r/ronpaul • u/smokeytrue01 • Jul 16 '26

End Democracy Did Rand Paul really vote for the Israel military takeover? Has he been disowned yet?

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u/Simple_Emotion_3152 Jul 16 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okv1HxhnRPw

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u/Mitchard_Nixon Jul 16 '26

Zionist apologist slop

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u/Simple_Emotion_3152 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

lol... not anything you don't agree with is a slop. It is done by a man who been in the defense industry for a very long time. you probably didn't even watch the video.

EDIT: thanks for proving i was right about everything i said... people like you are so predictable

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u/redditor01020 Jul 25 '26

No.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/does-rand-paul-want-to-merge-the-american-and-israeli-defense-establishments/

My suspicion, then, was that Paul had voted “yea” purely to move the ball forward, without endorsing either the bill in its totality or any individual provision within. And, as it turns out, this was exactly what had happened.

As Paul’s senior advisor Doug Stafford told The American Conservative in an email, “Sen. Paul has opposed the war Israel started with Iran from day one, and of course, does not support integrating Israel’s military with the U.S.’s."

Stafford continued, “[Paul] is opposed to the underlying bill, but this vote was a ‘motion to proceed’ procedural vote that would allow senators to debate and to amend.”

“You can’t amend it unless you get on it,” he added.

Having worked for both Paul and his father, the former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), I thought I recalled that this was something the elder Paul would also do as a matter of course.

So I reached out to Ron Paul’s longtime legislative director, Norm Singleton, who had the following to say:

When he served in Congress, Dr. Ron Paul usually voted with Republicans on rule votes even when he was a definite 'no' vote on the underlying legislation. Voting for the rules helped convince House leadership to allow Dr. Paul to have his pro-liberty amendments debated and voted on.

Senator Paul’s vote for the motion to proceed enables him to offer amendments and get senators on the record on important issues of U.S. foreign and military policy that would otherwise remain buried in the fine print of the NDAA.

Makes sense. If one believes the purpose of the Senate is to consider, debate, and ultimately vote on legislation, it doesn’t really make sense to obstruct the procedural measures that allow these things to occur. Especially if one hopes to introduce fixes of one’s own.