The party of smaller government, especially when it comes to mandating vaginal probes and telling you that you can and can’t get married... right. Keep telling yourselves that Republicans.
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Conservatives who criticize poor women for aborting fetuses they cannot afford to gestate seem to have forgotten the basic critique of rent control they tout so often.
“Somehow we have to decide when a baby gets rights,” he said, arguing that people generally believe a one-pound baby born prematurely has more rights than a larger baby that’s been aborted.
I had that CNBC interview on in my office a few weeks ago and could not believe how he responded to being asked to clarify and expound upon his position on a proposed change in taxes.
Alll thiiis. Because everybody wants a snippy ill-tempered rage-monster president, right?
“Somehow we have to decide when a baby gets rights,”
Beautiful.
“I will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper,” he added.
Real presidential timber here; anger and impulsiveness issues. What could go wrong?
Rand Paul is from the Tea Party/libertarian mix that I like to refer to as the libertea crowd. The libertea crowd is populated mostly by angry white guys. This is Rand Paul’s base. This is who he is counting on to support him in NH - where I live. The libertea crowd is big and vocal here, and have caused a schism in…
See, if he were a female candidate, the recurring themes in media would be ‘is she too PMS-y, bitchy, emotional, hard-edged or fill-in-the-blank to be president?’
It’s hilarious how cocky this man is. He thinks he can be a dick to everyone and still get the nomination?
Color me not surprised that he chose Blitzer for that mea culpa, what a good idea to choose someone that he’s not as likely to talk down to because he’s an equal(ly old white dude).
“I will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper,” he added.
“I will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper being a decent human being”
“I personally believe that life is special, that human life is special and there’s a sanctity — that we’re more than just clay and dirt,” he said.
I am beginning to get a sneaking suspicion that getting fewer than a million votes in a statewide election may not be an indication you have what it takes to succeed on the national stage.
And yet he’s the more moderate GOP candidate.