Rand Paul: An attack on Israel is an attack on the United States

comments on Rand. Ron Pauls son is as close as we will get to what we are looking for. Do I agree with everything he says or does? NO! But God bless him, I'll vote for Rand Paul for prez in 2016 as early and often as I can.

Rand Paul, you just continue your sickening decline into the pits of neoconservativism. If an attack on Israel is an attack on the US, then put on your OWN fucking uniform and die for em!

Rand is a leukemia rotting away the marrow of this withering movement. So many freakin idiots now on DP supporting him. It's depressing.

To all of you who have had a man-crush on Rand for so long, what are you going to do now that you have learned he is a total whore, a Neocon, a RINO, a fake infiltrator?

I would vote for Obama before I would support Rand for president. I'm starting to doubt that Rand is Ron's biological child.

End of subject, Rand is not the candidate for those of us in the Liberty Movement.

And if Rand were to say he wouldn't protect Israel, he'd be banished from the inner circle forever just like his father.

Unlike us here at the DP, the majority of Americans see Israel as a country we must protect. And in the GOP, being pro-Israel is SACROSANCT. That is the severity of the pro-Israel mindset we're dealing with in Republicans.

So it would be political suicide for Rand to say anything else. What one must see, is that Rand has the backing of all the true fiscal conservatives in the GOP, which are the neocons and the tea partiers. Those two voting blocs are the biggest among the GOP, and Rand has the majority of them backing him.

But have you seen his record? It aligns 99% with Ron Paul. The big differing difference is his vote to put sanctions on Iran (he and his father disagree on sanctions, and I disagree with it as well). But he's not some interventionist because of it! He was the only Senator to vote no, 98-1, when the Senate gave Obama the permission to "use any means necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon".

And yet with such a record of Liberty and such a record of non-interventionism that even puts Democrats to shame, Rand has these neocons, these Sean Hannity viewers, these Sarah Palin voters, these voting blocs that make up the largest part of the Republican party backing him. And it's because of rhetoric like this. He is slowly warming those people up to an alternative foreign policy. The libertarian foreign policy. Go look at his Facebook page, libertarians are constantly converting tea partiers and neocons to our side. When he speaks of things like ending foreign aid and following the constitution for war, those are baby steps one must take with these people. You can NOT just go out and say we don't need to be foreign interventionists, that will lose his whole GOP base in an instant, something that has been undoubtedly and meticulously planned by himself and his father.

Rand voluntarily chose to learn Austrian economics at the age of 11, listened to his father philosophize on the ideas of Liberty as a teenager, has seen the trials and tribulations, has seen the mistakes, and now knows how to use the GOP as an effective vehicle to carry the message.

God I love Ron Paul. He's my darn hero for goodness sake! Without his 30 years of unwavering principles I don't think I would have ever given this politician the light of day without it. That integrity brought most of us here. So I get that desire for wanting another Ron Paul. But Rand is right there. Yes, his record is 99% alike to Ron Paul and isn't 100%, and he has sacrificed some Liberty talking points in exchange for status quo Republican rhetoric. But the answer is staring you right in the face if you look hard enough.