Rand Paul's Flop, Flop, Flip on Drones

riotgrl wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

i can respect ron paul. but i can never respect his idiot son.

like someone said above, the only thing this guy has going for him is his last name.

^^^This. Rand Paul is a fool that has very little political experience and is simply trading in on his father's name. From what I have seen of him, he says things that are politically expedient and don't seem to be part of the deeper fabric of libertarian ideals. It will be a sad day if he runs and gets elected as president but I can see this happening in 2016 as backlash against Obama.

I don't think Rand is going to get anywhere close to the nomination.

In a twist sure to shock everyone...he is blaming the media. And he is doing so by claiming either The Drudge Report or Foreign Policy is a...wait for it...left-wing blog?!?! :wtf:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/r ... 90621.html

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) accused a “left-wing blog” of manufacturing a controversy over whether he has reversed his position on domestic drone use.

“It kind of stretches credulity to think I would go 13 hours of filibuster about something that I’m changing my position on,” Paul told the Des Moines Register.

Paul told the newspaper that his position on using “force to repel force” has been consistent and any suggestion otherwise is “completely manufactured and created by some left-wing blog.”

The controversy exploded Tuesday when the Drudge Report linked to a Foreign Policy magazine post on how Paul’s fans were criticizing him for a statement he made on Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business program. Foreign Policy, owned by The Washington Post, isn’t generally considered left-leaning.

During his appearance on Cavuto, Paul said he was fine with using domestic drones to kill someone posing an “imminent threat” like the Boston Marathon bomber or even an armed liquor store robber. What Paul has said he opposes is targeted assassinations.

“I never, ever said deadly force can’t be used to repel deadly force, and I’ve had extensive conversations about that,” Paul said. “So those who’ve spread this around have not really looked through the issue significantly in order to know that my position is exactly the same. There’s no change.”