Lolwut: Rick Santorum Says Rand Paul Is Allied With Barack Obama

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Today, amazingly, Rick Santorum actually started to say something relatively intelligent about libertarian loon Rand Paul…

You’ve seen me out there taking on the Paul faction. I did during the campaign. I took on Ron Paul at debate after debate on Iran, on Pakistan…

But then, inevitably, he slipped back into idiocy…

I see the Rand Paul wing of the Republican Party for what it is: allied with Barack Obama’s foreign policy. I think that’s a very serious threat to our own security.

Whew, that was close.

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28 comments
1 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 10:50:17am

Thanks Charles, I needed a good laugh.

2 Kragar  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 10:50:56am

Next up, Santorum will be warning his base that Paul has done too much to help blah people.

3 Pie-onist Overlord  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 10:51:01am

Who gives a shit about frothy?

4 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 10:51:19am

The Falangist doesn’t like the Pseudo-Libertarian? Imagine that…

The GOP primaries are going to be interesting in 2016…

5 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 10:52:15am
I see the Rand Paul wing of the Republican Party for what it is: allied with Barack Obama’s foreign policy. I think that’s a very serious threat to our own security.

No idea what this is supposed to mean. Does Santorum want us to attack Russia because something or love Russia because it hates teh gay?

6 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 10:58:12am

Rand Paul Has “Quit Answering” Questions About His Father’s Politics

[…]

While [Rand] Paul was en route to the left coast, his father, former Rep. Ron Paul, was telling viewers of RT and readers of USA Today that the Russian incursion into Crimea was none of America’s business.

[…]

What did Rand Paul think of this, or of the American response to the crisis? If he was asked, it did not show up in the stories. Talking to Pappas, Paul pre-empted any questions about his father’s politics.

Reporters sometimes ask Paul, he said, to comment on his father’s beliefs. But he said he’s done doing that. “I’ve pretty much quit answering” those questions.

“I’ve been in the Senate three years, and I have created a record of myself,” he said. “And I have my opinions.”

[…]

This isn’t Paul’s standard for other politicians. Let me pick one at random—oh, let’s pick Hillary Clinton. When asked about the presumptive 2016 Democratic nominee, or when asked about Republican appeals to female voters, Paul immediately brings up Clinton’s husband and asks how people can tolerate “associating” with someone who engaged in “predatory behavior.” Hillary Clinton spent eight years in the Senate and four at the State Department, but has to answer for her husband’s actions in the mid-1990s. Paul, with three years behind him in the Senate, says he does not have to answer for what his father does right now.

[…]

Article is by Dave Weigel, who says this:

I’m inclined to agree with Paul.

But I don’t know what he means by that, exactly. Go see it in context here.

7 Pie-onist Overlord  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 10:59:00am

Glenn could take on both Rand Paul and Rick Santorum in a Death Match of Derp and not even break a sweat.

8 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 10:59:21am

re: #4 William Barnett-Lewis

The Falangist doesn’t like the Pseudo-Libertarian? Imagine that…

The GOP primaries are going to be interesting in 2016…

I imagine 2016 will be one long shouting contest over who is the most like Obama.

“His foreign policy is just like Obama’s!”
“Oh yeah? Well he’s selling Obama’s health care ideas!”
“He’s selling’s you Obama’s economic policy!”
“He’s Obama!”
“HE’S OBAMA!”
“He’s Obama and so’s his wife!”

9 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:00:30am

re: #5 Bulworth

No idea what this is supposed to mean. Does Santorum want us to attack Russia because something or love Russia because it hates teh gay?

I checked the original Time interview and here’s Santorum on the issue of the Crimea:

With regard to Crimea, what would you do differently than Obama?

It’s really important to understand this situation didn’t happen overnight. This was five years in the making. Year one, we pull our missile defense system out of Poland and the Czech Republic. So we send a signal: we’re going to reset with Russia, and Putin is going to work with us. What do we get for that? Virtually nothing.

So you go through a whole variety of other things—from what we did in Iran during the revolution, which was nothing; turning our back on Mubarak; what we did in Syria. I would not have drawn a red line on chemical weapons. I thought it was a mistake to do it. But he did. And he didn’t follow through. He punted to Putin. What we’ve seen over time is the President serially deferring, backing away from red lines or lines in the sand, saying that the US needs not to be involved in all these things. You send a signal.

This president has singlehandedly elevated Vladimir Putin from a babysitter over a bunch of oligarchs to a world leader who’s now grabbing territory with no consequence. What can you do now given this? Well, you can try to repair an image, to show you mean what you say and you will stand by the countries that we have promised to stand by. We have not done so in Ukraine. So now what do you think if you’re Lithuania, Estonia, Poland? What do you think if you’re Georgia? You think the U.S.’s commitments aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. And as a result of that, you start having to make deals with the devil. And then things really get out of hand.

Here’s a president whose main goal is stopping nuclear proliferation, to get a deal with the Russians, which was a bad deal that gave the Russians a decided edge in nuclear weapons - that was his big thing, START II. And what he’s done is start a nuclear arms race because the U.S. is not standing by its commitments.

(Bolding in original)

The President “singlehandedly elevated Putin”? That line is risible.

10 Testy Toad T  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:02:01am

re: #7 Pie-onist Overlord

That’s pretty fucking rich, coming from a rich white man living in modern-day Brazil, where 5-10% of the population lives in a sort of horrific generational abject poverty that is functionally unknown in the United States.

