Neocons’ comical Rand Paul slam: He’s worse than Hillary!

[DonViejo]

Conservative hawks try out a new attack on Rand Paul: he's worse on foreign policy than the Benghazi lady

SIMON MALOY

Today, at long last, freshman Sen. Rand Paul will officially declare himself a candidate for the presidency. He already has a clunky, slam-poetry-inspired campaign slogan: “Defeat the Washington machine. Unleash the American dream.” And he has a plan to run an “unconventional” campaign to win the White House by being a “different kind of Republican” who isn’t afraid to say crazy and horrible things.

That “different kind of Republican” shtick is a reference to Paul’s libertarian-ish worldview that sometimes leads him to deviate from party orthodoxy, and some of those apostasies have earned him the undying hatred of certain factions within the GOP. This is especially true of the Republican foreign policy hawks, whom Rand Paul has taunted as warmongers while advocating a less interventionist flavor of national security policy. They absolutely hate him and are not shy about saying so in public – Paul was one of the Republicans whom World’s Angriest Man John McCain called “wacko birds” for mounting a filibuster to protest U.S. drone policy.

Now that Paul is throwing himself into the 2016 race, the hawks are trying out a new and, to their mind, devastating attack on Rand: that Hillary Clinton would do a better job at foreign policy.

Sen. Lindsey Graham test-drove this zinger over the weekend while appearing on CBS’s “Face The Nation.” He was on to discuss the new diplomatic framework for curbing Iran’s nuclear program, which Graham and most Republicans hate because it lessens the likelihood of bombing Iran anytime soon. Graham endorsed the mythical “better deal” option for negotiating with Iran and said that pretty much everyone running for president right now could make that better deal happen – with one exception: “The best deal, I think, comes with a new president. Hillary Clinton would do better. I think everybody on our side, except maybe Rand Paul, could do better.”

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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. That attack is what you call a twofer. IT is a devistating attack on Paul for being

more Hillary Clinton than Hillary Clinton, and, therefore, un-Republican, and an attack on Hillary Clinton for being worse than Rand Paul and, therefore, being un-Democratic.

[Man from Pickens]

2. there you have it

even the neocons peg HRC as more right-wing than a Tea Party wacko bird

couldn't make it any clearer if they tattooed it backwards on your forehead

[DonViejo]

3. Nothing like falling for right wing rhetoric, is there?

[Man from Pickens]

4. nope

except, perhaps, nominating it

[geek tragedy]

5. Clinton is not more rightwing than Rand Paul, who signed the Tom Cotton letter

and who also called for a declaration of war against ISIS.

[Darb]

6. What color of pony are you interested in?

My bet is that you are not really a pony boy, but something entirely different.

[Man from Pickens]

7. You couldn't guess?

Rainbow, of course

[Darb]

8. That reply makes me think it's actually red, like red herring.

Nice try. Fail though.

[FSogol]

9. Did you hear, they are taking the word "gullible" out of the dictionary?