Rand Paul Backs Away from His Full Endorsement of Mitt Romney
How BRILLIANTLY, flawlessly, perfectly predictably political. Oh politics, why did you have to stop blowing my mind…
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On the Murray Rothbard-Rand Paul Supposed Endorsement Connection (
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(One more example in the continuous string of ways Block disappoints the crap out of me.)
I also like the way Wenzel puts it…I think it’s very accurate:
“He will not be able to go to the farm belt and talk cutting farm subsidies. He will not be able to go to Boeing and talk defense cuts. He will not be able to go to Sheldon Adelson and talk elimination of foreign aid to Israel. You see, none of these will advance the Romney cause and the Romney cause for Rand will be put ahead of the liberty cause. The establishment will stick Rand inside the machine running rinse and tumble over and over again. It will mean Rand’ making the wrong kind of compromises—ones that will advance his standing in the machine. That’s not what we need.”
Send that to Jack Hunter and his supporters.
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Okay he’s totally drank the kool-aid.
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Just for the record, I knew Rand was a wolf in sheep’s clothing from the beginning.
Still, the ONLY thing that I cannot put a reason behind, well wait a sec, maybe I can, was his voiced opposition to including Georgia into NATO. Now that I think about it…stay with me on this…
Rand halted a procedure to include Georgia into NATO. If we look at the 2008 Georgian war, we can easily see the dynamics of the Pro NATO (Georgia & U.S.) and anti NATO (Russia & the separatists) segments of Georgia (Ossetia and Abkhazia). The NATO issue is precisely why that war and those separatist movements exist. Pay mind to this. Russia and the U.S. have a long held understanding that NATO will never completely surround Russia. Russia views NATO as its primary geostrategic advesary.
Well, Georgia is the only country that is left. If the separatist movements are officially recognized, then Georgia looses territory and there are then two slivers of land that Pro Russia elements will occupy. If Georgia is included into NATO, then Russia has allowed itself to be surrounded after all these years…
So, when McCain gets caught taking money from Georgian lobbyists in 2007/8 to vote Georgia into NATO, which happens by 2011, Rand throws a wrench into the machine. This prevented a very different reality of relations with Russia (especially in light of the escalating Syria debacle). I will submit that Rand used this a his card to say, “I know the jig. Let me in.”
You see, Rand Paul’s outspoken-ness about the issues that we (Ron Paul supporters) support was not directed at us…ever. He was poking the bear and saying I’ll be a thorn in your side unless I am included in your crooked deals. I’ll help you contain my father’s supporters." He throws bones to little things while selling out on the big ones.
Now that Rand Paul is in, seemingly, it is encumbent upon him to support McCain. He says things like, “McCain isn’t an imperailist.” (you can read it in the preview section that Mazon ives you; Jack Hunter helped Rand write his book) What a joke. McCain and the other three esteemed members of the Senate, aforementioned, in fact, are imperialists. Their brazen behavior surrounding a war with Russia and Iran demonstrate this. They want to extinguish the classical nemesis; the foil to the U.S. protagonist.
Rand is not stupid, he knows that NATOs inclusion of Georgia would ruin Obama with Russia. Any possible international cooperation would cease immediately. Syria would be a very different situation is Georgia had been allowed into NATO in December of 2011. Obama would certainly not be reelected if Russia doesn’t cooperate to some level (just as Israel must) in the international arena. Obama had this very shaky “RESET” policy with Russia. Russia responded by putting Putin back in charge. Think about this.
The other issue that comes with this is if Romney is elected and sticks to the Paul’s claim that, “The Congress must declare war!” this could means that whatever military projects are on the horizon, may indeed, get that declaration. This could mean a much more expensive and bloody war affair than anything Bush Jr. and Obama are responsible for.
Could Rand be inadvertently helping the NeoCon wet dream of war with Russia? Could Ron Paul inadvertently be helping the NeoCon wet dream of war with Russia?
Addendum:
I am not sure if Ron Paul would not have helped point Rand to the “true” policy making institutions. I could see Ron Paul saying, “If you want to join 'em, then that’s your decision.” After years and years of Ron saying, “I can beat them. I can beat them. We can beat them. It can be done. The Federal Reserve…” His lousy kid comes along and says [chewing bubble gumand a toothpick out the side of his mouth and his leather Fonzie jacket and hairdoo], “Look pops {crackle of chewing gum}…if you can’t beat 'em, join 'em. ‘Raw milk, light bulbs, blah blah blah.’”
Another thing to help support my main point, Rand has made a name for himself by pointing out the light bulb, raw milk, NLRB issues. Doesn’t the NATO/Georgia thing stand out? *He is a Junior Senator…*what in the hell does he know about Eastern European/Russian/NATO military strategies and prospects…? Wasn’t he an eye doctor just two years before? Did he just intuitively know, that ’ Oh, McCain and Rubio are really pushing this stealthily, it must be important…’ or is something else afoot?
With Israel’s wartime government already formed with an Iranian strike the premise for it and the timetable for the strike ending in October 2012, my guess is that Russia has plans if the West sets things off in the middle east. There is no way that the U.S. doesn’t have plans as well. Israel’s reticence to attack Iran now is entirely reliant on whether or not the U.S. will support it. Bibi knows that Romney and the GOP will be better wartime allies than Obama and the democrats (like Carter, the ilk of Obama, who support the Palestinians). Russia has drawn the line with Syria; they are selling them air defense gadgets. Iran is a step further. I may be wrong, but I think this is the 21 century’s first candidate for a “Great Game.” With this said, keep in mind that “Iran” may actually be a “for public consumption” codeword for “Russia.”
All of the sudden that “threat to the U.S. factor” is there.
Rand Paul may or may not know what he is doing…
I posted my latest ramblings on Rand Paul here. It will end up as a post in this thread and as its own; they are both currently under moderation.
Hint: Don’t attribute a conspiracy to everything to everything you may not like or understand.
The guy may just have made a move towards the more succesful center. Integer? Perhaps not, but also not something so uncommon.
Who does Jack Hunter write for these days?
He’s been the “professional blogger” for the Ron Paul campaign (you can find his stuff at the official website), and I’ve seen a number of his articles picked up by The Daily Caller.
@ about 5:40 Rand plugs Romney. “Romney said he’ll grant a waiver through executive order.”
