Why Do Some Progressives Dismiss Rand Paul For His Wrongs, But Not President Obama For His?

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6. Rand Paul has this one policy with which I agree, but...

Sexual Equality Issues
Rand Paul Compares Paycheck Fairness To Soviet Politburo

Equal pay for equal work is "communist?"

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/rand-paul-on-cain-scandal-its-getting-to-where-you-cant-joke-with-women-anymore.php (Rand Paul On Cain Scandal: It’s Getting To Where You Can’t Joke With Women Anymore)

So sexual harassment of women is just women's inability to take a joke?

Rand Paul on Civil Rights Act

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/09/400521/rand-paul-explains-his-familys-opposition-to-civil-rights-act-its-about-controlling-property/ (Rand Paul Explains His Family’s Opposition To Civil Rights Act: ‘It’s About Controlling Property’)

Apparently, it is unfair if everybody can't own one.

Rand Paul on Contraception

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rand-paul-slams-birth-control-mandate-it-infriges-on-religious-liberty-but-is-also-about-economic-freedom/ (Rand Paul Slams Birth Control Mandate: It Infringes On Religious Liberty As Wells As ‘Economic Freedom’)

Doing anything to help women get and use contraception is an attack on a man's religious right to let his sperm wonder where it may. I can hear him singing Every Sperm is Sacred.

Rand on Gay Marriage

Only the Church can define marriage, which apparently means that Catholic Priests who pork Choir Boys in the Confessional can decide that consenting loving gay adults are living lives of grievous sin and can never be allowed to love each other in the sight of God or be considered equal under in the eyes of very human law.

There are so many issues about which Rand Paul is so grievously wrong that no twenty-first century progressive can accept him, and not liberal of any century could accept him. One issue does not make him a progressive, it only makes his prominent Neanderthal grow ridge a little less obvious.

President Obama doesn't always make policy choices with which I agree, but the majority of them have moved this nation in the right direction. Comparing the two policy by policy shows there is no comparison.