Senator Rand Paul Town Hall Meeting (vanity)

None ^ | August 6, 2013 | Myself

[Stonewall Jackson]

I just got back from a Central Kentucky Tea Party town hall meeting with Senator Rand Paul.

The meeting lasted about an hour and hit topics ranging from the IRS scandal to drones over the US, and from Benghazi to the Fort Hood Massacre.

[Stonewall Jackson]

While discussing the Benghazi terror attack and former Secretary of State Clinton's admission that she did not read any of the communiques from Ambassador Stevens concerning the lack of security, Senator Paul stated, "Hillary Clinton has made herself ineligible or not qualified for higher office."

During the question and answer period, he was asked about the Fort Hood Massacre being classified as workplace violence, to which he replied, "I think it's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

It was a very enjoyable evening and I pray that we get more people like Senator Paul in Washington in the near future.

[entropy12]

Rand Paul displays cool under tough questioning, answers all questions with aplomb, and never has that deer in the headlights look unlike some other recent GOP candidates. He has never made any blunders on the level of Akin & Mourdock.

But most of all I like his foreign policy which goes like this: Rand Paul thinks we should have a great military primarily geared for defense, that we should quit sending money to nations that hate us, we should help defend our allies, and nation building through war (Iraq) is not the right thing to do. Rand Paul thinks that if we have to go to war, we strike hard, using our power to defeat quickly rather than have a war designed to make defense contractors rich.

[DoughtyOne]

And one the subject of immigraton he said...????


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[GraceG]

Rand Paul = Ron Paul minus most of the crazy.

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[Stonewall Jackson]

The subject did not come up.

[DoughtyOne]

Well, that causes me concern on two levels.

Rand didn’t think it important enough to mention.

This Tea Party group didn’t think it important enough to mention.

If comprehensive immigration reform passes, you will quickly find out why this concerns me.

[Theodore R.]

First question should be, “Senator, now that you are on the McC bandwagon, does this make anything you say suspect?

[Sola Veritas]

“But most of all I like his foreign policy which goes like this: Rand Paul thinks we should have a great military primarily geared for defense, that we should quit sending money to nations that hate us, we should help defend our allies, and nation building through war (Iraq) is not the right thing to do. Rand Paul thinks that if we have to go to war, we strike hard, using our power to defeat quickly rather than have a war designed to make defense contractors rich.”

Well IF YOU were running for office on this, I might vote for you. However, it is YOUR SPIN on Paul, not what Paul really stands for.

Paul, like his father, is a Neo-Isolationist that doesn’t really believe in projecting American power and influence abroad for the National Security of America and its economic stability. Standing behind our borders with a “strong” military won’t deter aggression. (First of all it will NOT stay strong because the public will demand it be downsized if it just sits at home) We must be willing and able to project our power and influence - especially military. While I agree that the “nation building” of the Neocons is a bad idea....I also consider Paul’s isolationist views just as bad.

Isolationism in America was one of the reasons NAZI Germany and Imperial Japan were allowed to go unchecked for so long in the 1930s. It cost us many lives that a little preemptive action could have sparred. Nope....I am not for Neo-Isolationists like the Pauls.

[entropy12]

Hello.....America of 2013 is much different from America of 1980 and before. If America was a corporation, it would be in Bankruptcy court. We are broke! I can’t think of anything more stupid than borrowing money from China & Japan to maintain 780 military bases around the world, fight 2 wars with no allies contributing any funds. We are pretending to be a superpower on credit! Our young generations are screwed for many decades if not centuries.

Why do we spend 25 times more per GDP than Japan & Germany? And we spend 10 times what China is spending on military while their economy is on track to overtake ours in less than a decade?

I would be for even more military spending if we had surplus in the Treasury. But being a realist instead of a chest thumper, it is sinfully stupid for us to get involved in any foreign wars in 2013.

[Carry_Okie]

The subject did not come up.

All the rest of it was a no-brainer. He's squishy on "immigration reform." No pathway to any kind of legal status without established secure borders. This is the most important issue facing the Senate this year, if only from the perspective of controlling the influx of Islamic terrorists operating under cover as Mexicans.

[bamahead]

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[OldNewYork]

“He’s squishy on “immigration reform.” No pathway to any kind of legal status without established secure borders. This is the most important issue facing the Senate this year, if only from the perspective of controlling the influx of Islamic terrorists operating under cover as Mexicans.”

Agree. I otherwise liked Rand Paul enough to maintain a ‘draft Rand Paul president list’, but can’t support a compromise on this, so basic, issue.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Isolationism in America was one of the reasons NAZI Germany and Imperial Japan were allowed to go unchecked for so long in the 1930s. It cost us many lives that a little preemptive action could have sparred. Nope....I am not for Neo-Isolationists like the Pauls.

Isolationism, as far as it was allowed to be practiced, served us well in WWII. Being the last major power to enter general war instead of the first, we were able to lessen loss of American life and financial exhaustion compared to the rest of the world. Our relatively undamaged situation allowed us to dominate the postwar settlement. Trying to continually prevent war in that era would have only led to much loss of American lives and national bankruptcy a generation earlier than it has today.

George Washington and Robert Taft were conservatives and statesmen we should emulate more than FDR.

[sarge83]

Makes me wonder if Rand has sipped the Potomac kool-aid supporting Kentucky’s version of Corker and Lugar.

[sarge83]

Makes me wonder if Rand has sipped the Potomac kool-aid supporting Kentucky’s version of Corker and Lugar.

[Sola Veritas]

“I would be for even more military spending if we had surplus in the Treasury. But being a realist instead of a chest thumper, it is sinfully stupid for us to get involved in any foreign wars in 2013.”

I do not know if a full blown “war” is needed now in 2013. However, I know if we do not spend the money NOW to preemptively stop China and a resurgent Russia....our descendents will be they slaves of those powers. Peace and prosperity can only be obtained through military and economic strength appropriately applied. Not Paul’s Neoisolationism.

[Sola Veritas]

“Being the last major power to enter general war instead of the first, we were able to lessen loss of American life and financial exhaustion compared to the rest of the world.”

I think it is actually the opposite. Our “isolationism” allowed great evils to grow unchecked. IF we had acted sooner....I think LESS American life and money would have been lost. Most times, sitting on your hands and doing nothing causes more long term damage.

George Washington is a great man to be revered by all Americans. However, he was NOT conservative....he was a revolutionary. Had he been “conservative” for his time, he would have stayed loyal to the crown. Even by today’s standard he is not conservative....only cautious.

During Washington’s time, our country was new and very weak...not remotely a world power. I do not think “many” of his ideas are still relevant in toto.

[entropy12]

We are ALREADY slaves of China due to Trillions of dollars we have borrowed from them. We will be paying interest on it for ever because our budgets have no surplus as far as the eye can see, to pay back any principle.