Posted on 02/26/2013 6:34:06 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Kentucky's junior U.S. Senator says the Republican Party must broaden its appeal to voters by toning down some of its rhetoric on social issues. Rand Paul also thinks the GOP too often presents itself as a party "eager to go to war."
Paul, a first-term Senator from Bowling Green and rumored 2016 Presidential candidate, spoke to more than 500 Cincinnati-area Republicans over the weekend.
Paul said if Republicans hope to rebound from recent electoral disappointments, the GOP must find new ways to reach out to voters who disagree with the party on hot-topic issues such as abortion and gay marriage.
“We’re going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party,” Paul told the audience.
This isn't the first time Paul has spoken out on the need for the GOP to refashion its approach. He was recently quoted as saying Republicans must "evolve and adapt", or else face continued losses on election day.
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It was four states. And it was because the Democrat Party went all in, and I do mean all in, and, unsurprisingly to anyone who has been paying any attention at all for the last decade, the Romney Republicans did absolutely NOTHING to stop them.
At this point the formerly grand OLD party is nothing more than a false flag. Designed only to get you close in so that you can be blasted to smithereens.
we are winning the abortion argument and even the left knows it.
gay marriage... we are losing... we just cant overcome the avalanche of Hollywood gay propaganda.
we are also losing the drug argument and in my opinion this is the easiest to cave on without compromising our morals.
Thanks for the REAL laugh! :)
His rhetoric is increasingly idiotic.
>> I guess he is like his father after all.
His father had more balls than to speak like this. Maybe Rand is seeking the advice of “consultants”.
He’s using populist rhetoric, and he sounds like a fool.
RP should stay focused on principle and forget the pandering “we love you too” twaddle.
I am a life-long Californian and I have to take a little issue
with your point about Californians who move to other states and
“vote like Californians”. I’m as conservative as about anyone here
and so are almost all of my friends. Those who move to other
states that I know are fleeing liberalism.......MUCH of which came
from somewhere else originally. True there may be some libtards
who move away to follow their job.....but not enough to legitimize
your blanket statement. I don’t think you are trying to be mean
but you should realize there are millions of good conservatives
in California.....just not enough and the numbers are declining and
the leadership declines as well.
Let me just say that maybe conservatism could use a little facelift.
BUT what the hell would any kind of facelift do if we allow the
other side to define us when the facelift is complete? Conservatism
requires education, constant education. Those who supposedly
represent the conservative POV on TV, for example, usually allow
the opposition to get away with false premises. And, do we ever
hear our candidates explain to all the low info voters why conser-
vatism works for the common person? No, they usually just sing
to the choir. Filling the tank with gas won’t help if you don’t have
a battery in the car.
BTW this California voter went door to door for the Gipper in ‘66.
Cheers to you, brother conservative.
“Why vote for the imitation?”
That’s exactly how Pelosi & Co. won the house in 2006.
‘Our pie is better!’
I don't care what any politico says anymore. I don't care what the pResident in chief says anymore. I know them for what they are before they say a word.
Some of these fake conservatives and patriots, they want to play us, grab us with words as if words without action hold meaning to us, they see us as sheep, as fools.
We are the unwashed masses and they hold posies in their hands to breath in if our stench dares to reach their nostrils. They boldly declare themselves as usurpers and dance with glee at their victories.
Let them dance.
Tough....and right! :)
How are you LUV W?
I haven’t seen you since I moved off of the Canteen ping list while in a morose and debilitated mood.
Yeah, Paul Senior had the guts to vote for fags in the military, hang out with Jew haters and side with mozlems, say that abortion is a states rights issue, and so on.
They’re both idiots.
I’m good...hope you are the same! You need to sneak back in! All is good there! :)
Politics at a minimum and sometimes I have to just step away from that subject! LOL!
So much for "hands off" on social issues!
Oh, I lurk more often than not, can’t stay away from the canteen.
It’s just so good to see you, brings me back to another time.
Oh, heck, maybe I’m ready to be back on the ping list. LOL!
:) Glad you lurk!...good to see you, too!
It’s a good place to be! Just give Kathy a ringy-dingy and you will be added! :)
Good lord...no shortage of GOP jackasses
So when a partial birth abortion crusader like Cuomo gets nominated in ‘16, it seems Junior Paul will just want to go hands off on the tic. Not only is that morally bankrupt but it is throwing away a winning issue.
There is no neutral any more. It’s either “for” or “against”. Faux neutral is for duplicitous who want to pretend they’re not what they really are....
Now we know what it is like to be a Jew, working at the Munich Post while the whole nation goes in the tank for it’s newfound Fuhrer - because they know where the power is going to lie - and they will do anything to share in it.
And/or - the threats to inflict pain upon the American people and attribute them to the GOP is not merely political theater to those Conservatives in power.
Perhaps those threats are more .... real.
That being said - perhaps ol’ Rand did not fall too far from his Papa’s Libertarian tree.
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