I really can't understand why this Rand Paul schmoozfest isn't getting more attention in the form of being appalled (aPauled) as I am.
This was posted prominently on a site that gets dumber by the day, but gets lots of clicks:
"I'm a Liberal Democrat. I'm Voting for Rand Paul in 2016. Here Is Why."
I don't have the time to write a diary as to why this Bill Maher abetted stupidity is near criminal, so all I got is my off-the-cuff comment on the very article.
Your not a "Liberal Democrat" you're a 1 issue candidate: foreign policy. Any practical view of the modern presidency realizes that a president is either a signature for the sweeping agenda of one or the other party, or a veto against it. The writer sounds about 16 or 17 years old indulging idealistic fantasies. Is there any access to the internet here? or memory? The GOP is a party of winking miscomprehension of each other, and when they have power (like in the 2000s) they dutifully lockstep to each others' hair-brained schemes (see the Iraq war and bank deregulation... and count your lucky stars that privatizing social security got defused by the growing unpopularity of former ideas).
No, I don't have any time for whatever virtue Rand Paul may or may not have. Not in this gerrymandered Senate-skewed-to-the-Right country we live in. It was the same with Chris Christie - when he had a chance. I might have appreciated his style, but the bottom line is that he's in the party that has a significant contingent of the insane, and they have "notions" as to how the world works. And in every presidency there are those times when the rabble have their ideas... and no president of the same party can refuse. These are no times for a Republican president. He makes sense on a few things to me, too, but if he ever wanted my vote to be an even plausible option he should have demonstrated an ability to see the big picture and ran as a Democrat or Independent.
Of course, a lot of people are mesmerized by personality and the cult of presidency (not the least being being Bill Maher who contributes millions in presidential elections but near nothing in "off" year elections, and somehow has time to fluff Paul after an election he abstained from), including this writer who, depressingly, has a job using words for a living, despite being a fetishist fan.
I don't like Hillary and still hope another appears as an option, but I will never vote for a Republican until they thin the ranks of their growing idiot caucus (Ted Cruz doesn't even understand what Net neutrality is but gosh darnit, he's against it cuz Obama's for it).
So Rand Paul is president and Ted Cruz organizes the passing of a "Net Freedom bill" because... freedom, and what does Rand do? You really think he'll veto? Of course he signs it and we go 20 years backwards in online evolution. Evolution? oh, crap. I forgot about that one...
I'd like to put a lot more time into this since this is an insidious, vote-shaving game afoot, but I have to go to work and pay bills.
But seriously, how many whiney diatribes have I read on this site that are "disenchanted" with Obama's presidency, and how is it not a huge red flag that Paul is trolling for ignorant Democrats?