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GOP Contenders Better Take Note of Rand Paul' s Strategery
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 03-20-2014 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 03/20/2014 4:51:43 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016

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To: BarnacleCenturion

oh he’ll win…straw polls….internet polls…..just like Ron did. That’s it.


21 posted on 03/20/2014 5:12:22 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

“Not a single one of these kids will ever vote for Paul, or any Republican”

If you are right then the war is already lost.

These “kids” will be the ones voting and deciding elections in the years to come. The traditional republican base is getting smaller after each cycle. It simply cannot deliver the necessary electoral votes anymore.


22 posted on 03/20/2014 5:15:52 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: AlexW

Would you vote for Rand Paul if it was him against Hitlery in the general election? Just curious.


23 posted on 03/20/2014 5:15:53 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

I guess if your name is Clinton, that is good news.


24 posted on 03/20/2014 5:17:41 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: PaulCruz2016

I agree with Rand.....

But young people votes are barely worth mining given their turnout

The best vote mining ore is the 35-50 white middle class pays taxes vote

No question.....it takes a 10% shift in black or Latino vote to equal a 1% shift there

The path to Vick Toree


25 posted on 03/20/2014 5:18:11 PM PDT by wardaddy (the real battle is what do we replace America as we knew it with....and will we fight..literally)
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To: ansel12

This would be great if he were taking our conservative message to them.

Instead, Rand Paul is trying to build the political political support needed so that he can defeat conservatism within the GOP and make it a rino/libertarian party, and totally eliminate the Reagan wing.
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Hint: A Constitutionally restrained federal government IS a conservative message.

What other politician is bringing up the fact that the government is completely out of control to leftist college kids and is actually getting their applause because it resonates with them (probably because they have never heard such a message before)?

That’s right. No one.

I despise Paul’s flippity floppity behavior when it comes to the topic of illegal immigrants but saying Paul isn’t delivering a conservative message — that being a Constitutionally restrained federal government — where no other politician dares to go is denying what lies at the heart of conservatism: Liberty.


26 posted on 03/20/2014 5:19:10 PM PDT by FerociousRabbit
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To: FerociousRabbit

BINGO!


27 posted on 03/20/2014 5:20:19 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Please are Paulbot crazies are DU nutters who try to do as much damage to the Gop as possible .
Its a tired old Scam they have been doing for decades using village idiot Ron and now his son to get into the Gop primaries to do serious damage for the DNC !

Rand is a useful idiot like his Dad.


28 posted on 03/20/2014 5:21:08 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: Bogie
Does anybody remember a Republican convention where someone took a Ronald Reagan signed and sat on it? He didn’t become the nominee that year. They said he was too radical. And Jimmy Carter became the president.

How good is your memory?

That was the year that Ayn Rand was doing everything she could to keep Reagan out of the White House, she despised his conservatism and supported the social liberal Ford, in 1980 the libertarians had their greatest election ever, trying to defeat Reagan.

Ayn Rand on the 1976 GOP race: ""I urge you, as emphatically as I can, not to support the candidacy of Ronald Reagan. I urge you not to work for or advocate his nomination, and not to vote for him."" she also would not vote for, or support him in 1980.

29 posted on 03/20/2014 5:23:16 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: FerociousRabbit

Great post.


30 posted on 03/20/2014 5:27:54 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Exactly.
I used to see this crowd in the bay area back in2008.
They were DU/ Occupy crazies who used Ron Paul to attend and trash all Gop events.

Rand supports K Street Mitchy in Ky because he hired a relative and Amnesty too.


31 posted on 03/20/2014 5:28:23 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Totally meaningless….as far as prez politics is concerned. A Fools errand.

Disagree. For Republicans, California is never about votes in the general election. It's about campaign contributions, especially during primary season. He may have helped himself a lot in that respect. Time will tell.

32 posted on 03/20/2014 5:28:26 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: FerociousRabbit

Social liberalism and gay marriage and wanting to move the GOP party platform left, are NOT a conservative message.

Gay marriage and social liberalism at the federal level are big government, not small government, and Paul is running for federal office.

Calling for the GOP to rewrite it’s platform dropping fundamental elements of conservatism and coming out against the conservative base, is not conservative.


33 posted on 03/20/2014 5:29:34 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: FerociousRabbit

He supports the vile Mitch McConnell, the most crooked and damaged Gop leader in my lifetime .


34 posted on 03/20/2014 5:30:00 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: ansel12

Looks like many here missed these threads. Too bad.

Rand Paul: Republicans Need to Soften on Social Issues http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3133629/posts

Rand Paul: Republicans must agree to disagree on social issues in order to grow the party http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3133298/posts

Rand Paul: GOP Must ‘Agree to Disagree’ on Social Issues in Order to Expand Party http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3133268/posts


35 posted on 03/20/2014 5:30:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

29 is a great post, 26 was just the usual opinion stuff.


36 posted on 03/20/2014 5:31:33 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: ansel12
That was the year that Ayn Rand was doing everything she could to keep Reagan out of the White House, she despised his conservatism and supported the social liberal Ford, in 1980 the libertarians had their greatest election ever, trying to defeat Reagan.

You do know that Rand despised libertarians, right?

37 posted on 03/20/2014 5:32:37 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: laplata

Would you vote for Rand Paul if it was him against Hitlery in the general election? Just curious.

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You didn’t ask me, but I’ll answer.

NO. I would not vote FOR Paul. I would however vote against Hillary - even if that means voting for Paul.

There is a difference here, and the DOP-es AT THE GOP-e don’t get it. They keep selecting losers to run and its no surprise that conservatives are staying home on election day.


38 posted on 03/20/2014 5:35:24 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: PaulCruz2016
Rand Paul Cosponsors Life at Conception Act
39 posted on 03/20/2014 5:38:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: SeeSharp

Yes she mocked libertarians for their goofiness, and she despised Reagan for his conservatism, two different things.

Rand truly and passionately despised Reagan and conservatism.


40 posted on 03/20/2014 5:40:12 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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