Kentucky GOP clears path for Paul's dual campaigns

Politico ^ | 03/07/2015 | AP

[GIdget2004]

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has taken his first step toward running for president with state party leaders endorsing his plan for a presidential caucus in 2016.

The move clears the way for Paul to run for president and for re-election to his Senate seat without breaking a state law that bans candidates from appearing on the ballot twice in the same election.

[House Atreides]

He’s a coward unworthy of being the Republican nominee for either President of Veep.

[Theodore R.]

Has KY ever had anyone good in national office. I can think of only Jim Bunning, whom McC pushed out after two terms. Bunning should have fought back and kept Paul out of the Senate. There was a lot of hope in Louie B. Nunn, but he proved disastrous too.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Rubio has the same issue in Florida but i have not heard that the legislature is picking up on it...Will be intresting if he announces because Florida is by no means a win for the GOP. Governor Scott won re-election by only one percentage point running against the total sham of Charlie Crist.
Freegards
LEX

[Paladin2]

Just a payoff for kissing up to Ditch’s re-election. Rand has no center.

[lormand]

Hat tip to SunkenCiv for compiling this list.

• Sec. of State Kerry: U.S. Not Responsible for Chaos in Iraq, Libya
• NANCY PELOSI: IRAQ IS NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY
• Paul Blames Iraq Crisis on Bush Administration
• Rand Paul Defends Obama Against Dick Cheney

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]

• Paul: We probably can’t get rid of ‘Obamacare’
• Paul: We probably can’t get rid of ‘Obamacare’ - [Sep. 21, 2013 9:56 PM EDT ]
• Paul: ‘Difficult to turn the clock back’ on O-Care
• Rand Paul: GOP ‘probably can’t defeat’ Obamacare
• Rand Paul on abortion: “We’re not changing any of the laws until the country is persuaded otherwise”
• Sen. Paul: ‘We’re Not Changing Any’ Abortion ‘Laws Until the Country is Persuaded Otherwise’

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: I think Republicans may have over-emphasized voter fraud
• Rand Paul: Republicans Need to Soften on Social Issues

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 Wants Bigger GOP: ‘You Go to a Republican Event and It’s All White People’
• (Rand) Paul: GOP Needs to ‘Look Like the Rest of America’ to Win Again (again)
• Rand Paul slams Cliven Bundy’s racist rant
• Rand Paul: Bundy’s racist remarks are ‘offensive’
• Rand Paul: I’m Open to Voting for Immigration Bill
• Paul: Still hope for immigration reform this year

Rand Paul’s immigration speech

...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration. 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.

[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]

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Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform

Latinos, 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]

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[but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]

[cotton1706]

Republican party payback for endorsing McConnell.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Bunning was great, but he arrived in the Senate late in life. He was already suffering from senility and nearly lost his seat in 2004. Had he run again in 2010, I think he would’ve lost it (even in a good GOP year).

[MSF BU]

I am still supporting Walker. There is something about Paul that just does not strike me as a leader. He is another GOP ‘leader’ for whom four years in the military would have done them a great deal of good. Walker fits into this category as well, but Paul I think much more so. As a matter of fact, with the exception of Perry, that ALL fit into that category.

[MSF BU]

Florida may have done the demographic flip, in which case the Electoral College has virtually sealed the GOP’s doom as regards regaining the White House. I have hope that perhaps Pennsylvania or Michigan will cross back to our side but I just don’t see it happening.

[thestob]

Yep. I’m afraid it’s just a losing battle now. With Colorado and New Mexico probably gone forever.... Florida is either there or right at the tipping point. And with a month to drag people to the voting booth it’s just..... Well I don’t see how. So sad.

[Theodore R.]

Didn’t know a thing about the senility, dj, but KY hasn’t produced too many any good.

[yongin]

son of paul running for president. rubio running for prez, and skipping senate re-election. the senate must be a boring place. the senate races look bad for us. kirk, toomey, portman, and an open seat in fl.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I brought it up at the time. Some of Bunning’s hardcore supporters started attacking me here when I called on him to retire in 2010 (when he was 79), lest we lose his seat (but I did NOT want Paul Junior replacing him). There are few things (politically) more sad than seeing heroes past their prime desperately trying to hang on and watching them fade and become a caricature. A 3rd Senate term for Bunning would’ve been that.

But you’re right about KY producing lousy or subpar Senators over the past 50/60 years. John Sherman Cooper, the liberal Georgetown cocktail circuit Senator; Thruston Morton, another establishment Republican; Marlow Cook, a “moderate” Republican who lost his mind (endorsed Zero); Dee Huddleston, a Democrat hack; Wendell Ford, King of the KY Democrat Machine; Randal Paul and Mitch McConnell, useless Establishment hack and sad embarrassment.

Bunning is the only one who stood out, but he should’ve started out decades earlier in federal office (he was still in local office in the ‘70s). After all, Marlow Cook, who succeeded Thruston Morton in 1968, is only 5 years older than Bunning. Other than him, you’d probably have to go back to Henry Clay to find a giant from KY.

[GeronL]

GO pathetic

[fieldmarshaldj]

I don’t think it will be that bad in ‘16 for some of those seats/incumbents. Kirk is the Combiner choice in IL and serves them well in his current position. Toomey may face a rematch with Sestak, and I saw polling that indicated the latter was far behind. Portman (whom I personally want primaried) is facing career politician Ted Strickland, and he, too, isn’t much of a threat (only if Conservatives refuse to vote for Portman on par with DeWine in 2006 does he have a shot).

As for FL, we’ve got an excellent farm team of candidates statewide that should be able to hold Rubio’s seat such as Adam Putnam or Jeff Atwater (although I’d rather Atwater go for Governor in 2018). The Dems only have nutters, such as Lil Debbie and even Alan Grayson mentioned. Either one would be the Dem equivalent of Katherine Harris in being an unelectable and divisive candidate statewide.

I think we have decent shots at knocking off Michael Bennet in CO (who lucked out by having the wrong opponent in 2010) and Harry Reid should be toast this time (against any of the GOP statewide officeholders in NV — I’m personally rooting for Attorney General Adam Laxalt, though he may be too green to run). We should also be running younger candidates for office across the board. All these sad old RINOs and establishment types. We need to aggressively recruit hard-charging men and women from the 30s to the early 50s for Senate seats.

The Senate is nothing more than a geriatric clinic, with many members looking to stay until they’re carried out feet first and to hell with everything and everyone else.

[GOPsterinMA]

“The Senate is nothing more than a geriatric clinic, with many members looking to stay until they’re carried out feet first and to hell with everything and everyone else.”

Damn, that’s good!

[Impy]

Kirk will be heavily targeted but I’m inclined to favor his odds.

Last week Jeff Atwater went to DC to meet with NRSC.

So, am I to presume McConnell really supports Rande for President?

[campaignPete R-CT]

the grass is starting to come through the snow in various places. Frosty is in ICU and old man Winter has been sent to hospice.

And I am not in KY

[jpsb]

Correct, Paul backed Mitch to get the support of the GOPe. He’s better then a real RINO and if he can get his position on amnesty right he would be acceptable to me. Cruz would be better. Paul and Walker both need to convince me that they are not open border globalists.