(June 24, 2013 at 8:37 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: 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?Other than the "pro-surveillance state" remark, I agree with you. He is in no way a Libertarian (he's said as much himself), but he is most certainly not pro-surveillance state. He introduced this amendment recently, and has been supportive of Edward Snowden (he appeared on some news channel this week suggesting the guy flee to Iceland).
But yeah, he's not a Libertarian. I wouldn't call him an authoritarian either; he's a Republican who stands up for a number of civil liberties, just not as many as Libertarians stand up for.
