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Originally Posted by ChainLegacy
Why are you lumping those two together?
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I wasn't saying they are the same, just that I dislike both.
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Originally Posted by ChainLegacy
And why do you think Rand Paul is stupid? You're entitled to your opinion, but I'm fairly curious - Angle might be for smaller government, but she is inconsistent and supports neocon policies, whereas Paul, love him or hate him, sticks to his guns as an old-school conservative.
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Rand Paul is his father's version of the Libertarian party, not Goldwater's, and Goldwater's is the better since it does not really deal with social issues, only economic and defense. Paul opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, and his bioethics stances are completely contrary to my own. He wants to do away with the Dept. of Education (which I agree needs vast revision, but is still fundamentally good and intrinsically beneficial to society as a whole). His support of the review of the 14th Amendment also turns me off. The only stances of his that I can somewhat support are on Energy (especially tax breaks for companies that produce alternative energy) and many of his statements on National Defense.
I do not want to divert the discussion too much, so I will leave it at that.