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Rand Paul gathering leaves little doubt on ‘16
Politico ^ | November 14, 2014 | Mike Allen

Posted on 11/14/2014 10:30:27 AM PST by C19fan

Over steak and ravioli at The Liaison hotel on Capitol Hill on Wednesday night, about 50 aides, advisers and supporters of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) got pumped up for a presidential campaign they now believe is a 95 percent certainty. The senator introduced his wife, Kelley, and we’re told a final check-in with his family is his last hoop before settling on a presidential campaign. Paul is still saying he’ll decide this spring, with April the target for a fly-around announcement in the early states.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 2016; kentucky; libtardians; paul; potus; putinsbuttboys; randpaul; randsconcerntrolls

1 posted on 11/14/2014 10:30:27 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Rand is a sell out Rino of the highest order.


2 posted on 11/14/2014 10:34:20 AM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Howard Phillips Conservative)
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To: C19fan

I’d vote for Captain Kangaroo before I’d vote for this clown.


3 posted on 11/14/2014 10:40:34 AM PST by Pilated
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To: C19fan

Well, good for him. But if he wants my vote, he’s out of luck. I’ll never support someone who wants to actively destroy this country via “immigration reform.”


4 posted on 11/14/2014 10:41:27 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: C19fan; SunkenCiv
Hat tip to SunkenCiv for compiling this list.

Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'
Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists]
[Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"
I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.
[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance
...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... 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 party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.
[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
Rand Paul's immigration speech
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...
[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]

5 posted on 11/14/2014 11:05:06 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: C19fan

A few headlines:

Rand Paul: American’s wont pick crops for $8/hour when they can sit at home and get welfare

Rand Paul to back path to citizenship for illegal aliens

Rand Paul’s immigration speech

Rand Paul’s immigration plan: Border security before probationary legal status

Associated Press stands by Rand Paul ‘pathway to citizenship’ report

Sen. Rand Paul: Illegal immigrants should be allowed to obtain legal status

Rand Paul to back path to citizenship for illegal aliens

Rand Paul: GOP must ‘evolve’ on immigration

Rand Paul is on record as opposing Guantanamo Bay and supports releasing the terrorists. He’s on record opposing drone strikes against Al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan, saying, “A perpetual drone war in Pakistan makes those people more angry and not less angry.”


6 posted on 11/14/2014 11:09:09 AM PST by Haddit
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To: C19fan

Ron Paul seem to have run for POTUS more than Harold Stassen ran for that office. Rand is starting early to see if he can set the record for most failed runs for the presidency.


7 posted on 11/14/2014 11:11:34 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: C19fan

Rand pretended to be a conservative. He’s a liberal... whatever you want to list what type of liberal that would be. Rand Paul is all over the place with his policy ideas.


8 posted on 11/14/2014 11:20:08 AM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: C19fan

Paultards suck.


9 posted on 11/14/2014 12:23:16 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Christie at the beach
Rand's problem is that he is one of the biggest proponents of imitation reform.

He's just another smoke and mirrors dingo.

10 posted on 11/14/2014 12:37:13 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: C19fan

He’s a loser retread.


11 posted on 11/14/2014 1:05:45 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: C19fan

Rand needs to remain in the Senate, he isn’t going to get elected President.


12 posted on 11/14/2014 1:09:24 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: CatherineofAragon
Brave Sir Robin...

...when danger reared it's ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled....

13 posted on 11/14/2014 1:19:53 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'
Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists]
[Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"
I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.
[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance
...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... 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 party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.
[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
Rand Paul's immigration speech
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...
[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]

14 posted on 11/15/2014 10:06:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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