Posted on 04/19/2015 2:40:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“The difference is purely in implementation. If you had a philosophical discussion on what the world should look like, there would be no difference.”
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Rand Paul’s brother says that when it comes to ideology, there’s “no difference” between his brother, the Kentucky senator and Republican presidential candidate, and his father, the former congressman and three-time presidential candidate.
Ronnie Paul, the eldest son of the former congressman and sometimes-surrogate for his brother, was speaking with libertarian podcaster Israel Anderson. He said that both his brother and father held the same beliefs, there’s just a difference in the implementation of how to get there.
“The difference is purely in implementation,” Paul’s eldest son said. “If you had a philosophical discussion on what the world should look like, there would be no difference.”
As he runs for president, Rand Paul faces the task of both appealing to a broader set of mainstream Republican primary voters, while maintaining enough credibility with the vast Paul family libertarian network to get those people to the polls in early states.
Over the last year, he has sharpened his rhetoric on defense and terrorism. He signed Sen. Tom Cotton’s letter about a potential Iran nuclear deal and recently proposed increasing defense spending, though the increase was offset by other cuts. Last summer, he supported intervention against ISIS, and said, in his presidential announcement speech, “the enemy is radical Islam, you can’t get around it.” When he was a surrogate for his dad in 2007 and 2008 the Kentucky senator often spoke of American interventionism as a cause of terrorism and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
“Basically, if we’re both going the same place you may have a favorite way to get there and I may have a little different way to get there. We both are going to the same place and I can’t even say that your way maybe is better than my way, you know, we can debate all day long which way is the best way,” said Ronnie Paul in the recent interview.
“So they’ve taken different paths. Do you take little pieces at a time, do you try for the whole thing at one time? You know, there’s all different debate on how do you get to ultimately limited government, a pro-American defense foreign policy and Bill of rights, individual liberties for the people at home.”
Ronnie Paul added in a philosophical discussion on ideology there “would be no difference” between his dad and brother and “the end goal without a doubt is the same.”
“I mean, the goal is the same and I’d be willing to wager we could get everybody who listens to this and we can agree on the vision we’re going to and we’d probably have, if we had 100 people in the room we could have 100 different paths. The path is a little different; the end goal without a doubt is the same.”
“The difference is purely in implementation. If you had a philosophical discussion on what the world should look like, there would be no difference.”
LOL Thanks a bunch bro.
The Paulbots will say that it’s all lies they will tell you, all lies trumped up by the media..
Rand Paul and Marco Rubio canadates are just a ruse, a ploy to fraction, or thin out the vote to prevent the real conservative Ted Cruz to become the nominee.
UH....OH.......!!
Rand is currently having a HOLY CR@P! moment....
CONFIRMING that he and his Daddy are BOTH unqualified.
I’m not certain why a number of Libertarians read and post on FR. Libertarianism just doesn’t appeal to me. I don’t think it appeals to most true conservatives.
Rand Paul...THE NUT that didn’t fall far from the tree.
This will play well with all 12 people in the Libertarian Party.
I think Rand Paul is very entertaining. I like the way he turned the abortion issue on the Rats. Say what you want but he is the first republican I know of to do that on a national level. I won’t vote for him, but he does make it more fun to follow the campaigns.
Why FR has posters who call themselves Libertarians, is beyond me.
Got a friend who has bought into that nonsense.
Hence ..... Neonuts
Him and Carly
Ugh.
I've only ran into one person in RL spewing that crap ....
It was at a party...
I said “how about I kick your ass then you can tell people Bush did it”
Everyone laughed loudly and they guy left immediately.
I like Rand Paul....but he waaaaay too short to be President!!! The last one we had was Monroe, I think......nothing against short people....I;m barely 5’... PLUS....he is a from the father of a NUT!!
I hear you. I think a small dose of libertarianism is helpful to the Republican Party and the country. My problem is I can not stomach a full dose - particularly when it comes to foreign policy, illegal immigration and conspiracies. I think a solid conservative with a small dose of libertarianism would work just fine for me but not sure they exist. Most Libertarians I see appear to me to be full bore rules-based types and chained by their idealogy to the point where they feel they must support illegals coming across open borders. It's nuts
For years and years the Rats have pummeled republicans running for national or statewide office on abortion issue. Anyone Recall how Todd Akin, and Richard Mourdock’s campaign flamed out. Rand Paul is the first candidate I have observed to have performed a jujitsu on the democrats on this issue. Brilliant! I give credit where credit is due.
Yes, Paul senior AND junior are BOTH “Froot Loops” especially when it comes to foreign policy which for them boils down to: “Ostrich hides its head in the sand in utter denial of reality and the need to intervene; while the entire world goes down in flames.” “foreign policy” :o(
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