So Rand Paul isn't a Libertarian?

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Kind of disappointing. I understand that he wants to align with one of the parties for popularity and get support but I don't approve. I'm pro-choice and think we don't need to go around messing in other countries affairs.

Seems like he may just being another run of the mill Republican. Sucks.
 
So he opposes abortion. Big deal. I guess that means that all "Good Democrats" support abortions and will never have an opinion that it is wrong. All "Good Democrats" are always "anti-gun".
 
I just wanted him to be a true Libertarian. He supports private business rights so I wanted him to support personal rights also.
 
Why not? Wouldn't that fall under a persons right to do what they want? If they use their own money?
 
Please explain I would like to know more. I mean as long as there is no government involvement in the abortion and the decision would be up to the individual then you could be either for or against it. But in the end it's up to each woman to make that choice.
 
I really don't feel like typing out a couple paragraph reponse on my phone while sitting at the Infiniti dealership. If he would like to look up the logical fallacy he is using, I have provided the information he can look up.
 
He was never a Libertarian, just a Constitutional Conservative who wishes he was as good as Goldwater, but instead comes off as too philosophical and too inexperiences to make pragmatic judgments. Like defending BP for not having a better prevention or better response planned.
 
As pro-choice (pro-abortion, really) as I am, it doesn't bother me that much if a candidate I support is pro-life. I don't understand why everyone believes abortion to be such a political issue. Whether you believe in a highly socialist system or a very libertarian system, I don't see how that has any bearing on your personal determination of when a developing fetus is to be considered its own entity or when its just part of the mother. Being such an arbitrary personal opinion with no scientific facts supporting either side, why does it have to have any bearing on your overall political views?
 
like shooting a person in the face with a gun and ammo they bought?

taking a stab at the cliffnotes version of what burn is getting at, but 'true' libertarians believe in the right to life and that all other rights are corollaries to this right.. or maybe it's the right to not be aggressed against. either way, i think his assertion that true libertarians cannot support the right to choose is correct.

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