Posted on 06/11/2014 10:09:26 AM PDT by C19fan
In the wake of Rep. Eric Cantor’s stunning primary defeat Tuesday night, many conservatives have rushed to declare the outcome a referendum on Republican efforts to pursue immigration reform, a key wedge issue in the race. But tea party hero Sen. Rand Paul isn’t buying it. In a teleconference with Grover Norquist, a conservative champion of immigration reform, Paul told reporters Wednesday he wouldn’t back off his position on the issue. “I still am for it,” Paul said. “I say everywhere I go that I am for immigration reform.” He argued that Cantor’s loss to a little-known conservative economics professor was the result of the majority leader finding himself on the wrong side of many issues important to the grassroots, including the debt ceiling, the NSA spying program, and “corporate welfare.”
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Sometimes people just don’t know when to shut up.
Rand can take a hike. The older he gets the more like his old man he becomes.
Paul must want to quit politics.
Republicans WANT to be the secondary party, enjoy all the perks but have absolutely no responsibility and still get invited to the Hamptons for chablis and brie. Out they all go!
And the working class voters of Kentucky...white *and* black...also support amnesty?
FURP!! Amnesty pimps need not apply!!
I bet given Rand’s libertarian purity get him into a private room and he will state he is for pure open borders, a.k.a., a Suicide Libertarian.
“In a teleconference with Grover Norquist, a conservative champion of immigration reform, Paul told reporters...”
This disturbs me to no end. Dang it Rand, don’t you know when to stop the stupid??
Everybody is for “immigration reform.” The problem is that if you don’t elaborate on what you support, specifically, it’s easy for folks to think you agree with them. Randy needs to publish a 5-point schedule/timetable of those things which comprise his concept of “immigration reform.”
“F” ‘Immigration Reform’!
JUST enforce existing laws.
There is NOTHING to “REFORM”!
JUST ENFORCE THE CURRENT LAWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But he’s really a conservative!!!! We need him! Hes not REALLY siding with rinos and democrats! OH NO!!! its part of a secret plan!!!
What is S.O.S., Stuck On Stupid?
I'll take "RINOs the Endangered Species Of the GOPe" for 400 next Alex...
“Paul must want to quit politics.”
Another DC phony who has had loads of cash waved under his nose from the open borders lobby.
Same way Dems ‘parse’ and guide the narrative. Politicians making the story sound like they need it to sound and forget the truth. Is this really all that diferent than saying “it depends on what your defintion of ‘is’ is?”
I’m for reform too. Ask me how after the walls completed and those here illegally are sentg back home. I’ll be happy to share details then.
Rand might prove to be a bigger flake than his father as the mask slips further away.
Sure didn’t take Rand long to become Potomacized.
Keep it up Rand, keep it up.
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