FOLLOW-UP ON Rand Paul speaking at Berkeley.

Recently I posted a blog about Rand Paul speaking at Berkeley.  
If you haven’t seen it, click here. 

I found this critic of his speech in The Washington Post where he was criticized for “pandering to Berkeley”:
“Rand Paul, of course, did not tell the Berkeley crowd he is staunchly pro-life or thinks marriage should be limited to “one man and one woman.” He did not revisit his skepticism about civil rights legislation, nor did he detail his budget ideas that would repeal Obamacare and eliminate the departments of Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing and Urban Development. Although he talked to students about civil liberties, he omitted mention of his staunch opposition to any form of gun regulation. For him freedom means coal plants, oil companies and pipeline manufacturers should be freed from the heavy hand of government. He has not made that pitch at Berkeley. In a very real sense, he is trying to pull a fast one on students, concealing his views on a majority of issues while trying to snag them with some anti-government trinkets on national security”.

This is not a critic on what he said, but rather on what he didn’t say.  I think it’s unfair to base an argument on what he didn’t say; after all, he talks about conservative issues publicly all the time.  If fact, he spent 13 consecutive hours standing on the Senate floor last year addressing, the same sort of issues.

To pretend that the he didn’t talk about conservative fiscal issues or tried to pass himself off as a liberal is simple not true.   Liberals and Libertarians do not have a monopoly when it comes to hating unwarranted government surveillance.  Although it would appear that young college age liberals do have very strong feelings about it.

Watch the speech on YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vFhXpfEfQg