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Posted on 03/20/2014 4:51:43 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
RUSH: Rand Paul went to Berkeley yesterday, last night. Rand Paul got a standing O from the students at the University of California-Berkeley. Do you know the issue that he hit on that they just jumped out of their seats and applauded him on was the government spying on the citizens? He came out firmly against it, highly critical of it, and they couldn't be quiet.
They were just cheering him like Republicans don't get cheered on college campi. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Rand Paul "delivered a scathing rebuke to the US intelligence community Wednesday, calling it 'drunk with power.' 'I don't know about you, but I'm worried,' the Kentucky senator told 400 people who filled a hall at UC Berkeley's International House. 'If the CIA is spying on Congress, who exactly can or will stop them?'"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vFhXpfEfQg
Reporters talked to the students after the speech, and they just thought it was one of the greatest that they had heard anybody make at Berkeley. Now, he said other things, but that issue of spying, I happen to have seen this reported elsewhere. I've seen it on my tech blogs. These young people that just slavishly support Obama and global warming and every cockamamie idea, when it comes to this NSA business, it's the one area there's not even any confusion about it.
I mean, they're a little confused that Obama would do it, but there is no middle ground on it. They universally oppose it, and they can't blame Republicans for it. I think we get an indication here how Rand Paul's gonna run his campaign. He's gonna go to groups of people, and he's gonna talk about, as a Republican, the things important to them. He's gonna identify whatever it is important. Like to these students, he knew it was spying.
He went to the belly of the beast, UC Berkeley. He's been to Howard University, which is an all-black university. I think other Republican contenders had better take note of what he's doing, 'cause it's very abundantly clear to me what his strategy is. He'll go talk to Hispanics, and whatever he identifies as the issue that gets them out of their seats, he'll talk about.
I don't know what it would be, but he will have one. It might be immigration/amnesty. Who knows? I have no idea. But he obviously knew that the Millennials/college students want no part of this spying. I mean, they're all really tech savvy, and they understand the depths to which the spying is possible. You know, keep a sharp eye.
Limbaugh sat stoned faced in front of the EIB golden mic for 8 stinking years during Bush, with nary a word about this history changing violent illegal invasion of our county, while his buddy made American citizenship all but pointless while celebrating cinco de mayo up in the White House.
First and foremost; she was an atheist. And that pretty much colors every other viewpoint one can have.
If you are eternally wrong on THAT concept, you’re pretty much screwed on all other aspects of life too.
And that’s the thing I hate most about libertarians. They are fundamentally wrong on social and moral issues and it shows. Even to the extent they are often wrong on Constitutional and fiscal issues.
Going to the belly of the beast and finding a single issue of common ground is a good strategy for starters.
But then Paul needs to pivot to other issues using the same principles of liberty that were found in the single common issue.
Doesn't look like Paul did that.
There are many on the far left who think Hillary is Dick Cheney in a pantsuit. They will vote for Paul over her.
I don't give a crap about party anymore. If Paul looks like the candidate who will do the most to reign in the monster that is the Federal government, he will get my vote.
The GOP is Pauly Walnuts to the Democratic Party's Tony Soprano. It's one big crime family anymore.
Good points.
To me, Rand actually seems worse than Ron.
Actually, I did not know that Ayn Rand was even involved in politics other than theory.
“..make it a rino/libertarian party, and totally eliminate the Reagan wing.”
That’s about it, and Rand Paul has the same kind of naivete that liberals have:
“Rand Paul: Iran Wants Nukes Because It “Feels Threatened”
snip http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/16/rand-paul-iran-wants-nukes-because-it-feels-threatened/
Classical liberalism is a political philosophy that supports individual rights as pre-existing the state, a government that exists to protect those moral rights, ensured by a constitution that protects individual autonomy from other individuals and governmental power, private property, and a laissez-faire economic policy. The “normative core” of classical liberalism is the idea that in an environment of laissez-faire, a spontaneous order of cooperation in exchanging goods and services emerges that satisfies human wants.
The early liberal figures now described as “classical liberals” rejected many foundational assumptions which dominated most earlier theories of government, such as the Divine Right of Kings, hereditary status, and established religion, and focuses on individual freedom, reason, justice and tolerance. Such thinkers and their ideas helped to inspire the American Revolution and French Revolution.
http://www.conservapedia.com/Classical_liberal
Rand described libertarians as ‘redneck hippies’.
What is your point?
When I was young, I always appreciated the fact that in this country I was an individual and could make my own moral and life decisions as a God given right.
As a country, we need to stick together to defend our individual rights.
Yes she did, she mocked them for theit childish silliness, as most people mock them, they are like college kids explaining how perfect Communism is on paper and in theory.
For instance here is the libertarian philosophy on the border.
If you gasp, then they explain that they are also going to end all welfare and social programs, so not to worry, etc.etc., it never occurs to them that their policies only create more liberal voters, who against small government and low taxes.
COMPLETE PLATFORM TEXT
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND CIVIL ORDER
IMMIGRATION:
“”THE ISSUE: We welcome all refugees to our country and condemn the efforts of U.S. officials to create a new “Berlin Wall” which would keep them captive. We condemn the U.S. government’s policy of barring those refugees from our country and preventing Americans from assisting their passage to help them escape tyranny or improve their economic prospects.
THE PRINCIPLE: We hold that human rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of nationality. Undocumented non-citizens should not be denied the fundamental freedom to labor and to move about unmolested. Furthermore, immigration must not be restricted for reasons of race, religion, political creed, age or sexual preference. We oppose government welfare and resettlement payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare payments to all other persons.
SOLUTIONS: We condemn massive roundups of Hispanic Americans and others by the federal government in its hunt for individuals not possessing required government documents. We strongly oppose all measures that punish employers who hire undocumented workers. Such measures repress free enterprise, harass workers, and systematically discourage employers from hiring Hispanics.
TRANSITIONAL ACTION: We call for the elimination of all restrictions on immigration, the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol, and a declaration of full amnesty for all people who have entered the country illegally.””
What is your point?
Oh, one of those, OK, you pinged me and posted something to me, just to waste my time.
I certainly do not agree with the Libertarian party on immigration because it is based on a “all things being equal” sort of philosophy and we know that is not the case. But is true that if we refused to offer them any free healthcare, food stamps, education, etc., there would be fewer illegal aliens.
LOL.
Sorry to waste your time.
((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
read your history
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