Rand Hits Cruz: He Wants It Both Ways on the NSA

‘We don’t want the government in the business of collecting our phone records’

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UNKNOWN MALE: "You know, I’m curious about the libertarian aspect of all this. When I go to trump rallies see a lot of libertarians and I’m wondering about that crossover appeal and if that’s hurt you at all."
PAUL: "I think most libertarians or libertarian leaning people like myself, we don’t want to make the sand glow or carpet bomb the Middle East. We understand if you have indiscriminate bombing over there you may create more terrorists than you kill. I think voters are consolidating. I think at the fed was a defining moment for Ted Cruz not showing up for that moment, it’s going to hurt him with us losing any liberty voters to him. I think also Ted is sort of wanting to have it both ways particularly on the NSA. You saw his response in the debate to Rubio. Rubio said, oh, you voted for the NSA reform, you’re voting to weaken the NSA and Ted responded, no, I want the government to collect 100% of your cell phone records and it’s like the liberty voters we cringe when we hear people like Ted Cruz saying they want to collect all of our records. We don’t want the government in the business of collecting our phone records."

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