I got a better impression of Rand Paul watching some long form interviews with KY newspapers. They tried to play gotcha like Maddow, but it was a long form interview and Rand Paul got to explain his positions in detail. Even his Iraq position is thought out and intelligent, not some cookie cutter spiel. He was for Afghanistan, which is quite a bit different than his dad.
He comes across a lot more thoughtful and level headed.
The problem is TRUE conservatism takes a long time to explain, it isn’t emotional like liberalism.
The author of the story is correct in that Rand Paul is NOT his dad. His dad doesn’t even sound overly enthused about Rand’s candidacy to tell the truth...when he talks about it.
Rand Paul gave one of the best answers on abortion I’ve every heard.
He went into detail about how the “choice” was made when the man and woman decide to have intercourse, there isn’t a “choice” after that. At that point, the life becomes a living person to be PROTECTED by the constitution, and the privacy or choice of the mother has nothing to do with it.
You are protecting a life, not removing a choice. The choice made to have sex comes with a responsibility for the consequences.
I don’t agree with ANY politician 100%, but the control of the bankers, the Fed, the Federal Govt, debt and the strangling of the states by the Federal Govt are THE issues now. If those aren’t fixed, there would be nothing for terrorists to terrorize.
I am tired of status quo politicians who talk the talk and do nothing, it is time to radically alter the size of the Federal Govt. Period.
Oh, I'm sure Ron's thrilled with how Rand is doing (what dad wouldn't be?). I think he probably just keeps a bit of a low tone because he:
1.) ...doesn't want to butt in too much on his son's campaign; and
2.) ...does know that while he and Rand are in something like 90-95% philosophical agreement, they do differ on some of the details (particularly Rand's somewhat-more-hawkish foreign policy views) and he doesn't want to dwell publicly on their differences -- when he knows that he can at least count on Rand, if elected, to be a high-90s Fiscal Conservative like Coburn and DeMint.
Just my $0.02