Apparently never enough to actually vote for someone who's actually different from them. And really I couldn't care less anyway, because Rand Paul is not his father.
So, the crazy ass fringe comes out first. Who's gonna be the serious contenders on the GOP's side? Or don't they have anyone who's not completely whacko any more?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/factchecking-rand-paul/ar-AAaxKYQ The man really is a hibitual liar. Much worse than even your average politician plus he is just such an arrogant snot despite the fact that half of things which come out of his mouth make morons look like geniuses in comparison.
Aaaaand, here it starts. The MSM will hammer him hard no doubt because they are afraid of his potential to win.
Look at the CPAC straw polls, the person who wins the straw poll is NEVER the GOP nominee. Rand Paul won it, so statistically speaking, the odds are very much against him getting the nomination, let alone the election. It won't take long for him to wind up in trouble.
Hey, Rand. Quick question: who took your country? I was just there last week and it didn't appear to be missing. Everything seemed to be in order.
Shit, Rand Paul isn't even a libertarian. He wants the state to outlaw all abortions in all cases even if the mother's life is in danger, he wants to outlaw same sex marriage and says equality is offensive (so much for contracts between consenting adults), Rand Paul wants huge corporate welfare to be packed into the military budget and wants to see the military budget to get bloated up far beyond what even the Pentagon could dream up, he wants extensive use of drones in the US, and he advocated putting people in prison for "making radical political speeches" (of course, he wants to be the one to decide if a speech was radical or not). So basically all you are left with is he wants to legalize pot, wants to make it legal for businesses to have whites only signs, and he wants to get rid of the NSA. Other than that he is nothing more than just another right wing authoritarian nutjob. http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/04/06/3643093/rand-paul-not-libertarian/
Given how he has repeatedly said it should be legal for businesses to have a whites only policy... Well, I think a fair guess is he wants to "take his country back" from people he deems to not be white enough, Christian enough (only his branch of Christianity applies), or who speak with an accent different from him. In other words, a typical Republican tea bagger.
Anderson Cooper SCHOOLED his ass! That said I think all the video clips were edited. The Democrats were cut off. What they really said was "take our country back to the stone age!"
Rand's not Ron. Unfortunately. He seems to have the willingness to do whatever it takes to win that his father lacks. Unfortunately. As a result, I don't know what he actually would be like as President. Probably ultimately very inoffensive. I think he'd probably try to end the war on drugs and would go in for criminal justice reform, but beyond that, I really can't say. Really what I guess I'm saying is that I wish we had an electorate capable of electing a libertarian more than a libertarian who's able to get elected. :/
The minute any politician (regardless of their political stripe) utters the phrase "take back our country", you know they're a complete fucking idiot and not to be taken seriously. The fact that this phrase also happened to be uttered by the likes of Biden, Dean, Obama and Clinton only proves my point.
This warrants something... special... The MSM will hammer him hard because he's a bat-shit crazy liar, who deserves to be hammered hard by the MSM.