This and his wishy-washy stands are not sitting well with the evangelicals in the state.
WaPo tells the story this way:
For Rand Paul, a rude awakening to the rigors of a national campaign:
[S]ome evangelical voters said they were already wary of Paul because of his attempt to appeal to both left and right. To evangelicals, Paul is trying to be on both sides of issues with only one right side...
Paul had once again missed a chance to make his case to Iowa Republicans at an important conservative event.
“Dude, who do you think you are?” said Steve Deace, a conservative activist who hosts a popular Christian radio talk show in Iowa. “You think you are so big that you can avoid the process, that you can just bypass all of the major events” on the Iowa conservative calendar?
“I don’t know where he is getting advice on this,” Deace said. “But right now he is going nowhere.”
Since around 1974, I've always wondered why libertarians don't come right out and explain to pious religious types that we support their ability and right to live in private communities of like-minded people away from the popular culture they claim to hate so much. Under our ubiquitous "legalize drugs and everything else stays the same" narrative, meth cookers could move in next door and their kids would go the same school as your kids. I wonder why the LP gets 1% of the vote every time.
ReplyDeleteWhat a baby.
ReplyDeleteThe answer is clear: Rand Paul needs to sell out MORE.
ReplyDeleteRand needs a better, different vaccination.
ReplyDeleteAs his supporters have often said in the past, "it shows his genius”.
ReplyDeleteAs I've said in other comments, I'm no fan of Rand and hope he fizzles as a candidate. Having said that, he's really taken a beating this week. Notice how the media ignored Chris Christie's position on vaccines even though it's the same as Rand. There was also the recycled story about Rand certifying himself as an ophthalmologist that got dumped this week. There's other stories slamming him for being linked to Alex Jones, and other negative stories trying to link him to Lew Rockwell and Murray Rothbard while smearing the two of them at the same time. Now today, there's a story linked on Drudge: "The Fed Lashes Out At Rand Paul." Might that have something to do with all these negative stories dumped in one week?
ReplyDelete"“I don’t know where he is getting advice on this,” Deace said."
ReplyDeleteMaybe he has hired a few of the geniuses who worked for his dad on any of his failed campaigns.
Frankly, I think Republicans should try to distance themselves from evangelical support. Rational people who are sympathetic to the "conservative" economic position (in principle - not the crony bs that is normally practiced), are completely turned off by the irrational nonsense that the evangelical community supports -such as privileging christianity over other religions and non-religions, trying to add teacher led prayer in schools, the strange obsession with "end time" theology (eschatology) and the inevitable support of Israel as an outgrowth of this irrational belief, the preoccupation with abortion and the weird obsession with the sex lives of other people. How many people are "forced" into the Democratic party because of evangelicals? (I say forced in quotes because there are other options, of course - such as libertarianism - but many people don't consider them).
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