U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a potential 2016 Republican presidential hopeful, last week was in the home state of his sometimes sparring partner U.S. Sen. John McCain for a series of events.Note to Rand: McCain's "travel around the world" is at the cornerstone of his view that the US should actively get involved in military adventures around the world.
The libertarian-leaning Paul, R-Ky., has clashed with McCain, R-Ariz., on the Senate floor over U.S. drone policy and was among the new breed of Capitol Hill conservatives whom McCain last year memorably dismissed as “wacko birds.” McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, subsequently apologized for the insult. Paul’s father, former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, was one of McCain’s GOP primary rivals in 2008, and the two also frequently went at each other over national-security and foreign-policy issues.
“I think we have a good personal relationship,” Rand Paul told The Arizona Republic on Friday after appearing at a breakfast fundraiser for his political victory committee at the Scottsdale Silverado Golf Club. “I would say from my point of view, I have a great deal of respect for him for his war service — I consider him to be a war hero — and his long service in the Senate, particularly his willingness to travel around the world.”
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Rand Paul Says He Respects Warmonger John McCain
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Sometimes it may be best to get involved in military adventures around the world. BUT, if you decide to do it you should be willing to do whatever it takes to ensure a decisive victory. Putting troops and tanks into the middle east was stupid - you can't win when the people of the country are willing to fight to the death. BUT if Bush had the balls to glassify the entire region we would have been decisive victors. It would have been cheap; we would now be feared by all instead of being a laughing stock; and no terrorist nation would dare open his pie hole to bad-mouth us.
ReplyDeleteThat's what you get for putting John McCain's name in the title of the article, RW.
DeleteYou accidentally attract empty-headed, nationalist, neo-con warmongers who think Bush was too mild-mannered.
So many terrorist nations, so little time. Once we were done bathing in their blood, we could take a dip in their oil reserves.
DeletePosting as 'Anonymous', how brave a Chicken-hawk!
DeleteTranslation: I love mindless death and destruction of thousands of people as long my chickenhawk ass doesn't have to be over there delivering it.
DeleteMcCain is a lunatic. How can anyone respect someone that is certifiable like McCain?
ReplyDeleteThe one good thing about Obama's election victory is that it denied McCain the Presidency. US would certainly have nuked some hapless country if McCain was President.
Rand may grovel all he wants.
ReplyDeleteMcCain will still endorse Hillary in 2016.
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Neocons all.
The black heart of Rand Paul was easily exposed to the light of day when he stated that he respects a frenetic warmongering lunatic like Republican Senator John S. McCain III. McCain has been very public with his wanton craving to turn Bushehr, Isfahon, and Natanz Iran into a nuclear fueled blood sacrifice to all that is unholy. This act of madness that John McCain has publicly lusted after for over a decade, would send radioactive clouds over the UAE, Oman, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, China, and eventually the United States of America.
ReplyDeleteIn the small fetid mind of Rand Paul, he and John S. McCain III are like a band of brothers who share along with many U.S. senators a deep fealty and sense of indebtedness to their soul mates in the fascistic Israeli Likud party. On a more visceral level, Rand Paul and John McCain share with the overwhelming majority of their congressional colleagues an abiding love of pernicious fascism.
But on the plus side, if Rand was President, we could probably buy the types of light bulbs we wanted.
ReplyDeleteRunt Paul is no 'Libertarian'. It disappoints that Ron Paul has not spoken against him, son or not. Where is the integrity? It never really was. Ron would be governor of Texas if he really wanted to stand but it was safer to just be the on (ineffective) 'no' vote in Congress. We have no allies but the people, and damn few of them with the balls to stand.
ReplyDeleteI'll cut Ron Paul some slack on this since most loving fathers, rightly or wrongly, are not going to criticize their own child publicly. Like you said though, Rand is no libertarian.
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