Posted on 04/18/2013 10:27:19 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Ron Paul made an impassioned plea for shuttering Guantanamo Bay Wednesday at a launch event for his new Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.
Just hours earlier, his son Rand Paul said he does not favor closing the prison.
The generational split highlights the conflicting goals between a politician on the make and an ideologue riding off into the sunset.
“I don’t talk to him in detail for the precise reason that I’m not looking to sort that all out,” Ron Paul said. “He has his opinions. You’ll have to ask him where he disagrees. Not me.”
A background sheet distributed at Wednesday’s roll out said the older Paul, 77, has been “unshackled by the restrictions of government service” — as if that ever posed a problem for the iconoclastic libertarian during his decades in the House.
The younger Paul, 50, is open about his designs on the Republican nomination in 2016. Recent moves to present his foreign policy vision as in the mainstream have showcased a desire to expand from his father’s base. He was notably absent from the program to honor his dad and will not be on the new group’s advisory board.
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If Ron Paul would just shut up and go away. I want to like Rand. I do. But his pro-amnesty libertarian ideas worry me.
Ron Paul is pretty well disliked (hated) here. But I gotta say, he’s a good father. How many of these political dynasties would allow their sons to publicly pronounce a different opinion? Can you imagine Hillary or Bill supporting Chelsea’s right to disagree about say abortion..
Honestly Rand is about the only one I trust in DC. Cruz too
I agree with you about Rand. He made a speech where he made it clear that he is ideologically in favor of greater immigration, not less of it. I have to disagree with him.
Cruz?
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