Rand Paul has asked Sarah Palin to campaign for him

Texas for Sarah Palin ^ | Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 1:35 PM | Josh Painter

[Josh Painter]

Rand Paul, a candidate in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Kentucky revealed in an interview Thursday for the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire blog that his campaign has asked 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to campaign for him:

Washington Wire: Do you want Sarah Palin to campaign for you?
Paul: We’d love to have her come. We’ve made some overtures to her.

But the son of Texas congressman Ron Paul did not seem too excited about two other potential Republican presidential candidates:

Washington Wire: What about Tim Pawlenty or Mitt Romney?
Paul: I don’t know much about Tim Pawlenty. Romney, there’s a mixture of beliefs there.

Read the full Rand Paul interview here.

- JP

[rabscuttle385]

then shouldn't you support repealing the ENTIRE bill of rights?

Not necessarily.

It all depends on whether the federal Bill of Rights, i.e., the first Ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, apply to solely the Federal government or to the Federal government and the States (and their constituent counties, parishes, boroughs, independent cities, towns, townships, hamlets, etc.).

Remember, prior to their ratification in 1791, the original 1789 language of the constitution was silent on those matters and left it up to local and state governments to decide policy on those matters as they saw fight. It wasn't until the constitution was amended that we had a sweeping, national policy on right to bear arms or freedom of the press that all states were bound to obey.

The various Amendments were extended to the States with the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, after the Civil War, not in 1791, with the original ratification of the first Ten Amendments.

[EternalVigilance]

Unalienable rights were not given by man, or endowed by our Constitution. They are the gift of God to all human beings equally.

The Founders made this very clear in the Declaration of Independence, along with the fact that the very purpose of government, all human government, is to protect those rights.

This pernicious notion to the contrary signals the end of our republic, and the death of American liberty.

[Impy]

I’m very glad the bill of rights currently applies to the states as well.

It gives the people some protection from their awful state governments.

[Impy]

Paul: I don’t know much about Tim Pawlenty. Romney, there’s a mixture of beliefs there.

Yeah a mixture of raw egoism and socialism. And dung.