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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Conservatives like Romney & McCain? LMAO!
There's a reason Libertarians are politically irrelevant; the same reason the Articles of Confederation were trashed & replaced with the US Constitution. Social Anarchy is as much a threat to individual liberty as Social Tyranny is.
Social order premised upon self evident truths, acknowledging unalienable rights, and promoted under the Rule of Law is a necessity to protecting individual liberty.
Restore the Republic!
So you don’t like conservatism and want conservatives to remove themselves from politics to let you guys have a free field on abortion and the homosexual agenda, and open borders and weak national defense, and all the ghetto habits that you can spread in America.
You sound like a sweet guy.
The fight about homosexual marriage will occur on the ground, just like abortion and gun control. The tide will turn if we get vouchers. Technology is making physical colleges unnecessary for most of the population and, because people are naturally conservative, that will kill a lot of the garbage fed to young people.
Ron seems a lot crazier. Rand comes across smoother. He’s learned from his dad. He’s watched what happened and made adjustments.
If Rand were to follow Obama we’d withdraw from our military obligations across the world. His promises to end/eliminate actual agencies not withstanding, that would be a disaster. It already is a mess that the next POTUS will spend blood and treasure to repair.
I’m not single, I’m not young, I’m not inexperienced. I’m responsible, I have a respectable IQ, pay local, state, and fed taxes, I’m pro life, pro traditional marriage, pro 1st, pro 2nd, conservative, and libertarian.
I am a registered Republican. I’m Christian. I normally vote Conservative Republican. I do not belong to the Libertarian Party because the platform is whacked and driven by ignorance. Publicly, Conservative Republicans like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Sarah Palin best represent my views. And yes, I’m a conservative libertarian.
What I am not is liberal like Rand Paul is on immigration and apparently the social issues. And yes, I’m a conservative libertarian.
It is not about conservatives vs libertarians. It’s about conservatism vs liberalism. I am a conservative libertarian, not a liberal libertarian.
Distinguishing libertarianism from liberalism shouldn’t be perceived as a threat to conservatism. You seem to think the two are intrinsically intertwined. I don’t which I illustrate with a simple diagram on my FR page. I am like the Founding Fathers, a conservative libertarian.
I respect your views, ansel12. But express them without attempting to frame my character. I am a conservative. I am a libertarian.
I have other things to attend to, and prefer not to spend any more time on this issue.
FRegards.
I have said repeatedly, and I say again “the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree”.
Rand Paul is perhaps one of the last persons I’d ever vote for anything.
Well, sounds like we’re in agreement. If we take down the excessive federal government, then these issues WILL go back to the states where they belong - then the people of each state can decide - like what actually happens in a free country...
When we’re on the verge of WW3 and there’s no jobs for the average person and the country’s falling apart, I don’t put social issues in first place. I know what I believe. I don’t demand that everyone believe like me.
This is silly, libertarianism is a pro-abortion, pro-gay belief system, those issues are among their political goals.
It doesn’t matter what YOU are, only what libertarianism is, it is a political movement that wants to defeat conservatism.
Since you reject libertarianism, you should rethink claiming you are one.
The people who created this nation were not libertarians and they were not pro-abortion and for homosexual equality, they were conservatives, and social conservatives.
The founding generations would never have accepted gay marriage in the military, or in immigration and federal employment, and abortion on military bases, and homosexual soldiers, the removal of God from public spaces and our culture, they were not libertarians.
Nor does anyone else, that is the kind of a lie that only a pretty liberal guy would try to pass off.
What kind of silliness is that? You think gay marriage for the military and federal employment and immigration, and abortion on military bases and homosexuals in the military are "state" issues?
Libertarians are social liberals, at all levels of government.
Well then, Rand, don’t vote for Ted Cruz for President. You always struck me as a little bit goofy, and disingenuous about big issues such as repealing Obamakill and amnesty. I think you suck. Bob
Exactly! Bob
We need to soften and the pull all funding from these parasites and let the starve.
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
Why put in the work when you can have the federal government legislate it for you?
Central government is not the solution to social issues either but our supposed fellow voters on the Right will never get it.
Thanks for this thread.
Senator Rand Paul seems, at times, to be interested in bringing the failed idea of the “Big Tent” back into the Republican Party with statements such as this one: “ - - -”I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, - - - . “
What purpose does a “bigger” Republican Party have to restoring the Core Values that our sorry Congressional RINOs have refused to defend by their cave-in, doormat votes to their effective boss Obama?
Senator Paul does not recognize the there has been for the past 5 years virtually no effective difference between the Congressional RINO and Democrat Leaderships.
Thus, a really “Big” Republican Party will just make for more really big cave-ins to Democrats, IMHO.
Congressional RINO Leadership has proven to be incompetent for the last five years.
Replacing Congressional RINO Leadership with fire-in-the-belly Republicans such as Trey Gowdy would do more to give us Conservative voters a reason to vote FOR Republican Candidates, regardless of how “big” the Republican Party becomes.
Paul is concerned about assembling an army and THEN mounting a steady trend to tolerance.
We are asking ALL of the Republicans to fight with what you have NOW, and to fight to the last man/woman!
GIVE US A REASON TO VOTE FROR YOU!
IOW, attack Attack, ATTACK!
And to Hell with the “look, or size” of the doormat Republican Party!
Good post.
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