Rand Paul vs. Bernie Sanders

Since I have launched my Bernie Sanders Must Be Stopped campaign (by exposing the flaws of his socialist thinking), a few have commented that this means Rand Paul is someone that should be considered for support. Not so!

I don't want to see either as president. To be sure, I think Sanders would be a more significant problem, but Rand is no gift either.

I see Sanders as the equivalent of an alligator in my living room and Rand as more of a very annoying mosquito. But I don't want alligators or mosquitoes (Bionic Mosquitoes excepted) in my living room.

All current presidential candidates in my view are problems. The problem with Rand is that he will muddy the libertarian message. He really isn't different from the rest of the pack, other than occasionally during money raise periods pretending to be libertarianish.

But note well, as far as his supposed anti-war stance, he is anti-war on US interventions that are already over, He is "outraged" by the US intervention in Libya and GW's Iraq attack, but when it comes to current wars and a non-interventionist posture, he is not so good. In fact, he is horrific. In his latest book, he has written:

The whole of Islam has seemingly forgotten its tolerant past. (p.203)

The whole of Islam?

And, he is not exactly against using muscle in current foreign entanglements that we should not be instigating in the first place (p.219)

While my predisposition is to less intervention, I do support intervention when our vital interests are threatened...For instance, America must protect the five thousand people serving at the largest American consulate in the world, the one in northern Iraq. 

Note the absurd hidden implication that the US should for some reason have a five thousand person consulate in northern Iraq, in the first place.

And, of course, there is this (p.219)

I support destroying ISIS militarily.

And then this (p. 227)

My foreign policy would also include protection of our allies' interests. We should reinforce Israel's Iron Dome protection against missiles, for instance.  

From a strategic perspective, though not becasue she is at all a decent person, Hillary Clinton makes the most sense, in terms of who a libertarian should want to see in office from this group. She comes with much more hate baggage than any of the other candidates. And she is the candidate most likely to institute some rule that gets the masses in a "get the government off our backs" mode, which is, as I have detailed before, the only thing that we can hope for from any of these criminal gang leaders,

Sanders no! Rand no!

No endorsement for any of the candidates.

We should want the most hated in office, so that we as libertarians can supply the intellectual ammo to as wide an audience of presidential haters as possible as to why they should hate and call to get government off our backs..

 -RW