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Could Rand Paul Be The Next Ronald Reagan?
May 15, 2010 | Pinochet

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: chat; humor; ky2010; no; randpaul; reagan; ronpaul; satire; vanity
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To: pinochet
I was talking about the panic he is causing in the Republican establishment.

Even that is lame, this is nothing on the scale of the massive national battle of the Reagan versus Rockefeller branches of the GOP wars of the 1970s, or the current national battle between the Palin (Reagan) versus Romney (Rockefeller) branches of the GOP for power.

There is a mini version of the war being fought out in Kentucky, but the scale is vastly different, that micro war shows up in a lot of places this cycle, Kentucky is not the only race where it is demonstrated.

61 posted on 05/15/2010 11:09:02 AM PDT by ansel12 (MITT: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: ansel12

>>>>Rand is a better candidate of two, not an historical figure to save the nation

Any credible Senate candidate who calls for the Federal Reserve to be audited and, possibly, abolished, is a historical figure. The Federal Reserve is not accountable to Congress, or to the American people, in its operations.

Are you aware that, from 1800 to 1900, the US dollar did not lose its value? The cost of goods and services remained the same over that 100 year period. When the Federal Reserve was established in 1913, the era of major inflation arrived in America, and the dollar continues to lose its value every day.

Rand Paul has proposed that America should get back to the system of sound money, which created the industrial base of America.


62 posted on 05/15/2010 11:10:07 AM PDT by pinochet
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To: ansel12

>>>this is nothing on the scale of the massive national battle of the Reagan versus Rockefeller branches of the GOP wars of the 1970s

Reagan had to compromise in 1980, when he made GHW Bush, from the Rockefeller wing of the GOP, his Vice-President. When Reagan stepped down in 1989, the Rockefeller Republicans seized full control of the GOP, once more.


63 posted on 05/15/2010 11:15:41 AM PDT by pinochet
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To: pinochet

No! One BIG NO WAY!


64 posted on 05/15/2010 11:20:00 AM PDT by Pilated
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To: pinochet; ansel12
um ... the U.S. Senate voted 96-0 for a Fed audit .... without the historic figure Rand Paul.
65 posted on 05/15/2010 11:25:10 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: pinochet
None of that has anything to do with the Opthamologist running for the Kentucky Senate seat.

You are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Why step on your candidate by getting silly and invoking famous historical figures to compare him to, all you are going to do is get everyone mocking your naivety and your grandiosity.

66 posted on 05/15/2010 11:28:52 AM PDT by ansel12 (MITT: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: pinochet

“I have not seen this level of fear in the Republican establishment, since Ronald Reagan challenged Gerald Ford.”

A striking observation ... and a good prediction of the sort of comments that you’d get from establishment Republicans at FreeRepublic.


67 posted on 05/15/2010 11:31:55 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Stepan12

He is like his father, so no!

Little doubt Rand is a lot like often nutty-Ron. Yeah, they may have some good sounding conservative ideas, but the fine line between genius and nutz is too easy for this gene pool to cross.

Won’t have any trouble with Rand as a Senator, but he sure ain’t no Ronald Reagan and I would have a prolem with him having presidential powers.


68 posted on 05/15/2010 11:36:51 AM PDT by dusttoyou (libs are all wee wee'd up and no place to go)
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To: pinochet
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.

His cowardly dad consistently says the same things, but when push comes to shove his dad still takes as many earmarks as he can get, and does NOTHING. Can anybody name one thing that cut and run has accomplished the entire time he has been in office? Except take as many earmarks (that he says he is against) as he can get his hands on.
69 posted on 05/15/2010 11:40:42 AM PDT by John D
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To: dusttoyou
Won’t have any trouble with Rand as a Senator, but he sure ain’t no Ronald Reagan and I would have a prolem with him having presidential powers.

I agree. And I won't bother you about the typo either.

70 posted on 05/15/2010 11:46:32 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: Nucluside

Sarah Palin is also supporting McCrazy. I do not want him either.


71 posted on 05/15/2010 11:48:54 AM PDT by John D
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To: Notary Sojac

“That would be the same GWB who did exactly nothing about Iranian and North Korean nukes for eight solid years, am I right??”

And the same GWB who could not find anybody of significance to fire for incompetence regarding 9/11, who would spend upwards to a trillion dollars but still avoid apprehending the mastermind of 9/11, who would insist that the foundational ideology of 9/11 is a religion of peace, and who would spend several hundred billion dollars to bail out foreign banks. A real foreign policy and national security genius, for sure, and a genuinely brilliant strategy as well. GWB was a compassionate conservative who understood that he had to “abandon free market market principles to save the free market system”. His manifest failures led to the election of a barely disguised communist and folks here still like him.


72 posted on 05/15/2010 11:51:51 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Skepolitic
A striking observation ... and a good prediction of the sort of comments that you’d get from establishment Republicans at FreeRepublic.


the cult of Paul slanders FR as establishment Republicans??!!!

73 posted on 05/15/2010 11:59:44 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: ansel12

The most infuriating Rand Paul smear is that he is an anti-Semite. Rand Paul’s political philosophy is rooted in the writings of the Founding Fathers. But his economic philosophy is rooted in the writings of four economic thinkers: Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Murray Rothbard. It is absurd to charge anti-Semitism against a man who acknowledges that his intellectual influences are all Jews. And, in fact, his economic philosophy is in direct opposition to that typically proposed by anti-Semites.

The propensity of RINOs and other big-government Republicans to engage in outright deception illustrates just how fearful they are of Rand Paul and the limited-government movement that he represents.


74 posted on 05/15/2010 12:19:53 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Skepolitic
the limited-government movement that he represents.

The primary limitation on government intended by our Founders was on American government's lawful ability to impinge on the God-given unalienable natural rights of the people and, most specifically, of the individual person. The Pauls' pro-choice for states position on abortion is actually a statist position, not a limited government one. It has government at the State level left with a "right," or power, or jurisdiction which, if you believe what the Founders believed, they can't possibly have: the imagined "right" to kill babies.

Their ideology leaves out the indispensable fact that with rights go responsibilities. The duty to protect the rights of others. Which the Founders of this free republic said was the very raison d'etre of government.

I'm a limited government republican conservative. And the Pauls do NOT represent me.

75 posted on 05/15/2010 12:35:23 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("Yesterday, I read everything Elena Kagan has ever published. It didn't take long..." -- Paul Campos)
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To: Skepolitic
the Republican establishment

Come on. Rand Paul has spent most of his life as the son of a Congressman, one who has been in office for more than three decades. By definition they are part of the Republican establishment.

76 posted on 05/15/2010 12:46:52 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("Yesterday, I read everything Elena Kagan has ever published. It didn't take long..." -- Paul Campos)
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To: EternalVigilance

How’s Bill White’s candidacy doing? :-)


77 posted on 05/15/2010 1:05:00 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Obamunism: You have two cows. The regime redistributes them and shoots you dead)
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To: EternalVigilance
I'm a limited government republican conservative.

You are a Republican?

78 posted on 05/15/2010 2:01:32 PM PDT by ansel12 (MITT: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: ansel12

No. I’m a republican.

I’m not surprised you don’t know the difference.


79 posted on 05/15/2010 2:15:31 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("Yesterday, I read everything Elena Kagan has ever published. It didn't take long..." -- Paul Campos)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I don’t know anyone named Bill White.


80 posted on 05/15/2010 2:16:10 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("Yesterday, I read everything Elena Kagan has ever published. It didn't take long..." -- Paul Campos)
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