Rand isn’t running for Governor, Rand is a Senator voting on federal law, and is running for president, gays in the military, abortion on federal lands, gay marriage in the military and in federal employment and in immigration are not “state” issues, they are issues of bigger and more costly federal government.
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Rand can have an opinion on what are federal matters, just like the rest of us.
Presidents don’t merely have opinions on the Executive branch “just like the rest of us.”
I think you have made clear why you were so vague, and kept using the left’s/libertarian code words for the left’s agenda.