Rand Paul’s Hate Speech at Value Voters Summit Sounded Just Like Al Qaeda

[Douglas Carpenter]

8. I know it is unpopular to say this here on DU - but I had a certain amount of respect for his father

not that I could ever vote for him. Not that I didn't find many of his view completely unacceptable. Of course. But I was convinced and am convinced that his anti-imperialism was genuine and sincere, Rand Paul has no more in common with his father than Evan Bayh had with his father Sen. Birch Bayh or Mitt Romney had with his father the late Gov. George Romney. In these cases the apple did fall far from the tree and these public figures who at least had some principles bore sons who are simply banal careerist - without any principles beyond their selfish careerism.

This brief moment during the primary debates show just how different he is than his father