Libertarianism is rapidly gaining favor with Center-Right voters. Unlike it’s ideological cousin Conservatism, Libertarians believes in liberty for all Americans and has an inclusive message that can cut across regional and ethnic lines. Libertarianism is forward looking and not scared of the changed landscape of the 21st Century. The ascendancy of this Center-Right ideology is unnerving the Islamic loving Nation building wing of the Republican Party.
Chris Christie is your typical Islamic loving Republican nation builder. He is enamored of 7th Century totalitarian movement and like the rest of his party thinks Americans should die so some Islamic savage can raise a purple finger. Like a typical Republican elitist, he is also a fan of the police state and feels Americans should be spied on. In a conference of governors Chris Christie defends the police state and attacked Sen. Rand Paul and other Libertarians as dangerous. Rand Paul responds and takes the Corpulent Guido to task.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, leading the opposition to drone killing of U.S. citizens and to massive government surveillance of U.S. citizens email and phone records, fired back at fellow Republican Christie Christie, the New Jersey governor, who had attacked the Kentucky Republican for opposing massive government surveillance of U.S. citizens.
“If Governor Christie believes the constitutional rights and the privacy of all Americans is ‘esoteric,’ he either needs a new dictionary, or he needs to talk to more Americans, because a great number of them are concerned about the dramatic overreach of our government in recent years,” Paul senior adviser Doug Stafford told The Washington Times.
Mr. Christie had told fellow GOP governors in Aspen, Colo., on Thursday that Mr. Paul is part of a “strain of libertarianism that’s going through parties right now and making big headlines I think is a very dangerous thought.”
Mr. Christie on Thursday also once again found a way to compliment President Obama while slapping at Mr. Paul.
“President Obama has done nothing to change the policies of the Bush administration in the war on terrorism,” he told fellow Republican governors at a meeting.
The Chris Christie vs. Rand Paul fight over the NSA spying on Americans is the opening shot in the war against the Libertarian ascendancy. Will Rand Paul ever be President? Sadly no, but he is creating a new movement that will bring the Republican into the 21st Century. Eventually someone of Rand Paul’s ideology will be President because the Libertarian movement is growing and not afraid to seek new converts.
Rand Paul in this interview exaplains that the Republican Party needs to start doing Community Organzaing and spread its message into every section of America.
Rand Paul will be remembered like Barry Goldwater as founding a new political movement. Chris Christie will be fiorgotten about and only remembered as a wannabe Jersey Shore Corpulent Guido.
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