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Rand Paul: Donald Trump Internet plan un-constitutional …

Trump, the Republican front-runner, said he "would certainly be open to closing [the Internet] in areas where we are at war with somebody" at the CNN Republican debate Tuesday. The billionaire businessman was referencing shutting off parts of the Internet that helped incite or facilitate terrorism.

But Paul said following Trump's strategy was fundamentally against the Constitution.

"If you're going to close the Internet -- that's like something they do in North Korea, something like they do in China -- but it also goes against the Constitution. It goes against the First Amendment," he said on "America's Newsroom" on Fox News.

"Closing the Internet would require a change to our Constitution where we get rid of the First Amendment. That's a big step," he said.

Paul dismissed Trump's current standing in the 2016 horse race, saying that the polls could change in a matter of weeks.

"The polls are very fluid. Ben Carson, who I like a lot, has dropped 20 points," the Kentucky Senator said. "Same thing could happen to Trump."

Paul painted to one of Trump's positions on terrorists as being potential popularity shifters.

"He's talking about killing women and children -- the families of terrorists," he said. "I don't think many Americans want to kill two-year-old children or four-year-old children."

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Rand Paul – Conservapedia

Rand Paul (born January 7, 1963) is a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, and currently serves as a conservative United States Senator from Kentucky. Rand is pro-life and spoke at the March for Life rally in 2013. He is also critical of federal spending and is emerging as a movement conservative. Unlike many politicians of both major political parties, Rand Paul supports sharply reducing the size of government. He has criticized pro-war politicians and won the CPAC straw poll in 2013 and 2014.

In 2010, he won the Republican primary after defeating moderate candidate Trey Grayson by a landslide. Despite intense opposition by liberals and the lamestream media, Rand Paul won by an overwhelming margin first against a RINO Republican favored by the establishment, and then against Democrat Jack Conway in the 2010 Midterm Election. This was the seat formerly held by Jim Bunning, one of the greatest conservative sports stars, who endorsed Paul in the Republican primary.

Rand Paul's father is Ron Paul. Rand Paul was not named after the objectivist and libertarian author Ayn Rand.[1]

On March 2013, Rand led a filibuster of Obama's CIA nomination John Brennan due to the fact that the administration was unwilling to forbid ordering drone targeting of Americans on American territories, in violation of the 5th Amendment. A month of letter writings without a reply and March 6th testimony from Attorney General Eric Holder prompted the filibuster. A number of GOP Senators joined him including Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, among others and one Democrat Senator, Ron Wyden. A vote on a non-binding statement clarifying that Obama shall not kill Americans with drone warfare was denied by Democrats in the Senate.

Julian Assange is a admirer of Rand Paul.[2]

On April 7, 2015, Paul announced that he would seek the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election.[3][4]

Rand Paul is pro-life. He opposes foreign interventionalism and perpetual war. Paul is against American intervention in the Syrian Civil War[5] and was opposed to the Operation Iraqi Freedom or the Patriot Act. He opposes gun control[6] and same-sex marriage.[7] Paul supports the Pathway to introduce illegal aliens to citizenship.[8] He opposes prison sentences for minor drug offenders.[9] Paul sued the Obama administration because it spied Americans by the NSA.[10] Paul is an opponent of the United States embargo against Cuba.[11]

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Rand Paul | TheBlaze.com

The voters ought to get a chance.

Ive got a lot of problems with you people and now youre gonna hear about them!

Planned Parenthood selling body parts of the unborn demonstrates that the organization deserves not one penny more of our taxpayer dollars.

We cannot trust careless, fiscally irresponsible bureaucrats to slow spending.

Our founders believed that it may take violence to take back our country every now and then.

Again, trying to find himself some wiggle room.

Hillary Clinton, Rubio, [Jeb] Bush, theyre all the same side on this, theyve all been advocates of regime change.

It stretches credulity, and I think it also makes you wonder about exactly whether or not we can take him at face value on what he presents

Republicans missed a golden opportunity to show their support for the Bill of Rights during the debate. Instead, most of them showed they actually dont care about it.

Nine candidates will participate in Tuesday nights debate.

While his opponents are on the campaign trail pinky-swearing their commitment to the conservative cause, Trump is sealing his promises with what amounts to a political blood oath.

They believe he is not pure enough in his libertarian beliefs.

I am looking to become a surrogate for the campaign.

It cant be Americans saying, This doesnt represent Islam.

We have both of them refusing to call Edward Snowden a traitor.

I think that made no sense.

Im tired of labels.

We need to get very serious about our monitoring..

A six-point plan to extend gun rights in the captial.

Did it stop the attack in Paris? Not one iota.

After all, it is our constitutional duty to provide for the common defense.

The time has come to stop terrorists from walking in our front door.

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Rand Paul: Donald Trump ‘little bit’ more worrying than …

The Kentucky Republican is languishing in the low single digits in the polls as Trump and Cruz lead the pack in the GOP primary, but Paul said the prospect of a Trump presidency concerns him.

"I do worry a little bit more about Donald Trump," Paul told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday. "The main reason I do is that I believe he wants more power to come to him and 'he'll take care of us all' if we just give him more power, but I'm from a limited government tradition."

The attack was an echo of attacks Paul made Wednesday, including comparing Trump to Gollum, a villain from "Lord of the Rings" who is corrupted by his quest for the powerful ring.

"I think what Trump wants is bad for America," Paul said.

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But Paul said he has concerns about both the billionaire businessman and Cruz, attacking both of them on foreign policy.

"I don't think (Trump) has a consistent foreign policy," Paul said, but "I do think that he and Ted Cruz that want to make the 'sand glow' ... I think if you do indiscriminate bombing in the Middle East, you may well create more terrorists than you kill."

He also attacked Cruz for flip-flopping on issues based on what's politically expedient.

"I think Ted Cruz's problem is one of authenticity right now," Paul said.

He mentioned that the Texas senator voted with Paul on a bill to rein in government surveillance, but that Cruz said in a debate that he voted for the bill because it allows the government to collect more records of terrorists.

Paul said the libertarian-minded voters that support him are turned off by that.

"Our people pause at that and say, 'My goodness, is he trying to have it both ways?'" Paul said. "That kind of leap back and forth and trying to have it both ways really we think is Cruz's biggest problem right now."

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