Comments on: Rand Paul and the Tea Party go to Washington http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2010/11/rand-paul-and-the-tea-party-go-to-washington/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 By: Scott http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2010/11/rand-paul-and-the-tea-party-go-to-washington/comment-page-1/#comment-1634 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:31:13 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=790#comment-1634 Rand Paul is certainly not his father. He favors a non-interventionist foreign policy, but have many anti-war conservatives wondering about how anti-war he really is. And I notice that when it comes to social issues, he isn’t nearly as Libertarian as his father. In fact, some Libertarians don’t consider him a libertarian at all. I agree. If he really has no intention of reigning in the military industrial complex, nor extending civil liberties to Americans that are still deprived of theirs, then all Rand Paul’s rhetoric of liberty and limited government ring hollow. And how does he really intend on balancing the budget while cutting taxes? You can cut out all “discretionary spending” from the federal budget, that is the department of energy, the department of education, and so on, and defense spending, which is in fact a good bit of it, and still come up short in balancing the budget.

So a question you must ask is, “As long as they get their tax cuts, gay being aren’t getting married, social programs are cut (which really does little to reduce the budget deficit), and there’s a republican in the white house, is the Tea Party going to fade away, are they in touch enough with reality to realize that fixing the country’s problems goes way beyond what appear to me, in context, as narrow interest?”

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