Rand Paul v. Hillary Clinton: Will Pot Give Him the Electoral Edge?

[NACBA]

I think it will

http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/09/rand-paul-v-hillary-clinton-will-pot-giv

[Working Poor]

Let's get him the nomination...

[Brett85]

I don't understand the question. Rand has never come out in favor of legalizing pot.

[idiom]

I don't understand the question. Rand has never come out in favor of legalizing pot.

And he won't until the nomination.

At which point it would murder the DNC base.

[philipped]

And he won't until the nomination.

At which point it would murder the DNC base.

It would literally be the nail in the coffin for them.

[Rudeman]

I don't understand the question. Rand has never come out in favor of legalizing pot.

Maybe not legalization but I wouldn't be surprised if he emphasized his position and explained why it was better than Hillary's.

[idiom]

If after nomination, Rand has a less authoritarian position than Hillary, if she moves past him to be more drug friendly than thou, there is nothing to stop a wholesale slide to the end of the drug war and the DEA.

When the timing is right these things can change overnight, especially if the messaging is right.

[Okaloosa]

If after nomination, Rand has a less authoritarian position than Hillary, if she moves past him to be more drug friendly than thou, there is nothing to stop a wholesale slide to the end of the drug war and the DEA.

When the timing is right these things can change overnight, especially if the messaging is right.

Except for the fact that Hillary would only say that if she needed to and would never act on it.

[JohnGalt23g]

Except for the fact that Hillary would only say that if she needed to and would never act on it.

The problem for her is that she has actively, as both First Lady and Senator, supported policies that were some of the worst excesses of the War on Drugs.

Which would leave her wide open to a charge of hypocrisy...