David Frum: Why You Shouldn't #StandWithRand
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/07/why-you-shouldn-t-standwithrand.html
Why You Shouldn't #StandWithRand
by David Frum Mar 7, 2013 2:31 PM EST
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Paul's filibuster ostensibly dealt only with a very remote hypothetical contingency: targeted killings on American soil of Americans who present no imminent threat to national security. Paul insisted that all the harder questions be taken off the table. He had (he said) no issue with a targeted killing on American soil of an American who did present an imminent threat. He avoided the issue of the targeted killings of Americans outside the United States - i.e., the actual real-world problem at hand.
Instead, Paul invoked a nightmare out of a dystopian future: an evil future president shooting a missile at an American having coffee in a neighborhood cafe, merely on suspicion, without any due process of law.
I think we can all agree that such a case would be pretty deplorable. It is also far-fetched.
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History, however, does not cycle so neatly. Something more than ordinary partisanship is driving this switcheroo. The alienation and fear to which Rand Paul spoke in the Senate yesterday - the alienation and fear that shapes the political environment to which Marco Rubio and Mitch McConnell must adapt - comes from some deeper and more tangled place than disappointment at the outcome of an election.
Executive assassinations, hyperinflation leading to populist dictatorships, ordinary Americans protecting themselves by launching insurgencies against the state - these are themes of Rand Paul's politics, now endorsed by his Republican Senate colleagues. Out of what doom-haunted imagination are such dark fantasies born? The Republican party used to be the party more serious about defending America. Now it provides a home to those more doubtful that America is worth defending.
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silk pillow? 
If you only knew, and you won't.
He hit it nowhere. He did it for self-serving reasons, nothing more.
McCain and Graham LIKE drones. Frum has been a pariah with the conservatives because he speaks the truth.
His biography is pretty wild; he is getting more liberal, but can you blame him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum
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Frum was a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, a neo-conservative think tank, from 2003 until March 25, 2010, when his paid position was terminated and he declined to accept the offer of a non-paying position.[21][22] Media reports noted that the termination came three days after Frum's strongly worded criticism of the Republican strategy on health care reform, but Frum said that the AEI had not cited his criticism as the reason for his termination.[21][23] It was also suggested that he was fired for criticizing Fox News, saying "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox.”[24
doing. Maybe they just think Rand is an asshole? Plenty of other people do. And he is; he was campaigning, raising money, not speaking from any inner core of goodness or concern. You swallowed it hook, line and sinker. Congrats! 
babylonsistah.. thanks for the link.
I got one for you..
"Ted Cruz, Rand Paul want drone language in CR
Ah, so Rand Paul is not done blathering on about drones.
You see, I was under the impression, wrongly in this case, that all the tea party dude wanted was a note from the AG saying the president could not use drones against non enemy combatants domestically, which he got.
Now that he has garnered that little moment of fame that has his followers swooning, he wants to put into a continuing resolution attached to a spending bill that would prohibit what the AG has already said is illegal.
This is what happens when bad conspiracy theorists get a hold of a notion and get some free
publicity out of it. Is this really what Kentucky sent this guy to the senate to do? Waste weeks prattling on about things that have never happened, that he knows will never happen, and once he gets his little note will prattle on about it forever?
Why does this garbage always get tacked onto bills that have nothing to do with it? Left and right, they both do it, know that a bill will pass so they shove a little chunk of legislation for the nutjjobs that follow them.
Fear not though people! Though he has not made the news for an outrageous statement in almost a week, Ted Cruz is jumping into the mix, getting himself a bit of free publicity out of it.
Hmmm. Cruz and Paul. Two peas in a pod when it comes to pining for the spotlight."
MORE http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/292932-ted-cruz-rand-paul-want-drone-language-cr.html
