Would have been better if he got J J Watt.
Posted on 04/06/2015 11:38:28 AM PDT by Plummz
When Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky kicks off his campaign for president on Tuesday, one of the people who will endorse him and share the stage is former Representative J.C. Watts, one of the few black Republicans to have served in Congress.
Mr. Watts is expected to be a vocal surrogate for Mr. Paul, who has made clear he is trying to show he can broaden the Republican Party’s base to newer voters.
“Senator Paul has shown what I have always believed, a leader can be a strong economic and social conservative and yet be concerned about the least of these,”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sorry to hear this..
Don’t care if he has the NAACP, he’s still a wolf in sheep’s clothing and not a conservative, but he is a nut.
I’ve noticed he’s been quiet on the middle east and the freedom of religion when it concerns homosexuals too.
Rand Neville Chamberlain Paul has about as much chance getting the GOP nomination as I do and that’s none.
Not sure if Paul believes his own hype or he is just really whacked out
I remember when JC Watts was supporting Obama.
Wouldn’t trust him.
He’s counting on druggies, kids, and blacks.
Yep good luck with that.
We had Mort Sahl AND Billy Dee Williams, and it still didn’t help!
JC’s turned a little affirmative action in the past years.....and we know Rand will pander to anyone.....(think his comments on Cochran outreach to African American voters....)
Would have been better if he got J J Watt.
okay BYE!
Admittedly a tough call, but either way, No Sale.
JC just buying hook, line and sinker into the Obama post partisan BS....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcTwc6_nqyE
Semantical disconnect
Rep. J.C. Watts, Oklahoma Republican and chairman of the GOP House Conference, says he never uses the word “conservative” before black audiences because they tend to view the term as racist.
Mr. Watts, in an interview with USA Today political columnist Richard Benedetto, said part of the GOP “disconnect” with blacks is the party’s careless use of words such as “conservative,” which many Republicans wear as a badge of honor.
Although Mr. Watts is known as a conservative, “I don’t ever use the word,” he said. “It conjures up thoughts to many folks of [Alabama Gov.] George Wallace standing in the doorway of the University of Alabama to block Negroes from entering or [Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene] ‘Bull’ Connor turning police dogs and fire hoses loose on black folks who wanted to sit at a lunch counter to have a hamburger and a cup of coffee.”
Rand Paul is a “social conservative?” Right. Sure.
Character no longer counts.
That's interesting, coming from the guy who wrote:
Rand Paul is more to the left than liberals on social issues. How they have written he is a social conservative and not laughed is beyond me.
J. C. Watts - big hat, no cattle.
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