They tell you he's not the same as his father, despite the fact that we regularly run into him making comments that espouse similar positions on defense, immigration, gay marriage, drugs, Abortion, Social Issues, et al. He often emends those comments; but suspicions of Rand Paul aren't just entirely due to his last name. They're due to his expressed positions uttered before he gets the chance to gray them up semantically with the help of professionals.
Strangely enough, we hear from his supporters that he's a serious presidential contender because he's already got a national infrastructure. Oh, really? A first-term Senator from Kentucky has a national presidential infrastructure? How is this so? I'll tell you what they mean: they mean Ron Paul's infrastructure. Interesting how Rand can just seamlessly fill in for Ron and not lose any of his father's supporters, despite their supposed major differences.
I really hope Ron Paul runs in 2016. In fact, we need to raise some hell and make some noise and draft him to run! Maybe if both Ron and Rand run, we can have a real discussion about their major issue differences!
Don't be fooled. There's a reason all Ron Paul supporters are behind Rand, and it's not because he's a Reaganite Republican, or because he's so different from his father. It's because they know, just like we know, the differences are miscible.
It's his choice - if he wins the primary taking these positions his warnings will be taken seriously. Beyond that and he starts coming across like Nancy Pelosi who loves to give Republican free advice.
The contest between our champions exist to see which ideas work best... Rand Paul should not be trying to short circuit the process.
“I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues,” Paul advised. “The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to be festooned by those issues......”
A sheep in sheep’s clothing. Social issues become economic issues.
As a Christian and social conservative and fiscal conservative I have no trouble supporting Rand Paul, it is the Republican Party I have given up on.
I never thought the govt had any business in the marriage business in the first place. And as far as I know Rand is solidly pro-life.
I supported his father Ron Paul who was the only one worth supporting in the last nomination process unlike Romney the quisling liberal.
The republican party could adopt the democrat platform and still lose as long as there is an “R” behind the candidate’s name.
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How about a candidate that actually attacks and addresses the damage that liberalism and the Democrat party are currently doing to this country.
Instead we get people like Rand talking about what is wrong with the Republican grass roots instead. Or Paul Ryan groveling for forgiveness for speaking the truth about the inner city.
Ball-less wonders, all of them.
We are precisely in the trouble we are as a party and country because of the moral corruptness and bankruptcy of our current society. This translates into the fiscal matter of an out of control government that tries to mitigate all the consequences of this society’s behavior.
The politics of appeasement DOES NOT WIN.
Ted Cruz - 2016!
Ron/Rand Paul - emphasizing the “LIB” part of liberTopianism.