Posted on 06/06/2009 7:27:27 PM PDT by GoldStandard
Dr. Ron Paul’s son, Rand Paul, has formed an exploratory campaign for U.S. Senate from Kentucky. Rand Paul is similar to his father in ideology; he favors a strict application of the Constitution to federal government matters, thus opposes the Federal Reserve Bank and the U.S. Department of Education and supports lower taxes and less spending.
A grass-roots movement formed several months ago to draft Dr. Rand Paul to run for the U.S. Senate after incumbent Republican Senator Jim Bunning. Bunning has left hints he may not run for reelection. Bunning, who had a career spanning 15 years in Major League Baseball prior to election to Congress, has polling numbers as low as 28 percent in Kentucky. He has also openly feuded with the establishment Republican Senator from Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The 45-year-old Dr. Rand Paul became a medical doctor (opthamologist) after graduating from Duke medical school, the same medical school his obstetrician father attended. “We believe that the Republican Party in many ways has lost their believability on issues like the deficit.” Dr. Paul told supporters on his exploratory campaign website. “We have a chance to win in this primary.”
Dr. Paul has already garnered more than $64,000 in donations in addition to more than 2,700 supporters on his Facebook cause.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Well said.
***There’s no doubt in my mind that McCain would have continued the same statist policies that Obama and the Congressional Dems are doing now.***
Didn’t the guy even propose having the federal government back all mortgages during one of the debates?
Your fake laughter is unappealing.
Nevada is a great example... people are afraid to go up against Harry Reid, he is extraordinarily unpopular in his own state, yet they cannot find anyone in either party to oppose him.... and here in Arizona we have one very weak candidate opposing McCain in the primary... he is ripe for the picking, actually had the gall to say last week that "in my fifth term I plan to concentrate on issues important to Arizona!!!!!!!!" soooooo after 30 freaking years he suddenly realizes he is representing the state of Arizona, the state he has rarely shown up in other than to vacation or hold townhalls with a hand-picked audience.
That’s your perception, and an inaccurate one at that.
Paul opposed the nation-building and democracy-building in the Mideast aspect of it. If Bush would have went to Congress to declare war, Paul would have voted for it. He still voted to go into Afghanistan and fight the terrorists using tools already available in the Constitution.
Puleeze! Letters of Marque and Reprisal may still be in the constitution, but mercenary use in wars is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions. Sort of takes the wind out of Paul’s sales in that regard. And, just which country were we to declare war against? Iraq was basically a resumption of the First Gulf War, completely legal since the Hussein regime was not even trying to live up to their end of the cease fire.
Earmarks? Please.
Funny how you and other FReepers "FReeped" online polls but then bi!ched when Paul supporters did it.
Sorry, it isn’t that you all stacked the polls, but that you began to believe your own misinformation and argued it was factual and we were lying.
You should know that Paul was partly the reason why McCain picked Palin to try and bring in the folks who supported Paul.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sad thing is, I bet you actually believe that.
I would rather have an outright leftist Democrat…
And that is why we all opposed you so hard. To try to prove a point, you would accept a communist regime and expect everyone to feel good about it.
Pitiful, just pitiful.
TO GoldStandard
It’s neither fake nor meant to appeal to you.
Excellent analysis Blue!
To: RegulatorCountry
Actually I don’t respond to “sources” or “link please”. You keyboarded yourself here. Keyboard Ron Paul and anti-Semite and tell me how much you found. He’s an anti-Semite PERIOD!!! If he ain’t, he can sue me. But truth is always a defense.
19 posted on 06/06/2009 8:06:19 PM PDT by fortunate sun (Tell me what books you want to ban and I'll tell you what type of politics you hold.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
Pages of evidence? What is that? Some propaganda you read or perhaps even wrote yourself?
I'll tell you what. Show one credible piece of evidence proving your claim, and we'll see how credible you are.
