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Kentucky Third Parties Clear the Way for Rand Paul
Independent Political Report ^ | April 5th, 2010 | Independent Political Report

Posted on 04/08/2010 2:01:58 PM PDT by Christian_Capitalist

The Libertarian Party of Kentucky recently held its nominating convention for 2010 elections and failed to nominate a candidate for Senate. Similarly, the Constitution Party of Kentucky is rumored to be avoiding the Senate race ostensibly because of Rand Paul’s presence in that race. Rand Paul, a Republican candidate for the open U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky is currently ahead in polling by double digits and is largely considered the frontrunner. Rand Paul is the son of Congressman and former Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Ron Paul.

K. Joshua Koch, vice chair of the Kentucky Libertarian Party, was an early supporter of the younger Paul’s run for Senate. George Whitfield, one of the organizers of the Libertarian Party meetups in Kentucky, was also an early supporter and made a donation to Rand Paul’s exploratory committee.

Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party’s 2008 Presidential nominee, has had good things to say about Rand Paul too, calling him a “sincere conservative-libertarian”, in contrast to “Big Government neocon” John McCain.

Rand Paul is considered a friend to ballot-access reformers according to Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News. He is well-educated on the unjustness of current ballot access laws.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; 911truth; adamkokesh; codepink; kokesh; ky2010; medeabenjamin; paulhaterslosingfast; randpaul; thirdparty
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To: La Enchiladita
All you lie-bertarians are good at is swarming the internet

As opposed to kissing the asses of the Dems and holding $10,000-a-plate fundraisers with corporate and globalist fatcats.

61 posted on 04/08/2010 4:35:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Islam is incompatible with American traditions and values)
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To: bamahead

You just made my point all over again.


62 posted on 04/08/2010 4:36:07 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Christian_Capitalist

rolls eyes


63 posted on 04/08/2010 4:37:13 PM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Put up Paulbot loons and you’ll lose two-three votes for every vote you gain.

Grassroots conservatives and the Tea Parties are fully behind Rand.

Even if he wasn't the son of Ron, he'd still get the support.

Tea Parties are mad at Republicans too, in case you haven't noticed.

64 posted on 04/08/2010 4:37:16 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Islam is incompatible with American traditions and values)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Here's Ron Paul with his good buddy and fellow surrenderist Dennis Kucinich.

Hey fieldmarshal, Ron isn't running. He's irrelevant in the race.

65 posted on 04/08/2010 4:38:36 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Islam is incompatible with American traditions and values)
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To: Republican Wildcat
His father didn't give him a dime nor his machine. Rand made his own way and is running in his own right.

Not his fault that supporters of Ron are supporting him. That's absurd. Who do you think comprise of most of Sarah Palin's supporters? Also the supporters of Ron Paul.

66 posted on 04/08/2010 4:41:15 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Islam is incompatible with American traditions and values)
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To: Christian_Capitalist

I don’t think many of you have helped my decision making.


67 posted on 04/08/2010 4:43:52 PM PDT by KYGrandma (The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home......)
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To: Republican Wildcat
And ditto. We can play this game all night.

All I have seen from you is Rand Paul lies this, and Rand Paul lies that. You got specifics? Let's have 'em.

You may want to air them in a way as to not to come across as too sympathetic to RINO Trey Grayson, who gives keynote addresses at climate-change events sponsored by the likes of Van Jones.

Surely you're not doing that merely as a conditioned recoil against anything featuring the name Paul, are you? Because you're here propping up an establishment, global warming swilling RINO.
68 posted on 04/08/2010 4:47:09 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Horsecrap. Plenty of Conservatives and Tea Party supporters are NOT backing Junior Paul’s dog and pony Paleo sideshow.


69 posted on 04/08/2010 4:49:19 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

His boy wouldn’t be in it were daddy not pulling the strings and telling his cultist followers to pony up the $$. Just like Ted Kennedy in ‘62. If his name were Eddie Moore, he wouldn’t have been in the race.


70 posted on 04/08/2010 4:51:28 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: KYGrandma

I hope you know cut and run jr. wants to close Guantanamo and send all the terrorists housed there back to their home countries. That by itself would make me vote against him.


71 posted on 04/08/2010 4:58:17 PM PDT by John D
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To: John D

Good point, but Grayson voted for Clinton and has ties to an organization connected to Van Jones. I really don’t want either of them.


72 posted on 04/08/2010 5:08:20 PM PDT by KYGrandma (The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home......)
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To: Theodore R.; KYGrandma
Sounds like Paul would be better than Grayson, for Paul will stir up the base, but the base may be too small to prevail. People in KY don’t like to take chances.

This is a safe seat for Republicans, both Republican candidates are around 15 to 20 points ahead of both Democrats.

73 posted on 04/08/2010 5:20:02 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Why are the non "social conservative" Republicans so unconservative?)
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To: KYGrandma

Grayson was a 21-year old college student when he voted for Clinton. If we’re going to hold people to such high standards, I might remind you Ronald Reagan was nearly 40 when he supported Harry Truman for President before he “saw the light.” As for the Van Jones crap, another Paulbot smear, he appeared at a function to give a talk along with many other people, that was it. Nobody knew who Van Jones was at the time. He certainly was no “close associate” of Jones.


74 posted on 04/08/2010 5:24:07 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: KYGrandma; John D

John D got that wrong, Rand doesn’t want to close Guantanamo.


75 posted on 04/08/2010 5:25:13 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Why are the non "social conservative" Republicans so unconservative?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Quit being disingenuous.


76 posted on 04/08/2010 5:27:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Islam is incompatible with American traditions and values)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Take your own advice. You don’t like the truth about Junior Paul.


77 posted on 04/08/2010 5:31:36 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: John D; Christian_Capitalist
He sure did, cut and run said it was America that forced the terrorist to do what they did.

Source?

BTW, how did Ron Paul 'cut and run'? Last i checked military operations was the responsibility of the Executive Branch, not congress.

You can't mean military service, cause John McCain, Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul were the only three Republican candidates for the Presidential nomination who actually served in the military.

78 posted on 04/08/2010 5:31:59 PM PDT by Calvinist_Dark_Lord ((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
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To: ansel12
. Rand doesn’t want to close Guantanamo.

He doesn't, then why did he say he wanted to? And why does he want to send the terrorists housed there back to their home countries? Does he just think they have spent enough time there and have been rehabilitated?
79 posted on 04/08/2010 5:32:21 PM PDT by John D
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To: fieldmarshaldj; All

Hey Ron Paul and his cultist loons may not like the Kentucky Conservative Republican, Trey Grayson, but they sure love that moonbat nutcase Alan Grayson down here in Central Florida. Some of the braindead Paulistas down here are just swooning all over the mentally challenged Congressman Alan Grayson. Because Alan Grayson is such a hate America fanatic, I’m thinking the LIBs (Libertarians, the lemmings on the cliff just waiting for their marching orders) will split the center-right coalition by putting up a 3rd party challenger to siphon votes from the Conservative Republican.


80 posted on 04/08/2010 5:34:14 PM PDT by AdvisorB (Obamatude could be defined by Blago as something tangible, but not quite as tangible as JJJ's offer.)
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