The Democratic Party has the votes and the issues such as same sex marriage, immigration reform, climate change nudging the nation towards a progressive arc.
The GOP has the money as it dogmatically pursues single interests like no regulation of business, health care and guns.
So in 2016 what is the best way for the GOP to breakthrough attracting more independent voters it needs to recapture the White House?
With these table setters in place the party has to figure out how to change the subject.
The best Republican agent for that is Rand Paul. But please don’t be fooled by this wolf in sheep’s clothing.
If there would be an award for top hypocrite of the current crop of presidential candidates the junior senator from Kentucky would no doubt garner the prize.
Rand Paul runs as a libertarian. The problem is running as a libertarian in the Republican Party is an oxymoron (I love that word). For the definition of libertarian is the government cannot interfere in your actions and pursuits as long as it doesn’t hurt or affect other people.
To quote Amy Poehler and Seth Myers: “Really?”
“Really Rand, you’re a libertarian but you want the government to decide who can marry? because you’re against same sex marriage. Really?”
“Really Rand? You’re for basically no restrictions on guns but last I checked Rand guns do hurt people? In fact in some instances they could even kill. So gun owners should exercise their right to own enough semi- automatics to launch their own caliphate in Michigan yet the rest of the population doesn’t have a right to live?? Really?”
“Rand you want the government to make it impossible for poor teenage girls that were abandoned by their boyfriends and alienated from their parents to terminate their pregnancy?? Forcing them to travel 400 miles in a broken down vehicle only once they get to the abortion clinic to live in their car for 3 days while doctors are forced to barrage them with negative propaganda? Really?”
“Rand you espouse your wish to loosen laws on pot, hookers and gambling yet you want big corporations to exploit slave labor, pollute the air giving black lung to the populace, rip off small investors, put toxins in our food creating cancer, and force poor people to go without health insurance?
Really?
Really?”