Look at the date--March, 2013--"Rand Paul endorses Mitch McConnell in 2014 Senate race, won’t back tea party challenge"
Posted on 06/13/2014 10:00:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Exactly, just like Rubio.
Illegal immigration is a true checkmate for our Republic.
Any politician that does not advocate sealing the borders deserves our contempt.
Like Rubio, I will NEVER give RP another "chance." They are both dead to me.
The Senator doth protest too much, methinks.
He uses weasel words just like his father. You’re finished, Rand. Give it up.
Paul somehow equates libertarianism with OPEN BORDERS. I’d love to see where Ann Rand (or however you spell it) says that - particularly when those Open Borders turn your country into a Third World cesspool.
Shaddup Ru Paul, you worthless DemocRat.
"I am for immigration reform because what we have now is untenable."
Senator Paul, here's your problem with this statement. The current situation is untenable, because President after President has refused to enforce immigration laws. Obama is now at the stage of rampant criminality, where he's activity committing immigration law crimes.
How can new laws, that won't be enforced, except for the open boarders part, help this untenable situtaion? It's just going to make it worse.
Scratch Rand Paul off any list of presidential candidates. Rand, you coulda been a contenda.
Are you kidding?
COMPLETE PLATFORM TEXT
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND CIVIL ORDER
IMMIGRATION:
“”THE ISSUE: We welcome all refugees to our country and condemn the efforts of U.S. officials to create a new “Berlin Wall” which would keep them captive. We condemn the U.S. government’s policy of barring those refugees from our country and preventing Americans from assisting their passage to help them escape tyranny or improve their economic prospects.
THE PRINCIPLE: We hold that human rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of nationality. Undocumented non-citizens should not be denied the fundamental freedom to labor and to move about unmolested. Furthermore, immigration must not be restricted for reasons of race, religion, political creed, age or sexual preference. We oppose government welfare and resettlement payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare payments to all other persons.
SOLUTIONS: We condemn massive roundups of Hispanic Americans and others by the federal government in its hunt for individuals not possessing required government documents. We strongly oppose all measures that punish employers who hire undocumented workers. Such measures repress free enterprise, harass workers, and systematically discourage employers from hiring Hispanics.
TRANSITIONAL ACTION: We call for the elimination of all restrictions on immigration, the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol, and a declaration of full amnesty for all people who have entered the country illegally.””
Friedman was saying that illegal immigration is the best immigration because they fit libertarianism, since they are being excluded from government services, yet we still gain them.
Legal immigrants are the problem according to Friedman.
“Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It’s a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It’s a good thing for the United States. It’s a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it’s only good so long as it’s illegal.”
No comprehensive immigration bill once passed will implement border security period. Implement border security first, then we may entertain a discussion about changes to immigration policy such as universal E-verify and severe penalties for employing illegals.
RP: “I am for immigration reform because what we have now is untenable.”
How the ^%&# would you know?!?!?! You beltway-baboons don’t even TRY to enforce the law, so how would you know if it works? Moron.
“I voted against the Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration reform bill because it did not secure the border first.”
That phrase means that he is still for full amnesty AFTER the borders are sealed.
It’s too late. The horses have already left the barn and it’s too late to close the doors for they are already here.
The fact is that he is against adhering to our laws as written. He is in favor of forgiving the criminal acts of all illegals and trashing the laws that should have prevented them from staying here at all...along with their spawn.
Now, the word “amnesty” is drawing even more vermin from he south that will demand (and get) food, shelter, and money from honest tax paying citizens along with the ability to be exempt from most laws of this country.
You’re more informed than me.
This part really sticks out: “...or improve their economic prospects”
Pretty much means that people from ANY COUNTRY with a per capita income less than ours (i.e., 90% of the world) should be welcome here, no questions asked.
That is a VERY SICK philosophy.
Yeah, and George W. Bush told us he was totally against amnesty during a debate with Kerry in 2004. It’s far more despicable when politicians play the amnesty word game to try and hide their support for legalizing millions of illegal aliens.
Newt all but had the GOP nomination rapped up, then he went soft on illegals. Perry was doing well too until went soft on illegals ("You don't have a heart"). The only candidate that stayed firm was Romney and who won? Romney, maybe he was lying but at least he stayed firm. Amnesty killed Rubio with conservatives, killed Cantor and now might very well kill Rand Paul.
The other thing that smells to high heaven about Paul push for "comprehensive immigration reform" is the timing. One could easily conclude that Paul is working with the Camber of Commerce GOP and the administration to push amnesty down our throats this year. Paul's commitment to grass roots republicans as a constitutional conservative is now in serious doubt. It will be very difficult to believe anything he ever says again.
Why not? It's the same lunacy gift wrapped with different paper.
Nonsense, Newt never came close to having the nomination sewed up and what killed him was the GOPe and Black Thursday during Florida when Drudge, Rush, and everyone destroyed his momentum in what appears to have been a coordinated national attack.
Romney did not win the nomination because of immigration either, he took it by breaking spending records and 50 million of his own money and lying, and squelching the field for two election cycles, and never having to face a real challenge.
Look at the date--March, 2013--"Rand Paul endorses Mitch McConnell in 2014 Senate race, won’t back tea party challenge"
I repeat, Rand Paul is Ron Paul in camouflage.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/69865.html#ixzz34gbRbakg
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