Posted on 12/21/2014 12:26:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Can’t Stand Rand
Cruz 2016
Then they make deals that build power, wealth and security for themselves.
It's usually best not to pay any attention to what they say (they obviously don't pay any attention to what they say). Watch what they do.
Rand Paul and his father are liberals.
They always have been, except on fiscal policies.
Once you understand that they become predictable.
IMO I trust Paul as much as I trust Jeb Bush.
Rand Paul interprets all politics in terms of economic benefits and power. He has no deep seated political or moral beliefs to ground his opinions, only personal gain.
In this, Rand Paul is no different than the RINOs in WA DC or Harry Reid.
Looks like the nut didn’t fall far from the tree...
Nothing like asking a rhetorical question with no attempt to answer it. The truth is the average Chinese is much freer than they were under Chairman Mao. They don't have political freedom, but they aren't being murdered in the tens of millions anymore, or punished for being educated and can own private property. The government is just an old fashioned crony capitalist dictatorship that uses communism as an excuse to hold power. Nobody really believes in Karl Marx anymore.
YEP! He’s his Daddy Ron’s boy!
Here’s the problem with a lot of Paul’s reasoning: the mind of an addictive gambler, or a delusional iedalogue, is one that people, especially those in power, can have. In reality, business people and heads of state can be delusionally benefitting themselves with their decision, even when in reality, it can very well be suicidal, at face value, the ideal of everyone working for their own best interest sounds good. But in reality, it’s idealistic.
Isolationism means not having diplomatic relations. Rubio and the neocons are definitely being isolationist here. They should own it.
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists][Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]
There was no uptick in freedom during his time and next to none in his successors time.
When the USSR went belly up the Chi-coms realized it was on a matter of time before they did as well.
So they changed what they needed to so as to survive.
Had nothing to do with "trading".
Wow. Greenfield completely dissects Paul on this article.
"Let's hope cooler heads will ultimately prevail and we unleash a trade tsunami that washes the Castros once and for all into the sea," Paul concludes.Yeah, and we need to erect a tariff so high, exporting countries' economies will be forced into prosperity.
You are correct. Nixon’s opening to China may have been good cold war politics, but it did nothing for the freedoms of the Chinese people, which, limited as they still are, came about much later and for other reasons.
Xi Jiping has instructed the Party Higher School to teach the elite Confucius.
I have a feeling China will look a lot like Singapore over the next few decades - a highly developed authoritarian country guided by traditional Chinese values.
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