The war between Libertarians and the Pro-Islamic Nation Building Wing continues to escalate. Rand Paul was on Hannity last night and once again raked the Corpulent Guido over the coals.
He may have heard that the Republican party is on life support in the northeast. Republicans are in danger of becoming an endangered species, so it’s not real smart for Republicans to be attacking Republicans. But I would remind him that I think what’s dangerous in our country is to forget that we have a Bill of Rights, to forget about privacy, to give up all of our liberty to say ‘we’re going to catch terrorism, but we have to live in a police state.’ I think it’s really kind of sad and cheap that he would use the cloak of 9/11 victims, and say, ‘I’m the only one who cares about these victims.’ Hogwash. If he cared about protecting this country, maybe he wouldn’t be in this, “Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme all the money you have in Washington, or don’t have,’ and he’d be a little more fiscally responsive and know that the way we defend our country, the way we have enough money for national defense, is by being frugal and not by saying, ‘Gimme, gimme, gimme’ all the time. … I’m for spying in terrorists, I’m not for spying on every American. And so people like the governor who are, I guess, flippant about privacy, flippant about the 4th Amendment, and flippant about the Bill of Rights, they do an injustice to our soldiers. Our soldiers are laying their life on the line for the Bill of Rights. So, if we’re not going to stand up for the Bill of Rights, we don’t care about liberty, then I think it’s really a mistake and we’ve gone too far.
The irony here is until George W. Bush, the Republican Party was against nation building. Then taking advantage of 9/11, a sinister element in the GOP led by Dick Cheney manipulated the GOP into making nation building Republican dogma. Although I do not see Rand or the Libertarians winning in the short term since much of the base thinks nation building is good, long term the Libertarians will win. Rand knows time is on his side and that is why he has begun this war.
Tags: Chris Christie, Rand Paul
