"Oh, Pierre (Trudeau) you're such a comfort to the Kremlin." Margaret Thatcher.
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Article on Rand Paul in The American Spectator from a conservative perspective. Paul seems to pull centrist/realist.
Excerpts:
"The Democrat-controlled legislature voted against the 13th,
14th, and 15th Amendments,” he said. “One hundred fifty years ago
the editor of the Courier-Journal, now a liberal paper,
said that he did not think that blacks would ever have the
intellectual capacity to vote. I think this is the history people
should try to remember. Republicans were the party of emancipation
and voting rights...”
"...THE LIST of things Paul is not is a long one. By his own
admission he is not a neoconservative. He is also probably not, as
many of his early supporters had hoped, a taller, better dressed,
more charismatic version of his father. Nor is he a Lindsey
Graham–style moderate or a John McCain–style “maverick.”
On balance, the label that fits best is probably that of
conservative pragmatist. This tradition, with its roots in the
approaches of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, has, alas,
fallen upon hard times. Most right-wingers under the age of 40 are
as likely as not to have made up their minds about the 37th
president after reading Hunter S. Thompson. The majority of Tea
Party members are, with the best of intentions, out for blood, and
Paul’s talent for sniffing out the right pieces of red meat to toss
their way has made him the closest thing the movement has to a
leader in the U.S. Senate..."
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