Image: 640px-Rocinha_Favela_Brazil_Slums.jpg

11 b.d.  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:02:33am

re: #7 Pie-onist Overlord

Glenn could take on both Rand Paul and Rick Santorum in a Death Match of Derp and not even break a sweat.

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Heh heh heh, poor butthurt Glenn;

From linked article:

Although they claim to be socially liberal, mention the fact that Republicans are closing down women’s healthcare clinics and they’ll tell you that “Clapper lied!” Some Republicans, like Rand Paul, question the need for minimum wage laws, and you get “Drones!” Gay marriage…. “NSA!” You get the idea.

12 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:06:05am

re: #7 Pie-onist Overlord

Victimized by…surveillance? Do I know I’ve been surveilled? Pretty sure I keep the blinds closed. //

13 Testy Toad T  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:06:41am

Decent and proper and wholesome first-world FREEDUM, Glenn Greenwald style.

Image: 800px-For%C3%A7as_Armadas_ocupam_o_Complexo_do_Alem%C3%A3o.JPG

I suppose they have no phones from which to collect metadata, so it’s all okay.

14 Pie-onist Overlord  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:07:45am

I don’t worry about NSA reading all my Tweets and phone texts, because I know they just don’t have the resources to minutely follow 300 million citizens.

15 b.d.  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:09:02am

re: #3 Pie-onist Overlord

Who gives a shit about frothy?

Santorum came in 2nd, which means that based on recent history, it is his turn to have the nomination.

16 Kragar  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:10:26am

“We don’t hate people because of their race. I mean, we’re a Christian organization,” Frank Ancona, an Imperial Wizard of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, told WWBT on Thursday.

He insisted that the KKK had been unfairly maligned for its acts of violence against black people in the United States.

“Because of the acts of a few rogue Klansmen our Klansmen are supposed to be murderers and want to lynch black people, and we are supposed to be terrorists, and that is a complete falsehood.”

17 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:11:09am

re: #14 Pie-onist Overlord

Yeah but what about DRONES!! and militarism??@?@?2211!1

18 b.d.  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:15:30am

re: #7 Pie-onist Overlord

Glenn could take on both Rand Paul and Rick Santorum in a Death Match of Derp and not even break a sweat.

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#Progressives: I’m not in the groups victimized by drones, surveillance, or militarism, so I don’t care about those rawstory.com …
9:04 AM - 20 Mar 2014

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Says the guy (glenn) who won’t comment on Russia, Venezuela or his present home country of Brazil’s problems.

19 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:15:37am

Is it too early to think about what to fix for dinner tonight? Last night was “pot luck” night. (aka Eat up the odds and ends in the tupperware containers). Thinking I might do some White Beans Tuscon, with sage, garlic and Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Maybe some Sauteed onions and peppers along side.

I’m taking any suggestions however…

RBS

20 ObserverArt  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:16:54am

Charles it looks as if the band could be breaking up.

I guess that is what happens with super groups.

: (

By the way…looks like the Duke Blue Devils could be going down to Mercer in the NC2As. Could…still a minute to go.

21 Kragar  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:17:38am
22 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:21:06am

re: #21 Kragar

My surprise. Let me show you it.

23 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:24:35am

re: #15 b.d.

Santorum came in 2nd, which means that based on recent history, it is his turn to have the nomination.

He doesn’t have the support base. Unlike Rand Paul, n one of stature thinks he haa a ‘hook’ that could grab enough voters to be a credible general-election candidate. Rick Santorum comes across as a socially hyper-conservative white guy, and that kind of candidate can’t win the White House in 2016.

24 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:26:14am

re: #15 b.d.

Santorum came in 2nd, which means that based on recent history, it is his turn to have the nomination.

The problem with Santorum is that he’s now “old crazy.” When you’re mining for Republicans whenever you turn around there’s a fresh new mother lode of craziness, and it seems to happen every single time you swing that pickax. I think it’s going to prove tough for the old craziness to get any traction.

Remember, Santorum withdrew because he was in danger of losing his own state. He had his 15 minutes.

25 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:27:46am

re: #20 ObserverArt

Charles it looks as if the band could be breaking up.

I guess that is what happens with super groups.

: (

By the way…looks like the Duke Blue Devils could be going down to Mercer in the NC2As. Could…still a minute to go.

I don’t have any particular grudge against Duke, but for some reason I always enjoy it when they get bounced.

26 dog philosopher  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:34:13am

re: #23 Dark_Falcon

He doesn’t have the support base. Unlike Rand Paul, n one of stature thinks he haa a ‘hook’ that could grab enough voters to be a credible general-election candidate. Rick Santorum comes across as a socially hyper-conservative white guy, and that kind of candidate can’t win the White House in 2016.

according to my reading, there are no gop candidates for 2016 that have enough of a support base to be nominated

27 jayjaybear  Fri, Mar 21, 2014 12:51:04pm

It should also be remembered that Santorum DID lose his own state, in his Senate re-election campaign.

28 palmerskiss  Sat, Mar 22, 2014 4:36:55pm

I like his logic - you are not a friend of america unless you hate the gays, force women to submit, want big government theocracy, and love to make war.

Loving making war is great. moar war love making. less making love instead of war. especially love that does not produce babies. because. war.


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