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Rand Paul: 'When Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win'
Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo News ^ | June 2, 2013 | Mark Trumbull

Posted on 06/02/2013 7:39:36 AM PDT by Innovative

Rand Paul is the latest Republican to tell his party to open up to a wider range of views within its ranks.

"The party can be big enough to allow people who don't all agree on every issue," Senator Paul told an audience in California, a state that produced three Republican presidents in the 20th century but now votes reliably Democratic.

"When the Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win again," he said.

"It's not going to change who I am or what I talk about but I think we can be a big enough party to include people," Paul said at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., Friday evening.

In his Friday talk, Paul sought to define himself, among other things, as a Republican who cares about the environment.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; gop; gopagenda; idiocy; lunatic; newgop; randpaul
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To: Admin Moderator

I love you, man. *Sniff*

:p


101 posted on 06/02/2013 3:34:49 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Liberalism. Ideas so great they have to be mandatory.-FReeper Osage Orange)
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To: Innovative

I hope i’m dead before the Republican party looks like the rest of “america”!


102 posted on 06/02/2013 3:36:12 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: itsahoot

So, you’re saying there are TEAparty members on the RAT side of the aisle?


103 posted on 06/02/2013 3:38:37 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATs! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
So, you’re saying there are TEAparty members on the RAT side of the aisle?

No but there may be undercover Rats in the TEAParty.

104 posted on 06/02/2013 3:48:06 PM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: itsahoot

Yeah, I doubt they could fake it for more than a couple of days.

Now RINOs, whole different ballgame.


105 posted on 06/02/2013 3:58:05 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATs! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

Only if he unequivocally denounces McShamesty and pledges to kill it.


106 posted on 06/02/2013 4:02:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Innovative
"The party can be big enough to allow people who don't all agree on every issue,"

Nope. Big tents are sure losers.

107 posted on 06/02/2013 4:03:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson
Only if he unequivocally denounces McShamesty and pledges to kill it.

Present him with the invitation and the opportunity to explain himself. I would certainly like to query him and I'm sure others here would also.

108 posted on 06/02/2013 4:12:37 PM PDT by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: Innovative

When a libertarian becomes the spokesman for conservatives it will be a cold day in hell.


109 posted on 06/02/2013 4:16:59 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: Alaska Wolf

Go ahead. If he decides to become a “God, Country, Liberty” patriotic type of guy and unequivocally denounces “immigration reform,” the “gay” agenda and all other liberal positions that he’s squishy on, I’d be happy to take a look. But he won’t. He’s pushing big tent.


110 posted on 06/02/2013 4:23:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Innovative

Conservatives support candidates who are Conservative. Race and religion shouldn’t even be a factor, and for the most part it’s not. It’s the dems who are the racists.


111 posted on 06/02/2013 4:26:07 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Jim Robinson
Go ahead.

It's your forum. You're the power broker, I'm just a conservative interested poster.

112 posted on 06/02/2013 4:28:57 PM PDT by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: Innovative

I’m surprised Rand Paul said this... The Republican Party, not to its credit, has tried strategy of liberalizing its position (unofficially), putting moderate (aka social liberals) as their poster children for political offices nationwide, and ate its own when it came to sticking up for American values (ex Todd Akin and Mourdock), for negative gains, not to mention truly damaging the moral standing of the Republican party itself. I will never (And i mean it!!) vote for a candidate like Romney again! I will never vote for a social moderate, or a liberal, again. It makes me sick! Republicans need to shut up, and return to it’s Reaganesque conservatism, and yes, i mean neo-conservative values. Forget about isolationism, forget about NOT being the worlds police. We have that mantle, and to disregard it is dangerous for Americans at home!


113 posted on 06/02/2013 4:32:24 PM PDT by FutureRocketMan (Santorum/Perry or Perry/Santorum 2016)
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To: HawkHogan

thank you! very true.


114 posted on 06/02/2013 4:35:31 PM PDT by FutureRocketMan (Santorum/Perry or Perry/Santorum 2016)
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To: Innovative

We’ll win when Catholics start returning to the Church. In the past several elections (i don’t remember how far back exactly but i think it goes back to FDR times) the president elected has ALWAYS garnered the catholic vote. And that’s because we make up about a quarter of the population of the US. Part of its the Republican’s fault ( not standing firm on social issues), but a lot of the problem is the Church in the US! bishops refuse to take firmer stances on what moral truths. That must change, and it has to change soon!


115 posted on 06/02/2013 4:38:36 PM PDT by FutureRocketMan (Santorum/Perry or Perry/Santorum 2016)
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To: Pelham
It's like my dad used to say, "Hope for the best; prepare for the worst."

That's about the best thing I can say about California.

None the less, all things in cycles. The pendulum only swings so far before it turns around.

116 posted on 06/02/2013 4:53:39 PM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

Well, it’s your idea. If you wish to pursue it, go for it. I have no interest whatsoever in big tent pushing open borders politicians.


117 posted on 06/02/2013 4:55:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Innovative
I hope his point is that we need to articulate our values to ALL people and convince everyone who's willing to listen of the rightness of our position.

If he means compromising our values to attract all and sundry--sorry. Tried that. No one follows a squish.
118 posted on 06/02/2013 5:06:43 PM PDT by Antoninus (Sorry, gone rogue.)
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To: Jim Robinson

An obscure internet poster has little chance of gaining the attention of national politician. A national political forum like FR might.


119 posted on 06/02/2013 5:12:26 PM PDT by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: Politicalmom

Thank you for the heads up, but there is no point of my posting an announcement since Renegade1776’s account has been obliterated.

There is no posting history, and so no ability to see why the zottee is sitting in the alley behind Free Republic, wondering what the hell happened.

There is no blue screen of ZOT, only the white screen of the Obliterati, of which the zottee is now a member in good crispiness.

IOW, nothing for the Viking Kitties to nom on.

Don’t give up! I’m always on the lookout for zottees. Again, thank you, my friend.


120 posted on 06/02/2013 7:02:14 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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