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Rand Paul's First Challenge: Defeat Ted Cruz
Bloomberg Politics | April 7, 2015 | David Knowles

Posted on 04/07/2015 3:01:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Link only due to copyright issues: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-07/rand-paul-s-first-challenge-defeat-ted-cruz


TOPICS: Kentucky; Texas; Campaign News; Issues; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; election2016; gop; kentucky; lping; paultardation; paultardnoisemachine; randpaul; randpaulnoisemachine; randsconcerntrolls; rupaul; tedcruz; texas
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"Voter outreach."

1 posted on 04/07/2015 3:01:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Link to article:

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-07/rand-paul-s-first-challenge-defeat-ted-cruz


2 posted on 04/07/2015 3:01:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Paultard is running in the wrong party. DOA.


3 posted on 04/07/2015 3:12:20 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“We kind of come from the same wing of the party,” Paul told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly

..............................

Ah.... no.... ya kinda don’t.


4 posted on 04/07/2015 3:12:58 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Paul’s first challenge is to articulate why conservatives values are good for the country. It’s not about beating the leading conservative, it’s about advancing conservatism and then making a case for being the best candidate among the conservatives. [I’d like to see the Cruz, Walker, Paul supporters take this advice too.]

As for Christie, Bush, Rubio, Romney, it’s their job to convince voters that what matters is establishment support, not conservatism, that as long as the candidate wears a GOP jersey, it doesn’t matter if that candidate is a big government liberal.


5 posted on 04/07/2015 3:21:48 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s bloomberg. The name says it all.

I prefer Cruz. But a Rand Paul that decides he will defend America (as opposed to Ron) Trumps an antigun Ben Carson or a second run by Willard any day


6 posted on 04/07/2015 3:24:49 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At the risk of painfully obvious, who is saying it should be?


7 posted on 04/07/2015 3:26:03 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Pollster1

Sane politics ought to be a team effort.


8 posted on 04/07/2015 3:27:03 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pass on Paul.
Pass on linking to Bloomberg.


9 posted on 04/07/2015 3:27:33 AM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jeb’s stalking horse?


10 posted on 04/07/2015 3:55:21 AM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I have yet to hear Cruz campaign against a Republican. So far he has campaigned against liberals, which is how all of them should campaign.


11 posted on 04/07/2015 3:59:27 AM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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“They put something good in a bill that I find objectionable,” Paul told the Daily Beast. “They could take out the [Patriot Act] reauthorization, then I’ll vote for the bill.”

Ron pauls' offspring, like his father, would like us to believe that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are barrier enough to protect the USA from enemies, both foreign and domestic.

Rand has no, ZERO, chance to win the pubbie primary.

12 posted on 04/07/2015 4:01:49 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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Rand has already jumped the shark, multiple times. He had a golden chance with his filibuster...but then got into felon-voting and called us racists for supporting Voter ID.


13 posted on 04/07/2015 4:20:30 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my home page))
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Stick a fork in Rand Paul ... his campaign announcement is simply a Karl Rove - Jeb Bush GOPe ploy to take votes away from Ted Cruz ...

It worked in 2012.

It will fail in 2016.


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14 posted on 04/07/2015 4:35:17 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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I would follow Cruz into battle.

I would sit Rand (unarmed) behind a tree and tell him to holler real loud if any bad guys came around....

15 posted on 04/07/2015 5:30:07 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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The first thing Paul would need to overcome is his unpredictability. He’s never the same guy from one day to the next. When I saw the Rah-Rah video of his Monday pre-announcement Announcement, with the flags and music and sudden conservative rhetoric I thought, Where did this come from? He has never to my knowledge, preached and whooped and hollered about things of value to me. So I concluded that it’s just a temporary affectation, adopted for the campaign period, which will be quickly dropped, should he get elected, and there’d be a quick return to equivocating and hair splitting and hem-hawing around like a McLame or a Romney. IMHO.


16 posted on 04/07/2015 5:41:36 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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[I have yet to hear Cruz campaign against a Republican.]

TED CRUZ is casting a vision for the rebirth of American liberty.

TED CRUZ
http://www.tedcruz.org/


17 posted on 04/07/2015 5:54:34 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Jim Robinson

These publishers have asked us not to allow any material at all to be posted to FR:

altoonaherald.com
altpressonline.com
americanpolitics.com
antiwar.com
arkansasonline.com
bloomberg.com

I have wondered about this. Does “any material at all” include url?


18 posted on 04/07/2015 6:00:06 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: stars & stripes forever
I agree. I heard him in NH two weeks ago. I do have a concern about his replacement of Obamacare---not that it isn't feasible, but the "medical savings accounts" relies on two things that just won't fly with the public: 1) saving (they don't save much already) and b) adjustment to taxes (already too many Americans don't pay taxes).

I don't think this is a winning argument. I told him so. He listened. I think it is viable as policy down the line, but in the short term, voters aren't going to resonate with more savings and benefits from taxes (which they don't pay).

19 posted on 04/07/2015 6:59:58 AM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: Pollster1

Paul isn’t conservative, so he cannot articulate conservatism, and in fact for years, he has been dropping his pretense at conservatism, and is openly becoming libertarian.


20 posted on 04/07/2015 8:35:20 AM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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