Posted on 07/29/2013 7:22:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 07/29/2013 7:24:20 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sen. Rand Paul’s criticism of the National Security Agency’s spying programs puts him in the same category as the late George McGovern, the anti-war 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, Rep. Peter King, R-New York, said Sunday.
Echoing remarks last week from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, King sharply chastised Paul for suggesting admitted NSA leaker Edward Snowden was performing an act of civil disobedience when he revealed the massive snooping programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
All the more reason to support Rand.
Hey Petey, who are we fighting.
He can’t tell us, it’s a state secret.
I associate peter king with obama... and ted kennedy... and chucky schumer and hillary clinton.
Don't ask him, he don't give a damn...
King wasn’t like this years ago, as he was pragmatic. Odumbo got to him somehow.
King is setting up a strawman/ad hom attack. He is flailing as most establishmnet GOP types do under these circumstances.
Rand Paul is neither isolationist nor interventionist. Establishment GOP tend to be interventionist, while the Obama/Hillary establishment Dem types will intervene at the drop of a hat for humanitarian reasons - that is to save Muslims.
Then again, I don’t remember Bush Jr. intervening in Sudan or other places in Africa where Christians were slaughtered. But he did intervene to save Muslims.
Peter King and other GOP-e types are shaking at the info Greenwald is going to drop on Friday.
He is still living in the 2002 GWB ‘you are either with us or against us’ days.
Long gone.
Big words from someone from a state that hasn’t voted Republican since Pres. Reagan’s two victories. If you can’t win your own state for the GOP, you shouldn’t hand out advice to politicians from Republican states.
Peter King is a statist.
2. The current NSA projects far exceed anything done domestically during our desperate struggle with Communism.
3. The kindest thing one can say about Peter King, is that he totally lacks any sense of proportion. His constituents need to query him as to just what are his priorities. They are not appear to be those of a traditionally minded American.
William Flax
If he’s taking flack from King he must be right over the target.
Is King doing the bidding or Christie or Bush? Not that it really matters.
Yeah, this from the Nelson Rockefeller of the republican party. Goldwater, too dangerous. Reagan, too dangerous. Paul, too dangerous.
Yayyy! Gerald Ford’s our nomiee! Yayyy! George Bush is our nominee! Yaayyy! Bob Dole is our nominee! Yayyyy! John McCain is our nominee! Yayyyy! Mitt Romney’s our nominee!
See a pattern?? Goldwater inspired a conservative revolution. Reagaan won two landslde elections and was basically responsible for a third (1988). We’ll see what history has to say about Paul, but we could certainly do worse! And have! (see above list)
I read "The Wild Blue", which was about his unit. There's a reason why he was anti-war, and it wasn't solely political.
Peter King - the House’s version of John McCain. He never saw a war he didn’t like.
Rino’s are on the attack, they are losing hearts and minds.
He used to be an 80% Republican... but these days I can hardly tell him from any other run of the mill dim.
“King sharply chastised Paul for suggesting admitted NSA leaker Edward Snowden was performing an act of civil disobedience when he revealed the massive snooping programs”
Yeh us plebes aren’t supposed to find out about the masters are doing.
Pete King is a disloyal POS and should not be trusted. He’s in cahoots with RATS like Schumer the Clintons and RINOs McCain and Graham.
Where’s this war hero’s and Sir EatsAlot’s DD214?
Peter King is a NeoCon and this is a battle between the NeoCons and the isolationists.
The battle began on May 22 when the Senate foreign relations committee held a vote on whether or not to intervene in Syria.
19 votes made up of dems and pubs to intervene in Syria. There were 3 votes opposed to intervening. That was Rand Paul the isolationist plus 2 antiwar pacifist democrats. Then, not long after that, those 3 were joined by isolationist Mike Lee to introduce legislation opposing intervention.
You need to understand, it is very common for rightwing isolationists to share the same foreign policy position as the anti war pacifist democrats.
Or, as they used to say in previous times: when it came to foreign policy, there wasn't much difference between Ron Paul and Dennis Kuccinich.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern
What info is Greenwald dropping?
LLS
Well, you can support Paul. For me, his stance on illegal aliens negate anything good that he says.
negate = negates
Pete King is a disloyal POS and should not be trusted. He’s in cahoots with RATS like Schumer the Clintons and RINOs McCain and Graham.
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True. But Paul is in cahoots with those who want to grant amnesty to the illegals.
McGovern was dangerously naive about communism from WWII to Vietnam. His record as Henry Wallace’s campaign manager in 1948 is worth study. Wallace later admitted he had been used by the Soviets during the buildup to the war in Korea.
In 1972 I was flying helicopters in Vietnam while McGovern was in Saigon undermining our allies & promising to go on his knees to Hanoi. During the campaign he stated that his enemy was not the Soviet or Red Chinese militaries, but the U.S. military, and vowed to cut defense spending by 25%.
Combat service does not render one’s political views as being immune to criticism. Not his, not mine or anybody’s.
“True. But Paul is in cahoots with those who want to grant amnesty to the illegals.”
True! And this writer wants nothing to do with him either!
Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double Defense Industry Cash
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3048063/posts
H. Amdt. 413 - An Amendment Numbered 100 Printed in House Report 113-170 to End Authority for the Blanket Collection of Records Under the Patriot Act. It Would Also Bar the NSA and Other Agencies from Using Section 215 of the Patriot Act to Collect Records, Including Telephone Call Records, That Pertain to Persons Who Are Not Subject to an Investigation Under Section 215.
Pete King R NY-2 ($92,500) No
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