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Thom's blog
Beware Rand Paul’s Bait-And-Switch
Rand Paul is running on the platform that he is not a typical Republican...except that he is with the exception of drugs, drones and spying. And that’s something all Americans, especially all progressives, need to remember heading into 2016.
Here’s why.
As veteran Democratic strategist Ed Kilgore points out today in a piece for Talking Points Memo, Rand Paul won’t try to win a presidential election the way Ted Cruz will try to win one. He won’t just rely on the same old conservative base to boost his popularity; he’ll try to attract new voters to the conservative cause, and he’ll do this by emphasizing how different he is from other Republicans on key issues like NSA spying, drones, and the drug war.
At the same time, though, Rand Paul will stick to his far-right roots on economic issues. By doing this, Kilgore writes, “Paul offers limited-government conservatives an interesting bargain: They can take America right back to the economic and social policies of the Coolidge Administration—if they give up spying on, imprisoning and sending off to war young people and minorities.”
In other words, Rand Paul is going to give Republicans everything they’ve ever wanted on economic issues as long as they make a few concessions on national security, foreign policy, and criminal justice.
But here’s the thing: Paul isn’t just offering this bargain to conservatives – he’s also offering it to the entire country.
By calling himself a “different kind of Republican,” and highlighting his supposedly bold stances on drones, drugs, and spying, he’s trying to trick everyday Americans into supporting his crazy right-wing economic policies.’ And when I say Rand Paul supports some crazy right-wing economic policies, I mean really crazy.
-Thom
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Daily Take: Rand Paul Is Trying To Be 50% Reagan & 50% Wellstone
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
What white people don't get about 'white privilege'
Hour Two: REVEALED... The True History of Libertarianism in America- Mark Ames, Pando Daily 
Quote: "Less government in business and more business in government" - Warren Harding.
Quote: "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. " Lyndon B. Johnson. Letter: " Letter to Major John Cartwrigt" by Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, June 5, 1824. " We had no occasion to search into musty records, to hunt up royal parchments, or to investigate the laws and institutions of a semi-barbarous ancestry. We appealed to those of nature, and found them engraved on our hearts" |
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Thom's Poll
Should Democrats view Rand Paul as a serious candidate?
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