This article is old and outdated. Rand Paul did not join the gang of eight and is not actively promoting any immigration reform.
Did he not say “we have de-facto amnesty” before a camera?
BTW, I do not consider a late March 2013 statement on TV (actually on Fox) as ‘old and outdate’ and indicative of a history-gone-past thought that no longer need be considered.
Haven’t you figured out by now that that’s how the GOPe works?
Rand has been welcomed into the club in large part because he supports amnesty. He can maintain his position as titular head of a good chunk of the rubes in the dreaded ‘base’ by not going all Rubio over it. But he has explicitly said he supports it and he’s not making the stink that he’s more than capable of making to wake up voters to the GOP-ocrat conspiracy.
Even Sarah Palin, another vaunted leader of another sector of the rube base has been absolutely, totally, pristinely silent on the subject, while being silent on little else. She may have made nice with Jan Brewer, the guv of her ‘second state’ around the subject a couple of years ago, when the GOP was executing a feint toward resistance on the subject. But she has also clearly stated that there’s no difference between her and McCain’s views on the subject after the first time he tried to get amnesty through.
Ted Cruz? Is he the only one? The only national-level GOP pol against it? Yes, he has said he opposes aspects of it, but he too has said so only nicely and quietly.
This is a quiet coup being executed by our elected pols and we’re letting them get away with it.
You can’t be serious, can you?
Old and outdated......Really? You mean he has changed his story again since it was written? And please provide his latest description and name for amnesty, without calling it amnesty.
is not actively promoting any immigration reform......
For somebody who is not promoting something, he sure as hell talks about it a lot.
Just face it, he is a traitor.