Posted on 04/19/2015 2:40:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“The difference is purely in implementation. If you had a philosophical discussion on what the world should look like, there would be no difference.”
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Rand Paul’s brother says that when it comes to ideology, there’s “no difference” between his brother, the Kentucky senator and Republican presidential candidate, and his father, the former congressman and three-time presidential candidate.
Ronnie Paul, the eldest son of the former congressman and sometimes-surrogate for his brother, was speaking with libertarian podcaster Israel Anderson. He said that both his brother and father held the same beliefs, there’s just a difference in the implementation of how to get there.
“The difference is purely in implementation,” Paul’s eldest son said. “If you had a philosophical discussion on what the world should look like, there would be no difference.”
As he runs for president, Rand Paul faces the task of both appealing to a broader set of mainstream Republican primary voters, while maintaining enough credibility with the vast Paul family libertarian network to get those people to the polls in early states.
Over the last year, he has sharpened his rhetoric on defense and terrorism. He signed Sen. Tom Cotton’s letter about a potential Iran nuclear deal and recently proposed increasing defense spending, though the increase was offset by other cuts. Last summer, he supported intervention against ISIS, and said, in his presidential announcement speech, “the enemy is radical Islam, you can’t get around it.” When he was a surrogate for his dad in 2007 and 2008 the Kentucky senator often spoke of American interventionism as a cause of terrorism and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
“Basically, if we’re both going the same place you may have a favorite way to get there and I may have a little different way to get there. We both are going to the same place and I can’t even say that your way maybe is better than my way, you know, we can debate all day long which way is the best way,” said Ronnie Paul in the recent interview.
“So they’ve taken different paths. Do you take little pieces at a time, do you try for the whole thing at one time? You know, there’s all different debate on how do you get to ultimately limited government, a pro-American defense foreign policy and Bill of rights, individual liberties for the people at home.”
Ronnie Paul added in a philosophical discussion on ideology there “would be no difference” between his dad and brother and “the end goal without a doubt is the same.”
“I mean, the goal is the same and I’d be willing to wager we could get everybody who listens to this and we can agree on the vision we’re going to and we’d probably have, if we had 100 people in the room we could have 100 different paths. The path is a little different; the end goal without a doubt is the same.”
“The difference is purely in implementation. If you had a philosophical discussion on what the world should look like, there would be no difference.”
That is true. I think that people who are so benighted as to kill their children, which is currently the law of the land, are going to continue to do this.
I do not want to be part of it, I work actively against it by offering other options, and I do not want to be supporting it with my tax and healthcare dollar, which is what is happening now. To me this is a step up from current situation.
So in your mind, abortion rights is an expression of freedom, but any tax dollars being used is of course not freedom, but as long as the tax dollar issues is resolved, let freedom reign.
In other words you support the libertarian position on abortion.
Which is: “we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.”
Ugh.
Abortion is simply a euphemism for murder
I stand by my last statement.
fini
So you are OK with the gay marriage as well, I guess polygamy falls under that same position?
I could care less. I do not think the government should be involved in marriage.
Like the libertarians say?
1.4 Personal Relationships
Sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the government’s treatment of individuals, such as in current marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.
I am frightened of the thought of Rand Paul as president when we have foreign enemies on so many fronts.
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