Slate went on to say that "Sen. Paul’s foreign policy views are less confrontational and isolationist than his father’s are, and he is running a more traditional campaign, assembling constituency groups, not just relying on tribal loyalism." Translation: Rand is more of a war hawk.
Get this. Slate tells us:
It’s also important to keep his dad in Texas because the son is promoting newness as an attribute of his campaign.A pro-Israel, war mongering stance is newness?
Rand also blew up his father's perspective on blowback:
[H]e talks about combating Islamic extremists, he is careful not to go as far as his father did and claim that they want to kill Americans because America’s foreign policy provokes them.
Bottom line: Rand wants to destroy the connection between his views and those of his father. Rand is not a younger version of his father. Ron would never say many of the things Rand is now saying on the campaign trail.
-RW
Rand said his dad won't be complaining "with" him, not not "for".
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, a certain faction totally controls the US Dollar, its very existence, and they have been able to put their puppets into power and drag us into war after bloody war. This is why Ron wants to audit the FED, to bring them under control, but they outright own both houses of Congress. They also (coincidentally) own the entire mass media.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to see what happens to Ron if rand does win the election.
ReplyDeleteI think the media (especially the left) will give Ron a lot more media coverage than now, at least if he is I'm disagreement with his son.
It's a little sad to see so many people pinning hope on Randy Paul, as though he's anything other than a run of the mill GOP loyalist. Too bad he's a politician. He would make a great extra in a Hobbit film.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your candid opinion on Rand. He's a very divisive figure for libertarians. His father is a great man, but we shouldn't project his views onto Rand.
ReplyDeleteWags, his father is a retired career politician of the GOP variety. We shouldn't project our views on him, either.
DeleteOur only hope is that if Rand wins, that episodes like this will be reminiscent of the part of Atlas Shrugged where Francisco d'Anconia ditches Dagny Taggart, becomes an irresponsible international playboy and makes terrible investments in copper mines. All the while he was secretly working towards a capitalistic society that rewards hard work and innovation. How great would it be if a politician (Rand) was, for once, lying to the establishment instead of lying to the public, and once he gets in office, takes off the mask and reveals a Ron Paul-like libertarianism. I'd welcome it.
ReplyDelete" How great would it be if a politician (Rand) was, for once, lying to the establishment instead of lying to the public, and once he gets in office, takes off the mask and reveals a Ron Paul-like libertarianism. I'd welcome it."
DeleteUuhhh....wouldn't that make him a liar? Lying in a good cause is still lying, ain't it? 'Course as long as it resembles something out of an Ayn Rand novel, it's cool. Haven't you ever noticed that ol' Ayn couldn't write her way out of a wet paper bag?
To me, the nickname "Rand" was the giveaway that Randall Paul was duplicitous. Calling himself Rand instead of Randy or Randall got him the Ayn Rand reader/objectivist vote, huh? I guess it also got him the vote of libertarians who haven't yet noticed what a fraud (not to mention terrible novelist) ol' Ayn was.