Rand Paul ripped Jeb Bush a new face on weed

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blasted former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush late Wednesday for what he called "hypocrisy" on drug policy ahead of this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference.

Paul, who like Bush is considering whether to seek the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, contrasted Bush's opposition to legalizing medical marijuana with his admitted drug use while a student at Phillips Academy, an elite prep school in Andover, Mass.

"When Jeb was a very wealthy kid at a very elite school, he used marijuana but didn’t get caught, didn’t have to go to prison." Paul told "The Kelly File" Wednesday. "I think it shows some hypocrisy that’s going to be very difficult for young people to understand why we’d put a 65-year-old guy in jail for medical marijuana."

"What I’m talking about is not the hypocrisy of wealth, it’s the hypocrisy of evading the law, because the law seems to target and seems to go after poor people, often people of color," Paul continued. "What’s hypocritical is if you’re very wealthy, [if] you’re able to escape the long arm of the law is then to really want to throw long sentences, 15 years, 20 years, 50 years in prison for marijuana at people, so I think that’s where the hypocrisy comes in."


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/26/rand-paul-slams-jeb-bush-for-drug-hypocrisy/

Here's another link if you don't want to patronize FOX:


http://www.businessinsider.com/rand-paul-just-unloaded-on-jeb-bush-about-weed-2015-2

LOL

[RKP5637]

1. And it's well said, glad to see Bush ripped. n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. "The law is for thee and not for me." doesn't fly.

[FSogol]

2. LOL, Didn't Rand kidnap and drug someone? Did he go to prison or did his wealthy Dad get him off?

Or am I thinking of Aqua-Buddha?

[napkinz]

24. ...

[elehhhhna]

4. Noelle was a junkie and she never did time

Despite committing felony forgery

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. She's kind of a tragic young woman./NT

[elehhhhna]

6. yes and her dad has no compassion

Just get her off, covered it up. Just like his sons breaking and entering episode.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. And doing donuts on his ex-girlfriend's lawns./NT

[elehhhhna]

16. that was before he broke in or after?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. I get them mixed up...He's the one who is the officeholder in TX-George P ?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. This is FANTASTIC - Have we ever had this before? Where one puke

speaks so ad lib against another puke?
And, the other puke may be the likely nominee ?
bet the PTB are choking on their martinis!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Rudy (Ghoul)iani always used to beat up Ron Paul in the GOP debates for being anti-war...

Rudy (Ghoul)iani always used to beat up Ron Paul in the GOP debates for being anti-war but he wasn't going anywhere and was a convenient punching bag.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Exactly - but they (or us, for that matter) don't usually go overboard

to cut the frontrunner to the bone.

Rudy is a joke now. I can't believe he used to be somewhat of a "republican I could stand" back in the days he would go on and joke with David Letterman. pre-9-11 of course

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. This is good because the two candidates I prefer not to run against are the "smart" Bush...

This is good because the two candidates I prefer not to run against are the "smart" Bush and Marco Rubio.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. omg u made me spit my coffee..."Smart" Bush. Maybe we can get Rand

to start drumming away at how Rubio lied about his parents escaping Fidel Castro before Fidel Castro even ran Cuba

[WDIM]

12. Repugnants being against legalization of mj is complete hyprocrisy.

But what else would you expect from the most hypocritical political party on the planet.

There is a class bias without a doubt when comes to mj use. The people most likely to be arrested and locked up for mj are the poor.

The perfect example is the governor of oklahoma mary fallin. She is a known alcoholic. Also very anti-mj legalization. Yet, I have also had eye witness accounts of her smoking mj from people i know. Her daughter close friends with the flaming lips you might remember her from the native american headdress scandal. She is without a doubt a marijuana user. The flamming lips who have much fanfare from local government over the years are mj users. There are countless celebrities and people well known for their mj use. Yet its always the poor and minority that gets arrested and that is real.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. very true - if I was DEA and wanted a bust - I'd go straight to Bill Mahers nt

[glasshouses]

15. Hate to say it but if Paul runs he's going to get a lot of people

voting for him who would otherwise sit it out.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. Some one once told me a libertarian is a Republican who likes to get high...

But if you scratch the surface he's really not a libertarian but a Tenth Amendment fetishist like his dad. i couldn't care less if the federal government or the state government usurps a right I believe belongs to me.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. True - it almost has the exact same affect as a third party could. nt

[GreatGazoo]

23. I think that is part of the strategy -- keep the wingnuts in until the convention

then try to roll their people into the Jeb bandwagon.

Bait and switch.

[Paladin]

19. Keep in mind that Rand Paul is a doctor's kid....

...who's never known a tough economic day in his entire privileged lifetime. There's always plenty of hypocrisy to go around when CPAC happens.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Yes, and he really does calculate what he says - remember how

they caught him hot miked? talking to Turtle? Think he's taking
the no-holds-barred approach.

[Orsino]

22. Don't worry. Paul never made a statement of principle he didn't eventually walk back. n/t

[proverbialwisdom]

25. Check it out, especially the link from 2/25.

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/booker_teams_up_with_rand_paul_on_bill_to_change_criminal_justice_system.html

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/02/bookers_bffs_in_washington_rand_paul_and_newt_ging.html

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/02/could_cory_bookers_embrace_of_rand_paul_mean_heart.html

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/02/booker_meets_with_obama_on_criminal_justice_issue.html

[thelordofhell]

26. The difference between Rand Paul and Jeb Bush.........

One is a spoiled scion of wealth who doesn't give a shit about anybody but himself and his family legacy and........Oh wait, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE.......WAKE UP "PAULITES"!!

[Scuba]

27. Why are Democrats ceding this issue to Republicans? Stoooopid!!!!!

[tavernier]

28. Eating their own.

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