jmdrake
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I'm a fan of rand except on his immigration & ways he has handled talking to blacks.
He sounds meaner than Trump to the blacks when he insults & condescends to them.

You cant run in a Republican primary, insult semi-informed Republicans & then talk about how well informed the un-informed buffoons of BLM are.
Rand Paul and (believe it or not) Mike Huckabee are the only Republicans that have said anything intelligent about police brutality. The issue isn't the police. It's the laws. Rand pointed out, rightly so, that stupid laws like super high cigarette taxes (the initiating cause for the arrest and ultimate of Eric Garner) are a big part of the problem. Mike Huckabee rightly pointed out that militarization of the police are a big part of the problem. The mistake that BLM is making is they wrongly think that blacks are being targeted when the truth is that everybody is being targeted by a small but increasingly violent subset of the police. Hell, even George W. Bush realized there was something wrong with the strangulation death of Eric Garner. Anyone who doesn't realize that isn't fit to be president.
First of all you have to find some metric to see how many blacks & blacks wont might swing actually care or follow BLM/Sharpton.
It's an issue of right versus wrong. Eric Garner shouldn't have been strangled to death. Tamir Rice, a child with a BB gun shouldn't have been gunned down because some incompetent 911 operator told the officers they had an "active shooter" when in fact she was told he was pointing what might have been a toy gun at people walking by. And how about Aiyana Jones? Take a look at the picture of this little girl before you come back with your ignorant response. She was only 7. She was sleeping in her bed when she was killed by police officers who were raiding her home looking for someone else.

Tell me again why I shouldn't be pissed as hell about that? And it's not just because she's black. I'm pissed as hell about what happened to Kelly Thomas too. And he was white. He was doing nothing wrong and a gang of cops beat him to death after first telling him "We're going to fuck you up." If you can't see something wrong with that then there is something seriously wrong with you.

You can't have your first 5 issues as less-than-immediate issues; & then run to the Neocon side of Trump on some foreign policy.
The immediate threat is neocons starting World War 3. Only Trump either had enough publicity or for whatever reason addressed that.

Trump's big issues:
1. No cutting freebies to anyone any time soon. Great politics. No one cares if a candidate is going to balance the budget in 5 or 20 years.
Not even sure what you mean by that.
2. No rush to approve Trade deals. Read the bill/details. Wait a year or 2. There's no rush.
Neither Rand nor Cruz are "rushing to approve Trade deals." In fact we have people like them to thank for the fact that the TPP hasn't gone through yet.
3. No new wars.
That was George W. Bush's position as well. It was Obama's position too. With Trump he was for the Iraq and Syria wars before he was against them.
4. Be nice to Putin & others.
And now he's "being nice" to illegal immigrants (maybe).
5. some other stuff
LOL. Seriously?
