Posted on 06/04/2015 4:07:21 PM PDT by presidio9
Politicians talk a lot, and the more a politician talks, the greater the risk he or she will say something regrettable. If you run your mouth for 11 hours at a stretch, as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is wont to do, the chance of putting your foot in it goes up correspondingly.
So maybe it was statistically inevitable that Paul would cover himself in the opposite of glory by declaring, during his Monday Senate speech against National Security Agency counterterrorism surveillance, that "people here in town think I'm making a huge mistake. Some of them, I think, secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me."
Amid the fury of his Republican colleagues, who were the implicit targets of this self-pitying smear (and annoyed that Paul was raising money off such grandstanding for his presidential campaign), Paul admitted on Fox News that he might have strayed into "hyperbole" and "impugning people's motives."
Then again, what if hyperbole, combined with a certain passive-aggressiveness, is not incidental to Paul's political style but essential? This is hardly the first time the presidential candidate has found himself explaining away an impolitic surfacing of his internal monologue. He's still trying to live down his
-SNIP- As is becoming increasingly apparent, however, Paul represents a darker, angrier corner of the libertarian imagination, the part that's not just concerned by government overreach in pursuit of legitimate objectives — fighting terrorism, say — but positively haunted by spies, war "hawks" and maybe killer drones. Also, the Federal Reserve, which Paul would subject to an "audit."
Paul has tried mightily to mainstream his brand of politics, distinguishing it from that of his father, Ron,
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Paul drew my attention on this Paul thread, are you also a Paul supporter?
Did you get on the thread to defend Paul, attack Paul, or just to make personal attacks?
A thread that so far, you show zero interest in the topic, and seem to have shown up just to make personal attacks.
Paul is highly disliked at freerepublic, it isn’t an obsession, just a primary, and Paul doesn’t even belong in the race.
I saw your attacks on xzins, while gazing at the Latest Comments page.
Of course, like dearest zxins pointed out, he is only one of your victims today.
Interesting, you stalk me, as you admit doing on this thread, where the topic doesn’t interest you, you only showed up as a stalker to launch personal attacks, you have done that a lot, it is called stalking.
Talking about Paul on a Paul thread is posting, you are merely stalking and attacking.
Time to turn in for the night.
I’ve put out the cat, fed the troll....
Have a great night, Onyx.
Your support for the pro-choice Paul, is a puzzler.
LOLOLOLOLOL.
Thank you, dearest zxins!
Good night, God bless you, xzins.
I plan to call it a night as soon as Jim checks in.
No pro-choice candidates who are OK with gay marriage, and surrender monkeys.
Somewhat like watching pissant in action. I actually kind of miss pissant much as I disagreed with him. He had a certain penache about his anti-Palin obsession. You could at least engage him and have an almost reasonable discussion. I disagreed with him completely, but you could get him to flesh out his arguments. Not so with the trolls we have now. The moment you challenge their carefully nursed sense of grievance, they pivot to an ad hominem attack or claim they don’t understand, or accuse you of making a “weird” comment. It’s an aliskyite tactic, but executed in a perfunctory manner. Like their heart isn’t in it and they’re just reading it from a script.
The quality of trolls has definitely gone down of late. We really should talk to the boss about recruiting some better ones.
Odd, you haven’t tried to engage any of my information on Paul, nor has anyone else on this thread, they rarely do, his supporters tend to be more like trolls, and they attack personally.
To: Starstruck
Yup. Only he wants to adapt, evolve and advance the homo agenda and open borders more than the older democrats were able to do. Sorry, young Turk Rand. Young comrade Obama beat you to it. Forward!
25 posted on 4/6/2014, 6:03:30 PM by Jim Robinson
Are you always this obtuse?
If you think the anti-Paul conservatives are trolls.
Here is a thread heavy with them.
To: BarnacleCenturion
FURP!! I’ll fight against the slide into Gomorrah for as long as I breathe. I sure as hell will not merge with the evil side.
The young people will have a lifetime (and more) to regret their willingness to go along with evil. Of course, they’ve been brainwashed into the Godless, progressive, socialist, homosexualist, atheist, evolutionist, environmentalist mother earth mindset since birth and have never been exposed to the light so they had no way of knowing.
If you wish to reach out to them, reach out with the TRUTH! Not some go along with the flow program.
And for certain, don’t ask and don’t expect me to go along with it. Rand Paul can go straight to hell as far as I’m concerned.
“Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.”
Amen.
59 posted on 4/6/2014, 6:50:27 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3141542/posts
How may political stategerists were saying that any attack will now be blamed on Republicans because they failed to renew the Unpatriot Act? It's not a far leap to think that someone who is already attributing blame before the fact is at least subconsciously hoping for the endstate.
Maybe/maybe not, Rand Paul is OK to be a senator, but he is definitely too naive to be Commander-in-Chief:
“Rand Paul: Iran Wants Nukes Because It “Feels Threatened”
snip http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/16/rand-paul-iran-wants-nukes-because-it-feels-threatened/
So the possibility of a pro-choice Rand Paul being president does not portend much difference.
When a sizable majority of the American public decides that legal abortion must end, it will end, regardless of who is president. We are not there yet.
you’re probably right. Good advice.
Point.
You would do better taking JR’s advice (or as you call him, an anti-Paul troll) in post 52 and run away from Rand Paul.
That is a typical Paul fan response, inaccurate and in support of abortion.
The single most important person in America when it comes to abortion, is the president, it is the public stage to sell life, or abortion, or indifference to the public, and he most controls federal policy on abortion.
Reagan and Bush saved lives as Presidents, Clinton and Obama killed people.
The forces driving this are in part due to the persuasiveness of the pro-life movement, and in part demographic.
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