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To: ansel12
First of all, they're on opposite sides when it comes to foreign or military policy, at least if you're taking McCain and Graham to be RINOs.

Secondly, they are probably on opposite sides of economic issues, if "libertarian" is a term to be taken seriously.

Third, I really doubt Rand Paul is convinced that he is determined to defeat conservatism within the GOP -- maybe working hand in hand with Susan Collins. He could just as soon accuse you of conspiring to defeat conservatism. Your version isn't any more canonical than his.

Maybe it's too late -- after we've started calling everybody Marxist -- but it's good to avoid rhetorical excesses. There is no libertarian/rino conspiracy and no such thing as a "libertarian/rino."

54 posted on 04/09/2014 2:38:12 PM PDT by x
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To: x

Rinos and libertarians both exist to defeat conservatism, libertarians do agree with conservatives on economic issues but that is as far as it goes, they are liberals who like conservative economics, and see social conservatism as something that needs to be beaten, they share that with their rino friends, and we see the two starting to discover that they share a common enemy.

Rand Paul cannot use his declarations against conservatism and for gay marriage as a way to attack me and conservatives as being “anti-conservative”.

Rand Paul is campaigning as a GOPe candidate, not as a conservative.


55 posted on 04/09/2014 2:48:55 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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