Posted on 03/11/2014 8:02:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Rand Paul continued his aggressive brush back of comments from his usual ally Sen. Ted Cruz suggesting that Paul is positioned at the left, dovish flank of the GOP on foreign policy, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity Cruz was “mischaracterizing” his views.
“We always have been good friends. I'm not real excited about him mischaracterizing my views. I won't let that pass. I think that sometimes want to stand up and say hey, look at me, I'm the next Ronald Reagan. Well, almost all of us in the party are big fans of Ronald Reagan,” Paul said.
“I've always been a big fan of peace through strength. I think America should and has a responsibility around the world and really, virtually all of the opinions that have been coming from Republicans are somewhat the same on this – that Putin should be condemned, he should be isolated. I favor sanctions on Putin. So, for people to characterize that as somehow not being the Reagan position, I think they need to have a re-reading of Reagan, frankly,” Paul added.
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And I don’t give you any, Liberaltarian Noob!
Also, ontheissues grades folks by their answers on a questionnaire.
ACU grades them on their actual VOTES.
Says the “noob” that still can’t spell libertarian.
That's not too simplistic, just accurate.
Our blindness to it and what is going on is also repeating, and increasing as we grow more accepting and accommodating.
To all things a season, and this, too, shall pass.
Agree. Let’s not be bitterly surprized later, when we can listen to what they’re actually saying and watch what they’re doing now.
And can't figure out that a site that thinks that Dr. Ben Carson is a "moderate" (he is, of course, a staunch conservative) has the credibility level of the Weekly World News.
For the answer as to why that is, check out my post 182...
Good point. You can weasel any old way when it’s just somebody asking a question.
Watch several more conservative candidates will duke it out to the bitter end, clearing the way for RINO Christy. 2012 redux.
and another loss in 2016. Reps better grab the Senate and hold the house in 14.
Odd that numerous people see Rand and Ted as so similar. Rand is libertarianish on social issues and foreign policy, while Ted consistently lines up with neoconservatives on foreign policy and hardboiled social conservatives on social issues when libertarians diverge.
Cruz has every right to be a neoconservative and a social conservative; I just don’t cotton to seeing him misidentified as a libertarian.
As for who has the more Reaganesque foreign policy, I reckon that may be Rand. Old Dutch only chose to fight one ground campaign, and that was in small and readily-pacified Grenada, not some majority-Muslim Mideast loony bin. In fact, he withdrew US forces from Lebanon after Hezbollah bombed our base there, obviously a dovish act, but probably the wiser course, since the only way to pacify that godforsaken land was to resort to methods so harsh that no civilized country could use them in the late 20th century. Fair to say Rand is more chary of military spending than was Reagan, but even 0bama’s cuts leave us with more than enough military to deter Russia attacking Western Europe, China— Japan, etc. Meantime, we can’t really deter our deadliest present-day allies, namely Islamaniacs, since they’re pleased as punch to die as long as they kill some of us too. Our fight against them will be heavily waged by special forces, which we have and need anyway, not with Reaganesque big ticket items like the MX or Pershing II missiles. Oh, for the “good” old days when the Soviets were our main adversaries. Those atheists valued this life and didn’t fancy getting killed killing us!
Thank you! I’m really shocked at the Paul bashing and Cruz loving on this site. IMHO Cruz is not even eligible and if you’ll notice when he’s asked on TV, he evades the question....every time.
I guess I just set myself up for a bashing, but so be it. I’ve studied the eligibility issue for 5 years and have a pretty good bead on the meaning of natural born Citizen. And triple citizenship (Cruz) is not part of it.
The Marriage of Obama's Parents: "In Name Only"
See post #557.
Yup that is the plan, get the tea party fighting itself so as to clear a path for Jeb Bush.
These are good candidates. Ted Cruz is the Reagan conservative, while Paul is more of a libertarian leaning conservative. Let them debate and let the public chose, I can live with either one.
Only good thing about that is Jeb Bush will be marginally better than Hillary and much better than the community organizer from Chicago.
They tell you he's not the same as his father, despite the fact that we regularly run into him making comments that espouse similar positions on defense, immigration, gay marriage, drugs, et al. He often emends those comments; but suspicions of Rand Paul aren't just entirely due to his last name. They're due to his expressed positions uttered before he gets the chance to gray them up semantically with the help of professionals.
Strangely enough, we hear from his supporters that he's a serious presidential contender because he's already got a national infrastructure. Oh, really? A first-term Senator from Kentucky has a national presidential infrastructure? How is this so? I'll tell you what they mean: they mean Ron Paul's infrastructure. Interesting how Rand can just seamlessly fill in for Ron and not lose any of his father's supporters, despite their supposed major differences.
I really hope Ron Paul runs in 2016. In fact, we need to raise some hell and make some noise and draft him to run! Maybe if both Ron and Rand run, we can have a real discussion about their major issue differences!
Don't be fooled. There's a reason all Ron Paul supporters are behind Rand, and it's not because he's a Reaganite Republican, or because he's so different from his father. It's because they know, just like we know, the differences are miscible.
I don’t think Christie is going to get out of the mess he’s in, so we have a good chance to dodge the RINO bullet this time.
What is your opinion of Jeb Bush? RINO? Conservative? In-Between?
I’d say “in between” — he seems a bit soft on the illegal immigrant issue, for example.
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