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Paul Family Dynasty Ends Before It Began?
• dailybell.comRand Paul (left) has declared, from the start, that he's the "tea
party" candidate, and yet [Bill] Kristol's Weekly Standard has been
viscerally hostile to the tea partiers from the very beginning, because
anti-populism is a key plank in the neoconservative platform, unless –
of course – it's anti-Muslim populism. The very phrase "big government
conservatism," which the tea partiers justifiably detest, was invented
by the Weekly Standard, along with the fiscally imprudent variety of
"national greatness conservatism" Kristol and Co. have been peddling for
years. Why, if he's riding the wave of tea party activism, is Rand
forging an alliance with their worst enemies? He's way ahead in the
polls. He doesn't need Bill Kristol and the Weekly Standard, he doesn't
need the neocons – who aren't known to exist in any great numbers in
Kentucky – and he doesn't need AIPAC either. In short, there was no good
reason for him to run after and appease his father's nemeses. So why
did he do it? You can ask him, but I'll save you the trouble. Rand Paul
has no principles: he'll do or say anything to get into that Senate seat
– yes, even give up his faith in Aqua Buddha. Or his loyalty to
whatever values he once pretended to hold. He'd even betray his own
father – and, indeed, he has done precisely that, giving Kristol's
gremlin-bloggers a choice opportunity to once again mock the elder Paul.
– AntiWar.com
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