Posted on 02/03/2016 6:07:06 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul announced on Wednesday that he is suspending his 2016 campaign for president.
"It's been an incredible honor to run a principled campaign for the White House," Paul said in a statement. "Today, I will end where I began, ready and willing to fight for the cause of Liberty."
Paul finished fifth in Monday's Iowa caucuses with 4.5 percent of the vote -- behind rivals Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ben Carson.
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True, but we will never know what goes on in their minds and how they are influenced.
This is the good thing, because most of the other also-rans have supporters who will consolidate around the remaining establishment candidate (Rubio).
Rand Paul is a good man. I’ll miss him in the debates.
Not sure ol Yeb can bring himself to believe...no one wants him in the oval office. Afterall, his daddy and lil brother were pressy-dint, why cann-ah. lol
When I watch the guy in the debates or town halls, you can read it all over his face. Frustration...why don’t they belive me...why?
Rand’s problem was that he couldn’t decide whether he wanted to be a libertarian like his father or a mainstream Republican, and in the process managed to alienate both constituencies. When he spoke like a libertarian, he didn’t do it with his father’s conviction, when he tried to sound mainstream, he was just repeating GOP establishment boilerplate that voters can get just as easily from other candidates.
“Rand Paul doesn’t want to be compared with his old man, Ron Paul, who did very well in NH when he ran for Prez back when. Too embarrassing, as Rand is bombing out in NH. So he is pulling out before the vote is taken in NH. Rand must be a great disappointment to his father, Ron Paul.”
When you try to be all things to all people, you wind up being nothing to anybody. If Rand had stuck to his libertarian guns, he might have done respectable second and third places like his father. Instead, he managed to alienate both libertarians and the GOP establishment by trying to have one foot in each door.
I’m surprised. He was doing so well. /s
“Paul finished fifth in Monday’s Iowa caucuses with 4.5 percent of the vote — behind rivals Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ben Carson.”
What does that say about Bush?
All we have to do is vote for yet another law clerk lawyer turned politician!
He’s a con-servative!
Farewell to the only genuine defender of Constitutional liberties in the race. Like his father before him, he just didn’t have the charisma to sell his vitally important message.
It’s obvious his votes should go to Cruz. But you never know.
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: 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's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
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.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, 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]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
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]
Well, if he doesn't want to be called every name in the book, he'd better endorse Cruz. If he remains true to his libertarian leanings, he'll go with Trump.
Which is exactly why I support Trump. He has the ability to take on tough projects. The mess in Washington DC will never be fixed by a politician. They are incapable of finding solutions to problems. Creating problems are more in their line as it makes reelection possible It will take an outsider bringing in a whole team of outsiders hell bent for leather to tame that beast.
They’re all establishment candidates.
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