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UPDATE | Rand Paul struggles to get campaign started smoothly
WRDW-TV / The Associated Press ^ | April 9, 2015

Posted on 04/09/2015 7:27:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul made no mention of the unarmed black man killed by a white police officer during a campaign stop just miles from where the shooting happened.

Paul often says that U.S. criminal justice isn't equally applied, a statement he repeated at his rally Thursday. But since launching his White House bid Tuesday, the Kentucky senator has sidestepped questions about the high-profile South Carolina case...

(Excerpt) Read more at wrdw.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: crime; lping; randpaul; southcarolina
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1 posted on 04/09/2015 7:27:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How can he turn down a chance to call EVERY CONSERVATIVE a RACIST, as he has done with Voter ID?

He needs to start being himself, again.


2 posted on 04/09/2015 7:35:29 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my home page))
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To: BobL

His comment on repealing laws that lock up mostly blacks was brilliant, lets just legalize carjacking and knocking over convenience stores.


3 posted on 04/09/2015 7:39:27 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Paul has a nasty mean personality.


4 posted on 04/09/2015 7:46:19 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He seems pretty lame and weak when he does appearances.

Walker and Cruz seem to know how to keep their cool in interviews showing potential stability and leadership.

Paul whines too much, then calls it ‘fighting back’


5 posted on 04/09/2015 7:52:28 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t think any of the candidates should be getting in the middle of an ongoing murder case in SC. The authorities are conducting an ongoing investigation and a bunch of politicians chiming in is not helpful or appropriate. Well of course unless its OStumbles. :-)


6 posted on 04/09/2015 7:54:05 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am getting bombarded with emails from his campaign asking for money....and I never signed up to receive emails from him. It’s overkill and I am sick of it.


7 posted on 04/09/2015 7:57:22 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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“I don’t think any of the candidates should be getting in the middle of an ongoing murder case in SC”

^^ this.

If Paul comments on it he gets blasted for adding politics to a criminal investigation. If he refrains from commenting he’s blasted for being weak.

Sounds like the media is out to get him. That’s a good sign in my eyes that he’s doing something right.


8 posted on 04/09/2015 8:13:34 PM PDT by SouthReb
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To: SouthReb

My $$$$ are going to the alpha male....Ted Cruz

www.TEDCRUZ.org/donate


9 posted on 04/09/2015 8:19:21 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: SouthReb
So we a newbue Paul bot troll just Signed up April 7 2015

Its left wing trolling season so soon

10 posted on 04/09/2015 8:22:48 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: gwgn02

Its a Paulbot

just signed up on Aoril 7 2015


11 posted on 04/09/2015 8:23:56 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: SouthReb

Paul needs to lose his mean, nasty personality.

He is off to a rough start based on his recent interviews.


12 posted on 04/09/2015 8:27:32 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: SouthReb

Ticking off the liberal media, check. Putting the DNC on the defensive, check. Failing to acquiesce to leftwing sliming, check. So far so good... How do I do a popcorn emoticon?


13 posted on 04/09/2015 8:34:46 PM PDT by z taxman
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To: tennmountainman

Cruz is the Happy Warrior...just like Reagan.


14 posted on 04/09/2015 8:35:25 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: hsmomx3

I am getting bombarded with emails from his campaign asking for money....and I never signed up to receive emails from him. It’s overkill and I am sick of it.


Ditto. Never signed up, wonder whose mailing list he bought :(


15 posted on 04/09/2015 8:36:44 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What's to say about that case? A cop seems to have made a bad mistake and will be prosecuted for doing so.

At any given time there are thousands of murder cases working their way through the system... presidential candidates should be talking about national issues, not specific local police matters.

16 posted on 04/09/2015 8:38:34 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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He can’t talk about a murder that has national attention,
but he can show his nasty personality to female reporters?

Paul is a short man with a nasty personality.


17 posted on 04/09/2015 8:50:29 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: Cementjungle

Planting a weapon on the body wasn’t “a mistake.”


18 posted on 04/09/2015 9:12:53 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: hsmomx3

Both his campaign and Cruz’s and a couple of others got my email address from somewhere. I never signed up with any of them, but I sure am getting the emails.


19 posted on 04/09/2015 9:15:40 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I see an America where criminal justice
is applied equally and any law that
disproportionately incarcerates people
of color is repealed.
Rand Paul

20 posted on 04/09/2015 9:20:48 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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