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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Sun Oct 18, 2015, 07:32 AM Oct 2015

Rand Paul Goes Off On Sanders, Compares Him To Pol Pot

Rand Paul is desperately trying to claw his campaign back into relevance after Erick Erickson called for him to stick a fork in it. So how better than to make outrageous comments about Bernie Sanders?

Right Wing Watch via LGF:

“It amazes me and it actually kind of scares me,” Paul said. “I’ve been spending more time going after Bernie and socialism because I don’t want America to succumb to the notion that there’s anything good about socialism. I think it’s not an accident of history that most of the times when socialism has been tried that attendant with that has been mass genocide of people or any of those who object to it. Stalin killed tens of millions of people. Mao killed tens of millions of people. Pol Pot killed tens of millions of people. When you have a command economy, when everything is dictated from one authority, that’s socialism, but it doesn’t come easily to those who resist it.”


http://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/rand-paul-goes-sanders-compares-him-pol

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Rand Paul Goes Off On Sanders, Compares Him To Pol Pot (Original Post) UCmeNdc Oct 2015 OP
He's gotta stop Turbineguy Oct 2015 #1
Eiher he's said basically that on multiple occasions now, or they're pulling up the past. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #2
He's a bored, certified, liar. Scuba Oct 2015 #3
Isn't he gone already? tblue Oct 2015 #4
Battle of the ages.... Nt NCTraveler Oct 2015 #5

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. Eiher he's said basically that on multiple occasions now, or they're pulling up the past.
Sun Oct 18, 2015, 07:38 AM
Oct 2015

Because I'm sure I heard basically that same quote from him a week or two ago.

He's ignorant and not bothering to try and alleviate that ignorance. If he'd even watched the Dem Debate, he'd know that's not the sort of thing about which Sanders is talking.

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