Ep. 1114 Heroic Rand Paul, Weird Libertarian Party
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today I cover two separate topics: Rand Paul's heroic opposition to the Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel nominations, and the Libertarian Party's strange statement the day of the recent student walkout. That second thing should not have happened.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1114. |
| 0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:29.4 | conditions apply. Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. I've got a bit of a pot-pery episode, just a few |
| 0:35.3 | issues on my mind. I want to hit on today, and I don't know |
| 0:38.4 | what order I'm going to do them in, but I guess there are just three things that are driving |
| 0:43.1 | me crazy right now. Two of them are current events. One of them is evergreen, we might say. |
| 0:49.5 | And one of them is this issue with Rand Paul and Mike Pompeo being nominated for Secretary of State and Gina Haspell for director of the CIA. |
| 1:01.5 | And I don't have a lot to say about that, except that I am really glad to see this Rand Paul. |
| 1:10.2 | I think he has been absolutely outstanding this year in so many ways. |
| 1:15.1 | And I was somebody who was very critical of him, or at least, let's say, critical of the messaging in the presidential campaign and the strategy. |
| 1:25.1 | I just thought it was all wrong and confused and lacked energy and focus. |
| 1:30.8 | It didn't have the excitement that we should have had in any kind of Paul campaign. |
| 1:35.6 | I didn't like the personnel who were running it. That's for darn sure. I think I've been |
| 1:38.8 | pretty vindicated on that one. But I didn't hesitate to say when I thought mistakes were being made, because I don't think |
| 1:46.3 | the movement benefits from yes men all the time, that anything one of our people does is just |
| 1:52.6 | ipso facto brilliant all the time. I don't think it is. So anyway, I voiced my concerns about it, |
| 1:59.8 | but at the same time, I'm glad to acknowledge when good things are done and give credit when it's due, absolutely. And I did that in an email to my mailing list a little bit earlier this year, and now I just have to repeat this really and say that there's nobody else really who would be making an ideological statement |
| 2:20.6 | about Mike Pompeo. I mean, I understand there's some hesitation that John McCain has about |
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