Is 'Libertarian Girl' Rand Paul’s Problem Waiting to Happen?
“Libertarian Girl,” is a blogger and social-media personality who over the last few years has amassed a large following of hundreds of thousands by sharing her every political thought—and lots of selfies—on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Marianne Copenhaver is a 27-year-old from Ohio, who advertises herself as a “political activist, graphic designer, digital strategist.” Paul hired her about a month ago to do Web design and social-media outreach. She told me that the Las Vegas trip was the first time she had accompanied Paul on the road.
Copenhaver’s ideas, like those of many diehard libertarians, are far from traditional. She said she’s an “anarcho-capitalist,” someone who believes every government entity, from the library to the police department, should be privatized—which didn’t stop Paul from hiring her.
On Tuesday, The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website run by Bill Kristol’s son-in-law that frequently torments Paul, published a story that documented Copenhaver’s colorful social-media musings about politics:
“Copenhaver’s recent Facebook posts are filled with vehement attacks on the GOP’s foreign policy on Iran, Russia, the Islamic State, Syria, and Israel.
‘Nothing makes me rage harder than the GOP trying to start another god damn war. Listen up you stupid armchair jingoes, we (libertarians, constitutional conservatives, and anti-war dems) want nothing to do with your bullshit special interest fueled wars,’ wrote Copenhaver in November 2013.”
Other Copenhaver posts referred to Sen. John McCain’s “blood lust,” and offered a “Side note: A big fuck you to Lindsey Graham and John McCain.”
Additionally, Copenhaver suggested that “Edward Snowden deserves a Nobel Peace Prize NOT President Obama.”
In an update to its story, the Free Beacon added that Copenhaver “also opposed the Pledge of Allegiance because it was ‘developed by Francis Bellamy, a socialist,’ as a way to, ‘sell more issues of the magazine Youth’s Companion.’”
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