“Chris McDaniel has been a fighter in the Mississippi Senate for smaller government and more personal liberties. We need Chris McDaniel in the U.S. Senate.”
—Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, on his endorsement of state Sen. Chris McDaniel.
Why it stinks: Dr. Paul has a strange definition of liberty. McDaniel himself has said his agenda “is about limiting government overreach from all levels” and that “private property rights matter.” Conservatives like McDaniel and Paul can never seem to articulate how their supposed pro-constitutional views support, for instance, their opposition to abortion rights, a liberty that courts have repeatedly protected through the years.
In his time in the Legislature, McDaniel voted in favor of a number of anti-abortion laws, including one that requires abortion-clinic physicians to have local hospital admitting privileges. The requirement, which the courts are reviewing, could shutter the state’s only abortion clinic—a private business—as well as limit abortion access to a large number of women in Mississippi.
So much for liberty from government intrusion.
