Posted on 12/14/2014 10:49:21 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
There was a time when Portman was an extremely conservative representative in the House from Ohio’s very conservative 2d district.
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I like that!
How big?
My man could win this thing! Hands down!
Peter Wehner sounds like a huge RINO....just like Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff.
FWIW, Mirengoff is pretty much getting slammed, on his own site (at the comments following), for the Cruz attack piece.
Will be interesting to see where the 9, is it 9, new R Senators lie . . . with the GOPe or with real conservatives like Cruz, Lee & Sessions.
Yep, Alabama has two very good senators.
Ted Cruz 38.01% (4,387 votes)
Rand Paul 35.25% (4,068 votes)
Dr. Ben Carson 13.65% (1,575 votes)
Scott Walker 3.4% (392 votes)
Rick Perry 3.26% (376 votes)
Mike Huckabee 2.77% (320 votes)
Jeb Bush 2.56% (296 votes)
Chris Christie 0.73% (84 votes)
Marco Rubio 0% (44 votes)
Total Votes: 11,542
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/11/ben_carson_jeb_bush_rand_paul.html
That looks about right. Texas gets the spotlight for its solid conservatism but Alabama is a true stronghold too. The people here really get it.
Go Alabama. Crimson Tide!
The Paulite hipsters failed to pull him over the line on this one. Social un-conservatives. Conservative is a lifestyle not an anarchist movement that is amoral.
Cruz works tirelessly to thwart RINOs and Democrats. God bless him!
Sure, although the notion that Rand Paul is an amoral anarchist may be a little over the top.
Paul agrees with the Founders until they speak of a moral society being the only way Freedom works. His departure from this causes reservations.
So Rand Paul favors an immoral society?
Rand Paul Quote, waffling at best:
Speaking on Roe v. Wade:
“My intention is to bring it forward and to have a healthy philosophic and moral discussion over what we should do, what the state should be involved with, when should life be protected. And I don’t think we’re ready yet, our society, maybe, to change any laws, but I think its worthwhile having the discussion if we can keep it from being too much of a flippant of a discussion over this that concrete this and that,”
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/21/after-controversy-rand-paul-clarifies-hes-100-pro-life-on-abortion/
Sen. Rand Paul “would agree” with legalizing marijuana and other drugs, and investing the resulting savings into funding Social Security. At least that’s what he said during a television appearance in June of 2000, years before he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
http://marijuana.com/news/2014/10/rand-paul-on-legalizing-drugs-i-would-agree/
Is he wrong that society doesn’t seem ready to change the law yet? If society were ready, there would be legislative majorities. I don’t see where he’s too far off the mark here.
As for marijuana, I don’t think that’s much of a litmus test. William F. Buckley favored legalization. Was he an amoral anarchist?
As for marijuana, I don’t think that’s much of a litmus test. William F. Buckley favored legalization. Was he an amoral anarchist?
The Founders would see him as amoral in his responses, as well as most believers. Unfortunately most of his followers are.
I have two teenage children and don't want his influence on their decisions in life. Very negative toward personal responsibility.
So your children are going to smoke pot if the government doesn’t keep it illegal? To me it’s the job of parents to instill moral values and character in their children.
William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan were friends. Buckley was a committed Catholic and a social conservative.
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