He’s a yellow-belly because he refused to defend this nation from it’s enemy.
Speaking of fingertips, I'd wager he has more courage in the fingertip of his pinkie finger than you have in your entire body of lies and deceptions.
He’s also a convenience conservative based upon his acceptance and request for earmarks.
Yep, I think you got him here. I too find him guilty of producing a return for the taxpaying citizens of his constituency. No fault of his though, since he NEVER votes for them.
I will stand by to wait for your credible evidence he's an anti-Semite. Though I shant be holding my breath. So yes, I am trying to get you STARTED. It's time for you to prove your claims.
“... so don’t bitch about the state of the GOP or even the democratic party when people are too lazy to vote and then complain and place protest votes in the general election that give the exactly wrong result. “
I’m not bitching about either faction, just describing the trajectory of one of them - - it’s going the way of the Whigs, and the RINOs are welcome to it. Perhaps it’s not that people are “too lazy”, but that they by and large realize that, as in Iran, only “nomenklatura candidates” who toe the line of the keepers and handlers @Rome-on-the-Potomac (now morphing into Caracas-on-the-Potomac) get past the Kabuki theater known as the “primary process”.
It’s amusing that people only now seem to be noticing that “our elected representatives” don’t even try to read the legislation that they are enacting. That’s been true for years; it’s only becoming more obvious now, as the time scale is reduced from weeks or days to hours, for the lobbyist_tool-written language in these bills to be voted into law.
Let the “centrist parties” do their thing, as they did in the 1850’s, trying to “put humpty dumpty back together again”, and failing miserably. When we get to the stage of “regime change” due to the abject failure of the existing order to find a pathway back to stability, perhaps there will be some point in participating in the rebuilding effort. Or perhaps the growing disorder will outlive us, and our descendants will have to deal with it when the time comes. That works for me too (Isaiah 57:1-2). Better expenditure of time and effort is to prepare the descendants (our children and grandchildren) through careful attention to their character formation and setting of life goals. At least that has some prospect of making a positive contribution.
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Another Dr. Paul in Congress?
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Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek to Arizona Carolyn
@ Arizona Carolyn
Historically, the Republican party superceded the Whigs when the Democrat party fragmented over sectional differences and the slavery question. The Republican party is going the way of the Whigs because it has lost its moral compass and deteriorated into “Democrat-lite”. Complaining that departing conservatives who cast protest votes are the cause of the problem, rather than the symptom, will not change the problem. The RINO’s can have the dying carcass. Conservatives will look elsewhere.
Voting Republicrat is self-defeating and only keeps the fascists in power....as should be obvious by now.
People who think like you is why Obama is now President and in the process of destroying this country, go play somewhere else, I have no patience with people who think as stupidly as your post here indicates.
Please think that through (really), and explain to me how that statement can possibly be true.
Encouraging people to vote other than Republican was all over FR from the Paulista and their ilk... many proudly posted the day after the election that they voted for Obama... I'm sick of immature non-critical thinkers, it is ruining this country.
Amen.
And for the record, I never voted for Obama, and never will.
I worked harder in party politics in 2007 and 2008 than I have ever worked, within the GOP, at a time when I had precious time to waste doing it, and the Republican Party said, in a loud, clear voice, "We don't tolerate representative democracy, and we would rather DIE than be different in any substantive way from the Democratic Party!" What's a person supposed to do when a party wants to commit suicide so badly? I have babies to raise, and a family to provide for, and freedom to fight for - I don't have any more time for the rotten Republican Party and their meaningless games. I look forward to their political death - it can't happen fast enough, because they are at least half the problem.
We are a two party country, you know it and most thinking people know it. Third parties always, always, always lead to electing democrats. You don’t like the GOP the get people out to vote in the primaries..... tough I hesitate to recommend that to you Ron Paul supporters as I’ve heard the stories about your actions on the local level around the country, very destructive and as out of step with the majority of American voters as the Obama voters.
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