2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRand Paul: I'm Not My Dad
by David Catanese Jun 29, 2013 11:21 AM EDT
With 2016 in his sights, Rand Paul is distancing himself from some of his father's more extreme views. David Catanese on why the apple must fall just far enough from the tree.
Rand Paul is a pol who can read his audience.
Standing in front of more than 100 South Carolina GOP activists in West Columbia Friday night, the Kentucky senator largely steered clear of the week's two dominant, divisive issues that are tying his party in knots: Gay rights and immigration reform.
Instead, he diverted from his early presidential-primary-state speech script and went for the jugular on a topic that, while not necessarily timely, would surely please a military-friendly crowd: A full-throated defense of profiling.
After 9-11 we had a special program for student visas . . . Why?" Paul asked. "Because 16 of the 19 hijackers were overstaying their students visas. Was it targeting? Was it profiling? Yes. Because only certain people are attacking us. Why dont we use some brain sense to go after the people who are attacking us?"
The guests ate it up, rewarding Paul with sustained thunderclaps. It was one of his biggest applause lines of the night. But it was also a curious statement from a likely 2016 White House contender who built his brand on a libertarian approach to government. This, from the same guy who stood on the Senate floor for 14 hours to protest the potential use of drones to target Americans?
full article
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/29/rand-paul-i-m-not-my-dad.html
Cirque du So-What
(26,026 posts)a real 'pander bear.'
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)He really needs to get his terrible statements under control, crazy like Cruz gets the wrong attention.
Lithos
(26,404 posts)You are loonier - and I didn't think that even possible.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)I'm not my dad either
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)(let's see how many get that reference)
MADem
(135,425 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)You may or may not be "less extreme" than your father, but you are definitely more stupid. Stupid enough to make you more dangerous than dear, old Dad.
Freddie
(9,279 posts)And dumb as a pile of rocks from what I hear.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)He still needs to answer those questions that Rachel Maddow asked him this spring about his position for allowing businesses to discriminate who they will serve or sell products to based on the color of the customer's skin.
Beacool
(30,254 posts)You're far worse.
FSogol
(45,582 posts)Rand is much more dangerous and not as bright as his Dad.
demwing
(16,916 posts)Rand, your dad was a nut, but he had a folksy crazy town doctor charm like some weird cross between Henry Fonda and a Keebler elf.
You? Not so much in the charms department.
Your dad?
balding gracefully...
You?
Not so much in the "gracefully" department, either.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Both have more heart than Rand Paul.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)EdwardSmith74
(282 posts)livetohike
(22,169 posts)EdwardSmith74
(282 posts)Hippo_Tron
(25,453 posts)All they have to do is find one white guy named Joe Smith who happens to have a thing for Jihad. Suddenly profiling becomes detrimental to stopping terrorism.
Tseko
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[/video]Myrina
(12,296 posts)Just by a hair, though.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Ron Paul, David Duke, and Rand Paul discussing the 2016 Presidential Election
That reminds me of a good movie.....
BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)JustAnotherGen
(32,025 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)You do not!
tridim
(45,358 posts)gcomeau
(5,764 posts)mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)He's Worse!!!!!!!!!!!!!