Has Rand Paul finally proven that he is as malignant a neocon as Dick Cheney?

[Faryn Balyncd]

And that he will do anything to win the approval of the insane Republican base?

And that he will not even attempt to any longer pretend to have any personal integrity?

[TwilightGardener]

1. His dad resisted the neocon mindset to a degree, being all isolationist and non-interventionist

as he was. I respect that more--they've got younger Paul by the throat. If he wants power within the GOP, he has to dance with that crowd.

[Puzzledtraveller]

3. Yeah, RP isn't really a neo-con

I hear neo-con tossed around a lot and I will ask friends and acquaintances if they can tell me what it means and 9/10 think it means uber conservative. in the old style conservative. Which it is not.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Ron Paul was paleoconservative and libertarian, IMO. Neoconservatives

are primarily about foreign policy, especially regarding middle east and Israel. They don't care about social or religious conservatism, but they play along with it for the religious/redneck nutz in the GOP rank and file. Very weird hybrid of interests is the GOP today. Ron Paul doesn't fit anymore, and his son is an opportunist who knows whose asses he'll have to kiss.

[patrice]

2. He supports S.2205 from the 112th Congress, which threatens senators with NRA revenge

if they don't prevent treaties with the U.N. that regulate/control fast-and-furious American assault weapons markets around the world. Apparently Rand Paul thinks it is better to oppose the U.N. and any pressure for reform there that might reign in the IMF's financial abuses, a.k.a. Disaster Capitalism, around the world that results in destabilization and, thus, more opportunities for NRA's buddy arms merchants and their PNAC-ian benefactors and which can, as recent history has shown us, lead to the involvement and deaths of American troops engaged in "the war on terror" that ought really to turn it's attention to Rand Paul FIRST, in order to cut the route of arms into the world's poor countries which are breeding trouble in response to our oppressive support of the IMF.