While not agreeing with him everywhere. I am with him on most things. And most importantly, he is not beholden to defense contractors, big oil or Wall Street banks. He is mostly against crony capitalism on the republican side. And he is the only pure play on this issue. We could do far worse than Rand Paul.
He was doing OK politically for a while last year playing the populist but I was always skeptical of a first term Senator running and back in 2011 he walked into Rachel Maddow’s trap, ironically defending employers right to serve who they want, then denying he argued that under pressure. Now look where we are on that issue.
What did him in is ISIS and Iran, he sounds too much like Obama on them to win a GOP primary anytime soon.
As far as doing "worse"; that's really not saying much; especially since Rand is on par with wee barry on many issue and to wee barry's left on others.
Right! Like I would trust him in negotiations with Putin! You can’t take a non-interventionist and turn him into a peaceful negotiator. He would unfortunately do foreign policy just like Obama - no thanks!
Sorry, I don’t trust him. He’s fine in the Senate, but as President? No thanks.
“And most importantly, he is not beholden to defense contractors, big oil or Wall Street banks.”
While I agree with you on the Wall Street banks, if you think Big Oil and Defense Contractors are bad for this country, you are on the WRONG SITE to be saying that.
Most people here actually don’t mind cheap energy and the ability to stand up to the Soviets, Russians, and now Chinese.
Do you have a problem with that, or some other way to accomplish it?
“We could do far worse than Rand Paul.”
That is a sad commentary on the American electorate.