Posted on 09/02/2014 3:12:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A few days old but more timely than ever.
Speaking to a ballroom later, some of the loudest applause for Paul came when he quipped: “If the president has no strategy, maybe it’s time for a new president.”
In an emailed comment, however, Paul elaborated by saying: “If I were President, I would call a joint session of Congress. I would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a threat to our national security and seek congressional authorization to destroy ISIS militarily.”
John McCormack reminds us that Paul’s previous comment on ISIS was a lot more equivocal than that. (His op-ed last week on the folly of Obama’s interventionist ambitions in Syria offered no strategy on ISIS at all.) You can read the above as credulously or skeptically as you like. Maybe it’s proof that Rand really is more hawkish than his old man and that, after some initial ambivalence, he’s been convinced by the intelligence that crushing ISIS is the only way to defuse the threat. Or maybe he’s looked at the polls lately and noticed that the mainstream conservatives he’s hoping to woo in 2016 are swinging back towards interventionism. Maybe it’s a bit of both. There’s no reason to hold Rand to a different standard than his competitors. Show of hands: Who thinks Marco Rubio’s recent tough talk on comprehensive immigration reform is being driven purely by non-electoral considerations?
I’m curious about the libertarian reaction to all this, though.
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Say? They’ll say little to nothing. They know he’s not serious.
Paulistas meet the existential threat.
I don’t trust Paul for a second, this is just push back for his recent statements that showed him to be the nutcase he is.
I wish you GOP establishment plants would stop posting on this forum.
“Libertarian” is not really monolithic on national security, though.
Take Glenn Reynolds, for example. I read him every day, and he’s a national security-type libertarian, because he’s a smart realist.
I wonder what percentage of libertarians are Paulistas. He’s sort of a niche cult thing.
Still, if he breathes national security in their direction, they’ll latch onto it, which would be a good thing, because it seems to me to be more of a Rothbard-cult-like following than anything. They’ll suck down anything that comes from him.
He is a fruitcake.
He might be, but he is a Republican fruitcake.
1. I am an American 2. I am a Conservative
I am not a republican, gop, democrat or libertarian and when my clown alarm goes off I pay attention to it. Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, et al set it off there is a reason.
So if one does not support a curly haired surrender monkey, that makes them "GOP establishment plants"?
A really great Freeper often says here....
FURP!!!!
You are a GOP establishment plant. Pretty obvious from your post, especially this last one.
No, it is just obvious he is one.
He blasted Pat Buchanan when he said close the border and set lower immigration quotas to a limit that allows people to assimilate. He ran from Dan Quayle when he gave his Murphy Brown speech rather than take a stand with him. And now true to form he is attacking Paul because he is not your go-along-get a long GOP establishment candidate.
If his loyalties were as you he says he would not be attacking one of our own as he has always done in the past. The pattern is clear. The GOP establishment is here and on this forum as plants to knock down any candidate that threatens to break the GOP establishment hold on the party.
I watched it for too many years not to recognize it. He is a plant.
Where did people get the misconception that libertarian = pacifist?
Paul is a libertarian/republican, a libertarian like his dad, using whatever party he can to operate from.
No one said anything about “pacifist”, but part of libertarianism is being weak on national defense and in foreign policy.
Paul will say one thing and then do another.
Isis just shows us like Bin laden that we can’t just retreat from the world and have anarchy here.
Nonsense.
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