[Texas Eagle]

I’m already sick of Rand Paul. Would somebody just give the man a joint and a hooker already.

All we need is a nation of effed up potheads sitting home collecting welfare and unemployment checks their whole lives.

[SSDecontrol]

Rand is correct. A puff of some pot is on par with a swig of alcohol. One is morally acceptable in our society and one isn’t.. why the difference? Because Harry J. Anslinger wanted to increase the size of the Bureau of Narcotics in 1937, he used weed as a scare issue to increase his own prestige and the power of the Bureau... as conservatives, we should realize that a lot of this drug war stuff is just a bunch of statist propaganda to give reason for bigger bureaus. Meth heroin, the hard stuff.. I’m not for legalizing.. but pot?? We are making a black market out of a harmless substance.

[Brown Deer]

Barack 0bama:

"We were always playing on the white man's court ... by the white man's rules. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though.

I spent the last two years of high school in a daze, locking away the questions that life seemed insistent on posing. I kept playing basketball, attended classes sparingly, drank beer heavily and tried drugs enthusiastically. I discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van or in the dorm room with some brother you've met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl.

I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof off in high school as my mom reminded me. I went to high school in Hawaii, so there's a lot of opportunity to goof off because the weather is really good all the time …You know, I made some bad decisions …. You know, got into drinking and experimenting with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time where I didn't apply myself. It wasn't until I got out of … high school, and went to college that I started realizing, man, I wasted a lot of time.”

Photo from college years:

[Aglooka]

To the GOP: Become the party of liberty or become irrelevant.

[Christie at the beach]

Rand is like his dad. We are going to have problems with him. He will help the GOP in causing divisions which ahs already started. He had no business campaign President Bush to Obama. Obama is a die-hard Markist. Bush did some things wrong but he loves his country and he stood for on traditional marriage. I give him that. I appreciate it, too.
Rand has so much power; he cannot control what he says. He put on a show and still voted for the people he said were not qualified. What is he this week? Libertarian or conservative or an insider looking for love.

[darrellmaurina]

Somebody explain to me why Barack Obama (or Barry O’Bama, as he was known back then) being sent to jail for substance abuse would have been a bad thing.

As far as George W. Bush's substance abuse is concerned, I think he **DID** get arrested for and convicted of drunk driving. Once that was discovered, it nearly cost him the 2000 election.

Rand Paul says a lot of good things, but then he goes off and says stuff that sounds a lot too much like his father.

102 posted on 3/24/2013 5:44:08 PM by Responsibility2nd: “You are a troll. But I've known that for months now. When you finally get a well-deserved zot - please read the comments that will follow. You'll see me among the gloaters.”

Look, we all know these things go in cycles. Free Republic used to ban Ron Paul supporters, sometimes zotting them on sight. I remember a Class of 1998 Freeper being zotted merely because he said he'd vote for Ron Paul.

Today Rand Paul is popular in some conservative circles and the Paulbots are coming back out of the woodwork.

Enjoy your reprieve, Paulbots. If Rand Paul starts acting like a responsible elected official, I'll be right out front defending your right to be considered a legitimate wing of the Republican Party. But if, as I suspect, the Rand Paul apple hasn't fallen far from the Ron Paul tree, it will only be a matter of time until the reprieve ends and the zots begin anew.

As far as I'm concerned, libertarians who advocate amorality and who don't support a strong defense are not conservatives but rather a cancer in our midst. On the other hand, libertarians who want to focus on issues of personal freedom and fiscal discipline while staying quiet on social issues and military issues are people I can work with, just as I'm happy to support decorated combat veterans who may not share my moral values but are otherwise solid conservatives.

People's positions take time to fully develop, and while Ron Paul is a known commodity, I'll give Rand Paul the benefit of the doubt so we can find out where he stands.

[ek_hornbeck]

I oppose the war on drugs as much as anyone (apparently, we didn’t learn anything from Prohibition), but Rand picked bad examples to make his point. We’d be much better off had Bush and Obama both been in a prison cell instead of in the Oval Office.