Rand Paul is fine. The Republican Party has a Libertarian wing, and they are welcome. Like others, they have to accept that there is a large intersection of interests, and some areas of disagreement. But overall, both Libertarian Republicans and the rest of the Party are better off with them here.
Congratulations to Senator Paul on his run. One must do these things. Thank you, sir!
What a bunch of bovine feces. Defeat Trump and an establishment hack with even less conservative principles than Trump will win the nomination.
Yet he has no problem with Rubio or Bush in. With Rubio and Bush you get amnesty which in this guy’s mind must be Republican. Crow all you want about eminent domain, but Trump said he would build a wall. And we won’t have a country to worry about without it.
He is a libertarian not a Republican.
Another foolish conflation of “Republican” and “Conservative”
Paul,in addition to being his daddy’s little boy,is a first class whiney POS.
I like Rand. I could have lived with him as the nominee pretty easily, though I disagree with him on some things. There is no 100 percent perfect candidate, and I found Rand’s perspective valuable and interesting. Whether or not you agree with him on specific issues, his dedication to the Constitution is admirable.
It wasn’t his time. (Whether it will ever be his time is an open question, but it clearly wasn’t now.) So he did the honorable thing — got out and let his people coalesce around someone who defends our conservative principles and can actually get nominated. God bless him for that.
And when we put a conservative president in the White House, we’ll need Rand Paul in the Senate to help get our legislation passed. he could still be very important over hte next few years.
Our movement has always had this. In my days in Young Americans for Freedom, we had some tension between traditionalists and libertarians, but as much or more between the activists and the careerists.
Rand Paul is an activist who wants to get things done and move the ball in our general direction. He falls within our broad coalition, and I salute him for putting principles and party before opportunism.
Red State is a putrid cesspool of foul language, sexually based epithets, and gutter biology.
I'm appalled that NR would actually have Erick Erickson dirty the pages of their magazine.