Posted on 08/14/2014 5:40:45 AM PDT by C19fan
Senator Rand Paul was spotted hobnobbing at a party in the Hamptons last weekend after he claimed he could not attend a high-profile conservative event he was listed as a sponsor of because he had a 'family commitment.' Paul told the Family Leader he had to skip the group's annual summit on Saturday because he had to attend an event in New York with his family. The presumed 2016 presidential candidate's absence at the influential Iowa gathering was called into question, however, after the New York Post reported that Paul and his wife, Kelley, attended the East Hampton Library fundraiser that day.
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LOL!
It’s like this. I’d have to give a sh!t what you think to give a fkkk what you say. Thanks again for Obama; your chosen candidate.
Yeah, your work really has produced some fine results; the death of the republic. Good going.
Liberal republicans caused the death of the republic. Them and those that supported them.
/johnny
go ahead and luxuriate in your own blithering ignorance. The above statement is just about the lowest IQ post in the history of FR. You cannot ever give even one shred of evidence for making such an infantile and preposterous and idiotic statement. It's your dark mental m-st-rbation.
Here’s how I feel. If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
I agree with some of that, but I have a few caveats.
Many libertarians cannot understand the concept that liberty is NOT license, and that there can be no liberty in societies of chaos.
I would also say that conservative and liberal mean what they mean…TODAY. What they used to mean, what ‘classical liberal’ used to mean, is really just a point of interest. It is what it is now. That horse done left the barn.
But as a conservative, I consider myself in agreement with about 80% of libertarianism. But a lot of libertarian claimers, including Rand Paul and Neil Boortz, are NOT libertarian at all in many ways. Same with a lot of young paul bots.
That was a direct quote from Ronald Reagan.
Big Deal
yes, I know the quote- agree with it - and i consider myself a Reagan conservative. And Reagan is correct, but what libertarian means is being changed by some modern day phony libertarians or single issue libertarians to mean something else.
You also have to keep in mind the context of that quote -
Bookmark to a thread which contains a veritable smorgasbord of spot on commentary, which exposes Rand Paul and his recent year long voyage into the intellectual abyss ....
He’s all over the place, trying to be loved by everybody, criticizing Ted Cruz, and listening to his consultants.
…and he just supported forcing all industries to implement the “Rooney Rule” from the NFL for minority hiring……and he praised the Thad Cochran campaigns efforts to attract black voters……I mean, the last year has been friggin disaster for Rand.
If you have to be a philosophical eunuch, a contradictory liar, and an intellectual idiot to get votes, then you should not get votes.
and yet, his bot supporters insist he (and his Dad) are the only ones who are NOT typical politicians.
Paul is no conservative, and he’s no libertarian either. He’s just a mushy intellectually bankrupt politician riding that paul bot wave. It’s cultic, like Obama’s was….and less ideologically coherent.
yeah, I think over the course of the discussion, we got him nailed pretty tight!
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