2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRand Paul Blames GOP Hawks, Bush For The Rise Of ISIS
Senator Rand Paul joined Morning Joe on MSNBC earlier today and bashed his fellow Republicans, including Sen. Graham as warmongers that have paved the way for the rise of ISIS in the middle east. Right wingers have been trying to rewrite George Bush's epic fail in Iraq and Afghanistan by blaming President Obama for the woes in the middle east, but Paul bucks that trend when it comes to ISIS.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/05/rand-paul-blames-gop-hawks-rise-isis
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)of wackos and present himself as a liberty freedom blah blah blah candidate.
What a sewer of political representation.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)How will the GOP handle this?
FSogol
(45,473 posts)just a two-bit grifter. Broken clock moment, but it won't help the f'er.
Reter
(2,188 posts)He's right 4 to 6 times a day.
Joe Nation
(962 posts)Because Libertarians like Paul straddle a divide that separates the Right from the Left, people like him are going to resonate with one side or the other at any given moment. That doesn't make people like them viable as candidates for either side but too often people seem surprised that they agree with an occasional position these people take for some reason. Think of a Venn diagram with two large circles with almost no overlap. That would be Conservatives and Liberals. Now imagine a small circle overlapping both large circles but a larger portion of the small circle overlaps the conservative circle. Now imagine Rand Paul's face in that small circle. I know, I know, his hair needs a circle of it's own. Libertarians cherry-pick popular positions that appeal to small groups of the electorate which generally receive little to no attention by the two main political parties. They're niche populists. They should never, ever gain power.