Ron Paul: Hillary ‘mediocre, pro war’
By JONATHAN TOPAZ | 10/17/14
Ron Paul says Hillary Clinton would be a “mediocre” president and would likely bring about little substantive change.
In a Thursday evening interview, host
Larry King asked the former Republican Texas congressman and three-time presidential candidate what kind of president Clinton would be.
“I would think she’d be pretty average, pretty mediocre, pretty much for war, pretty much for welfare-ism, pretty much for deficits, pretty supportive of the Federal Reserve and loving the military-industrial complex,” Paul said in the conversation on
Ora.tv’s “PoliticKING.”
The libertarian darling hasgained a large following for his strong positions against the Federal Reserve, which he considers to be unconstitutional, and against U.S. foreign entanglements, particularly in the Middle East. Clinton has been criticized by some, on the left in particular, for being hawkish on foreign policy, including during her time as secretary of state during President
Barack Obama’s first term.
On Thursday, Paul said that Clinton’s stances on foreign and monetary policy make her similar to the recent inhabitants of the White House.
“[T]hat’s what we’ve been having, so I don’t think she would provide any change whatsoever in a positive sense,” Paul said of a potential Clinton presidency.
He added that he thought Clinton would be a formidable presidential candidate, when King asked, saying that
“the media will love her.” Clinton is widely considered to be the likely front-runner to win the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination if she chooses to run. Both Clinton and Paul ran unsuccessfully for their respective parties’ nominations in 2008.
His son, Republican Sen.
Rand Paul of Kentucky, is openly considering a 2016 bid, but Paul said during the interview that he wasn’t strongly encouraging him to run.
“I have mixed feelings about it because I know what is entailed and how much punishment he gets — it always annoys me he has to suffer some of the consequences because of something I said or did,” the former congressman said of his son. He later added that he thought
“it’s great” that Rand Paul is considering a run and that the senator has a
“good message.”
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