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Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:43 am to RollTide4Ever
Posted on 3/20/14 at 11:02 am to trackfan
quote:They better be if they want to win. What's always stuck me is how much right/left agree on in this country. Yet our current leadership appears to want to highlight differences.
I'll bet both the Republican and Democratic establishments are watching Paul very closely and taking notes.
quote:They can't, because he is not his father. He's more moderate on many issues that got him pigeonholed.
One thing that's certain is that it will be hard for FOX News to treat him like they did his father.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 11:39 am to trackfan
Paul is the future of the GOP, and people like him.
It may be a tough change of power to endure, but in the end we will all be better off once the old baby boomer establishment crowd retires and new blood with new fresh ideas come into power.
We have to get past that generation who thinks weed and gay marriage is bad. We have to get into the more technologically savvy generations who are concerned about the Government watching our social media and tracking phones.
Many in the younger generations feel suffocated by Government, and feel finically stressed with no good jobs available and high student loan debt.
People like Paul have the solution to these problems.
It may be a tough change of power to endure, but in the end we will all be better off once the old baby boomer establishment crowd retires and new blood with new fresh ideas come into power.
We have to get past that generation who thinks weed and gay marriage is bad. We have to get into the more technologically savvy generations who are concerned about the Government watching our social media and tracking phones.
Many in the younger generations feel suffocated by Government, and feel finically stressed with no good jobs available and high student loan debt.
People like Paul have the solution to these problems.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 12:35 pm to deltaland
Posted on 3/20/14 at 12:39 pm to RollTide4Ever
I oppose almost everything Rand stands for. That said I applaud him for going there. In the belly of the beast. Took guts
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:01 pm to trackfan
Cooking up schemes to keep young, black, and spanish people from voting...
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:08 pm to JEAUXBLEAUX
quote:
I oppose almost everything Rand stands for.
I know a lot of people like you who don't mind the government spying on them. They also have little faith in minorities like you as well.
Have more faith in your fellow man
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:19 pm to JEAUXBLEAUX
quote:
I oppose almost everything Rand stands for
The NSA already knew this about you.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:20 pm to JEAUXBLEAUX
quote:
That said I applaud him for going there.
I can't fathom why this surprises people. Ron Paul campaigned on the Berkeley campus in 2012 and got a 100% positive, wildly enthusiastic response and a crowd of over 1,000.
Listen to this speech and the crowd:
LINK
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:40 pm to RollTide4Ever
San Francisco Chronicle headline:
Republican Rand Paul fires up a Berkeley Crowd
Oakland Tribune headline:
Rand Paul, Republican presidential hopeful, finds support in Berkeley, of all places
The Daily Californian (Berkeley school newspaper) headline:
Rand Paul discusses domestic spying and privacy rights at Berkeley Forum event
And then there's the predictable.
Here's FOX News' headline:
Rand Paul rebukes Obama over spying in Berkeley speech
And of course there's The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin's headline:
Rand Paul panders at Berkeley
I guess Paul has replaced Chuck Hagel as #1 on Rubin's hit list.
EDIT: Rubin proves my point that when Paul runs for President, he will be attacked more from the right than from the left. If he gets the nomination, don't be surprised if some of the neocons endorse Hillary over Paul.
Republican Rand Paul fires up a Berkeley Crowd
Oakland Tribune headline:
Rand Paul, Republican presidential hopeful, finds support in Berkeley, of all places
The Daily Californian (Berkeley school newspaper) headline:
Rand Paul discusses domestic spying and privacy rights at Berkeley Forum event
And then there's the predictable.
Here's FOX News' headline:
Rand Paul rebukes Obama over spying in Berkeley speech
And of course there's The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin's headline:
Rand Paul panders at Berkeley
I guess Paul has replaced Chuck Hagel as #1 on Rubin's hit list.
EDIT: Rubin proves my point that when Paul runs for President, he will be attacked more from the right than from the left. If he gets the nomination, don't be surprised if some of the neocons endorse Hillary over Paul.
This post was edited on 3/20/14 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 3/20/14 at 2:23 pm to trackfan
quote:That would be a-okay.
don't be surprised if some of the neocons endorse Hillary over Paul
They'd be dead to politics from that point forward.
Good riddin's IMO.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 6:56 pm to RollTide4Ever
Paul just got a lot of praise on Chris Matthews' show today, with Mark Halperin calling him a GOP prophet, but he said that he still thinks the establishment is too afraid of him to let him win the nomination.
EDIT: Even Democratic lockstepper Eugene Robinson grudgingly praised Paul's speech.
EDIT: Even Democratic lockstepper Eugene Robinson grudgingly praised Paul's speech.
This post was edited on 3/20/14 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 3/20/14 at 7:06 pm to trackfan
The establishment Republicans will harrumph, defend the NSA, propose another meaningless vote to repeal Obamacare, and go on and on about gay marriage and then wonder why they keep losing.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 7:41 pm to GoBigOrange86
Posted on 3/20/14 at 7:51 pm to RollTide4Ever
Read the comments below. Whole lot of bs in there with no examples to back it up. Some people are scared. Or just angry.
This post was edited on 3/20/14 at 7:52 pm
Posted on 3/20/14 at 7:58 pm to RollTide4Ever
quote:
Rand has Gavin shook. Fogging scumbag.
This says it all:
"The issue of privacy is the issue of our time," Newsom said afterward. But he was less focused on the message in this case than on the messenger - a Republican senator from Kentucky who attracted an adoring crowd in one of the most liberal cities in the U.S.
Newsom was something of an advance scout for Democrats, especially former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton - he was an early endorser of her 2008 presidential run and will be onboard again should she decide to run in 2016.
"I am interested in who he is, and why this message has resonance - particularly with young people," Newsom said, motioning around the room. "Who are these folks?
"From a political perspective, Democrats, particularly, should pay attention to it," Newsom said.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 8:32 pm to trackfan
That doesn't say ALL of it, the next section details their plan of attack:
quote:
Robert Reich, the Clinton administration labor secretary who was also in the audience Wednesday, noted that on such issues as gun control, abortion, same-sex marriage and gays in the military, Paul is one of the Senate's most conservative members.
If he doesn't "change his positions," Reich suggested, Paul would have difficulty winning a general election.
Paul opposes letting gays and lesbians into the military, would repeal most gun-control legislation and says states should be free to ban same-sex marriage. Until recently, he opposed all abortions, though he now has suggested that he is open to "exceptions" that may include when the mother's life is at stake.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 8:41 pm to LSUGrrrl
Paul is the only republican running that I feel very confident about getting elected. He has a message of change that independents are looking for and republicans will have to vote for him over a democrat. That is a winning combination.
Dems will say he is against abortion--he is but he maintains it is a state issue and not a federal
Dems will say he is against gay marriage--he says that too is a state issue just as it is today.
He against gun control laws and most Americans agree.
They will drag up stuff his dad said and try to call him a racist. Won't work.
Dems will say he is against abortion--he is but he maintains it is a state issue and not a federal
Dems will say he is against gay marriage--he says that too is a state issue just as it is today.
He against gun control laws and most Americans agree.
They will drag up stuff his dad said and try to call him a racist. Won't work.
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