Tag: Rand Paul

Paul/Beck: WTF Moment

Okay I admit it….I have seldom been very polite to the Right’s Glen Beck…..I have made fun of just about everything he has ever said…..is it possible that I may have been mistaken about this fellow?

Some will say that I have been right on….and others will call me names for my attacks on him……

May I suggest that anybody who has ever read my blog….please have a seat for I am about to shock the crap out you………

I apologize to Glen Beck for accusing him of being out of touch…..why would I do that?  Politico has published my reason…..

Glenn Beck is admitting he was wrong and liberals were right for opposing the invasion of Iraq.

“[Liberals] said we couldn’t force freedom on people,” Beck said at the start of his Tuesday radio show. “Let me lead with my mistakes. You were right. Liberals, you were right, we shouldn’t have.”

“From the beginning, most people on the left were against going to Iraq,” Beck said. “I wasn’t.”

The talk show host explained that when a possible invasion of Iraq was being discussed, he believed Saddam Hussein was backing terror against the United States and that something had to be done.

“In spite of the things I felt at the time when we went into war, liberals said, ‘We shouldn’t get involved, we shouldn’t nation-build’ and [that] there was no indication the people of Iraq had the will to be free,” Beck said. “I thought that was insulting at the time. Everybody wants to be free.”

On Tuesday, Beck said, “You cannot force democracy on the Iraqis or anybody else, it doesn’t work. They don’t understand it or even really want it.”

Beck does have his moments of brilliance……or least he has admitted his mistake….more than most people on the Right would ever do…….

But I do not expect him to be as forthcoming on other issues……..but it is nice to hear some on the extreme Right admit their mistake…….

And then there was another bombshell….at least for me….and this one came from Rand Paul (go figure)……….when talking about the situation in Iraq he stated…….

“I think the same questions could be asked of those who supported the Iraq War,” Paul said of Cheney’s op-ed. “You know, were they right in their predictions? Were there weapons of mass destruction there? That’s what the war was sold on. Was democracy easily achievable? Was the war won in 2005, when many of these people said it was won?

Paul went on to note many current Iraq War supporters also are concerned about the situation in Iran.

“They didn’t really, I think, understand the civil war that would break out. And what’s going on now — I don’t blame on President Obama. Has he really got the solution? Maybe there is no solution. But I do blame the Iraq War on the chaos that is in the Middle East,” said Paul. “I also blame those who are for the Iraq War for emboldening Iran. These are the same people now who are petrified of what Iran may become, and I understand some of their worry.”

Okay I have been successfully caught off guard by these revelations……..if you know anything about string theory then you know there are parallel dimensions…….apparently I have stepped over into one of them…….

Discredited Conservatives Attack Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy as Naive « Antiwar.com Blog

There is not much that I agree with Rand Paul on as far as policy goes…….but after his statement on foreign policy drew so much name calling from the GOP….I can see why he is a bit miffed…….

Please no one take this as some round about endorsement of Rand Paul…….it is not.

 

Discredited Conservatives Attack Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy as Naive « Antiwar.com Blog.

2011 Anal-Ocity #20

There are libertarians on the right and on the left and I thought the definition of libertarian was one of freedom….free press, free markets, free thought and free speech and some sort of personal responsibility….I am not saying that I agree with them on much but apparently I have missed something at the daily briefing……

It seems that Rand Paul would like to bring back the 1984 thing called “the Thought Police”….the book, not the year…..recently Paul had this to say…..

Paul went on Sean Hannity’s radio show on May 27 and said the government should “take into account whether or not” people have “been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders.”

He added, “If someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after.” In fact, he said, “They should be deported or put in prison.”

So if I go to one of these speeches out of curiosity, Paul would have me arrested or deported or worse….is that about it?

Finally the perfect running mate for Bachmann if she wins the GOP nomination….I mean after all she wants Dems investigated and  put on trial for being un-American…..so she and Paul have a lot in common…..it is a Dream Team!  (in case you missed it…..that was what is called SARCASM!)

Rand Paul, Electoral Surprise?

Not really!

But in case you have been asleep after eating a drugged apple, let me refresh your memory…..just two days ago the son of Rep. Ron Paul won the Repub nomination for the senate seat in Kentucky after beating the fav of the GOP…this in a state that the Senate Minority leader is from and endorsed the other candidate……it was big news that he went against the established leadership of the Party and won the nomination……

But that is NOT the surprise!

Just hours after his win he had a couple of interviews and was asked if he believed segregation was okay in the private sector…..basically, he said it was fine if a privately owned company wanted to discriminate and that it was none of the governments business (I am paraphrasing)….

Immediately the media was all a gaga at his answer…they were caught by surprise….instantaneously they began to condemn him for his beliefs and saying that he needs to get out in front of the story…..

They were surprised!

(Thinking…..thinking……thinking…..)  What part of Libertarian do they NOT understand?  Do any of these “well informed” journalist ever pay attention to what is going on around them?  Where is the surprise?

Rand Paul is a Libertarian!  While there are some of their positions that I can agree with, most notably….anti-war, anti_IRS and anti Federal Reserve…..but that is where I cease to agree with them……other beliefs, of which there are many, that I cannot understand is their belief that capitalism will end racism or that capitalism will end poverty or CEOs deserve their massive bonuses or cheap imports do NOT destroy American jobs……just a few of the beliefs that I have a problem with….

Rand Paul is a Libertarian and he believes in some if not ALL of the things that I mentioned……So where is the surprise?  I am NOT surprised in the least…and the morons making the big bucks should be less surprised than me…..But then I do not search for a sound bite on which to make a story…..