The Issue: Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster over America’s policy on the use of drones against American citizens.
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The fallout from Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster draws a sharp contrast in the Republican Party’s so-called identity crisis (“The New GOP Generation Stands Up,” Seth Lipsky, PostOpinion, March 8).
On one side we have Paul and Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz representing the party’s future.
On the other, we have Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, fresh off another free lunch, trying and failing to marginalize an issue that has struck a chord with young conservatives.
Paul and his ilk have their finger on the pulse of the party’s future, while McCain & Co. have a precipitous grip on its pacemaker.
These relics do not understand that we young people see them for what they are: career politicians who will happily sell the true soul of the Republican Party — fiscal responsibility — so long as they can enforce their morality on our sisters, wives and homosexual friends.
John Collins
Syosset
Paul and others showed the somnambulant GOP establishment the wonders of having a spine, as they filibustered the Obama admintration to finally confirm the un-constitutionality of drone attacks on American citizens on our soil.
The fact that the president and his toady hacks were so loath to admit this should be troubling enough.
But it should also strike a chord deep in Republicans that this was all going on as their own “old guard” leadership was at a big dinner event with the president.
Republicans have been waiting for their Fort Sumter moment to commence their battle for the heart, soul and guts of the GOP.
Perhaps this filibuster by the young GOP and how it was sharply attacked by the “go along to get along” establishment clowns was it.
Frank Diaz-Balart
Tomkins Cove
President Obama’s imperial administration seems more and more like a fledgling dictatorship.
Don’t senators and congressmen of his own party have any spine?
Do what you were hired to do: Speak for your constituents in the highest halls of power, and refuse to shred our Constitution’s protections.
Refuse to listen to this power-hungry president. Patricia O’Hanlon
The Bronx
If this nation has a future, it requires radical change back to original intent.
Paul’s ideas are not dangerous; they are fundamentally sound and necessary (“Rand Paul’s Triumph,” John Podhoretz, PostOpinion, March 8).
I would rather see Paul as leader of this country than men like McCain, Graham and other “Republicans in name only” whose complicity with the Democrats has led our nation to the brink of disaster.
Bipartisan compromise and tinkering around the edges will not save our nation. Radical change is our only hope.
Calie Stephens
Dallas
McCain and Graham are just so done.
The time for toeing the party line is over. In these desperate times, we have to stand for principle, for the preservation of our constitutional freedoms — what’s left of them, anyway.Eric Bram
Poughkeepsie
Paul is teaching gutless Republicans how to do things the right way.
The Republican House needs to defund ObamaCare and force Obama, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to the bargaining table on C-SPAN, as Obama promised us while he was campaigning, and make them read and explain ObamaCare to us.
Dan Galvin
Port St. Lucie, Fla.