Fiscal? And I’m sure all the catastrophic government spending on illegal aliens is fiscally responsible, yes?
Small government? And I suppose the cost of illegal immigration is something “small government” has/can manage, yes?
Social Security? How exactly does Mr. Paul plan to protect our Social Security that’s already being spent?
Rand Paul’s platform doesn’t wash with a lot of Conservatives, and you failed to address “most”, as you stated, of the issues.
Well Rand’s platform doesn’t wash with me either, mostly because of amnesty, but I would rather pick the candidate that could be pressured into dropping amnesty, over the one who is hellbent on imposing it.
And he seems conservative enough on some/most issues, like I said. Better than Hillary, who is conservative on no issues.
The only real differences seem to be on amnesty, gay marriage, drugs and isolationism.
That’s a big deal with amnesty, and absolutely he shouldn’t be allowed to set that in motion.
But he has the ‘leave it to the states’ position that most have adopted on gay marriage, which is...tolerable. The War on Drugs when it comes to marijuana is like Prohibition II for me.
And Rand seems to drop isolationism when it comes to Iran, Russia etc, an acceptable position because I do think we’ve overreached in some areas but am against ignoring real threats to our national security at the same time.
There are a lot of proposals to deal with SS, like raising the retirement age, creating options for individuals to privately invest their funds for better RoC, etc.