Posted on 11/08/2012 10:21:50 AM PST by oneprolifewoman
In January, Paul will retire from Congress. A decade ago, this would have signaled the effective end of antiwar conservatism as a meaningful political force. Today Paul leaves behind an entire wing of the Republican Party sympathetic to his views, some of whom identify explicitly as “Ron Paul Republicans,” while some do not.
Justin Amash, a freshman Republican from Michigan, has already emerged as a Paul successor of sorts in the House. Like Paul, he is a constitutional stickler, refusing to vote for bills that contradict his oath to uphold the Constitution. He has pressed for an end to Bush’s wars and opposed Obama’s new one in Libya.
Paul’s son Rand has become the leading Tea Party senator, more widely admired by the broader conservative movement than his father. Reason editor Matt Welch has called him “the most interesting man in the Senate.” He has also become the most vocal conservative Republican opponent of excessive foreign adventurism in that chamber since Robert Taft.
That’s not to say the GOP is Ron Paul’s party. Paul supporters were mistreated by party bosses in primaries and caucuses from Maine to Louisiana. Convention planners in Tampa were short-sighted and brutish in their handling of Paul delegates. But Ron Paul supporters hold important party leadership positions at the state level in Iowa, Maine, Alaska, Nevada, and elsewhere. They have won seats on the Republican National Committee. Paul’s campaign chairman will be running Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s 2014 reelection campaign.
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FURP!
I like Rand. I’m in!
Provided we have an identifiable America by then).
His legacy, fittingly, is one of failure.
Ron Paul betrayed his supporters by not endorsing Mitt Romney more enthusiastically as the GOP nominee.
These young mushy-headed yoots will be burdened most by the Obama legacy.
Rand is definitely more likely to make a mark nationally than his father.
How could he be a leader??
NO support here for him...
I’d prefer a son of Paul to run than a son (or a brother) of Bush!
>>>>”Youth voters will be critical to our future and I think trying to embrace Ron Paul’s legacy will help the Republicans stay relevant with the young voters. “
What legacy is that?
Rand Paul is my number one choice for the GOP presidential candidate in 2016. No more RINO’s it does not work. We need to shake it up and roll the dice.
And here on FR, too.
I’m ready to listen to him. From what I’ve heard of him he makes a lot of sense.
Rand Paul actually impresses me as a solid mainstream Conservative that a lot of people could support. He appears to lack his father’s Dr. Strangelove factor.
I’m ready to listen to him. From what I’ve heard of him he makes a lot of sense.
provided he can keep from making inane comments that damage him politically, I might be game for Rand to run.
However, it is way too soon to throw him out there. The more time the MSM has to write about him, the more likely he is to become damaged goods.
Being unabashedly pro-life, favoring a constructionist view of the Constitution, and rejecting Keynesian economics both in rhetoric and in action.
I like Rand. He is NOT his father when it comes to policy (foreign policy included). Rand actually has common sense.
Loyalty to his father? I am okay with that. I wish Obama showed a little loyalty to a few brave men in Libya a few months ago.
Unfortunately, Rand has the charisma of a turnip and will not get far on the American Idol season we call the general election. He is a great U.S. Senator. I wish we had 51 Rand Pauls there.
I would, however, support Rand in a presidential run if he got that far.
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