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Is Rand Paul the unifying candidate?

I keep listening to his comments to Kerry and I keep thinking he might be able to bring together the right and left and be a great president.? I see him being anti war, pro privacy and hands off on social issues and see some great things to come. I think if he can sell people on the idea that we need a smaller a government to increase civil liberties he can do great things. Am I the only one that sees this?

since politics is run today by a lot of stereotypes Rand Paul has no chance at all to be a unifying candidate at all, zero

neither does any candidate that supports an amendment to prevent equal gay rights and wants to over turn roe vs wade.

now these are only two issues but in todays politics wanting to STOP those things and not just having an opinion on them will not allow any candidate to be unifying, just the current environment politics is in
 
Rand Paul is from the school of dumb that thinks we should revert back to the thinking of the 1800's: every man for himself. Of course, millions of idiots agree with that, which is probably why he says it.

The people with money, connections etc. usually feel that way. They know their offspring can't compete when everybody plays on a level field with the same rules so they stack the deck. It's like them starting wars but seldom if ever serving in one. That's the single worse thing that's been done in my life.....when Nixon stopped the draft. Every able bodied young man and woman between the ages of 18-25 should be required to serve three years. Then we can get a chance to see how crazy they are about jumping on a country 10,000 miles away and sacrificing thousands of young Americans. When both Iraq and Afghanistan were running red hot a check was conducted and there was one of the 535 members on congress who had a son serving. One............I think that's a travesty. It's just another example of the Lord/Serf society we're headed for.

Their Creed: We start 'em, You fight 'em.
 
The people with money, connections etc. usually feel that way. They know their offspring can't compete when everybody plays on a level field with the same rules so they stack the deck. It's like them starting wars but seldom if ever serving in one. That's the single worse thing that's been done in my life.....when Nixon stopped the draft. Every able bodied young man and woman between the ages of 18-25 should be required to serve three years. Then we can get a chance to see how crazy they are about jumping on a country 10,000 miles away and sacrificing thousands of young Americans. When both Iraq and Afghanistan were running red hot a check was conducted and there was one of the 535 members on congress who had a son serving. One............I think that's a travesty. It's just another example of the Lord/Serf society we're headed for.

Their Creed: We start 'em, You fight 'em.
Paul picked the right side in this war debate; Kerry and McCain, OTOH, did not. Rand deserves credit for that. Nonetheless, I don't agree with most of his politics.
 
Paul picked the right side in this war debate; Kerry and McCain, OTOH, did not. Rand deserves credit for that. Nonetheless, I don't agree with most of his politics.

I vote Democrat these days but if Obama launches an attack against Syria he needs a head exam. Who gives a **** whether the government or the rebels win 10,000 miles away?
 
I'll vote for any politician that lies to me by saying he's for limited government and lower taxes
I'm a sucker for that sorta thing.
 
I vote Democrat these days but if Obama launches an attack against Syria he needs a head exam. Who gives a **** whether the government or the rebels win 10,000 miles away?

So after all his disasters this it what it finally took to get you to see what an abject failure his administration has been?
Well you can keep on believing' in that hopey changey malarkey because he is going to put it to Congress they'll tell him no and then he will proceed to blame the GOP for everything for everything that happens in the mid-east for the rest of his term.
You can still support the left forever! YeeHaw
 
So after all his disasters this it what it finally took to get you to see what an abject failure his administration has been?
Well you can keep on believing' in that hopey changey malarkey because he is going to put it to Congress they'll tell him no and then he will proceed to blame the GOP for everything for everything that happens in the mid-east for the rest of his term.
You can still support the left forever! YeeHaw
Bush would've done the same thing if the vote went against him. That's what those D's, like Hillary, were afraid of when they passed the war resolution.

Kudos to the GOP for hating Obama more than fearing reprecussions.
 
Boosch hasn't bean Prez fer five years all this crap in on your guy
I'll tell you what Reagan wouldn't have done what Obammer has done
hah see that makes about the same sense as blaming boosch?

