Posted on 04/23/2014 11:28:17 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
Excerpt of the face off between Rand Paul and David Axelrod at the University of Chicago:
RAND PAUL: Education historically was a state and local subject and I think that what we've seen is since we've spent about a hundred billion dollars in the Department of Education each year and that's been going on since 1980. I'm not so sure we're better off than we were before. You see, the one thing --
DAVID AXELROD: So you would vote for a budget that would eliminate most of that.
RAND PAUL: Well what I would do is I would have its spent on the state and local level. I wouldn't take it up there at all, I'd leave it at leave it at home. So you'd spend the money. You might still spend the money in your state government, but education even now, 90, 95-percent of your education dollars are state and local. That $100 billion gets rolled around in a big bureaucracy. They sent rules down that don't help education, they hinder innovation. I would cut them out of the loop. I don't think you'd notice if the whole department was gone tomorrow.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
So, Rand Paul leaves Illegal Aliens in line to become Citizens and Cruz states they should never become citizens, ever.
So just how is Cruz to the left of Rand on this issue?
The bottom line is that they are not that different...
Ted Cruz Speech Nods to Increasing Libertarian Views within Republican Party
http://www.cato.org/blog/ted-cruz-speech-nods-increasing-libertarian-views-within-republican-party
GOP Congressman: Cruz Is A Libertarian, Not A Mainstream Republican
Ted Cruz: Libertarians Should Be ‘Dismayed’ By Obama’s Selective Enforcement Of Drug Law
Ronald Reagan’s opinion on Libertarianism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg0Axyvlkm0
Paul said he agreed with Kennedy, whom he called “someone who doesn’t just want to be in front of opinion but wants government to keep up with opinion.” He said Kennedy “tried to strike a balance.”
You are destroying any shred of credibility you might have with this increasingly silly and propagandist posting.
Now you are trying to bizarrely portray Cruz and Reagan as “libertarians”
You are losing it, and that is not intended to be a flippant insult, or any kind of insult, it just means you are getting goofier and goofier in pushing Rand Paul.
You can’t blaspheme the truth away, pal.
Rand Paul Introduces ‘Life at Conception Act’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/15/rand-paul-introduces-life-at-conception-act/
Thanks for the ping!
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) appears to be a double-minded man on abortion. How he can last week be the primary sponsor for a Life at Conception bill and then the following week tell CNN in an interview that there are “thousands of exceptions” is beyond me. The Hill reports:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he’s open to “thousands of exceptions” to a ban on abortion.
Paul has said he believes life begins at conception, but in an interview with CNN the Republican emphasized he is also a physician who treats each case individually.
“What I would say is that there are thousands of exceptions,” Paul told CNN host Wolf Blitzer in response to a question about exceptions to a ban.
“You know, I’m a physician and every individual case is going to be different and everything’s going to be particular to that individual case and what’s going on with that mother and the medical circumstances of that mother,” he said.
The comments come just a week after Paul, a possible White House contender in 2016, introduced the “Life at Conception Act.”
There is no chance that you could be ignorant enough than to make this statement without a plan. Paul is to the right of Cruz? Do I have your statement correct? If so, you are not being sincere, to say the least.
You must be looking at the world thru a mirror...
Only smart thing Paul is reported as saying this week.
Well, the rest is propaganda spread by the haters. Everyone should watch the entire interview and judge by themselves.
“George W, had very powerful effects on pro-life efforts,” Globalist George W gave us 8 years of Obama. Not good for the pro-life cause. His first choice for SC was some woman with no record. He only withdrew her nomination after conservatives balked.
Your post 67 was more than answered in post 69, you are playing games.
Passionate pro-life presidents like Reagan and George W, had very powerful effects on pro-life efforts, and pro-life politics save lives.
When a politician becomes a campaigner against the pro-life movement, and starts undermining it, he is causing deaths, and weakening the movement, and undermining the party platform, which is a deliberate action that Rand Paul has taken as he has already started campaigning against the social conservative platform.
“”On January 22, thousands gathered on the National Mall in Washington for the annual March for Life that takes place on the date that Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court.
The same week, the Republican National Committee decided that it was time for the national party to wade back into the pro-life waters after a perceived hiatus from using it as a platform issue. A “Resolution on Republican Pro-Life Strategy” formally re-established abortion as a 2014 election issue for the party and seeks to push back on the “war on women” rhetoric that Democrats have made synonymous with the pro-life movement.
The RNC clearly believes once again that a prominent pro-life position plays well with voters. Perhaps the national party has taken note of what’s happening at the state level. Twenty-four states enacted 53 anti-abortion measures in 2013 alone.
Research from the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute shows that in the last three years, states have enacted an unprecedented 205 different abortion restrictions. This was made possible by the fact that over half of the states in the union have pro-life governors and pro-life majorities in their legislatures.””
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