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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/ ... and-right/

Pretty much sums up why I like him!

Dan H wrote:http://www.theamericanconservative.com/ ... and-right/

Pretty much sums up why I like him!

WSJ: Rand Paul for President
Because what the GOP needs is a humbling landslide defeat.

http://hinterlandgazette.com/2014/04/br ... efeat.html

I liked Ron Paul for a while. I like his approach to foreign policy (don't intervene in other countries' problems). I like how much he cares about freedom, wants to end the War on Drugs, how he hated the Patriot Act, etc. I like that he's tough on immigration.

But then I read into some of his beliefs and decided that he's just too strictly conservative for me, and too strict of a Constitutionalist. For example, he wants to return to the gold standard. What?! He wants small government to a fault. He votes against any sort of tax or fee regardless of what it's for. He doesn't care at all about the environment and wants the free market to take care of that problem (yeah, sure). He wants to abolish the Department of Education. (Ugh.) He wants the government completely out of health care. (Ugh.) He's anti-abortion, despite otherwise usually being pro-personal-freedom. (Ugh.) He didn't support the Civil Rights Act. (Ugh.) I believe he's made some remarks that were anti-gay, too, but I can't find a citation.

Are Rand's politics similar to his father's? If so, there's a lot to like there, but a lot for me to dislike, too.

He's less of a gold bug and more of a "let's not spend money we don't have" kinda guy.

Wiki seems fairly accurate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_ ... _Rand_Paul

Every state in the Union has a Department of Education, don't you think it's redundant to have a Federal one as well? Our country survived and thrived for over 200 years without one . . . it's only been around since 1979!

Rand's position on the Civil Rights Act is predicated on it impacting private property owners, he supports it in the public space.