Posted on 08/22/2015 7:24:20 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
SOMERSET — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., stumped for Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin on Friday, but Bevin refused to endorse Paul’s presidential bid when asked by reporters after the event.
Paul offered a Peyton Manning-style, two-minute-drill pitch to supporters asking them to back Bevin in the election against Democratic nominee Jack Conway and independent candidate Drew Curtis.
“You know what I think people are really hungry for in Kentucky? A Republican governor,” Paul told the crowd.
“I think that it’s time that we get not only Republican, but a conservative Republican who has a vision for Kentucky, who knows where to go, knows how to take us there, and will get us out of this malaise,” he continued.
Paul left during the event without speaking to reporters.
After the press conference Bevin told reporters that his focus is on his run for governor, but he refused to endorse Paul in his bid for the White House on the day before Paul will pitch 350 Republican Party Central Committee members to allow an early presidential caucus in the state.
“I am delighted Rand is running for president,” Bevin said. “I have made clear from the very beginning that I am a supporter of that idea. I’m running for governor. I have made no endorsement whatsoever — I have never endorsed a candidate for anything in my life, frankly.
“At this point I don’t intend to in the presidential race while I’m running for governor.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mycn2.com ...
Bevin was the first republican to jump on the anti Confederate symbol bandwagon.
Didn’t Paul endorse McConnell for Senate against Bevin?
Yes, he did.
[ Bevin was the first republican to jump on the anti Confederate symbol bandwagon. ]
Meh... It was a democrat flag...
That whole flag crap was a distraction made by the MSM.
Didn’t Paul endorse McConnell for Senate against Bevin?
Yes and I hope Bevin wins Governor and give a proverbial Bitch Slap to Rand for abandoning his principles for political favors from the Turkey gobbler McConnell.
How Great for Rand to lose the primary in his own state because the governor is campaigning for Cruz or trump or someone else.
Rand had to learn the hard way no to abandon his principles for political favors.
What also would be funny if they pass a bill in the Kentucky sate house to allow Rand to run for senate and pres and Bevin can VETO it, I would laugh for a day for that.
Rand’s campaign is going no where. I prefer Rand on most issues. But the reality is that all of us, Bevin included, need to face the reality that there are now only 6 of the 17 who have a chance. Endorsing one who has already been eliminated from the top 6 is idiocy.
Payback, thy name is "abytch". Rand Paul endorsed and supported Mitch McConnell -- you probably remember the pathetic spin-doctoring that went on around here from the usual FINOs -- and while Matt Bevin is a better choice than the two Democrats in the race (one is running as an "independent") he seems to be a lousy campaigner.
Jack Conway, Kentucky attorney general and candidate for governor, on Wednesday joined the calls to move the Jefferson Davis statue from the state Capitol Rotunda to a museum.
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/06/24/davis-statue-stances-taken/29238127/
As Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes found out last year, the liberal Democratic bases in Louisville and Lexington are not willing to sit idly by and watch as a Democrat tries to appeal to conservative members of their party. Jim Higdon, author of “The Cornbread Mafia,” noted in a story for Politico last December that in the U.S. Senate race, 12,295 voters showed up in Louisville to vote for U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth but didn’t vote for Grimes. Grimes, it seems, lost liberal Democrats by doing whatever she could to win over conservative Democrats — including drawing national liberal ire for refusing to admit she voted for the president. Conway is forever in danger of losing the good will he established with liberals by refusing to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that Kentucky must recognize same-sex marriages. For example, his offer Thursday to pursue an “alternative avenue” for county clerks who refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay couples could leave that crucial bloc of voters sitting at home or running to potential independent candidate Drew Curtis. By hedging on gay marriage, embracing his pro-Second Amendment side and following in the state’s bipartisan political tradition of cozying up to coal, Conway risks losing a base he desperately needs if he hopes to offset a motivated conservative electorate in the rest of the state. And the hard truth is that he needs both to win.
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/07/26/3960840/political-paddock-jack-conway.html
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.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
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.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, 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]
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]
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