

As long as both sides continue to only see what the other side does, neither side will correct their OWN behavior, which is all anyone can be in control of, and nothing will change.

The violence I remember under Obama was started in Missouri against police officers and business owners. That hate spilled over into other states including Atlanta. BLM made a threat against our children at schools. What is happening now is a continuing of that violence. It's toned down because of the fear that it won't be tolerated but it still exist.

164 protesters were arrested during the time kavanaugh was confirmed.

The violence I remember has always been a part of US culture. Lynchings, cross burnings, public hangings, executions, police beatings and brutality, political assassinations ...lol .. under OBAMA... seriously?

riots have happened under EVERY president, for anything from something trivial like sports scores, or something major like a dead teen.

Who do you know that was lynched? How many burning crosses have you witnessed, did they sell tickets to the public hangings, those in Missouri needed their ***** beat but they let them riot because Obama condoned it.

The "Democrats" here were trying to start fights. Republicans live productive lives. Democrats sleep half the day and only want to -uck or fight.

I remember history. But if we are only going on our lifetime, I remember Rodney King being beat by police, I remember Oscar Grant being shot while lying on the ground, I remember a Trump protestor being Punched as he was actually LEAVING the rally. I remember a man opening fire on concert goers here in Las Vegas. I remember a girl being run down by a nazi while peacefully protesting.

like I said, the memory of violence being an 'obama' thing is beyond nonsense. It is not a liberal or conservative thing, it is not a republican or democrat thing, it is a human thing, and has been one of many AMERICAN things since it was first founded.

And you clearly remember the hate you were taught at home by your parents and grandparents. Blacks have the same rights as whites. They continue to fail as members of society. They commit the most crimes, have the most illegitimate kids, and have the highest poverty rate. We've had a black president which shows they have the same opportunities as whites. It's time to stop playing the black card they've been taught by generations who lived on welfare and blamed society for their failures.

Given, that the Johns Hopkins psychiatric department
have deemed liberalism for what it is, a mental illness.

It's not the least bit unreasonable, for others to be concerned
about violent attacks from the loony left.

where have I espoused hate? what makes you assume I was taught to hate anyone or anything? IN fact, the word hate was not allowed in our home, so you may not want to make assumptions that are uninformed. This is not a thread about civil rights or black people. Me thinks it stays on your mind far too much.

This thread, just as a reminder, is about assassination.

I would be afraid of an assassination, too.

Republicans holding office are right to feel threatened, since the threats are real

I have looked for this declaration and cannot find it. Care to provide a link? thank you.

This thread isn't about Obama either. The violence under him wss against police and business owners. You brought up lynchings that have nothing to do with what's happening today except for the hate people were taught at home.

Trump is restoring the ability to work hard and be rewarded for it. Tax cuts are clearly creating a better economy. JOBS are plentiful, even for inexperienced people. Democrats are still stuck on welfare for all Champaigns and people who refuse to work are saying corporations are stealing their money. Democrats lively hood is being threatened and they are turning violent. It's dangerous for the ones trying to move them off a check and into a job but it must be done.

you are correct. It is relevant as a response to someone espousing the 'looney left' with assassination attempts, in the fact that there were assassination threats against a democratic POTUS. My family and blacks still had no RELEVANCE to the discussion.

lynchings were relevant as well to point out the silliness of trying to assign 'violence' to a particular party or philosophy.

Nothing is much different under Trump than any other, but the spin always goes to the person being supported by their supporter., words like 'restoring' 'better' , 'refuse', are all emotionally biased descriptions that are entirely subjective and not easy to back up with fact.

Democrats are not 'turning' violent anymore than republicans are. they have both ALWAYS had violent among them. That is the fact of the matter. The world is not revolving around either people who are stuck on welfare, or people who are obsessed over the idea of welfare for others. There are MANY other things that motivate people during these or any other times, contrary to popular belief.

Are you looking in places, other than on your coffee table?

A basic search, turns up several links, including links that go
to the source, johns hopkins.edu

How many Republican supporters were arrested the past couple of weeks? Welfare and open borders is the campaign of democrats. I agree they need to come up with something new. Even members of their own party say it's not going to get the elected. I don't think they are obsessed. I just think they have nothing else since Trump is making so much progress in all areas.

haaa, I know how to look for things. A search of john hopkins psychiatric liberalism turned up nothing for me, but since you found several, I just ask you provide one or two?

thanks.