On Obama, Paul was very direct in identifying exactly where he disagrees with the President’s actions. Using the expansion of Obamacare, overseas military actions without Congressional approval, and immigration laws as examples, he said:
It is a terrible tragedy, it is a danger to us as a country, and we need to do everything we can to stop him from abusing our laws. We have a President basically has created a lawless atmosphere in Washington.On Hillary Clinton, he linked the Benghazi attack with her potential Presidential run:
I think she had a 3 a.m. moment (referring to her 2008 primary ad, where she asserted she was more capable of resounding to a crisis than Obama). She didn’t answer the phone, and I think it absolutely should preclude her from being President. In the end, the thing is we are going to have to look at, for greater or worse, whether Hillary Clinton can be commander in chief.He also called for a broadening of the Republican party:
And what I would say is, that if you can’t defend our embassy, you won’t send the assets there, you preclude oneself from becoming deemed for commander in chief.
When our party looks like America — with earrings and without earrings, with ponytails and without ponytails, with tattoos and without tattoos — when we look like the rest of America — white, black, brown — we’re going to win again. We’ve got to go out and we’ve got to broaden our party, and when we do, we’ll be a national party again. We will win again.◼ Rand Paul blisters Obama and Clinton, calls for GOP diversity - LA Times
Let’s be the party that actually wants to extend the right to vote. Some people say, well these people are going to be Democrats, more of them are going to be Democrats. Let’s be the party for voting rights, let’s be the party for restoring more voting rights, then more people will come to our party.
