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, Abortion, Social Issues, 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.
Rand Paul is a libertarian, and nothing wrong with that, but I think he should simply stop claiming to be a Republican. I like a lot of the things he says, but he’s got to figure out where he is in the grand scheme of things.
Like it or not, the social planks are part of the GOP’s platform (formal opposition to abortion, for example). There is clearly a wide range of difference in the opinions, expressions and actions of the different GOP candidates and politicians, and we can pick within them.
But saying that the GOP should abandon the social concerns and adopt the libertarian positions...without proclaiming himself to be a libertarian...is more than a little dishonest.
Rand Paul just did conservatives a huge favor by showing his hand. He just made the process of elimination so much simpler.
What Rand Paul apparently wants is for his supporters to define deviancy downward, eh?
Yeah, let’s continue to allow the left to rule social issues and change our culture like they have for the last 80 years. What’s the definition of insanity, again?
Too bad Paul sees turning American into Aztlan via a 30-million illegal alien amnesty as a “social issue”.
I will not vote for an immoral person and whether you are pro-life or pro-murder tells me everything I need to know about the character of those that want me to vote for them.
The Pauls' are disgusting.
AT least they can speill...
LOL
Randy needs to switch parties
Social issues do not affect my life directly. What affects my everyday life is monetary policies, tax policies and regulations imposed by the government. The other day
I witnessed two lesbians at Seatac airport openly doing
PDA. It was disgusting to watch, but what affected me
more directly was the taxes levied on my plane ticket.
I can ignore the lesbians, but not the taxes.
>> Every Rand Paul supporter will tell you he’s a Conservative, not a Libertarian.
I’m a conservative libertarian. Rand is speaking like a Liberal.
We aren't shutting up.
We aren't giving up.
And we aren't selling out our principles because some Rino beltway bull$hi*ting consultants tell us that we should.
Compromise today on one issue, they will be calling for compromise tomorrow on other issues...like fiscal policy or national defense.
I do kinda like Rand but do not want to see him run for President.
Rand is trying to be all things to all people. He’s getting too much face time and is going to screw up.
Thanks but NO THANKS.
No more RINO Mitt Romney candidates.
The US Constitution limits the Federal Government BOTH Fiscally & Socially. Social tyranny is just as bad if not worse than Fiscal tyranny and in my opinion the two are tied at the hip. The Left illegitimately employs social issues to amass power & redistribute resources & opportunity. Conservatives MUST oppose this onslaught head on.
The culture war between American Individual Liberty & Cultural Collective Marxism will not be won by surrendering to the Marxists.
Americans: The 2nd Amendment is not a fiscal issue; it's a social issue. In the face of a tyrannical mob, do we soften on this issue so we can 'win elections', gain our seats in an illegitimate government?
In terms of liberty he's wrong: Those customers and their handlers both vote for more of the welfare and police state.
The police state regulates the economy for the benefit of its principal benefactors: the tax-exempt foundations of the extremely rich, whose principal goal is to stay on top by killing a free market economy.
Hence, Rand Paul is a statist. Somebody ought to tell him.
....and here we go......................
Oy vey, how freeqin' ghey is that ? !
Sorry, Rand.
Not though all the stars fall from the heavens and all the mountains dissolve into the sea. Never.
Never.