[Kaslin]

The rest of the title is: Private Financial Information from Corrupt and Evil Governments

[boycott]

Senator Rand Paul is being criticized and condemned by the Washington establishment.

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Says it all.

[Tupelo]

I like a lot of things about Rand Paul. I was kinda leaning toward him in spite of his immigration stand. But the thing that disqualifies him from my support and most important thing, my vote is; he is planning on running for two federal offices at once. I have never and will ever vote for a politician that thinks he or she is so damned indispensable they have to hedge their bets to remain Washington.
No Rand, to me you are now just another empty suit politician.

[crz]

Neither Paul nor Cruz, Lee, should run. We need them to remain in the Senate. Add to them, several more like them.

I suspect that Walker will run and take it.

Time will tell.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The article also notes that Senator Paul is one of the few lawmakers to fight back against the egregious FATCA legislation.

I'm almost a single issue voter on this one. Any politician who supports or voted for or even simply failed to understand the effects of FATCA is a traitor to his fellow citizens and an enemy of the Republic. They view Americans as property of the state, and every damned one of them needs to be flung from office at an exuberant velocity. Rand Paul is virtually the only voice rising in opposition - and for that alone, he will get my vote for any office he pursues.

[Lowell1775]

Without google...but paraphrasing a rhyming story my father and grandfather demanded we memorize as kids.

“With the enemy thundering toward the city, forth steps brave Horatius.

To all men death comes soon or late, and what better way to meet one’s fate than in some fearsome struggle against impossible odds, for the ashes of your fathers and the temple of your God. In yon straight path ten thousand may well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on either hand and hold the bridge with me?

Then freemen in freemens’ struggle spared neither land nor gold, nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, in the brave days of old. Then none was for a party, then all were for the state. Then the great man helped the poor,and the poor man loved the great, then lands were fairly portioned and spoils were fairly sold. Freemen were like brothers in the brave days of old.

When the good man mends his armor and trims his helmet’s plume. When the good wife’s shuttle goes merrily flashing through the loom. With weeping and with laughter still is the story told, how well Horatius held the bridge in the brave days of old.

Moral:
Be that man or if not him, his friends. Let others run. Always hold the bridge.”

Dad just finished 6th grade in a one room school house in the hills of WV. His father a lay preacher and self taught school teacher who hadn’t gotten that far.

But they knew what was important for their boys to know. Virtue. Courage. Loyalty. Being a or even THE essential man when needed.

In college I learned this was from a well known poem “Horatius at the Bridge” from a collection of poems called the “Lays of Ancient Rome”. Dad/Gramps have obviously taken some liberties with the language and my memory blurs with the years....but still, what would you expect a freeman to do.

I hope Rand Paul, or Cruz, or Perry, or someone yet unknown is our Horatius. Our William Wallace.

With the right leadership, there are far more than three who will hold the path with them.

It may well be that Jesus is that man now. His day may have come.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

DO NOT TRUST RAND PAUL!!!!

[Theodore R.]

Sorry, but those committed to McC won’t do much.