Oh sadly yer guy still has 1231 days until Friday, January 20, 2017
to keep fouling things up but ya wanna no the great part? (then Biden takes over?)
After you add all those illegals to the rolls the GOP will never win another election anyway
so have fun turning this place into a european style nanny state socialist mediocrity
 
So after all his disasters this it what it finally took to get you to see what an abject failure his administration has been?
Well you can keep on believing' in that hopey changey malarkey because he is going to put it to Congress they'll tell him no and then he will proceed to blame the GOP for everything for everything that happens in the mid-east for the rest of his term.
You can still support the left forever! YeeHaw

LMAO!

The only problem he's had so far is the house telling him NO. What else is new?
 
Conservatives Persecuted
you are right we might have to resort to shooting 'elsewhere'

Go for it. I get so sick of you "militia" types rattling your sabers on a continual basis. You want an armed rebellion? Bring it on. The sooner you people are.put in your place and branded as the traitors you are the better.
 
Go for it. I get so sick of you "militia" types rattling your sabers on a continual basis. You want an armed rebellion? Bring it on. The sooner you people are.put in your place and branded as the traitors you are the better.

Leave them alone....It's all they have. They pack their iron, chew their "bakky" in their pickup trucks, occasionally redecorate their trailers and always thump their bibles and vote Republican.
 
Leave them alone....It's all they have. They pack their iron, chew their "bakky" in their pickup trucks, occasionally redecorate their trailers and always thump their bibles and vote Republican.

Good point. They are a sad lot. It just upsets me that there are.people in this country who consider themselves "patriots", but are the first ones to threaten to take up arms against the duly elected government via the DEMOCRATIC process
When we had Republican Rule from Reagan to Bush II with only Clinton in between, I never heard talk about armed rebellion from the left...they may not have liked the policies, but there was no talk of the crap that these Yahoos are spewing.
 
Good point. They are a sad lot. It just upsets me that there are.people in this country who consider themselves "patriots", but are the first ones to threaten to take up arms against the duly elected government via the DEMOCRATIC process
When we had Republican Rule from Reagan to Bush II with only Clinton in between, I never heard talk about armed rebellion from the left...they may not have liked the policies, but there was no talk of the crap that these Yahoos are spewing.

It's like the debt. Bush assumed a balanced budget with surpluses projected into the out years, immediately cut taxes twice, started two wars and doubled the national debt from $5.7 trillion to nearly $12 trillion and you never heard a peep from them. Now....after the president inheiriting a mess with annual interest due and payable of nearly half a trillion dollars they have all turned into deficit hawks. The cold hard facts of the matter are displayed in this chart. Not To Worry....ten years from now they will be saying the reason Obama had a better spending agenda was the Republican house. They live in the bubble with Fox news and have no more concern for facts than a catfish has for a heavy rain.

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It's like the debt. Bush assumed a balanced budget with surpluses projected into the out years, immediately cut taxes twice, started two wars and doubled the national debt from $5.7 trillion to nearly $12 trillion and you never heard a peep from them. Now....after the president inheiriting a mess with annual interest due and payable of nearly half a trillion dollars they have all turned into deficit hawks. The cold hard facts of the matter are displayed in this chart:

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They don't.like.it when you post graphics like that....cue the graphics from "The Blaze" in 3...2.....1
 
Odd that your "supporting link" never mentions either Rand Paul or the racsim of Ron Paul. It must be fun to make up stuff and then "prove it" using unrelated links. I am not impressed.

Hmm proof guess you forgot the 80's and 90's how yes it never ever happened ????
 
They don't.like.it when you post graphics like that....cue the graphics from "The Blaze" in 3...2.....1

The Republicans can't stand it when a couple of progressive minded citizens start a two way like we're having either.
 
Hmm proof guess you forgot the 80's and 90's how yes it never ever happened ????

Links to that assertion? Show me what Rand Paul the racist did in the 80's and 90's. Crickets...
 
Links to that assertion? Show me what Rand Paul the racist did in the 80's and 90's. Crickets...

Actually, I wrote an entire article on it on blogcritics.org. Of course the Paulbots came out and tried to claim that oh, it didn't happen, but the articles WERE published in Paul's magazine under Paul's byline...and as a writer, I find it VERY difficult to believe that someone would allow something to be published in his magazine in his name without any clue what's in it.

