Discussion: CNN Host Asks Rand To Reconcile Libertarianism, View On Gay Marriage

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They’re just trying to make him get angry again.

HEY RAND! Can you reconcile devotion to Ayn Rand with being a hyperchristian?

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Rand Paul… situational opportunist ‘libertarian’

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Or, why did he sign Tom Cotton’s Iran letter in March after saying he wanted to let negotiations work in January?

Libertarians, like the Lord, work in mysterious ways.

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It’s OK as a contract? Isn’t that what marriage is, a contract between two parties? And why are married people given benefits/breaks that unmarried people do not get? Stop the Bull and finally make it … “Equality for all”.

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Rand is a hypocrite, trying to have it both ways on every issue. Then when asked about by a female reporter he attacks and tries to belittles the reporter, and never answers the question.

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Rand isn’t a libertarian. He’s a right wing Bircher who likes to get high.

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Rand Paul, ladies and gentlemen! – Which side of his mouth will he be speaking from today?

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Maybe we should just call him ‘Pander Rand.’

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He’s just a typical libertarian: he wants to be free to make as much money as possible without being taxed. Everything else is fair game for regulation.

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There’s a difference?

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Or as Mitt Romney put it, I’m running for office, for Pete’s sake!

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When he lived here in Bowling Green, he absolutely believed that gay people ought to be able to marry. One more than one occasion he has said that it was no business of the state or the Fed to tell people who could and could not get married. Then he also said “When I start running for Senate, I won’t be able to say those things any more, otherwise I won’t get elected.”

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Rand claims to support a “civil contract” for gays. Wonder how Rand will explain why the anti marriage equality laws included language outlawing civil unions.

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Yes, according to Rand’s traditional religious version of marriage it is a contract between 2 people: The father of the bride, and the father of the groom.

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Dana Bash just got herself, and most likely all of CNN, on Rand Paul’s enemies list.

I doubt Rand Paul, serial plagiarist, flip flopper, and liar, and son of same, if not worse, will do anything but run like Hell when confronted by any representative off CNN henceforth.

They’ve now classed themselves with Mother Jones. To the Teapot mind, MoJo was responsible for the demise of Mitt Romney’s campaign. Thru the sleuthing, if you can call it that, of David Korn. That made it the enemy. And we all know how powerful men, elected at the behest of a minority, the Teapots, plan to govern, when they get their mitts on the levers of power, particularly toward anyone who asks questions, gets in the way, or exposes any unflattering truths.

They’ll make Nixon, Halleman, and Erlichman and the enemies list look mild

Better study up on how to encrypt all communications.

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Gay marriage offends him? Let’s hope that someone asks him why. Is his life consumed with imagining how gay people have sex? And if so, just what about that does he find offensive?

People (gay, straight, whatever) have sex in all sorts of ways that this self-certified libertarian ophthalmologist evidently doesn’t grasp. Or perhaps it’s not offensive when heterosexual couples do it, because: bigotry.

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A “Convenient Libertarian” who doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state.

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Real definition of “Libertarian” is Look out for #1 and F%$k everyone else!

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RE: “I think that there’s a religious connotation to marriage. I believe in the traditional religious connotation to this.” -Rand Paul

“To rest one’s case on faith means to concede that…one has no rational arguments to offer.” - Ayn Rand

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