GOPers Make Friends With Rand Paul, But What Are They In For?

I'm quaking in my boots at Palin and her tanning bed.

Yeah, when Rand Paul's plan to abolish social security, medicare, environmental protection, eliminate Fed. aid to states covered with oil and hurricanes, turn our country over to the banks and the oil companies, that will sell big time in America.

Pass the popcorn.

Should be fun watching Republicans squirm when Rand (named after Ayn Rand maybe?) gets on the Senate floor to denounce Iraq/Afghan wars and to pull our troops home ASAP.

My guess is once he's elected (assuming it happens at all), the GOP will find he's about as useless a legislator as his father, and simply propose and write bills that are pie in the sky libertarian wet dreams that are never even brought up in committee.

America is not divided along some perfect liberal/conservative fault line. A majority are not comfortable with the values of either party. At the same time American conservatism has always had a historically libertarian tilt. Paul may cause heartburn for the Bush/Chenney wing of the party, but there is little to distinguish Rand from Goldwater or Reagan conservatives.
The value at issue is individual liberty. Even when Liberals are right on an issue they miss the underlying principle. The principles that deprive the government the power to dictate who we marry and what drugs we can use, also prohibit government from telling us how to educate our children, what TV programs we can watch, what cars we can buy, how we dispose of our trash, what color we paint our home, what we can say.
Nearly a century of big government have failed. Painful Adjustments to Social Security and Medicare are inevitable. A Greece like failure in the US would be a world wide catastrophe that would make the Great Depression look like a party. No one is going to be happy when the liberal statist socialist system we have built collapses, but we can work towards fixing that now, or we can opt for far more pain later. Rather than expand the wasteful government entitlements system into Healthcare we should be looking to wean ourselves from it with the least pain possible. Government can guarantee us all equality of outcome or equality of opportunity, but not both. Even the least of us fair better under the latter, the former allows us all to be impoverished together. To each according to their need from each according to their ability is called Marxism - and most of us know how badly that works.

I kind of hope he wins in the general. Nothing he proposes will ever get so much as a vote, and we can use it to show how out of touch his voting base is. Further, the good people of Kentucky will get passed over again and again when it comes time to hand out the earmarks. Cut off your nose to spite your face, teabaggers...

Huh, I thiught that palin and Tea Party endorsements were supposed to be detrimental to a campaign.

Sen. Rand Paul (R), KY...get used to it