Rand Paul "If I were President, I'd Repeal all Previous Executive Orders..."

By Elizabeth Nelson

Okay, we all know that Rand is an isolationist, but he's a man of his word. So his latest statement early in Thursday's New Hampshire state primary raised quite a few eyebrows, 

"If I were President, I think the first executive order that I would issue would be to repeal all previous executive orders.”  

Now, if we only heard that sentence, that sentence alone from a self-professed Constitutionalist would be a bad, bad thing, because former President GW Bush, his father with all his AIDS EOs, and yes, even Obama has signed some beneficial Executive Orders. 

People often talk about GW Bush's Executive Orders vs. Obama's but what they don't realize is, they weren't "over reaching" they were more along the lines of humanitarian "for the people," and not against our Constitution. Like Bushes Improving Assistance for Disaster Victims, Protecting the American People from someone unjustly taking our property, with his EO: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People. Or how about the EO we hear often, the Public Alert and Warning System - it had to start somewhere. 

We all know Bush loved our servicemen and women.  He signed an EO for our Service-Disabled Veterans, to strengthen opportunities in Federal contracting for service-disabled, giving them first dibs at Federal job contracts.  We hear every day about human trafficking, well, he even has an EO for Human trafficking Victims Protection. 

Now, what Rand actually said, in context, was:

“My inclination would be that there have been too many executive orders and that really you shouldn’t legislate through executive orders," Paul said,

 "I never want to make a blanket statement without looking at everything. My general inclination is you should have less executive orders, but that the executive orders could be used to undo a lot of executive orders that have overstepped their bounds.”

There are some things that isolationist Rand believes that I don't, but there are some Constitutional things that I can stand beside.  Now here, he's right.  Take all of the Executive Orders and pour them into a Constitutional Sieve and only the ones that are held fast and true in the Constitutional sieve pass the sniff test and will remain and the rest we will willingly flush down the drain, as they never should have been enacted upon in the first place; no matter when or what President or party was holding the pen when they signed.