Posted on 01/20/2016 6:44:00 PM PST by DaveyB
One candidate on this national stage wants you to give him power. He tells you he is rich, so he must be smart. If you give him power he claims he will fix America, but there is another tradition in America. A tradition that believes that power corrupts, and that our goal should be not to gain power but to contain power or limit Presidential power. Our founding fathers feared centralization of power. They wrote the constitution to restrain the accumulation of power by the government. Trump is ignorant of this tradition, or worse yet, he is overtly opposed to the limited government tradition. This race should not be about who can grasp the ring. Electing Gollum should not be our objective. This race should be about which candidate will best protect you from an overbearing government. I am the only one on this national stage who really doesn't want power or dominion over you. I want to set you free, I want to leave you alone, and I want a government so small you can barely see it.
Rand Paul
When your right your on the right!
H->! is very rich and wants to be a dicktater too.
Sour grapes, Rand?
I believe Trump is more Golem than Gollum! Look it up.
BS. We need to disassemble the bohemouth that’s destroying out country, lives. -and liberties. That’s gonna take some serious action - not a status-quo guy who sings a Pauline do- little tune Fix the krap first. ( Then yes, after washDC is finally fixed - then such a person could make some sense. But not now )
So Trump who is willing to sacrifice 4 to 8 years of his life, when he can make more and loves what he does as a businessman.
Or Cruz who isn’t even eligible to run but promises he will defend the constitution, who doesn’t understand the economy, can argue a court case, but can’t negotiate, can’t lead, has no large organization experience outside of a government bureacracy.
When you learn to spell dictator maybe we will listen to you.
The American Dream has always been about improving your condition, so why is somebody who has made it fully to the Ameriacn Dream not to be applauded. You scorn the rich, sounds liberal to me.
I had not thought about it but our current president does resemble Gollum and more than physically.
Wicked, nasty hobbitses!
H->! is a corrupt thief. The Donald is used to buying/renting politicians.
There is much to like with Rand.
problem is... unless he’s going to gain a few TENS of BILLIONS more, he won’t be receiving more financial power then he already has.
meanwhile, the corruption is FAR more likely from those that have never had big money before. the current resident being the latest example (bj clinton being the previous)
Really?
I have noticed some things from your comments — one is that you tend to miss the nuances of written language — such as another writer perfectly obviously using a misspelling deliberately to make a point.
I saw Rand give the finger. Classy.
Dicktater? I always heard she was more of a fish monger. :-p
Notice me! Notice me!
This is just a stupid, self-refuting attack.
Paul cannot name a single instance in which Trump has asked for EXTRA-CONSTITUTIONAL power.
Trump is running for President. If THAT ALONE makes Trump a wannabe-dictator, then why is Paul running for President.
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