Friday, September 19, 2014

Top Rand Paul Aide: Libertarians Will Never Be Able to Change Rand's Pro-Airstrike View

In a post titled, Rand Paul’s Fans Hate His ISIS Plan, Olivia Nuzzi reports from the Liberty Political Action Conference that is being held just outside of Washington D.C.:
The senator disappointed his fringe, libertarian followers with his support of airstrikes....
 In the lobby of the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center Hotel in Virginia on Thursday evening, a 62-year-old man named Charles sat patiently as he waited for the Liberty Political Action Conference to begin...“The apple fell a little far from the tree,” he sighed. “I’m not a big supporter of the wars in the Middle East. That war’s supposed to be over. I’m surprised he’s supporting anything there.”...
[A] tree-like man technically named Glenn Jacobs—but who you may know by Kane, his pro-wrestling name...said he did not support the airstrikes. “No, no,” because “I think what ends up happening is you have unintended consequences.” Paul, he said, seemed to be playing politics: “Because of political expediency, sometimes that’s what you have to do.” Kane said he agreed with Paul on some things, but agreed with his father more...

Doug Stafford, a senior aide for Rand Paul, told me that the liberty-lovers’ disappointment in Paul’s support for airstrikes would never change his position. “It’s what he believes. He believes it’s the right thing to do.”

-RW 

4 comments:

  1. Rand may be a warmonger, but at least he's our warmonger. He's a libeetarian leaning warmonger. Or a warmonger with a libertarian tinge or whatever. But he's our guy, the son of our Guru so libertarians must support h.

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    1. It's not the person we support but the ideas and the more those ideas are watered down the less I am interested.

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  2. It is always tragic to see the corrupted heart of another human being.

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  3. I guess Rand really believes that ISIS doesn't come from CIA/Saudi funding and support either.

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