AND here's what Dave Nalle - a true libertarian and head of the Republican Liberty Caucus - had to say about Mr. Paul:

[Ron Paul is] an inflexible ideologue who subscribes to a variety of extremist views which would make a terrible basis for national policy. His interpretation of the Constitution is highly selective. He seems not to recognize terms like “public welfare” and “common good” and rejects the long history of constitutional scholarship and jurisprudence on which most law is based. His understanding of the economy is based on fringe economic theories which most serious economists do not consider credible. As for foreign policy, it’s an area in which Paul has no experience at all and his foreign policy would basically amount to isolationism which would have disastrous economic and political repercussions.

[Ron Paul supporters] completely overlook Paul’s support for the reactionary conspiracy nuts at the John Birch Society and the reprehensible 9/11 Truth movement or the fact that he raises money on white supremacist websites and has the endorsement of racist leaders like former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, White Aryan leader Tom Metzger and Stormfront Fuhrer Don Black.


I've butted heads with Mr. Nalle on many issues...but in this, he and I agree strongly. If there's one thing I've learned over the years, if two people of diametrically-opposed political outlooks agree on something, they're almost always right.
 
Actually, I wrote an entire article on it on blogcritics.org. Of course the Paulbots came out and tried to claim that oh, it didn't happen, but the articles WERE published in Paul's magazine under Paul's byline...and as a writer, I find it VERY difficult to believe that someone would allow something to be published in his magazine in his name without any clue what's in it.

AND here's what Dave Nalle - a true libertarian and head of the Republican Liberty Caucus - had to say about Mr. Paul:

[Ron Paul is] an inflexible ideologue who subscribes to a variety of extremist views which would make a terrible basis for national policy. His interpretation of the Constitution is highly selective. He seems not to recognize terms like “public welfare” and “common good” and rejects the long history of constitutional scholarship and jurisprudence on which most law is based. His understanding of the economy is based on fringe economic theories which most serious economists do not consider credible. As for foreign policy, it’s an area in which Paul has no experience at all and his foreign policy would basically amount to isolationism which would have disastrous economic and political repercussions.

[Ron Paul supporters] completely overlook Paul’s support for the reactionary conspiracy nuts at the John Birch Society and the reprehensible 9/11 Truth movement or the fact that he raises money on white supremacist websites and has the endorsement of racist leaders like former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, White Aryan leader Tom Metzger and Stormfront Fuhrer Don Black.


I've butted heads with Mr. Nalle on many issues...but in this, he and I agree strongly. If there's one thing I've learned over the years, if two people of diametrically-opposed political outlooks agree on something, they're almost always right.

So many words about Ron Paul yet none to back up your assertion that Rand Paul is a racist.
 
So many words about Ron Paul yet none to back up your assertion that Rand Paul is a racist.

Then you didn't read the article I referenced - again, guy, if you're a writer, there's NO WAY you're going to allow an article to be published under YOUR byline, in YOUR magazine that has YOUR name on it, without knowing EVERYTHING that's in that article. Besides - do you really want to trust someone who hasn't the intestinal fortitude to take responsibility for what's published under HIS byline in HIS magazine that has HIS name on it? Do you really?

You say you're a libertarian - note that the newspapers I referenced in the article mostly came from Reason.com - a strictly libertarian site - and you can see for yourself what the VERY libertarian Dave Nalle had to say about Paul. Of course there's nothing saying that just because two people are libertarian doesn't mean that they have to agree on any one particular thing...but when it comes to libertarians' opinions of libertarians, I'll take the word of Reason.com and Dave Nalle over yours any day of the week.
 
I keep listening to his comments to Kerry and I keep thinking he might be able to bring together the right and left and be a great president.? I see him being anti war, pro privacy and hands off on social issues and see some great things to come. I think if he can sell people on the idea that we need a smaller a government to increase civil liberties he can do great things. Am I the only one that sees this?

What is this "unifying candidate" that you speak of? You should explain that concept in detail.
 
How about Rand dodging every question about dear old Dad trashing the USA on the very sacred date it occurred?
The one where he dived every question acted disrespectfully and hid behind Obama skirt?
 
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