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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: cassandra and sara's daddy on May 16, 2013, 03:16:49 PM
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drug war continues http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/13/rand-paul-assures-evangelicals-that-he-d
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In preparation for a 2016 presidential run, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is courting evangelical leaders. And we all know what that means! It's time to throw those hedonistic, libertine, drug-obsessed libertarians under the bus.
One wonders what J. Gresham Machen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gresham_Machen#Religion_and_politics) would have said.
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I'm wondering if Rand Paul has read Larkin Rose's The Iron Web.
In some ways, the junior Paul is a lot like Obama. Highly ambitious, extremely inexperienced, his political beliefs poorly staked out by a brief and unremarkable voting record.
Libertarians and Constitutionalists could ask for a better trojan horse... but they probably wouldn't get one.
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I'm not getting that latent evil vibe from Ron the Younger.
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In preparation for a 2016 presidential run, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is courting evangelical leaders. And we all know what that means! It's time to throw those hedonistic, libertine, drug-obsessed libertarians under the bus.
Yeah, 'cause no politician would ever cater (or pander) to more than one interest group. ;/
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Yeah, 'cause no politician would ever cater (or pander) to more than one interest group. ;/
There's a lot more long-e* evangelicals to curry favor with than self conscious libertarians.
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*Darryl Hart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._G._Hart) has noted that if you pronounce it with a long E you probably are one, with a short E, more likely not.
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It remains to be seen whether he will be able to reap the benefits of his betrayal.
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It remains to be seen whether he will be able to reap the benefits of his betrayal.
Who did he betray?
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Internet libertarian administrators of the ideological purity test.
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Bah. I wrote a post yesterday and I thought it'd posted here.
Something is wonky in the forums. Or my computer perhaps.
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Internet libertarian administrators of the ideological purity test.
Not hard to run afoul of them.
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There's a lot more long-e* evangelicals to curry favor with than self conscious libertarians.
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*Darryl Hart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._G._Hart) has noted that if you pronounce it with a long E you probably are one, with a short E, more likely not.
Or, you could just be from the south where we also eat EYE-talian food.
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Praise Jesus...pass thee joint.
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So as I tried to post before:
There had been - at the least - unspoken assumptions that Rand Paul's campaign did not dispel before, and in practice - cultivated actively, that Rand Paul was a slightly more moderate Ron Paul.
This is clearly untrue.
There's a vast gap not merely of degree, but of principle and substance, between Rand Paul and libertarianism - clearly Rand Paul is not a libertarian, not even a libertarian-conservative like his father.
He is, at best, a conservative with some libertarian leanings.
Certainly I would - were I an American of the appropriate age - vote for him in a primary race (unless someone better turns up).
But his candidacy now represents, at best, a gradual improvement over the status quo, not - as Ron Paul's would - a severe wound to it.
Whether this will lose him more votes than it gains is an open question. Perhaps not.
But elections are not merely won by a sheer quantity of voters. Voter enthusiasm translates into donations and volunteering hours.
It is not clear that this move made him any more 'electable' than he was a week ago. I suspect not.