I direct you to SunkenCiv's post in this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3200117/posts
Also consider:
"Paul made pro-life activists curious when he said that Republicans should agree to disagree on social issues. Then, in an April interview, Paul says he doesn’t anticipate changing the laws on abortion and added that his belief that life begins at conception is a personal and religious one, not a scientific viewpoint.
“The country is in the middle (and) we’re not changing any of the laws until the country is persuaded otherwise,” he says."
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/05/19/rand-paul-makes-curious-abortion-comment-that-may-make-some-pro-life-voters-nervous/
Then there's more. On gay marriage:
"Paul's staffers say he believes the issue should be left to the states to decide.[43][44] He has said he thought that the Supreme Court's ruling in Windsor v. United States, which struck down the portion of the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage at a federal level (as between a man and a woman), was appropriate.[45]
In April 2013, in an interview with the National Review, he said, "I'm an old-fashioned traditionalist. I believe in the historic and religious definition of marriage," and "That being said, I'm not for eliminating contracts between adults. I think there are ways to make the tax code more neutral, so it doesn't mention marriage. Then we don't have to redefine what marriage is; we just don't have marriage in the tax code."[46]
Then this stuff in light of Ferguson and the Michael Brown fiasco:
Police militarization[edit] In a 2014 op-ed in Time magazine, Paul criticized the increased militarization of law enforcement.[47] Paul noted: "When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury—national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture—we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands." Paul believes that the criminal justice system unjustly impacts African Americans, noting that "Anyone who thinks that race does not still, even if inadvertently, skew the application of criminal justice in this country is just not paying close enough attention." Paul believes the militarization of police has been caused by the US Federal Government through subsidies, equipment, and other incentives as well as the drug war by its creation of a "culture of violence."[48] Both from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Rand_Paul#Same-sex_marriage
Then there's drug legalization, pandering to Convicts, pandering to the race baiters, and so on and so forth.
So you are in favor of the FBI at ruby ridge, Waco and Elian Gonzalez.
Me ? I’m in favor of the Constitution and States Rights