Posted on 07/26/2013 9:22:18 AM PDT by drewh
Republican rivals Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky are escalating their feud over national security policy and liberty.
In comments at a forum of Republican governors in Aspen, Col. Thursday, Mr. Christie said the libertarian strain championed by Mr. Paul currently coursing through the veins of political parties as evidenced by broad, although ultimately unsuccessful, lobbying in the House of Representatives against NSA surveillance programs this week is dangerous.
This strain of libertarianism thats going through parties right now and making big headlines I think is a very dangerous thought, Mr. Christie said Thursday in Aspen, Colo. on at a forum of Republican governors. You can name any number of people and [Mr. Paul is] one of them.
Mr. Christie, like Mr. Paul considered a possible 2016 presidential contender, criticized what he called esoteric, intellectual debates that Mr. Paul and fellow conservatives such as Sen. Mike Lee of Utah have been conducting over the constitutional limits on unreasonable search and seizure and warrantless government surveillance.
A top aide to Mr. Paul immediately fired back, telling The Washington Times the senators opposition to government drone policies and surveillance programs are designed to protect the freedoms that make America exceptional.
If Gov. Christie believe the constitutional rights and the privacy of all Americans are esoteric, he either needs a new dictionary or he needs to talk to more Americans, because a great number of them are concerned about the dramatic overreach of our government in recent times, Paul senior advisor Doug Stafford said.
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“..This strain of libertarianism thats going through parties right now and making big headlines I think is a very dangerous thought, Mr. Christie said Thursday in ...”
So now this fat f*** RINO is telling us what we can and can’t think...
Evidently his bromance with Sock Puppet really influenced him.
I’m not even a libertarian, but go get ‘im, RAND.
Christie’s fallen in a Democrat ditch and can’t get up.
You may be right!
The time has come for conservatives to realize that the Republican Party does not represent conservatives and have no interest in restoring America back to greatness, but it's all good because by the end of this decade the party will cease to exist thanks to amnesty and the remaining conservatives staying home.
...shoe bomber, underwear bomber. They were failures, but still got through.
So you would rather US troops go to a foreign country, capture a terrorist, fly him here, give him a lawyer and a day in court? A nice prison cell with three meals a day?
You think that is better than a drone? BOOM! Terrorist dead. No US soldier in harm’s way. No long trial and housing at taxpayers expense. You don’t like that system?
Sometimes Christie says the right things, sometimes does the right things, but he is still mostly an opportunist.
We need to cleanse ourselves of opportunists!
No they wouldn’t - he’d just buckle down and argue his points, not agreeing to disagree. I’ve never met him, and haven’t watched or read much about him, but that’s what I gather about his personality.
You're not doing much for coalition building with your insulting addition to the word "libertarian."
Welcome to ObaMao's America: where every citizen gets treated like a potential terrorist and every terrorist gets treated like a potential citizen.
It is what it is.
Now, now. They use it as an underhand jab at the (L) all the time.
Myself, I’ve taken it as a badge of honor. Liberal = Liberty. The only stigma it has received is from the co-opting of the Left/DEMs.
I find it most ironic that some of those of the ‘Conservative’ bent (whatever they may be trying to conserve, I still don’t know) routinely begin their screeds using those same co-opted words/ideas:
- Shouting Fire in a theater = unconstitutional
- S.S/Medicare being ‘paid into’ = obligation
- Patriot Act under Bush = OK, O = bad
Christie is a perfect example of those types of (R).
Too true.
The same people who claim to be for “limited government” and then support government control over the things they don’t personally like, whether it actually affects them or not.
I think I’ll start calling them “HOA Conservatives.” They give lip service to ideals like freedom and liberty, so long as everyone acts and thinks exactly the same as they do. Their idea of America is to be like a giant subdivision of perfectly spaced little tan suburban homes that are completely indistinguishable from the next.
lol...that’s the best analogy I’ve come across. I may steal it.
I should note, that my link to it, also contains a study guide, to make it very clear how it has been abused by Leftwing Propagandists: Declaration Of Independence--With Study Guide.
Part of the present unfolding tragedy is that the Founding Fathers had valid and coherent answers for all of the absurd arguments, with which we are being assailed today; but so few Americans bother to really understand their own history, that they go largely unanswered in our political "debates."
God spare us, what I fear we may have come to deserve, in not adequately defending the profound Blessings we have virtually squandered.
William Flax
The Fort Hood traitor may die of old age, before he is ever brought to Justice! The feds are too busy with other projects, apparently.
“...where both parties work vigorously to defend the government from the people, rather than the people from the government. ...”
Spot on. Worth repeating.
1. You make prison sound like a bed and breakfast. It’s not. Especially the federal ones where terrorists go. 23 hour lockdown; never see the sun. Most of these folks go insane before long.
2. Drones are a cowardly way of waging war. There is no honor in it. You’ve got someone sitting on their butt in an air conditioned room in Langley, VA or some such place not knowing or caring if the drone actually kills a “made” jihadi or his wife and kids. These drone strikes are a wonderful recruiting tool for Al Qaeda.
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