You are absolutely correct, I’d just shrug my shoulders to someone who must not understand the Constitution well and probably has no concept of Federalism, let alone questioning one’s own reading comprehension. I’m not a Paul fan, he’d be a ways down on candidates I’d vote for but in fairness, we should not be misstating or fabricating views of possible candidates, whomever it is. That is a reflection on those who misstate the issues.
Paul is not running for governor of Kentucky, he is a Senator running for President, yet instead of coming out against gay marriage at the federal level, in the military, federal employment, and immigration, Paul came out for gay marriage, and to remove it from the party platform.
Now we see Paul taking a liberal/libertarian stand on immigration, another federal issue.
Paul is running for federal office, the constitution does not explain his federal political agenda.
It’s a matter of the Indestructible Mental Model. That never gets questioned. Some people simply ignore the most pressing issues from force of habit. The US government has turned into an unwieldy monster. The bible is very clear about not trusting in princes, but the US has heaped up prince after prince after prince. And with that has come an astounding debt; it’s not as if it was at least paying its way.
Paul at least begins to offer a route out of that. Most other “staunch conservatives” want to tweak the system with “strong politics” which claims to be morally righteous but quite ignores the immorality of the structure.
And strangely enough. Paul is a creationist Christian. That’s radical today; the thing that is de rigueur today is to believe in, at best, a clockwork universe that the Lord is aloof from, where it would not even be possible for Him to literally be close to the broken hearted.