Rand Paul is one hard cat to figure out. I find myself agreeing with him 90% of the time. The other 10% he is just out there. Waaaayyy out there.
Too bad, really. He is often ahead of the curve on many issues (Bill declaring war on ISIS a year ago, a Bill to stop Syrian “refugees” before anyone else even thought of it, etc.).
But then he goes so far off the conservative reservation that he just makes you shake your head.
“Too bad, really. He is often ahead of the curve on many issues (Bill declaring war on ISIS a year ago, a Bill to stop Syrian ârefugeesâ before anyone else even thought of it, etc.). But then he goes so far off the conservative reservation that he just makes you shake your head.”
Same here. I do respect him a lot... and like him, I’m basically a conservative libertarian. One of the differences between us, though, is that I’m a foreign policy realist, where he’s a... well, I’m not sure what to call him. He’s not an isolationist, but also not a realist, hawk or dove. He’s a bit of everything, I guess. Perhaps the best description is: he’s a conservative libertarian in general, but on foreign policy he’s simply a libertarian.