Rand Paul: Declare Libertarian or Betray Liberty

As a supporter of Rand Paul's presidential bid I now receive updates and requests for financial support for his Kentucky Senatorial campaign where his support of the GOP line, for example Mitch McConnell's obstructionist stance regarding a Supreme Court nominee, insults the Constitution. The Nevada caucus shows Trump's authoritarian mob will take over and force Rand to commit ideological suicide if he endorses the Republican nominee.  Declare yourself a Libertarian or betray liberty.

Liberty's Best Hope: Grover Norquist's Starve the Demosclerosis Beast

Iowa killed Rand Paul's vision of somehow moving the Republican party toward the libertarian side of the libertarian - authoritarian divide.  It was a quixotic charge at windmills. Liberty's best hope is Grover Norquist's tax pledge and starve the Demosclerosis beast in Washington so that urban regions that require more services will self tax and rural ones throttle back to an austerity that is fair.      

So much for the Vaunted GOP Stewardship of our Economy

Except for Rand Paul, the Republican candidates, Democrats neither but its a given, don't care about the national debt.  Carpet bombing is expensive! If you are for carpet bombing or any other overwhelming show of military force you are for blowing the debt and accepting the same poor result as George W Bush's invasion of Iraq.  

Alliances costing our Blood, Treasure and Moral Standing

If we are to ever balance our budget then its imperative that our Foreign Policy be one that pacifies rather than inflames.  Ted Cruz' suggestion we carpet bomb ISIS shows no regard for the blow-back of martyrs for recruiting, propagandizing and most importantly vengeance seeking, for example the loner radicalized by American bombs wiping out his family and taking revenge here in the U.S. Blow-back as originally explained by Ron Paul, father of Rand, was our CIA ousting of an elected administration in Iran and placing the young Shah in its place.  The outcome was twenty years of stability and then thirty five years and counting dealing with an implacable enemy.  Perilous Partners by Cato's Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent exposes Alliances which cost us our blood and treasure and, most damning, diminish our moral standing.  

Belief Doubling Down on Government is the Solution than Opposite, Halving it!

Comment on David Brooks' "The Anxiety of Impotence" :

The impotence described is Demosclerorsis defined by Jonathan Rauch as "government's progressive loss of the ability to adapt." with the buildup of interest groups that never die and on other side George Will, who describes it as "barnacles on the ship of state." It appears that Brooks believes a doubling down on more government is the solution rather than the opposite, the halving of government.

The GOP is Going to Blow Up

Why I will Never Vote for Donald Trump editorial written by an establishment Republican of the George Herbert Walker Bush administration and now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center predicts the coming explosion from the party's liberty robbing direction. The establishment lit the fuse to revolt with an imperial attitude of keeping the little people on the farm to eat cake. Now the unruly peasants are revolting.

Rand Paul is the party's only hope for salvation because he asks for a mandate for liberty. The others are chicken little crying "the sky is falling the sky is falling" whose mandate, if elected, is sure to disappoint because its indeterminable.