Subject: RAND PAUL’S WARPED VIEW OF “FREEDOM”
From: DNC Press <[email-masked]>
To: DNC Press <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 02:38:28 +0000

RAND PAUL’S WARPED VIEW OF “FREEDOM”

Rand Paul’s belief in freedom only extends as far as his extreme ideology.  Freedom to Rand Paul means protecting a business’ right to discriminate.   If you’re an American seeking the freedom to marry who you love, a woman exercising your freedom to make your own health care decisions, or you simply believe that the government should provide important services, you’re a tyrannical despot in Rand Paul’s world.

RAND PAUL THINKS BUSINESSES SHOULD HAVE THE FREEDOM TO DISCRIMINATE

Rand Paul Believed That A Restaurant Or Other Private Enterprise Should Be Allowed To Discriminate Saying, “In A Free Society, We Will Tolerate Boorish People Who Have Abhorrent Behavior.” “While stressing that he abhors racism, Paul said in an interview last month with The Courier-Journal's Editorial Board that a restaurant or other enterprise with no government funding should be allowed to discriminate. ‘In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people who have abhorrent behavior,’ he said.” [Louisville Courier-Journal, 5/20/10<http://archive.courier-journal.com/article/20100520/NEWS0101/5200351/Rand-Paul-embroiled-Civil-Rights-controversy-over-remarks-made-Courier-Journal-video-interview>]

Rand Paul: “I Don’t Think I’ve Ever Used The Word ‘Gay Rights’ Because I Don’t Really Believe In Rights Based On Your Behavior.” [Rand Paul, North Liberty IA, 5/11/13; VIDEO<http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ciu570drpK8#!>]

RAND PAUL WOULD NOT PROTECT PEOPLE’S FREEDOM TO MARRY WHO THEY LOVED

Rand Paul: “I’m For Traditional Marriage. I Think Marriage Is Between A Man And Woman.” [Special Report with Bret Baier, Fox News, 3/6/15]

HEADLINE: “Rand Paul Would Rather End Marriage Than Share It With Gay People” [Slate, 6/29/15<http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/06/29/rand_paul_s_plan_to_get_around_legal_gay_marriage_end_government_issued.html>]

RAND PAUL BELIEVES IN FREEDOM AND A RIGHT TO PRIVACY, AS LONG AS IT IS NOT A WOMAN’S FREEDOM TO PRIVATELY CHOOSE WHAT DO WITH HER OWN BODY

Rand Paul: “I Will Always Support Legislation That Would End Abortion Or Lead Us In The Direction Of Ending Abortion.” “It is unconscionable that government would facilitate the taking of innocent life. I have stated many times that I will always support legislation that would end abortion or lead us in the direction of ending abortion.” [Issues: Sanctity Of Life, Office of Senator Paul, Viewed 8/5/15<http://www.paul.senate.gov/about-rand/issues/advocating-for-sanctity-of-life>]

Boston Globe’s Michael Cohen: “For [Rand] Paul, The Right To Privacy Ends Where A Woman’s Biology Begins.” “The real disconnect in Paul’s war for the ‘right to be left alone’ is his own hypocrisy… He wants to keep the government out of your business, unless you are a woman who wants full control over her body and her reproductive rights. For Paul, the right to privacy ends where a woman’s biology begins.” [Michael Cohen, Boston Globe, 6/6/15<http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/06/05/the-hypocrisy-rand-paul/KfDT1x9Sj42WF9ryOfYflO/story.html>]

RAND PAUL THINKS THINGS LIKE A TAXES AND RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE ARE BASICALLY SLAVERY

Rand Paul On The Idea That There Is A Right To Health Care: “You Are Basically Saying You Believe In Slavery.” “‘With regard to the idea whether or not you have a right to health care you have to realize what that implies. I am a physician. You have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. You are going to enslave not only me but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants, the nurses. … You are basically saying you believe in slavery,’ said Paul (R-Ky.), who is an ophthalmologist.” [Politico, 5/11/11<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54769.html>]

Rand Paul: “If We Tax You At 50 Percent You Are Half Slave, Half Free.” [Buzzfeed, 7/6/15<http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/rand-paul-philosophizes-on-tax-rates-if-we-tax-you-at-50-you#.gxMr9GpNR>]