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Rand Paul
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Rand Paul
I just saw another news article that glibly refers to Rand Paul as a "libertarian leaning" Senator. I've seen other assertions that he's a "libertarian".

Rand Paul is rabidly anti-choice, pro-surveillance state and cozies up to the religious right. Can anyone name for me a single socially-liberal position he's taken?

As far as I can tell, he's a hardcore authoritarian conservative. There's nothing "libertarian" about him.
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RE: Rand Paul
He's about as "libertarian" as his daddy was.
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RE: Rand Paul
(June 24, 2013 at 8:58 am)Rhythm Wrote: He's about as "libertarian" as his daddy was.

For some weird reason I like Ron Paul to some extent, he stands for what he believes in no matter what, rare thing to find in a politician these days Wink

I do not agree with him on many things, but I do respect him, his son is a whole another story, your typical cookie-cutter republican pretending to be libertarian who will say anything to be elected, and then he does what god, military and corporate industrial complex tells him to Big Grin
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RE: Rand Paul
Quote:Rand Paul as a "libertarian leaning"

Sort of like saying that Harvey Fierstein.....

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is slightly gay!
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RE: Rand Paul
I promise that I will do my part to remove him from the Senate in three years.
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RE: Rand Paul
(June 24, 2013 at 12:09 pm)FifthElement Wrote: For some weird reason I like Ron Paul to some extent, he stands for what he believes in no matter what.

That sounds just like every other politician to me.
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RE: Rand Paul
So did Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Ronald Fucking Reagan.
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RE: Rand Paul
Seems to be the thing these days to call regular old Republicans libertarians. If you're not a civil libertarian, you're not a libertarian.
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RE: Rand Paul
That may be coming to an end, too.

http://atheistforums.org/thread-19549.html
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RE: Rand Paul
(June 24, 2013 at 12:43 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Seems to be the thing these days to call regular old Republicans libertarians.

It's their way of clinging to all of the Republican dogma while pretending at the same time to be anti-Republican establishment.
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