Yep, just like you have a written policy to lie every time you open your mouth. Put up or go the f away Randy. Via.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Fox News that President Obama and former President George W. Bush could have “conceivably been put in jail” for using drugs.
Said Paul: “Look, the last two presidents could have conceivably been put in jail for their drug use and I really think – look what would’ve happened, it would’ve ruined their lives. They got lucky. But a lot of poor kids, particularly in the inner city, don’t get lucky and they don’t have good attorneys and they go to jail for some of these things and I think it’s a big mistake.”
The response prompted host Chris Wallace to note, “Actually, I think it would be the last three presidents, but who’s counting?”
Rachel Maddow covered the “party that so often does not seem know what their policy positions are let alone actually believe in them.” In other words, she reported, again, on their incessant hypocrisy:
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Rachel Maddow:
Rand Paul wants to be seen as small government guy, but he also wants a government big enough to monitor every single pregnancy in the country, to force all American women into the government’s chosen outcome for their pregnancy. You do not get to decide about your pregnancy, the government gets to decide.
Rand Paul has introduced so-called personhood legislation that would ban all abortions in America, federally. It would also likely ban some forms of hormonal birth control, like the pill, and even in vitro fertilization. So again, under his bill, you would have no choice, no exceptions, you get no say, it’s the government that decides, Rand Paul will decide for you.
Here is the entire segment:
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Via an email alert from Politico:
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul eked out a narrow victory in the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll Saturday, with 25 percent of votes to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s 23 percent.
The runners-up were as follows: former Sen. Rick Santorum, 8 percent; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, 7 percent; Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, 6 percent; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, 5 percent; Ben Carson, 4 percent; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, 4 percent; Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, 3 percent; former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, 3 percent.
Other candidates received a combined 14 percent.
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Poor Sarah. If only she’d “stepped away from the teleprompter.” And maybe Bobby Jindal shouldn’t have made that waterboarding joke.
Of course, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan didn’t do much better, and Scott Walker and Ted Cruz continue to represent the back end of, well, everything.
The Libertarian, er, straw poll is meaningless, but it’s always worth a chuckle.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) are getting the attention of John McCain, and you know what they say: Any attention is good attention, even if it’s negative attention. So his three conservative colleagues must be thrilled.
Or not.
When I asked him if “these guys” — having just mentioned Amash, Cruz and Paul by name — are a “positive force” in the GOP, McCain paused for a full six seconds.
“They were elected, nobody believes that there was a corrupt election, anything else,” McCain said. “But I also think that when, you know, it’s always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.“
“I think it can be harmful if there is a belief among the American people that those people are reflective of the views of the majority of Republicans. They’re not,” he continued.
I asked McCain to clarify who, specifically, he was talking about.
“Rand Paul, Cruz, Amash, whoever,” McCain said.
But, via Taegan, it appears that Rand Paul shrugged it off. Here’s what he told Mike Huckabee:
“You know, I think he’s just on the wrong side of history, and on the wrong side of this argument, really… I treat Sen. McCain with respect. I don’t think I always get the same in return.”
Amash wasn’t quite as respectful:
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