Posted on 03/15/2014 12:24:23 PM PDT by TitansAFC
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is warning Republicans that if they expect to be relevant in the future and grow the party they will have to soften on social issues.
In an interview with vocativ.com, Paul said he had "sort of a Jeffersonian belief in unity, peace and commerce with all" and that the best way to build the GOP for the future is to include people with whom they don't agree on every issue.
"I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues," Paul advised. "The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to be festooned by those issues......"
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Libertarianism is most definitely pro-abortion, or as a libertarian would explain it, they believe that it is the woman’ choice, period.
Libertarianism is most definitely pro-gay, or as a libertarian would explain it, they believe that sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the government’s treatment of individuals, such as in current marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.
When you try to convince people that libertarianism is not pro-abortion, you are lying to them, deliberately attempting to mislead them and convince them that libertarianism is just a better word for “conservative”.
Rand Paul is a “conservative libertarian” that is why this thread is important, the curtain got opened a little when he spoke on how conservatives need to, bump it left a little.
“...you don’ t get the job done with a soft boner. ...”
I think, my friend, you just made the Quote of the Decade there...
Haha!!! That’s a keeper...
Soften on social issues?
With an out of wedlock birth rate of >40% and getting worse? Show me a society that has ever survived that.
Our culture is virtually dead, and almost pagan at this point.
There won’t be a country left if the current trends continue and Rand is okay with them continuing so “we” can win elections? To have power in a dead society?
No thanks.
I agree with you totally.
“I will never vote for anyone who supports ‘gay marriage’ or abortion or atheists. I’ll stay home first.”
>Wouldn’t it be even safer, cheaper and less damaging to our society if young, unwed women could see the advantage to keeping their knees together?
Yes, but reality dictates that there will always be some that give in to the urge and desire that is born in most humans. Unless the drive and desire to unite physically is taken out of the human species, it will happen. Better if they don’t procreate and stick us working people with the bill.
Personally, I think Paul's greatest weakness is foreign policy and his lack of personal charisma/communication skills. Also, from what I've seen, I think he is personally a good moral Christian who holds traditional American values. If anyone including Palin comes along with the same unequivocal government/tax-cutting message, and the Right doesn't savage him/her, the Left will be glad to prior to the GOP nomination becasue the GOP nomination is the key to 2106.
Watch how the MSM will do everything to keep the subject off the perverse, economy-killing, immorality-promoting, unconstitutional, increasingly authoritarian federal government. Whatever else happens, the Right needs to educate itself on how to best present and promote the free market economy as our best and IMO, only, way out of this mess.
Social and fiscal issues go hand in hand...
“You can’t be a fiscal Conservative and not be a social Conservative. A large part of the expanse of government is to make up for a dysfunctional society, because our culture is falling apart, the family is falling apart.” ~ Senator Jim DeMint
DeMint is absolutely right.
Judging by the posts in this thread I gotta feeling the supreme witch hillary will be the next president.
I just meant that was where moral issues come into play.
Single Parenthood is now considered a saintly endeavor that should be rewarded.
Yup, unless something comes along to unite the excitable Right. Anything would be better than another Democratic Socialist Party POTUS, even a GOP guy who doesn’t understand that central government is NOT the solution and the free market and decentralization IS the solution. Nevertheless, that kind of guy would just slow down the process of our demise. It would be so unnecessary because we have the answer. We have the solution.
:D
If the GOP gets any softer on social issues, they may as well be Democrats. Sounds like Rand Paul is GOP_e, to me.
There is a strong argument here. Fiscal conservatisms will lead to social conservatism. It is all about the money. Once you cut off the funding for all the liberal causes, they will decline.
Well, I’m a conservative libertarian, and I’m neither pro-homo nor pro-abortion. So I guess you’re wrong.
FRegards.
Not one dimes worth of difference.
That's like saying to Putin that Ukraine's fate should be decided by Ukrainians. It sound nice; however... REALITY must be acknowledged.
The FED GOV has already taken over much what rightly are State issues including issues in the social arena. Softness is surrender; a Neville Chamberlain approach to the evident clear & present danger that Leftism embodies will not win the day when its intent is to at best maintain a tyrannical status quo and at worst cede more territory to the Left.
The Leftist FED GOV tyranny has to be driven out & destroyed.
That is interesting that you think like that, but whatever level that you as a single guy on the internet accepts personally from the libertarian movement that you strive to advance against conservatism, has nothing to do with limiting what libertarianism and the majority of libertarians are actually after.
If you don’t approve of their goals, then don’t join them against us.
The problem with conservatives is they are losers and are unable to win. They can not put aside their petty pipe dreams of purity and social righteous. Silly conservatives you teach morality inside the walls of your own home and from your pulpit one soul at a time.
Get off your fat lazy arses and go out and change a life tomorrow another the next day., Put goodness in and get goodness out.
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