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In reply to the discussion: What is your actual attitude toward Rand Paul? [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)I have heard it suggested by any number of people that sometimes he says some things they happen to agree with - at least as far as a few limited statements are concerned. That would have been more true with his father who was clearly more of an ideologue and less of a career opportunist. But like Pat Buchanan who would occasionally say things that made sense - underneath it all he was still a bigot and a reactionary and an opportunist to the extreme. I have not seen many people on DU who actually support Rand Paul though. I don't know if I have actually seen any. I suppose there are some who have said that he is to the left of Clinton on foreign policy. I don't agree with that. But there is a point where isolationism and anti-imperialism does overlap just as there is a point where liberal internationalism and Neo-conservatism overlaps. Either way there is not a snowball's chance in hell that an anti-interventionist is going to win the Republican nomination for President in 2016. That will not happen.