After tantalizing us last week with his electrifing filibuster, Rand Paul has reverted to the family trait of being unable to resist grabbing various political third rails.
In Paul's case, it was a curious one, amnesty for illegal immigrants. This was an issue that could have separated him from the Rubios and Jeb Bushes of the party. Instead, he signed on to their "turn the country into California" campaign.
What's next? Support for gay marriage?
I understand that he has tried to make it conditional on border security, etc, but everyone knows that is just a John McCain-style diversion. Obama is never going to make the border secure, and the lure of amnesty will produce a tidal wave of illegal immigration, just as it did when Reagan tried it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...62301a-9092-11e2-9cfd-36d6c9b5d7ad_story.html
In Paul's case, it was a curious one, amnesty for illegal immigrants. This was an issue that could have separated him from the Rubios and Jeb Bushes of the party. Instead, he signed on to their "turn the country into California" campaign.
What's next? Support for gay marriage?
I understand that he has tried to make it conditional on border security, etc, but everyone knows that is just a John McCain-style diversion. Obama is never going to make the border secure, and the lure of amnesty will produce a tidal wave of illegal immigration, just as it did when Reagan tried it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...62301a-9092-11e2-9cfd-36d6c9b5d7ad_story.html