We aren’t going to agree with every Senator on every issue, dammit.
Rand Paul is being dismissed on this board because of a single frickin’ vote.
Folks who do that are absurd. They’re content to forever pissed off, apparently.
Good luck getting a governing majority with that attitude.
“Rand Paul is being dismissed on this board because of a single frickin’ vote.”
It’s not just any vote, it’s the top Defense job for this country.
I was vacillating with Rand Paul, wondering if he would be too much like his father. He’s scratched off my list as a viable candidate.
Rand Paul is now dead to me. There is no way anyone can justify allowing that POS Hagel to rule over our military.
He had the absolute worst and most ill-prepared confirmation hearing in our nation’s history and Rand Paul still confirmed him.
Rand Paul has easily and fully shown himself to be a political hack and an enemy of our nation’s military.
I don’t care what he says. I judge him based on his votes.
Most of them are DU hacks, or Paulnuts or third party wannabe banana dictators.
I generally agree with your point, SFF.
The problem here with Rand is that his dad is so wacko on foreign and defense policy, we need to see how the son handles such matters. Rand is good on domestic issues. This one went to our national security. Of all times you could defend voting against a President’s nominee THIS WAS THE TIME. Even mercurial types like McCain voted no. Hagel is the worst nominee EVER. And I’ve been around a long time (cough).
I have to think there is something in Rand that actually sympathizes with some aspects of Obama’s foreign and defense policies, wherein at which point they might track with his dad’s views. Hagel represents that. At the very least one might say Rand could be conflicted in sorting out his own responsibilities to protect America from his dad’s views, which are off the chart and in some respects resemble Obama’s and Hagel’s.