As New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul sparred very personally over policy issues this week -- including privacy concerns, government spending and national security -- Yahoo asked GOP and conservative voters to discuss their merits of the two Republicans' arguments.
COMMENTARY | Rand Paul and Chris Christie came out swinging over civil liberties and government spending. It's a fight between Paul's notion that there is a rule of law for the government to follow under the U.S. Constitution versus the Christie leanings that government can trample laws that tend to be "inconvenient."
When the dust settled, Paul was the clear winner.
After the shocking revelations that the NSA was poking into every American's Internet and cell phone use, it was Paul whoto curb NSA spying. Meanwhile, Christie's best foot forward was tolibertarian-leaning Republicans: "[T]here will always be mistakes when it comes to national security and protecting privacy" Mistakes? I think the word he was looking for was "stalking."
And when it comes to government spending, Paul is a champion of a federal government living within its means. As for Christie, he had no qualms twisting arms in Washington to getin federal aid for Hurricane Sandy cleanup. How does a nation more than $17 trillion in debt find billions of dollars to give to New Jersey? If you or I were in that much debt and we kept spending, we'd have been locked up and stripped of our credit cards long ago.
Sen. Paul, you have my blessing. While I'm sure Gov. Christie has sincere intentions to create a safer, more stable America, spending money we don't have and destroying what few liberties remain under a decimated Constitution is never a good answer.
Mark Kwasny is a resident of Citrus Heights, Calif.
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