Posted on 04/01/2014 2:43:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul told fellow Republicans on Tuesday that the future of their party depends on them connecting with Hispanics in a more empathetic way and on getting in front of immigration reform – a message that further signals his flirtation with a 2016 presidential run.
“If we are to change people’s attitudes toward … the Republican Party, we have to show up and we have to have something to say,” Paul told a small group of conservatives gathered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. “I hope to be part of that dialogue.”
This certainly was not the first time that Paul, since being elected to the Senate in 2010, has attempted to connect with Hispanics and other minorities.
However, Republicans’ interest in his policy vision and his vision for broadening the party base continues to grow as he ascends in the very, very early 2016 polls and travels the country. Recent stops have included those in Democrat-heavy Detroit and at the University of California, Berkeley.....
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The why didn’t that work for the father?
Right now, the issue is that we need to end immigration.
Rand Paul has followed up his coming out as liberal on gay marriage, with now coming out for liberalism in his immigration policy.
As far as I am concerned Rand Paul is the same kind of Ba$tard as all the rest of the treasonous Traitors.
I AM a HISPANIC you A$$. Has the Party I have worked for EVER regarded MY wishes? Secure the damn border and enforce the existing laws? NO.
You would just as soon take a Hispanic Like me and throw me under the bus. Rand Paul, you should be treated like they treated TRAITORS in the olden days.
Only THEN will I be happy, SUCKER, TRAITOR, CREEP.
Or because he's cozying up to big business and what's left of the GOP Establishment in preparation to a run for the White House?
And which of the two explanations would reflect worst on Rand?
I think rinos will be comfortable with his position on immigration. I didn’t know that Paul has stated a position on gay marriage, and I don’t think many rinos are supportive of legalizing drugs.
Seems to me Paul’s biggest sop to rinos was endorsing McConnell for re-election. And he may have done that for the sole reason of getting some plum pudding if the GOP regains the Senate.
His father only had his young dopers and space cases, remember that Rand has been playing it straight for several years, and then has been groveling at the feet of the GOPe this year, and is couching his liberal, libertarian views in rino terms.
As Paul joins the GOPe, his dad’s old crowd stay with him, as Rand is fetching the pipe and slippers of the establishment.
“I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues,” Paul advised. “The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to be festooned by those issues.”
I’m on your same page and agree with all the points you made.
Why didn’t what work for his father?
Thank you. I probably read that before but hadn’t internalized it. Now I have.
Senator Paul, the future of our country depends on controlling our borders and enforcing our immigration laws.
If you support abortion, and gay marriage, and the anti-God left, then continue supporting immigration.
If you oppose those things and want to return God to American culture and our institutions, then fight what JFK and the left, set out to do to America, by replacing the American voters with foreigners.
Rand Paul can do a great deal to help the Republicans increase their appeal to Hispanics by dropping out of the 2016 presidential race and giving his support to Ted Cruz, a great Hispanic-American Senator, with solid Conservative credentials, who does not get standing ovations at Berkeley.
Remember, that it is a presidential candidate staking out a political position, don’t think that it is just some casual words.
Combine that with his effort to falsely portray Reagan as a weak libertarian on foreign policy and national defense, and you now this immigration move, and you can see that he is morphing into pure libertarianism.
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
See post #31.
You know what’s funny is Paul is one of the few politicians who seems to mean what he says. Compare that to Mitt Romney.
I am not supporting Rand Paul, but I still hope he can bring open-minded people into the fold. The smart ones will gravitate toward real conservatism, and Paul’s destiny will unfold as as it does.
This guy makes my head hurt.FURP
Paul is rapidly losing credibility as he is becoming someone that he claimed he wasn’t, for years.
Paul can never be a Romney, no one can, but Paul is showing a vague resemblance to Mitt Romney in character and personality, and even some liberal politics.
Paul says he doesn’t want to argue about “gay marriage.”
That’s probably a mistake. If pressed he should say it’s wrong, that he does not believe in social engineering through the power of government, which this is in spades. Both small and large L libertarians will resonate with that. Still I can see the point in keeping the hands off of the third rail as much as possible, until an advantageous position is acquired.
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