Posted on 06/28/2014 2:57:28 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
In hopes of avoiding Chris McDaniel’s fate, Rand Paul has worked tirelessly to shed his image as a fringe, right-wing ideologue.
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"Every day, the guy looks more and more like a Democrat. Every speech he gives, ‘Republicans are too quick to wanna fight…’.
Every day, Rand Paul is showing himself to be the shrimpboat that I always knew he was."
I never trusted him. I liked his father better than him.
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Rand is more dangerous than his father...
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I agree but still don’t like you Michael.
George W. isn’t a junior, and Paul is sounding nutty because he is becoming more open about his libertarianism, which also happens to sound liberal and democratic.
You just popped up at the top of a general listing. This isn’t a “stalk.” It is just one of 1,000,001 reminders: to you every small-l libertarian message sounds “liberal and democratic.” If you can’t hear the music please don’t presume everyone else can’t either.
The Obama foreign policy train wreck, from Ukraine and Iraq to ISIS and Al Queda strengthening, is destroying the idea of Paul as a serious contender.
His foreign policy is a non starter in the GOP at such a dangerous time. He’s to the left of Obama. Plus he’s even starting to act fruity domestically with his call for felons voting and his ho hum attitude toward the race baiting in Mississippi.
“He may have a point.”
He may indeed.
I originally had some hope for Rand Paul, but lately the guy just comes off as a flake.
Is - no question.
Paul is trying to widen his appeal — by being all things to all people.
The trouble is that he is spreading himself so thin that there is little substance remaining.
He is doing the ole dipsy-doodle fast-foot shuffle. Don’t like his stand on an issue today? Just wait a couple of days and he will have another stand on that issue.
Rubio’s getting better….Rand much worse. They’re going in opposite directions.
that’s way too charitable on your part. You lose your cred with his open borders stance, and his votings rights crapola. More dem than paleo.
I’m not aware of his stance on open borders or voting, but my own stance is that the borders should be tighter than East Germany, and anyone who can’t show an ID can’t vote.
Yeah, but Rubio is just like McCain and Grahamnesty. He has amnesty in his craw and he will push for it every chance he gets.
Shumer and McCain didn’t dupe him in the Gang of 8. He joined because he believes in the same thing they do.
More and more Democrats are really coming out of the closet as full on authoritarians. It used to be that the GOP was the part that was accused (somewhat rationally) of harboring nascent authoritarian tendencies. But the Dems have definately grabbed the baton on that now.
If you have the stomach read the Drudge story on Oregon's mandatory blood forcible blood testing of suspected DUIs. It's really gross. And Oregon is totally controlled by the Donks, so they own it. (And of course there are matching Federal funds to implement this BS.)
Libertarians are rightly known as being social liberals and weak on defense, it is why they oppose conservatism.
Rand Paul sounds like a democrat because of his libertarianism.
Generational suffixes are used to distinguish persons who share the same name within a family. A generational suffix can be used informally (for disambiguation purposes, or as nicknames) and is often incorporated in legal documents.I guess they use "41" and "43" in the family, but that's pretty obscure.
Liberals convinced much of America that President George W. Bush is a junior, he isn’t.
A lot of supposed conservatives, however, have made their peace with the welfare state and strongly support programs like Social Security that were anathema to the conservatives of the FDR era, for instance.
As I pointed out on a thread last week there is a long history of the GOP being non-interventionist, including many prominent GOP politicians opposing US entry into WW1, and involvement in WW2 prior to Pearl Harbor. You might disagree with these positions, but to characterize them as "liberal" and "Democratic" is historically inaccurate.
The proclivity for starting wars when not essential as many feel Bush (the younger) did - comes from the neoconservative outlook. Although, TR was a bellicose militarist too, and a Republican.
That’s nice that you make up your own definitions.
Now to get back to Rand Paul and his revealing more of his libertarianism as he moves to the left on abortion, gay marriage, the border, social issues, defense etc.
I agree.. he’s coming across more liberal than Jeb... lots more liberal.
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