And to think I once liked this guy.
Posted on 09/16/2015 9:55:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As he prepares to take the stage Wednesday for the second televised Republican presidential debate, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is making it clear he wants to use the airtime to go after Donald Trump again.
“I think he deserves both barrels,” Paul said in a Tuesday afternoon interview with The Daily Caller. “I want to make sure everyone in the whole country knows he’s a fake conservative.”
Paul went on offense against Trump harder than any other Republican in last month’s Fox News debate. But despite the attacks, Trump’s numbers have only gotten stronger while Paul’s have faded.
Previewing his argument against the New York businessman at Wednesday’s Reagan Library debate in California, Paul said voters just need more time to learn about Trump’s past positions: “I think ultimately when voters fully grasp who he is and what he supports, I think they’ll run away with their hair on fire.”
“The message hasn’t penetrated yet that Donald Trump isn’t one of us,” Paul argued. “He’s barely a Republican. He’s been a Democrat. He’s been a huge supporter of Harry Reid, Charlie Rangel.”
Paul has been criticizing Trump for acknowledging that he gives money to politicians because he wants to call in favors down the road.
“He’s the consummate insider,” Paul said, “buying and selling politicians.”
Even though he has seen his numbers go down, the senator says he is “comfortable with where we are” because “we have our own niche that’s carved out quite well.”
“I’m the only one on the stage who has actually put forward a budget that balances,” Paul said. “I’m the only one really on the stage who stood up in defense of privacy, through the Fourth Amendment right to be left alone. I’m the only one on the stage who says, ‘you know what, I’m not for sending our sons and daughters back to war in Iraq.'”
Asked about Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina — two other Republicans who, like Trump, have never served in office and have seen their poll numbers rise recently — Paul declined to criticize his rivals.
“I don’t know enough about either one of them to know what their positions are on policies,” he said. “But I think they do represent a significant frustration of everybody with Washington. And I’m part of that. I ran for office because I was unhappy with what’s going on in Washington and continue to be.”
Part of Paul’s challenge now is to convince voters that he’s a true outsider. His campaign slogan is “defeat the Washington machine.”
“I continue to be one of the leading proponents for term limits,” he said. “Because I think the only way to get our government back is actually to have more changeover in office.”
The campaign, he said, is also actively working to remind people he’s been an eye surgeon for 20 years and has spent most of his life outside politics.
“It takes a while,” he said. “Probably 1 in 100 voters knows I’m a physician so we do want my entire biography to be out there.”
So...my question is (and I do not know the answer to this) What is Rand’s position on firearms and the Second Amendment?
Howdy Doody Paul has personality issues that will keep him out of the presidency. He is just annoying.
Limbaugh just said the word has gone out that it is Fiorina who is supposed to take Trump out tonight over his comment about her face.
Trump isn't surging because of how he says things, he's surging because of his policies on immigration and the economy.
Trump is not going to change those policies. Anything Rand says to tear him down will only build him up more.
When he went after Christe, both went down in the polls.
The fake conservatives are the ones who say we must abandon the rule of law and surrender the country to fraudulently documented foreigners.
“Can I get me a huntin; license here?”
And to think I once liked this guy.
I can just see a political cartoon with a huge and menacing Trump in the background and a the foreground with a tiny Rand handing a tiny Fiorina a pop gun saying “here, you do it!”
GMTA! lol!
“I think he deserves both barrels,”
Hey! He stole Biden’s line!
Hey, Brave Sir Robin, here comes an illegal alien...grab your hamburger, RUN-AWAY!
So Rand Paul (After Bobby Jindal and Carly Fiorina) is the latest GOP-e stooge being asked to fall on his sword.
Whatever.
He sounds like a petulant child.
“I’m gonna show everyone that he is a fakey fake fake conservative!!!”
Yeah? And care to explain why he has represented key conservative ideas better than people like you that p*ssed away the summer just enjoying being seen as a candidate?
If you can’t box like Trump, then what good would you have been as a nominee anyway?
So trump and all the gop candidates go to a keg party with 2 barrels of beer. Whoever negotiates the best gets the most beer. After five minutes rand paul says trump deserves both barrels. All the others agree.
If this will turn out to be a “W” moment where his opponents misunderestimate him and take themselves down.
You'll shoot your eye out!
-PJ
Sorry Rand old buddy, but you're waaaaay behind the curve here. We know who Donald is and we're still supporting him.
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