Civil Liberties
In reply to the discussion: For once I agree with Rand Paul. I also don't think Loretta Lynch should be Attorney General [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)During the Clinton administration, a Democratic club in Greenwich Village hosted a debate about NAFTA. I was one of the "Anti" speakers, representing the Sierra Club.
During the question period, one audience member was invoking this associational fallacy. I pointed out (to this very liberal gathering) that you could either support NAFTA and side with Newt Gingrich, or oppose it and side with Pat Buchanan.
As for Rand Paul, I haven't followed him closely, but I think that in 2014 he gave the Etch-A-Sketch a shake on foreign policy. He had started off as an opponent of U.S. military intervention (echoing his father, who voted against the Iraq War Resolution). Realizing that he needed to be more militaristic if he wanted to win the Republican nomination, he pivoted hard right, contradicting what he'd said just a few months earlier. If my memory on this is correct, then one could today paraphrase my NAFTA argument without even needing to find two different right-wingers -- whichever position you took, pro or con, would put you in agreement with something Rand Paul said.