The Pressure on Rand Paul to Disavow His Father Continues

LaTi was out with an article on Saturday that focused on little else  but Rand and his father. The subtitle to the article read:

The Kentucky Republican tells a crowd in Iowa he wants to be considered on his merits and escape the shadow of father Ron Paul. He seems to make headway.

The article then reported:

 He wrapped the message in a tone of optimism about the future more reminiscent of Ronald Reagan than Ron Paul. 

Ronald Reagan over Ron Paul? As David Stockman points out in his very important new book, The Great Deformation:

Rather than a  permanent era of robust free market growth, the Reagan Revolution ushered in two spells of massive statist policy stimulation before it finally ran out of steam at the turn of the century faux prosperity [that] reinforced the wrong-headed narrative that the Reagan Revolution had been a success...

Ron Paul is the real deal, not Ronald Reagan, but that won't stop LaTi from focusing on the differences between Rand and his father. The report continued about Rand's trip to Iowa:

"I was impressed," said Pastor Ron Brammer of RockPower Church in Des Moines, one of a small group of evangelical pastors who met with Paul on Friday afternoon, shortly after he arrived in Cedar Rapids.

"His father — some of his ideas were a little kooky," Brammer said, citing the elder Paul's call for abolishing the Federal Reserve. As for the son, "I liked what he had to say."

At a news conference before the speech, Paul stepped carefully after a reporter asked him to name areas in which he differed from his father, initially joking about not wanting to create dissension at the family's next Thanksgiving dinner.

"I haven't come out in favor of legalizing drugs," he said, adding that he thinks marijuana "isn't a harmless drug," although he doesn't want people "locked up for five years" for possessing it.

He favors "auditing the Fed," he said, when asked whether he would abolish it.

Rand, the neocons aren't going to accept you just for who you are and what you say. It's pretty clear, they are a bloodthirsty bunch and they want you to stick a knife in your father and twist the knife. They want blood Rand, your father's blood. Make your crazy run for the presidency, but Rand, keep your father out of it.