Courtesy of Mish.
On April 5, US Senator Lindsey Graham made the statement “The best deal, I think, comes with a new president. Hillary Clinton would do better. I think everybody on our side, except maybe Rand Paul, could do better.” Graham made that statement on CBS’ Face The Nation.
Today Sean Hannity asked Rand Paul “What do you say to Lindsay Graham, who took a shot at you and said, everyone would have gotten a better deal?”
Paul replied “Almost anyone in the Congress would better defend the Bill of Rights than this particular senator, so touche.“
His position on Syria is also correct. In the same interview Paul said “I was the leading opponent of bombing Assad [Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad]. Why? Because I thought Isis would grow stronger. And I guarantee you right now ISIS would be in Damascus right now ruling the whole country had we done that.”
However, note the accusations that Rand Paul, unlike his father, has flip-flopped on Iran.
In 2007, Paul, then a surrogate for his father’s presidential campaign, told radio host Alex Jones that “Even our own intelligence community consensus opinion now is that they’re not a threat.”
Today he says “I’m going to keep an open mind.“
“I do believe that negotiation is better than war,” Paul told TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie in an exclusive interview. “What I would say is that there has always been a threat of Iran gaining nuclear weapons, and I think that’s greater now than it was many years ago. I think we should do everything we can to stop them.”
The sorry state of US politics is that Paul cannot win the nomination if he too badly upsets the “far-wrong“. That explains why he is now in favor of more military spending as well.
Whether flip-flopping serves him well remains to be seen. He did stick to one important principle “negotiation is better than war“.
…
