[rabscuttle385]

fyi

[Patrick1]

I don’t know this Paul at all, so I will not assume he as a looney as his old man and I do expect and welcome his election in the fall.

The Libertarian belief in weak national security will always seperate them from the conservative movement.

[TheBigIf]

For the author of this article to make the claim that conservatives falsely accuse the anti-war movement of being anti-America shows how ignorant he is. While I will not be able to stay online and debate this, there are mountains of evidence showing the anti-war movements anti-American nature.

[FreeReign]

Paul is the opposite. The Hill's John Feehery notes the difference: "Rand Paul will be more than the skunk at the garden party in the U.S. Senate. He will be subversive when it comes to critical Republican orthodoxies." Like his father, Rand is the Republican establishment's worst nightmare.

If "Ayn" Rand Paul is like his dad on foreign policy then he will be a nightmare to all who are reasonable.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

And this fear extends to conservative talk radio, where on the day after Paul's victory, hosts Limbaugh and Sean Hannity said next to nothing about it.

He has a pretty loose definition of "next to nothing." They may not have gone wall to wall with it, but they did mention Paul's victory, and they defended him against the Left's efforts to peg him as a racist. The Scott Brown election was big because it broke the Dems' filibuster proof majority, not to mention that a center-right candidate won in Massachusetts.

[FredZarguna]

Disgraced former conservative David Frum -- who discovered his think-tank job was not a lifetime entitlement to indolence -- holds forth on his problems with Rand Paul, and the irony is, as usual, delicious:

"Rand Paul's victory in the Kentucky Republican primary is obviously a depressing event for those who support strong national defense and rational conservative politics."

In which case Frum can't be too terribly depressed, since his idea of "rational conservative politics" includes: 1) supporting 0bama 2) Supporting 0bamacare, 3) trashing fiscal conservatives as unrealistic 4) trashing social conservatives as morons. It would be nice to quote an actual conservative's issues with Rand Paul, rather than David Frum, but I guess this is as close as you get with todays "journalists."

[WOSG]

“And portraying Paul as somehow being anti-black is no different than conservatives who portray antiwar protesters as anti-American”

This garbage statement needs a barf alert. That is an absolute and utter slander against conservatives.

[camp_steveo]

Doing what is right in your mind is not what the Constitution allows for.

The US Govt is limited in it’s powers for a reason.

You can’t pick and choose what policies the govt will adhere to the Constitution on.

Either we adhere to it, or we burn it.

Either it means something, or it is nothing more than a dusty old relic.

Well......

Which is it?

[eclecticEel]

A republican of any sort winning a senate seat in Massachusetts is obviously a bit more important of a story than a republican winning a senate seat in Kentucky - much less a primary.