Discussion: Rand Paul: Hillary Was 'Eager To Shoot First' In Syria

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Just came from Home Depot, They are all out of brass spray paint.

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Opinions are like what Kirsten Gillibrand called her sexist chambermate, everybody has one but the Jr. Senator from KY has two.
Rand might want to think about this word: over-exposure.

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I said I was watching TPM’s coverage of Hillary Clinton and I’m watching.

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Rand Paul is right that Hillary was dead wrong on Syria. Not loving that the DNC is wasting time going after Paul. They should be concentrating on midterms and not doing Hillary’s campaign work for her.

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The problem I have with Rand Paul’s non-interventionist stance is that it seems to be terribly shallow, in that he just speaks the words. Basically, “Hillary wants to intervene and bomb people and, by the way, she should be ashamed; it’s her fault that Bill got some head.”

I’ve never heard Paul make a well-thought-out case for the “side boards” for interventions – never? sometimes? under what circumstances?. What manner of threat[s] and in what intensity would make intervention in a foreign entanglement a critical necessity? These are questions that Obama struggles with all the time. Where’s Paul’s intellectual legerdemain here, not to mention honesty? Where’s his foreign policy paper?, his “manifesto”? Maybe he just needs to find someone he can plagiarize.

There’s not much coherence and precious little thought behind Rand’s rhetoric, I fear.

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…as if Hillary Clinton was the only one to act on the

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Maybe Rand isn’t running in 2016 after all. Maybe he’s just being a good Republican foot soldier.

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Now who did he plagiarize THIS from?

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One would hope they can multi-task well enough to fire off a short press release aimed at one of the people who will be running for the Republican nomination in 2016 without losing focus on the midterms.

Paul is to young know-nothings as Cruz is to old know-nothings. He is an uninformed young person’s idea of what a smart person sounds like. Weed, isolationism and flat tax are to them as borderline nihilist polemics are to the old know-nothings. Anything that makes it harder for him to break out of out of the box he’s putting himself into to build a base, is okay by me.

Not that it will matter as long our brain dead press corpse persists in believing that Republicans lie to their base about what they’ll do during the primaries and tell the truth to everyone else during the general, notwithstanding thirty years of evidence to the contrary.

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You have me at a loss, sir. Are you referring to the odd color of his very odd hair, or are you referring to his “brass balls”? And why would they require painting and not polishing? Assuming that he has any, that is

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This is not news. Hillary is a hawk, and proud of it. More hawkish than even some Republicans.

It’s a “broadside” on a very large and well lit target.

That Aqua Buddha Boy noted this doesn’t make it any less true.

As Secretary of State, Clinton backed a bold escalation of the Afghanistan war. She pressed Obama to arm the Syrian rebels, and later endorsed air strikes against the Assad regime. She backed intervention in Libya, and her State Department helped enable Obama’s expansion of lethal drone strikes. In fact, Clinton may have been the administration’s most reliable advocate for military action. On at least three crucial issues—Afghanistan, Libya, and the bin Laden raid—Clinton took a more aggressive line than Gates, a Bush-appointed Republican.

Former administration officials also tell TIME that Clinton was an advocate for maintaining a residual troop force after the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq—an issue of renewed interest given al Qaeda’s resurgence there. They also describe her as skeptical of diplomacy with Iran, and firmly opposed to talk of a “containment” policy that would be an alternative to military action should negotiations with Tehran fail.

When will the DNC just admit it - yeah, she’s a hawk?

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Randy doesn’t want us getting involved, not because civil wars are a bad thing to get involved in, but because he’s a big pu(MEOIW!)

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Yup. Democrats should acknowledge this and move on. You can’t erase history.

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Oh, Randy. We all know that by the time the 2016 general election rolls around you’ll be endorsing a guy that’s twice as hawkish as Hillary, while arguing that Hillary is weak on defense because she didn’t personally beat up any terrorists in Benghazi. But thanks for playing!

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If we can redefine the word ‘hawk’ or the concept of ‘hawkishness’ with Hillary Clinton as the model rather than, say, almost every modern American President, I’d take that as a huge sign of progress.

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“The Rand Paul Doctrine: Blame America. Retreat from the World.”

Blame Hillary also to take her foreign policy and diplomatic experiences off the table, since Paul has zilch in this area. Rand and Ron Paul are two odd nuts.

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How can you know she was “dead wrong” when her proposed policy wasn’t adopted? You can believe that, but you can’t know it.

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It’s telling that Ayn Rand Paul is only attacking Mrs. Clinton on being a “hawk,” but not on any other issues.

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It’s just UFG calling it like UFG needs it to be.

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