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Rachel Maddow - Record shows Rand Paul's Civil Rights Act lie (Original Post) Galraedia Jul 2014 OP
When you're running for President, you may need to tone down your purer positions. Loudly Jul 2014 #1
reminds me a lot of Dick Nixon rurallib Jul 2014 #2
Born again... sorechasm Jul 2014 #3
 

Loudly

(2,436 posts)
1. When you're running for President, you may need to tone down your purer positions.
Sat Jul 26, 2014, 10:11 AM
Jul 2014

Unless you don't care about being elected, and just want your real beliefs to influence the conversation.

Will Bernie Sanders always say what he really thinks? I'd love it if he did!

And succeed at avoiding his own marginalization?

sorechasm

(631 posts)
3. Born again...
Sat Jul 26, 2014, 07:47 PM
Jul 2014

...means you think your voters were born yesterday...it's a 'do over'. For your past lies, you don't have to apologize, show remorse, regret, or the least bit ashamed, as long as you're confident. So we learned from GWB. This is one up from Tricky Dick, who at least showed regret about being caught lying (not that he lied).

Now Rand Paul is going the next step. He's not hiding his lies behind being born again, but he still expects his voters to be born yesterday.

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