if you have any chance of winning that's what you have to do
Maybe you're right. But the word "sell-out" doesn't begin to describe this kind of shift.
I saw people calling this gotcha journalism... it's not, not at all. Rand held long positions on these issues, then reversed in a big way. He did the same on Amnesty also. He's not consistent.
Like Romney in 2012, trying to switch from liberal to conservative, Rand's supporters honestly don't know what their candidate stands for. "Rand will stop the war, stop the spending, and stop foreign aid... but he'll also increase spending to expand the war while increasing foreign aid..." Which is it? lol