Posted on 05/15/2010 9:36:04 AM PDT by pinochet
Dr. Rand Paul, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the US Senate seat in Kentucky, is causing panic among members of the Republican establishment in Washington DC. The greatest fear that the Republican establishment has, is that an honest conservative may get elected, who actually means it when he talks of small government. The present day conservative politicians are good at rhetoric, but once they get elected, they sell out to the big corporations, banks, and special interest groups, whom they give our tax dollars.
I have not seen this level of fear in the Republican establishment, since Ronald Reagan challenged Gerald Ford for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1976. The Reagan who ran for President in 1976, was more of a hardline small-government conservative, than the Reagan who ran for President in 1980.
What is causing the beltway establishment to panic, is that Rand Paul is close to mainstream Republicans on national security issues, which makes him a more credible national figure than his father, Ron Paul. While Rand Paul supports the war in Afghanistan, he does not believe in nation-building.
What is terrifying the GOP establishment, is that he plans to get rid of the IRS, the Federal Reserve, the Department of Education, and many other federal departments. He is likely to advocate pulling the US out of the UN. He plans to cut the federal budget to the bone, and abandon the policies of bailing out the big banks, and failing corporations such as AIG.
That was my clumsy way of agreeing with you.
No.
Ron Paul's associations with conspiracy theorists including the 'truthers' and extremist personalities such as Alex Jones is well documented. Of course, and as well; there can be NO correlation between Ronald Reagan's commitment to our Military - it's purpose and it's absolute necessity for the our Country's own well being and that of the 'free world' - and the total rejection of such, by Ron Paul.
Much has been written; but Calvin Freiburger does a quick summation; found at David Horowitz's 'NEWS REAL blog.' Just an excerpt below.
Of course, there is 'always' room for disagreement by 'free discourse'; but just not those enclosed in the 'facts therein'. . .and we know even 'facts' can be tricky; but think Calvin Freiburger is 'no trickster'.
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The Company the Pauls Keep
2010 May 13/Calvin Freiburger source/link: newsrealbloglink
[Calvin Freiburger is a political science major at Hillsdale College. He also writes for the Hillsdale Forum and his personal website, Calvin Freiburger Online.] Excerpt:
While most on the Right do not match the slanderous caricature of conservatism the Left has concocted, the Cult of Paul stands as the sole exception. The Pauls seem to hold themselves to no standards of moral decency or good taste in advancing their careers, welcoming and encouraging (sometimes subtly, sometimes not) hatred and paranoia in their own midst, standing up to it only when it becomes a matter of bad publicity—and even then, they can be counted on to go no further than absolutely necessary, for fear of alienating any one part of the coalition of bigots, demagogues, and conspiracy theorists they have assembled.
tags: 9/11 Truthers, Alex Jones, Anti-Semitism, Bigotry, Chris Hightower, Conservatism, Conspiracy Theories, crackpots, David Duke, extremism, Founding Fathers, George Washington, GOP, KKK, neo-Nazis, newsletters, Racism, radical associations, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, Stormfront, white supremacists
lol!
It's truly disappointing that in a year that should be so attractive to potential candidates, a job as plum as a US Senate seat couldn't attract any other candidates better than these two.
Then again, KY has given us Mitch McConnell for how many decades? Maybe that is the best KY can do. It's disturbing.
>>>>Try to get these people to explain why they like Trey Grayson
Because the Republican establishment has told them that Grayson is a conservative. It is time that conservatives stopped listening to the Republican establishment, and start looking at what each of the candidates stands for. Dr. James Dobson, Sarah Palin, and many tea party activists, chose to think for themselves, instead of allowing the Republican establishment to think for them. That is why they endorsed Rand Paul.
Many supporters of Rand Paul do not agree with him on all issues. But they see him as an honest American patriot, who cannot be bought, and who is looking out for the long-term interests of this country. This matters a great deal to those who do not want their children to inherit a bankrupt America.
Would that be leaders like GWB?
I haven’t followed Rand Paul’s campaign, but I often hear him discussed as if his views are practically identical to his father’s. Does anyone know of any major political differences he has from his father’s views?
Rand Paul will NEVER get a vote from me.
As for him being the next Reagan, get in line Rand. You’re not the next American Idol bud. You’re pitchy, your vocals sound like Karaoki, and your song selection is pitiful about 25% of the time.
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Actually, my point was that they will not defend Trey Grayson.
They want to attack the front runner while pretending that they are not calling for Trey Grayson’s election to the Senate, it is a childish game they play.
On foreign policy and national defense? You betcha!
That would be the same GWB who did exactly nothing about Iranian and North Korean nukes for eight solid years, am I right??
Pretty good little smear campaign you run there, mix in all the names, confuse two different people.
You never explain why Trey Grayson should be the GOP Senator instead.
You never explain why Jim DeMint, Jim Bunning, Sarah Palin, Steve Forbes, and Dr. James Dobson don’t buy all your conspiracy, name associations.
You also don’t explain why Kentucky conservatives don’t buy it.
No, you're not right. But, thanks for playing.
If you're alleging that Rand Paul is going to be more aggressive than George Bush in dealing with hostile countries and agents, you need to put the crack pipe down and get some help for yourself.
Rand Paul may be preferable to Trey Grayson (with much required faith that he’s honest about not being his father). To then make the leap in a vanity that he could be The Next Reagan defies logic, reason and maybe even gravity.
At last! Someone on these threads from outside the state of KY is displaying some sanity in our senate race. Paul is not going to be the next Ronald Reagan, and neither will anyone else. Paul has been endorsed by Sen. Jim DeMint, Steve Forbes, Dr. James Dobson, Sarah Palin, Sen. Jim Bunning (who Rand will replace and who has more guts than ANYONE serving in the US Senate), Concerned Woman for America, and Gun Owners of America.
In polls Paul is leading by at least 12% over one of the most RINO slugs currently running for office. Grayson is being supported by both amnesty RINOS and recipients of bail out money.
Paul doesn’t have to be great; he just has do the right things as required by the Constitution.
I’ve been a rock-ribbed conservative since the early 1960s. I was a charter member of Young Americans for Freedom when they went nationwide, I founded two Young Republicans clubs at two universities, I founded Teen-Aged Republicans of GA in 1965-66(I lived there), I was a state senate page to the first Republican elected to the General Assembly in GA since reconstruction, I debated both Jimmy Carter and Lester Maddox publicly, and I worked for and supported conservative candidates in three other states for 35 years.
Instead of spending tons of time writing clever snippets for hours on web sites, I have been actively working to kill socialism and preserve the US Constitution. I don’t support people CLAIMING to be conservatives lightly, and in this race Rand Paul is the better candidate.
>>>To then make the leap in a vanity that he could be The Next Reagan defies logic, reason and maybe even gravity
I was talking about the panic he is causing in the Republican establishment. I never said that his beliefs are exactly like Reagan’s. If you are old enough to remember the 1976 Republican Presidential Primary, then you will know what I am talking about.
Rand Paul is scaring the establishment because he want to cut the federal budget to the bone, leaving money only for national defense and a few other federal functions. Many federal departments will be eliminated. He wants to audit the Federal Reserve, something that has never happened in American history. Not even Reagan attempted that.
Of course Rand Paul will never get a vote from you. You vote in Ka-li-for-n-ia.
That is a good post, this Reagan nonsense is ridiculous, Rand is a better candidate of two, not an historical figure to save the nation.
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