Posted on 03/19/2014 4:11:52 PM PDT by mdittmar
BERKELEY -- Nobody should be surprised that Rand Paul got so warm a welcome Wednesday, even in a city whose name is often preceded in conversation by "The People's Republic of..."
After all, the junior U.S. Senator from Kentucky and likely contender for 2016's Republican presidential nomination is following in his father's footsteps by drawing crowds of enthusiastic young followers, particularly on college campuses, wherever he goes.
And his policies -- particularly criticizing government surveillance programs, noninterventionist foreign policy, and rethinking the war on drugs -- draw voters from across the spectrum, including some of Berkeley's famed lefties
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He doesn’t appeal to me in the least, he is in the wrong party
Why would it make Libs worried? If he is the nominee, socons stay home
Rand has already come out against the conservatives, he wants to bring us down, so I wouldn’t worry about the media going after him.
I’ll take Cruz over Paul any day. But Christy? Forget about it!
Expect the DNC to destroy Rand Paul soon....
As long as he keeps calling for the party to move left, expect them both to support him.
Good point libertarians are trashing tx via the rep convention. Last year they got plank loosened up on IA’s and this yr it’s legalizing pot
Ted Cruz and Rand (or Ron) Paul shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence or the same username. Cruz is a true patriot; Paul is a nutty libertarian isolationist like his father.
I’ve always thought that if a conservative candidate could lighten up on the “war on drugs” without alienating other conservatives, he would have a huge coalition to work with.
Cool story, bro.
Free meth in elementary schools a quarter an ounce for higher grades I guess
I don’t think we’d find Rand Paul hankering for that, but instead slashing federal involvement with education.
>>I think the youth are more PO’d about the NSA and the growing police state and Internet surveillance more than anything else.<<
Some of them are; some of them aren’t. But I think the group you mentioned will find what Rand Paul has to say quite interesting and will agree with him.
When the NSA snooping scandal broke, that’s when the younger voters started deserting Obama in droves. Paul is tapping into that, and quite effectively it would appear.
Either that or he’s another pothead and they love him for it, I suppose. /sarc
>>I don’t think we’d find Rand Paul hankering for that, but instead slashing federal involvement with education.<<
Oh, you’re just trying to be rational about all this...so much more fun to put words (and a joint or two) in his mouth.
Still no mention of unlimited detention of American citizens without due process—no access to a lawyer if you get haled away in the middle of the night.
Is this not the most important issue? Not NSA looking at your iPhone messages? Paul dwelt on it at length at CPAC.
Why does the media treat this like a third rail?
Problem is, for most, pot breeds not caring and not caring breeds Democrats, and the Dems know this. Booze evokes angst and caring about stuff, in an odd sort of way!
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