Posted on 03/15/2014 12:24:23 PM PDT by TitansAFC
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is warning Republicans that if they expect to be relevant in the future and grow the party they will have to soften on social issues.
In an interview with vocativ.com, Paul said he had "sort of a Jeffersonian belief in unity, peace and commerce with all" and that the best way to build the GOP for the future is to include people with whom they don't agree on every issue.
"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......"
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I'm not an expert in business law, but a civil union is not the same as a mere civil contract. Most contracts have some sort of a "sunset clause" regarding dissolving the contract after a certain period. And why should this civil union have the force of a marriage in matters of taxation, court testimony, inheritance, etc. that a contract would not provide?
I prefer not to live in a Sodom and Gamorrah just because it has a free market economy. And that free market economy would not last long in a immoral environment. We would be right back to crony capitalism and fascism.
tyranny at the state level is not any better
whether the tyrants are 1000 miles away or 30 makes no real difference outside a war to overthrow them
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
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Compromise today on one issue, they will be calling for compromise tomorrow on other issues...like fiscal policy or national defense.
I do kinda like Rand but do not want to see him run for President.
Rand is trying to be all things to all people. He’s getting too much face time and is going to screw up.
Thanks but NO THANKS.
No more RINO Mitt Romney candidates.
The US Constitution limits the Federal Government BOTH Fiscally & Socially. Social tyranny is just as bad if not worse than Fiscal tyranny and in my opinion the two are tied at the hip. The Left illegitimately employs social issues to amass power & redistribute resources & opportunity. Conservatives MUST oppose this onslaught head on.
The culture war between American Individual Liberty & Cultural Collective Marxism will not be won by surrendering to the Marxists.
Libertarianism, and naturally most libertarians, are pro-abortion.
It is dishonest to try and tell these folks that libertarianism is not a pro-abortion, pro-gay political movement.
There's the rub. IMHO the polls are just part of the propaganda machine. The real poll like the Prop #8 vote in California is a truer measure. Regardless, there are some things like self-evident truth & unalienable rights that are never legitimately subject to polling or rational moral relative scrutiny by courts. Mob rule is not a true measure of moral legitimacy.
Americans: The 2nd Amendment is not a fiscal issue; it's a social issue. In the face of a tyrannical mob, do we soften on this issue so we can 'win elections', gain our seats in an illegitimate government?
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Well said.
In terms of liberty he's wrong: Those customers and their handlers both vote for more of the welfare and police state.
The police state regulates the economy for the benefit of its principal benefactors: the tax-exempt foundations of the extremely rich, whose principal goal is to stay on top by killing a free market economy.
Hence, Rand Paul is a statist. Somebody ought to tell him.
....and here we go......................
>When we are forced to pay for other peoples birth control, forced to subsidize women who have out of wedlock children those are not just social but fiscal issues.
Yes, and if there had to be a choice, the safest, less expensive and less damaging to society would be preventing the birth of unwanted kids and stopping the welfare cycle.
Oy vey, how freeqin' ghey is that ? !
Wouldn’t it be even safer, cheaper and less damaging to our society if young, unwed women could see the advantage to keeping their knees together?
Sorry, Rand.
Not though all the stars fall from the heavens and all the mountains dissolve into the sea. Never.
Never.
It’s not dishonest for me to say that libertarianism is not pro homo, and not pro abortion. You can disagree, but please don’t imply that I’m a liar.
Your issue is with liberalism and the libertarians that embrace it. Other libertarians like me embrace conservatism.
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