His position on the issues is why I'll never vote for that dude.
Before the 2010 election Rand Paul said that if he had been in the U.S. Congress back when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was being debated he would have opposed parts of it.
Read about it:
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He later walked his statements back somewhat after they aroused controversy but that was his initial position.
What do you think about that?
I'll tell you what I think: Anyone who thinks like he thinks will never get my vote.
I'm not saying that the man is a racist, but his attitude would have let racists do what they want to do.
People who think like him are one of the main reasons why the GOP lost the recent election. The GOP is on the wrong (losing) side of every social issue. We will see how that works out for the GOP in the future.
"At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being." ~ Friedrich Otto Hertz