Posted on 04/09/2015 5:49:50 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
Does his supporting the President in the Iran deal not bother you a little bit? He has only recently reversed his position (since deciding to run) on stopping defense aid to Israel. He also seems weak on illegal immigration. Those are two Huge issues that I find Paul falls short on.
Rand Paul is a Republican, last I checked. Yes, yes he is. Not a Libertarian. He might lean “libertarian” with a small “l” but lots of Republicans lean that way.
Rand Paul isn’t pro-life. Notice how like a typical libertarian, he tries to give an impression that fools you, while holding to the liberal side.
Do you think that Rand Paul is pro-life when he describes himself pro-life in general?
The thing is about abortionand about a lot of thingsis that I think people get tied up in all these details of, sort of, youre this or this or that, or youre hard and fast (on) one thing or the other, Paul told Elliott. Ive supported both bills with and without (exceptions), you know. In general, I am pro-life. ?
Rand reminds me so much of Mitt Romney, he can evolve instantly and frequently.
CNN:
BLITZER: So, just to be precise, if you believe life begins at conception, which I suspect you do believe that, you would have no exceptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother, is that right?
PAUL: Well, I think that once again puts things in too small of a box. What I would say is that there are thousands of exceptions. You know, Im a physician and every individual case is going to be different, and everything is going to be particular to that individual case and whats going on with that mother and the medical circumstances of that mother.
I would say that after birth, you know, weve decided that when life begins, we have decided that we dont have exceptions for one- day-old or six-month-olds. We dont ask where they came from or how they came into being, but it is more complicated because the rest of it depends on the definition of when life comes in. So, I dont think its a simple as checking box and saying exceptions or no exceptions.
And there are a lot of decisions that are made privately by families and their doctors that really wont the law wont apply to, but I think its important that we not be flippant one way or the other and pigeon hole and say, oh, this person doesnt believe in any sort of discussion between family. And so, I dont know if theres a simple way to put me in a category on any of that.
BLITZER: Well, it sounds like you believe in some exceptions.
PAUL: Well, theres going to be, like I say, thousands of extraneous situations where the life of the mother is involved and other things that are involved.
So, I would say that each individual case would have to be addressed and even if there were eventually a change in the law, lets say, the people came more to my way of thinking, its still be a lot of complicated things that the law may not ultimately be able to address in the early stages of pregnancy that would have to be part of what occurs between the physician and the woman and the family.
It's refreshing to see conservatives field a group of young, energetic, articulate candidates who aren't afraid to take the fight to the MSM and the Democrats. I'd be perfectly happy with Paul, Cruz, Walker or even Rubio at the top of the ticket. Much better than the gaggle of losers we ran last time around.
I just hope that when the primaries start counting, the guys in the back bow out gracefully in let the man in the lead take the fight against Jeb.
Yes and little blond poofy Megyn Kelly had to try to pile on Rand Paul last night. She is just beyond obnoxious. I She is so full of herself its sickening.
Mr. GG2 and I are sick of the right eviscerating their own people all the time. Its bad enough that the left comes after them. As far as I’m concerned every GOP candidate except for Bush and Christie are all good decent guys whether you subscribe to their point of view or not and they all command respect. They way they are going after Rand Paul is just horrendous.
He doesn’t support an Iran deal without congressional approval. He signed the letter sent to Iran by Congress.
It will be interesting to see what he does when Obama defies Congress, which he will. No matter what, Paul is definitely not the one to make us feel safer, not when he has been accurately described as “Left of Obama” on foreign policy.
And every time Republicans lose, conservatives are quick to blame the libertarian candidates for being spoilers. Fact is, there's a lot of younger voters who lean libertarian on issues such as technology, government spying and our draconian drug policy. Senator Paul is reaching out to these voters. Paul is also reaching out to those voters who think, "Hey, maybe we should follow the Constitution once in a while?" And he's doing this while remaining steadfastly and unapologetically pro-life.
The media and Dems have Rand right where they want him talking about issues on abortion while the entire country is being decimated by Obama and the Iran deal is never even mentioned. Paul is dumb enough to let them do this.
The media and the Dems are going to corner every Republican candidate on abortion. It's been a successful "gotcha" question time and time again; force Republicans to adhere to the politically unpopular "no abortions ever" position and then beat them over the head with it while giving Democrats a pass on the equally unpopular "abortion anytime for any reason" position.
Senator Paul is finally calling them out on this.
Yea, I can’t say I’d feel safer with Paul, but the more I see the middle east problems the more I think we should let them kill each other and just make sure they leave Israel and us alone.
Gee, that sounds Orwellian... that statement maps well with CS Lewis' "The Abolition of Man"
The point isn’t whether Rand Paul meets your (or my) standards for being “pro-iife” enough, it’s that the Democrats and Wasserman Schultz favor a position so extreme that nobody reasonable holds it...they hold an indefensible, evil position which leads to infanticide and horrors beyond imagination. Rand Paul may not meet everyone’s definition of “pro-lfe” but he’s certainly against abortion in the vast majority of cases, and I’ll take that as a positive.
I totally agree with you.
Some people on our side try to brow-beat us all to think exactly the same on all issues.
In a nation of 320 million people, we are only allowed 2 points of view?
Don’t think so.
Unfortunately, this is the only thing Ms. Wasserman-Schultz doesn't want the government involved in.
This is a republican primary for president the pro-life party with the only exception being life of the mother, and you want to promote a pro-choice candidate to head it, speak for it, represent it, change it, and make decisions on abortion at the federal level for federal hospitals, and employees and foreign policy?
“And thank God for Carly! Keep it up girl!”
Yes its time to give the MSM drive by’s a headache and the Libtard talking heads. Carly Fiorina is good for the GOP. I’m not talking President but she knows the first rule of a gunfight is to bring a gun.
I agree. We are never going to bring peace to the Middle East. We just need to stand with Israel. If we had someone looking out for us, I’d say they should be working with Netanyahu to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities. Dealing with liars that want to destroy us is playing with fire. Sooner or later that only leads to disaster.
” Rand Paul went on to say that even most of my friends who are pro-choice
Far out, man....Rand, since when is murder a choice ?
Yeah, it sure does no good to use their terminology.
It’s either life, or it’s killing life. Helpless life, at that.
But... he’s a politician, and they play to the audience at the moment...
I’m at the point where anyone who desires to be a politician should be banned from holding office for life : )
[ Im still standing with Rand. ]
I am Cruz-ing with Ted!
Voting for a Paul/Cruz or a Cruz/Paul ticket would be the best day in the voting both I have had in over 10 tyears!
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