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Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance
Press TV ^ | 27 Jan 13

Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins

The Republican Party needs to broaden its appeal by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war," U.S. Sen. Rand Paul told hundreds of Greater Cincinnati Republicans Saturday.

"We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue," the Kentucky Republican said at the Northeast Hamilton County Republican Club's annual pancake breakfast at the Sharonville Convention Center.

To help the party rebound from two successive losses in presidential races, Republicans must find new strategies and messages to reach voters who now often look askance at the GOP, Paul told a crowd of more than 500.

Toward that end, the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage, Paul said.

“We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party,” Paul said.

Paul, a tea party favorite whose name is among those mentioned in the early speculation over the 2016 presidential campaign, expanded on that theme in a brief interview with The Enquirer after his speech.

“Even bigger to me than the social issues is the idea of war,” Paul said.

Republicans, he said, might attract voters put off by the party's hawkish image “if we had a less bellicose approach, if we were for a strong defense but a little bit less aggressive defense around the world”.

“If we didn't have to be everywhere all the time, if maybe we tried to reserve it for when our national interests were impacted or a vital interest of ours was - and if Republicans didn't seem so eager to go to war - I think we'd attract more young people”. wtsp.com


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1 posted on 01/31/2013 5:09:02 PM PST by xzins
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War and gay marriage....libertarian issues.

I guess it’s in his DNA.


2 posted on 01/31/2013 5:10:22 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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He should have left out the notion of attracting more people to the Republican Party and just focused on the fact that it's the right thing to do.

Without turning the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Eastern Europe into seas of glass, there is no way to win the "War on Terror".

3 posted on 01/31/2013 5:17:52 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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Transcript please, sounds slightly like creative editing to marginalize the Senator


4 posted on 01/31/2013 5:18:53 PM PST by WilliamRobert (God Bless Texas)
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Transcript please, sounds slightly like creative editing to marginalize the Senator


5 posted on 01/31/2013 5:19:22 PM PST by WilliamRobert (God Bless Texas)
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The “War On Terror” isn’t much different than the “War On Poverty”....ect....ect.


6 posted on 01/31/2013 5:22:11 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: xzins

Anyone know what Rand Paul thinks about Amnesty?

Libertarians are usually all in on “Open Borders.”


7 posted on 01/31/2013 5:23:20 PM PST by zeestephen
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Transcript please, sounds slightly like creative editing to marginalize the Senator

Well, I certainly don't trust Press TV (aka Iranian state media), but this sounds like stuff Rand would say. He's something of a libertarian, and I will bet much more like his Dad than he lets on. He has an isolationist (anti-war) foreign policy and isn't very interested in fighting over the social issues. Very much like his father.

8 posted on 01/31/2013 5:23:54 PM PST by Longbow1969
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To: xzins
Follow in the ideological footsteps of your nutcase dad and find that you hae support from nobody but Dad's fringe cult.
9 posted on 01/31/2013 5:26:29 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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McCain was never going to be able to or allowed to defeat Obama. I agree that the Republican party is going to have to change but I just don’t think Republicans have the spines to stand up and be true Constitutional adhering Conservatives. Nor do I think they will ever agree on why we lost in 2012, what we should do about it in the future or even have enough imagination to come up with a list of other things that could possibly go wrong.


10 posted on 01/31/2013 5:28:36 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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The Republican Party, of which I am no longer a member, is going to have to change indeed! They're going to have to stop trying to appease and pander to special interest groups and go back to advocating and practicing the basic truths they stood for in former years.



Keep Faith with the Fallen of Benghazi! Let the Obama Regime, for once, tell the Truth!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

11 posted on 01/31/2013 5:34:21 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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I do believe it’s high time for a lower profile foreign policy. It’s not our job to democratize the world. We do have some interests abroad, but helping jihadis overthrow stable Middle Eastern countries is not one of them. Plus, it’s related to our immigration policy. Since we import 100,000 Muslims annually, we are importing a growing terrorist threat within our own borders.


12 posted on 01/31/2013 5:35:38 PM PST by River Hawk
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Can you explain our need to get involved in Libya? (and now apparently dozens of other African nations)


13 posted on 01/31/2013 5:37:58 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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The Republican Party needs to broaden its appeal by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war," U.S. Sen. Rand Paul told hundreds of Greater Cincinnati Republicans Saturday.

Wrong, Rand. In fact, instead of being lazy and speaking in generalities, invite voters who actually care to examine the record. More liberal DEMOCRAT leftists are responsible for sending more American men and women to war than are the 'Pubbies.

And, thse same DEMOCRATS are responsible for those troops remaining at war than are Republicans. While the 'Pubbies usually take a harder stance toward defending America and talking a good story, it is the left that actually sends more American military to war because they think it makes them "look presidential" and they get a footnote in history of being a "wartime president".

IOW, it's all about who is full of more crapola! Tell people THAT story, Rand!!

14 posted on 01/31/2013 6:54:08 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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The Republican Party needs to broaden its appeal by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war," U.S. Sen. Rand Paul told hundreds of Greater Cincinnati Republicans Saturday.

Avoiding conflict, ditching principles, setting aside morality, taking a puff on the bong, and engaging in some inconsequential gender neutral free love -BUT limiting government and being fiscally conservative?

Who does this morally devoid anarchist idiot think he is fooling?

15 posted on 01/31/2013 6:54:36 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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Faggots in the military. Women in combat. Geez, I have a problem with women voting. Abortion. Welfare. $16+ trillion in debt. Gun grabbing. Obama phones. Wet backs. Government schools. Over regulation. Over taxation. Crime ridden cities. Hatred of American Exceptionalism. And we have a Muslim Marxist for a president.

Just exactly how many of my principles, values, religious beliefs and God given rights to I have give up for a bunch of pussy Republicans? We have a cry baby for a Speaker and a vast majority of Republican house members votes for him. There are only three Republican Senators that voted against John F'n Kerry, a communist traitor.

Rand Paul can shove it up his ...

sorry for the rant.

16 posted on 01/31/2013 7:10:49 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe)
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If we are going to send our children to fight a war, we need to at least give them the tools to win it.

We were right to go into Afghanistan and kick the Taliban out. We should have been a bit more brutal in our initial entrance and we should have left 10 years ago. We might have had to go back once or twice but clearly we shouldn’t be “nation building” in an Islamic cesspool like Afghanistan.

As I have stated numerous times, we lost the war in Afghanistan when we ordered the Army to burn Bibles. We lost our moral authority when that happened. IMHO we can’t get out of there soon enough.


17 posted on 01/31/2013 7:17:16 PM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: River Hawk
It’s not our job to democratize the world

It is our job to destroy our enemies. Rebuilding their countries and giving them a government that they didn't earn by spilling their own blood is not our job. That was a Bush idea. Obama just wants to make love to them ...f'n faggot.

18 posted on 01/31/2013 7:17:16 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe)
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No need to apologize....thats the way many of us feel....and you said it quite well. Thank You


19 posted on 01/31/2013 7:30:21 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: xzins
War and gay marriage....libertarian issues.

First things to cross my mind, too.



20 posted on 01/31/2013 7:35:55 PM PST by rdb3 (We're all going to get what only some of us deserve...)
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