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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If it is all about the money then we are nothing but slaves and widgets.
I’m afraid Rand wouldn’t be any better than Nixon in 1968. And I’m not saying Rand will win by the narrow margin of popular votes that Nixon did.
Rand is already on board with McC but may be hesitant about the “SC wonder of the media”.
Simple to us, but not to most uninformed Republican primary voters
Fiscal conservatisms will lead to social conservatism.
Cart before the horse there Peter.
Sorry, it is all about the money. Nothing changes until the money is gone.......................
I will take ANY advances in ANY Form. If some one want to got with fiscal conservatism, God Bless them, they have my support.
Social issues, as the liberals call them, fuel the spending of the overall government in ways that the average uninformed Republican primary voters cannot discern.
I will also argue that it is human nature to take the easy path. You can try to teach the work ethic while giving them free stuff, but the reality is they won’t work until they HAVE TO.
I have not abandoned morals, and I’m not about to.
Ditto.
“I prefer not to live in a Sodom and Gamorrah just because it has a free market economy. And that free market economy would not last long in a immoral environment. We would be right back to crony capitalism and fascism.”
I think there is a lot...a LOT....of crony capitalism happening right now.
Good-bye, Rand. You have fallen to the bottom of my list for 2016.
It is? You want to tell God that?
Man’s law has no effect on God’s law. Everyone will have to account for themself before God. However, as a political matter in the US - no state that has gay marriage is going to get rid of it and there’s not going to be a Constitutional Amendment to ban it. The status quo will probably remain for the foreseeable future. So there’s no point in making it a campaign issue on a national level.
I will say what I always say: FISCAL CONSERVATISM *IS* SOCIAL CONSERVATISM. A massive reduction in the size of government will defund the social Left’s pet projects like Planned Parenthood, NPR, elementary school “fisting” instruction, etc.
While I agree, letting up on the social issues as a litmus test will help rally behind someone who is a lot more conservative than we have been getting. If we get folks who believe in the Constitution and allowing States to handle issues that aren't designated as being under the purview of the Federal government, things will begin to self-correct IAW what the People really believe. We won't have a DOJ suing the hell out of States that try to assert their rights and we won't have a "president" running rogue while the Congress (both houses) sits idly by.
When we focus on an across-the-board platform of social issues/abortion/homosexuals/immigration there will never be the "perfect" candidate that can be rallied behind.
These, while all important and having ill effects on our Freedoms, are all symptoms of the disease. The disease is politicians who hold no stock in the Constitution and feel that the Federal government trumps all - including the States. We allowed a united-front series of leftists to inch their agendas little-by-little over more than half a century. There will be no quick fix as so many seem to expect. We will have to claw our way back via the same dogged methodology and address one issue at a time if we are to make headway without being constantly distracted to total ineffectiveness.
Social conservatives need to learn the language of culture of critique. Social liberalism is a complete fail, learn to articulate that.
Good words and I agree with them. Thank you.
Thanks ItsAHoot...
The war over sodomy is largely over... The war over infanticide is largely over... The war over euthanasia is largely over... The war over polygamy is largely over... The war over pedophilia is largely over... The war over bestiality is largely over... The war over cannibalism is largely over...
Lou Budvis, meet Slippery Slope.
I guess that makes more sense
Yeah, I’m not much of a Paul fan anyway. But what the bleep is he talking about? Every time I get a fundraising letter from the RNC I write back asking what the heck the platform is? The only thing they ever say is “beat democrats” which isn’t much of a plan. The notion that the republican party is somehow “socially conservative” is more BS than anything else. And I dare you to try and find out what S/C proposal(s) are out there just waiting to get enacted. As noted above, controlling spending would indeed be socially conservative and even that ain’t happening.
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