What do you make of Rand’s Debra Medina like answer to some questioning about 9/11? Is Rand a closet 9/11 truther? I think many Ron Paul-ista’s are...
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“Does Rand Paul think 9/11 was an inside job, or that the government was responsible for it? Maybe. After all, he refuses to answer the question when asked it by the Courier Journal. Instead, “when pressed by the Louisville Courier-Journal if he agreed or disagreed with Hightower’s belief that the United States government was responsible for the attacks on September 11th, Rand Paul’s campaign said it was a “complicated situation” with “truth on both sides.”” Truth on both sides? Complicated? They attacked us, Rand. That’s the truth and there’s nothing complicated about it.”
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Debra Medina is a different matter. I like her most of her stances on political issues overall, but it seems to me that she's gone well past just saying something like "We needs to investigate possible failures of intel, and even possible cover-ups of intel failures by self-serving officials" (which I don't think is "Trutherism" at all; it's a demand for government accountability as much as anything), and might be willing to entertain the notion of government complicity (or partial government complicity) in the actual attack.
That's not to insult Medina's supporters, who may have a different view of her comments; all that I can say is that in my own opinion, Medina's comments give off a bit of that "truther" vibe that I don't get from Rand Paul, and which make me uncomfortable with her.
And I think that's unfortunate, because Medina's positions on a number of other issues (economics, gun rights, etc.) are otherwise meritorious; but there you have it.
Maybe I'm just going with my gut on that, but that's my sense of things. Your mileage may vary.