Posted on 04/07/2015 8:52:15 PM PDT by gwgn02
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul told a raucous crowd in Louisville on Tuesday that he will build his presidential campaign on 'a message that is loud and clear, and does not mince words: We have come to take our country back.' He will blast 'special interests that use Washington, D.C. as their personal piggy bank' if he wins the White House, Paul promised a cheering, packed ballroom. 'The Washington machine,' he said, 'must be stopped.' Paul's official announcement Tuesday that he would run for president in 2016 came at the beginning of what observers are already calling an unconventional campaign. Donors and family members of Paul campaign insiders said Monday night at a pre-launch party that the 'wild card' senator would surprise much of the political establishment by being an 'un-candidate' who turned traditional campaign wisdom on its head. He took aim at Republicans along with Democrats on Tuesday, saying 'both parties and the entire political system are to blame' for dwindling freedoms in America. 'Big government and debt doubled under a Republican administration, and it's now tripling under Barack Obama's watch,' he said.
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Legalizing pot and freeing drug dealers is way more important than dealing with ISIS, illegals or defending marriage.
He’s right. We do need to take our country back.
While not agreeing with him everywhere. I am with him on most things. And most importantly, he is not beholden to defense contractors, big oil or Wall Street banks. He is mostly against crony capitalism on the republican side. And he is the only pure play on this issue. We could do far worse than Rand Paul.
He spouted platitudes and vague generalities-—nothing more. He’s going to be poisonous in the primaries.
How can you take something back when you think there are no defined borders???
Rand’s announcement flopped is what I’m hearing...and the debates will really expose his flip floppy pandering. I hope he decides to just stay in the Senate because we need true leadership that is ready to really fight hard and be honest about how to fix this sinking ship.
He was doing OK politically for a while last year playing the populist but I was always skeptical of a first term Senator running and back in 2011 he walked into Rachel Maddow’s trap, ironically defending employers right to serve who they want, then denying he argued that under pressure. Now look where we are on that issue.
What did him in is ISIS and Iran, he sounds too much like Obama on them to win a GOP primary anytime soon.
As far as doing "worse"; that's really not saying much; especially since Rand is on par with wee barry on many issue and to wee barry's left on others.
I expect when we raise the hood and look around the engine, we'll come across a few loose bolts that people might find more than a bit off.
I have a lot of troubling seeing Paul win a general election.
Yeah, makes a great placard doesn’t it? I wish all of our politicians had the guts to say what we would like them to - oh wait, they all do that but never follow through.
Saying things means nothing!!
Right! Like I would trust him in negotiations with Putin! You can’t take a non-interventionist and turn him into a peaceful negotiator. He would unfortunately do foreign policy just like Obama - no thanks!
Sorry, I don’t trust him. He’s fine in the Senate, but as President? No thanks.
He bashes republicans but he voted for mc connel to remain senate leader, so did cruz, REAL LEADERSHIP would have opposed mc connel.
Still looking for a REAL leader.
“And most importantly, he is not beholden to defense contractors, big oil or Wall Street banks.”
While I agree with you on the Wall Street banks, if you think Big Oil and Defense Contractors are bad for this country, you are on the WRONG SITE to be saying that.
Most people here actually don’t mind cheap energy and the ability to stand up to the Soviets, Russians, and now Chinese.
Do you have a problem with that, or some other way to accomplish it?
“The guy just reminds me if Ross Perot! I expect when we raise the hood and look around the engine, we’ll come across a few loose bolts that people might find more than a bit off.”
You might be on to something. Perot was at 25% in the polls, his highest level and pretty damn good for a 3-man race, when he checked into Kooksville in July of that year. He then collapsed and ended up as a protest vote against a Republican Party that was again drifting far left. Perot was close to taking it all until that July.
Rand will NEVER win as a Republican. If he did get the nomination, he would have to deal with a Third Party challenge from the right (who I’d like vote for), and the Dem would march in. If the Republicans run Jeb, then Paul very well might pull off what Perot nearly did. I’d probably sit it out in that case. If the Republicans run Cruz, then Paul becomes meaningless.
“We could do far worse than Rand Paul.”
That is a sad commentary on the American electorate.
He’s a LIEbertarian - open borders all the way.
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