Rand Paul Warns Dems What Will Happen if They Nominate ‘War Hawk’ Hillary Clinton

[Michael Landon]

"Vote for Rand Paul for President on November 8th, the stakes are too high for you to stay home."

- ML

 

[fr33]

This is kind of surprising rhetoric coming from Rand, since he's been portraying himself as a moderate on foreign policy issues. He hasn't exactly been taking hardcore anti war stances, and might end up voting for air strikes in Iraq if it comes up for a vote. That's not a criticism, but I'm wondering if he just thinks that he's going to pivot and take a much more anti war/anti intervention stance if he wins the GOP nomination.

As a republican all Rand has to do is admit that residents in other countries are humans too and that brings down the wrath of the neocons.

 

[devil21]

Todd's first week and it's already Rand vs. Hillary.

 

[Woods]

It's quizzical to me. The only way I can describe this is Rand is trying to run to the left of the Democrats and the right of the Republicans at the same time.

I am t sure one can win an election that way, but I am pretty sure on cannot win one of the two major primaries that way.

 

[Cleaner44]

It's quizzical to me. The only way I can describe this is Rand is trying to run to the left of the Democrats and the right of the Republicans at the same time.

I am t sure one can win an election that way, but I am pretty sure on cannot win one of the two major primaries that way.

You would be wrong. Rand can win easily. The voters are disgusted with the majority of both parties and their typical bullshit. Rand offers a choice that is badly needed and wanted by the voters.

 

[acptulsa]

It's quizzical to me. The only way I can describe this is Rand is trying to run to the left of the Democrats and the right of the Republicans at the same time.

I am t sure one can win an election that way, but I am pretty sure on cannot win one of the two major primaries that way.

The Powers that Be want you stuck on their 'left/right paradigm'. They want you to be unable to think in terms of anything but that false paradigm. But it is a false paradigm. You don't have to be for less financial freedom to be for more personal freedom. You don't have to be for less personal freedom to be for more financial freedom. You really, really don't.

Can Rand Paul win a primary that way? Well, dude, while some weren't paying any attention, we've been working our asses off getting people used to the idea that it's possible to be for freedom while you're for freedom, and it isn't a contradiction. What's a contradiction is getting your peace prize for starting a couple more wars.

In another clip released by NBC Friday, Paul made his first on camera comments about the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.“One of the best things they’ve done so far in Ferguson, was send an African American police officer down there to talk to people in the community,” Paul told NBC’s Chris Jansing. “Now, it hadn’t worked completely, I’ll admit that. But it’s a better way than shooting tear gas at people in their front yard.”

No, it hasn't worked completely. What worked completely was what the Tulsa police did when they found a murderer in their midst and what the Oklahoma City police did when they found a rapist in their midst. Both those former cops are in jail right now, facing charges that will keep them out of circulation for decades and decades.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Relevant reading.

Hillary Clinton is a war hawk - Sen. Rand Paul...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.(AFP Photo / Spencer Platt)

The US Senator from Kentucky has warned that if Hillary Clinton, the former US Secretary of State, becomes the next American president, she could get the United States bogged down in yet another conflict in the Middle East.

Following in the footsteps of his Libertarian father, Ron Paul, who spent much of his lengthy political career demanding a more isolationist US foreign policy, Rand Paul told NBC’s Meet the Press that the 2016 presidential election could be “transformational” if a “war hawk” like Hillary Rodham Clinton gets into the Oval Office.

"We're worried that Hillary Clinton will get us involved in another Middle Eastern war, because she's so gung-ho," Paul added.

Indeed, Clinton has acquired a reputation for being quick to jump on the war wagon – even when it has been the neoconservative faction of the Republican Party demanding a call to arms.

In 2002, Senator Hillary Clinton from New York made a fateful decision that has haunted her political career to this day: She voted to authorize US President George W. Bush to open a military offensive against Iraq, which was suspected of harboring weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons, however, were ever discovered.

“Many senators came to wish they had voted against the resolution. I was one of them,” Clinton has written in her newly released book, "Hard Choices."

“As the war dragged on, with every letter I sent to a family in New York who had lost a son or daughter, a father or mother, my mistake (became) more painful," she adds.

"I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had. And I wasn't alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple."

Rand Paul.(Reuters / Lucas Jackson)

However, many political observers think the former Secretary of State will win the Democratic nomination to participate in the 2016 presidential elections - not despite her jingoistic impulses, but precisely because of them.

“What’s her calculation here,” Nicholas Lemann asked in a recent article in The New Yorker. “It can only be a belief that she has such an overwhelming lead among Democrats that…the electorate in November, 2016, will agree with her that we need a more hawkish president than Obama.”

Meanwhile, however, Obama himself has shown a strong tendency for opening up military offensives in a number of foreign countries - for example, in Libya, where the United States commanded a NATO air campaign that ultimately led to the capture and on-the-spot execution of Muammar Gaddafi on October 20, 2011.

The two-term Democratic leader has also dramatically increased the number of drone strikes against alleged terrorist militants in comparison with his predecessor, George W. Bush.

This record of overseas military adventures by both the Democrats and Republicans may present Americans with a shortage of options when it comes to electing a politician who favors an American foreign policy that is not ‘gung-ho’ on interfering in the affairs of sovereign states.

It is on this point that Paul, a potential presidential candidate himself, may pin his hopes on a run for the presidency.

"I think that's what scares the Democrats the most, is that in a general election, were I to run, there's gonna be a lot of independents and even some Democrats who say, `You know what? We are tired of war,'" Paul concluded in the interview.

http://rt.com/usa/182540-rand-paul-clinton-war/

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