Playing the part of Mr. The Donald Trump...Ms. Rowdy Ronda Rousey!
Playing the part of Rand Paul, uh that chic on the floor who is having a hard time.
Posted on 09/14/2015 11:50:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I caught up with Rand Paul at Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum convention in St. Louis over the weekend, and he was in a feisty mood. While he was there to introduce his 80-year-old mother before she accepted an award from Eagle Forum, he was primed to discuss this week’s upcoming GOP debate and Donald Trump.
“Someone has to bring him down,” he told reporters in the lounge of the St. Louis Marriott. “I’m not going to sit quietly by and let the disaster that is Donald Trump become the nominee. Do you want someone who appears to still be in grade school to be in charge of the nuclear arsenal?”
Paul later told me he thinks he has found an approach that will separate Trump from the rest of the GOP field: eminent domain. “A hallmark of Republicans is that they respect private property. But Trump runs roughshod over it,” he said. “He is a serious abuser of taking property for his private benefit.”
Paul recounted the story of Vera Coking, an elderly widow who lived in a three-story house in Atlantic City. Trump decided he wanted a “fantastic” limousine parking lot for his Trump Plaza hotel. He bought up nearby properties, but Coking declined to sell.
So Trump had a local government agency – the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) – do the dirty work of seizing her property. CRDA offered her $250,000 for the property – one-fourth of what another hotel builder had offered her a decade earlier. When Coking wouldn’t budge, CRDA went to court to seize her property under eminent domain.
Coking went to court represented by the Institute of Justice and was able to win. As the Washington Post reported this month: “In the long melodrama that is Trump’s business career, the house in Atlantic City is the place where all the billionaire’s money and all the billionaire’s men couldn’t keep a 5-foot-3 widow from whupping him.”
But Trump remains unrepentant about his used of eminent domain. After a 5 to 4 majority of the Supreme Court approved the seizure of property for the benefit of other private entities in the infamous 2005 Kelo case, Trump told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto: “I happen to agree with it 100%. if you have a person living in an area that’s not even necessarily a good area, and … government wants to build a tremendous economic development, where a lot of people are going to be put to work and … create thousands upon thousands of jobs and beautification and lots of other things, I think it happens to be good.”
But should Paul bring up the issue of eminent domain in Wednesday’s debate, don’t expect a philosophical argument from Trump. In the last few days, the billionaire has responded to Paul’s criticism of him by calling him a “lightweight,” suggesting that he shouldn’t be included in this week’s debate and comparing him unfavorably to his father, former congressman and Libertarian firebrand Ron Paul. The Kentucky senator, Trump tweeted, “didn’t get the right gene” rom his father.
Wednesday’s debate will no doubt be entertaining, even if it’s not enlightening.
Rand Paul couldn’t beat Justin Bieber.
Nah, he’s just spoiling.
Here’s to all the slime scumbag POS Paul supporters!
Definitely punching out of his weight class. Lindy Graham would be a better match-up.
Rand Paul couldn’t beat Rue Paul.
This should go about as well as expected.
Donald Trump Breaks Lindsey Graham Like a Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3PQOP6eax8
Is Rand still running? I figured he already dropped out.
Rand Paul said Trump is a disaster. Not smart, Rand.
Does he even have a seat at the adult debate? Wasn’t he the one who got relegated to the kiddie table to make room for Carly?
Playing the part of Mr. The Donald Trump...Ms. Rowdy Ronda Rousey!
Playing the part of Rand Paul, uh that chic on the floor who is having a hard time.
Rand would have the football buried somewhere deep in a mountain
Some commentary here, but nothing addressing eminent domain and Trump. This is my biggest concern regarding Trump. It’s hard for him to explain it. Calling Paul names doesn’t explain it.
He’s gonna be the last one on the right. Christie is last on the left
Rand Paul? Oh yeah, now I remember him. Didn’t he used to be running for president?
I am no fan of Rand Paul but emiment domain is a legitimate topic for debate regardless of any candidates’ poll numbers. I welcome the debate
anyone so far behind in the race will be VERY eager INDEED to have a chance going at Trump (the current leader of the pack). A chance to look like you’re on the same level and maybe make a few points, pick up some votes, too.
Just the way these things work.
As for us here, we’ve written off Rand. We were hoping he would be like his Dad but without his Dad’s unreliability or nuttiness (take your pick of vocabulary) on defense and foreign relations matters. Unfortunately, it looks like the acorn has fallen very, very close to the (sick old) tree. Sorry, Rand, but we just can’t trust you with the office.
Go ahead, Rand. Trip that trigger.
I predict that Rand Paul will have another hard night Wednesday.
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