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Rand Paul masks his true worldview
The Washington Post ^ | March 11 2013 | By Michael Gerson(a Bushie)

Posted on 03/12/2013 9:23:45 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

Since arriving in the Senate in 2011, Rand Paul has been probing here and there for issues of populist resonance. Audit the secretive, sinister Federal Reserve. Rein in those TSA screeners patting down little girls. In each instance, Paul (R-Ky.) has evoked the fear of oppressive government without tipping over into the paranoia of his father’s most dedicated supporters. It has been a diluted, domesticated, decaffeinated version of the ideology that motivated Ron Paul’s presidential races.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 113th; bushies; gerson; gope; neocon; waroneverything
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Looks like at least one of the GOP-e "Establishment" is freaked.
1 posted on 03/12/2013 9:23:45 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet
It has been a diluted, domesticated, decaffeinated version of the ideology that motivated Ron Paul’s presidential races.

Its a good thing. It proves that he has wisdom beyond that of his father.
2 posted on 03/12/2013 9:25:36 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: US Navy Vet
It has been a diluted, domesticated, decaffeinated version of the ideology that motivated Ron Paul’s presidential races.

So, what we have is judicial and fiscal restraint coupled with a not-so-isolationist foreign policy. So where's the problem?

3 posted on 03/12/2013 9:28:04 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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So, what we have is judicial and fiscal restraint coupled with a not-so-isolationist foreign policy. So where's the problem?

Don't you SEE?

He's guilty by paternal association!

[running around screaming in full RINO mode]

LOL!

4 posted on 03/12/2013 9:36:43 AM PDT by MamaTexan (To follow Original Constitutional Intent, one MUST acknowledge the Right of Secession)
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To: US Navy Vet

Scribblers at the WP are the philosophical and intellectual heirs to the Nazi propaganda hierarchy.


5 posted on 03/12/2013 9:38:22 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: ScottinVA

Personally I’d like to stop wasting lives and resources trying to civilize the savages of the mideast and return to something more akin to the Monroe Doctrine. After all those mideastern savages are happily infecting central and south America and need to be stopped.

We can do that and still stand by Israel with minimal forces in the mideast.


6 posted on 03/12/2013 9:39:20 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: US Navy Vet

I just LOVE how the gope states it has the power to know a man’s inner thoughts when they can’t even articulate their own...because if they did, their hair would catch on fire.


7 posted on 03/12/2013 9:44:39 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Karl Rove in pink tights. Is that you, Karl?


8 posted on 03/12/2013 9:45:08 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Due Process 2013: "Burn the M*****-F***er Down!")
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To: US Navy Vet

9 posted on 03/12/2013 9:53:04 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: US Navy Vet

I don’t agree with some of Rand Paul’s positions, but he seems to have incorporated the libertarian stuff of his father without all the crazy. He is papabile.


10 posted on 03/12/2013 9:55:54 AM PDT by Defiant (If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
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He should be.

If there’s a credible conservative candidate in 2016 who actually is fiscally conservative and starts laying out why we should no longer be “cop to the world,” he’s going to win.

The neo-con Jews are going to hyperventilate and scream, because they know that the Democrats, for all the Jews who gullibly vote Democratic, don’t like Jews or Israel. They like Jewish money... and maybe votes, but that’s about it. So the neo-cons, seeing no other parties in the US, are going to put everything they’ve got into destroying people like Rand Paul and anyone else who doesn’t enjoy foreign mis-adventures in the middle east.

I think that now is the time for conservatives to give the neo-cons the heave-ho and send them packing. If the neo-cons want to talk about supporting Israel, then they can tell American Jews “If you want to see Israel survive, you’d better start sending your money and support there, rather than into American politics...” because the rest of us are tired of sending out money, national reputation and young people into the middle east to counter “threats” which aren’t a threat to the US at all.


11 posted on 03/12/2013 9:57:00 AM PDT by NVDave
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The GOPe is trying to “Alinsky” Rand Paul but don’t realize that they’ve already lost.

It reminds me of some comments Robert E Lee made about a particularly bloody defeat. He said he tried to turn an obvious defeat into a victory and ended up costing far more lives than necessary. Basically he let his pride get in the way of wisdom and that’s what the GOPe is happily doing with their attacks on Rand Paul.


12 posted on 03/12/2013 9:58:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: NVDave

The Bible I read says that, Genesis 12:3
King James Version (KJV)

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

I believe it means Isreal NOT individual Jewish People. G*D will(and has) judged his chosen people thoughout time and history.


13 posted on 03/12/2013 10:04:05 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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Sadly , we cant afford influence in the middle east. The bamster has pissed away our abilities.


14 posted on 03/12/2013 10:09:09 AM PDT by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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Articles like this that don't mention Waco or Ruby Ridge are worthless, though if they mention Kent State or Jackson State or some other high profile incident further back they might redeem themselves.

Ron Paul may be right or wrong or crazy, but it's moronic or deceitful to claim to know what's really on his mind if you don't deal with what his supporters are most worried about.

15 posted on 03/12/2013 10:12:34 AM PDT by x
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>> So, what we have is judicial and fiscal restraint coupled with a not-so-isolationist foreign policy. So where's the problem? <<

Support for scumbags like Chuck Hagel and willingness to pass amnesty for illegals, for starters.

16 posted on 03/12/2013 10:29:12 AM PDT by BillyBoy ( Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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So who is better?


17 posted on 03/12/2013 10:49:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: US Navy Vet

The smearing of Rand Paul begins.

Memo to Micheal Gerson:

1. Some of us are a little uncomfortable with the plan to deploy up to 30,000 drones over the sunny skies of Amerika spying on every move we make.

2. Some of us are a schosh concerned about a govt agency named “Homeland” Security sticking their hands down our pants at the airport, buying 2 billion rounds of ammo, 7,000 full auto assault rifles and 2717 armored trucks.

3. If the terrorists were so desparate to destroy us they could have waltzed an army across the largely open SW border at anytime in the past 10 years but for some unknown reason they have not.

Some of us are more afraid of the US govt than the terrorists. Arguably the US govt is the terrorist.


18 posted on 03/12/2013 10:57:43 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Scribblers?

He was George Bush's evangelical speech writer. He got in the dispute with Bush's NeoCon speech writer(David Frumj) over that phrase "axis of evil"

19 posted on 03/12/2013 11:05:18 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: US Navy Vet

What? You can’t say GOD????


20 posted on 03/12/2013 11:09:57 AM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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