Rand stands with Obama and Kerry on Iran

The Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential ^ | December 4, 2014 | Philip Klein

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There may be disagreements on foreign policy among conservatives, but one thing that there's near universal agreement on is that President Obama's foreign policy has been an abysmal failure. That's why it was especially noteworthy that Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., already facing an uphill battle in winning over conservative primary voters on foreign policy, has embraced the disastrous, John Kerry-led negotiations with the radical Islamic Iranian regime.

Speaking at a meeting sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, "Mr. Paul said he doesn’t favor increasing sanctions on Iran as the U.S. continues diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the Iranian nuclear weapons program, saying, 'I think it would be a mistake to push them away from the table.' " Another story quotes him as saying he was worried that new sanctions would hurt the progress that was made so far.

This is an incredible statement on multiple levels. To start, if Paul wanted to oppose more sanctions against Iran, there were multiple arguments available to him. For instance, he could have made a broader economic libertarian argument against sanctions, or perhaps argued that sanctions weren't effective because they mainly hurt average people rather than the nation's leaders....

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I’m rarin’ to go on raising that $2 million dollars.

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