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Posted on 05/17/2014 9:44:20 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
CINCINNATI (AP) — Potential Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said Friday in a visit to swing state Ohio that the GOP needs to broaden its appeal.
The Kentucky senator was the featured speaker Friday evening for the Hamilton County Republican Party's annual Lincoln-Reagan dinner. Paul took part in school choice discussion earlier Friday at a Cincinnati public charter school, and later said that the GOP needs to try harder with every ethnic group.
"The Republican Party needs to be bigger, bolder and better," Paul told reporters. "I think we can be all of those things. We have to reach out to new people."
He said Ohio "is the microcosm of the problems that the Republican Party has." He said while Republicans are winning offices in the state, it has gone Democratic in the last two presidential elections.
"In order for us to win in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, these states, we have to reach out and appeal to people who haven't been attracted to the party before," Paul said in an interview. "Because if we keep doing the same old, same old, we're going to get the same result, which means we'll get our butt whupped again."
He said, for example, that Republicans can reach out to black voters by offering more economic and education opportunities with new approaches.
The tea party favorite said he believes the movement focused against government debt is still very active, although tea party candidates have faltered in primaries this year. He said it's not an exactly defined movement, with variations in different places and sometimes multiple candidates asserting they are tea party candidates.
"It's not like you have a membership card," he said. "I think the movement is alive and well. The election results are murkier."
Paul, who has been an outspoken critic of the Obama administration's drone-strike policy,
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Paul always sounds like he wants to be the next McCain.
” Bigger, bolder, better “ sounds like bigger government to me. I no longer trust Rand Paul.
Why does “reaching out” to “new people” always have to be so expensive? Back in the day, just making the opportunities available was sufficient when “reaching out.”
He must have found one of Obama’s old speeches.
I’m starting to like his dad more than him.
It’s disturbing to see him stepping this low so early, by next year he’ll be spouting off about global warming.
The reason it is SOOOOOO expensive?
The repugs have spent all their money trying
to Defeat TEA party candidates
How is “don’t ask don’t tell” on social issues bolder?
The reason Ohio went dhimmiecrat in the last two prez elections is due to all of the vote fraud in Cuyahoga County you moron. It never ceases to amaze me how smart people can be so stupid.
“He said, for example, that Republicans can reach out to black voters by offering more economic and education opportunities with new approaches.”
Runt Paul should name some of them, but there aren’t any without embracing socialism.
He is the classic Libtardian, their ideas suck so bad that they can’t get elected to any office without lying about the party they belong to.
Cross an anti-tax fiscal super conservative with a Godless, degenerate, anti-military hippy on LSD, and you get a Libtardian. Neither side of the isle likes them.
What kind of people? Just anyone? People with no values? White people, black people, Hispanics -legal or not legal? Why not just Americans who love America and know right from wrong?
I have completely lost confidence in Rand Paul.
His Libertarian influenced immigration policy was always a deep concern for me.
But no one who understands America’s recent political history can seriously claim that “reaching out” to minorities will somehow benefit the Republican Party.
Minorities treat the GOP like Palestinians treat Israel.
No matter how many concessions we make, no matter how many principles we abandon, no matter how far to the Left we move, they still revile our Party, and they still actively work for our political destruction.
Whichever party wants to be the supporter of the middle class will sweep the election. Fat chance, because the Democrats want to be the party of the poor class and Republicans want to be the party of the rich class. We need another Perot who heard the economy sucking sound from unbalanced trade agreements.
It's called "compassionate libertarianism"....
It never ceases to amaze me how smart people can be so stupid.
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The thing is he is not stupid; he is just lying. So that makes him evil rather than stupid, IMO. I can forgive stupid.
Ru Paul gets more Liberal every day.
What I worry about the most with Rand Paul is that he will run as a Libertarian in 2016. I think that is the reason that he is distancing himself from conservatives, so early. I think that he will make the announcement in plenty of time to organize his campaign as a Libertarian, not a Republican and he will give all his differences with conservatives as the reason.
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