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Video linked where he's dinging both parties...

This explains his recent actions. He's highlighting these credentials maybe as part of a run for higher office.

Some will like it, some won't.

1 posted on 05/19/2025 10:50:44 AM PDT by RandFan
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So is he saying “Everyone in Congress could be wrong except for me”?


2 posted on 05/19/2025 10:53:29 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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Midget Man won’t be standing alone....he’ll have a cadre of DEMS and RINOs backing him up.


3 posted on 05/19/2025 10:54:07 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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Trump should hammer this little flake until he starts to cry.


4 posted on 05/19/2025 10:54:25 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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He’s a solid Republican politican, who has suffered a LOT to stay in politics. Including several attempts at his very life!

His damaged lung was in need of surgery after being assaulted by a crazy left wing neighbor. He was within vicinity of Steve Scalise when Scalise was shot at the Congress baseball game. Among other close call instances...

Governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement took him over the edge when he first started running for Senate...

His father, Ron, has been an instrumental in shaping MAGA despite some profound ideological departures with Trump...

Sometimes I worry that Rand has too much of a personal grudge against Trump, with MAGA actually but...overall, principle has seemed to triumph in his world more than corruption...


6 posted on 05/19/2025 10:56:45 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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This is the problem with these idealistic perfectionists.

He thinks he’s so right on every issue that he can’t look at the bigger picture involving a closely split Congress and the opportunity to take advantage of a strong Republican president.


7 posted on 05/19/2025 10:57:29 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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‘Politics is the art of the possible.’
— Bismark

Rand doesn’t care about what is possible. He could help the GOP gain a victory 80% of the time, but he’s too cool for that! He needs to be right 100% of the time. Which is one reason we lose so very much. A lot of things become impossible if people like Rand refuse to seize the possibilities.


8 posted on 05/19/2025 10:57:38 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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Yes he’s pimping for the big office fail will ensue.

He’s turned into a yes boy for the power people.


9 posted on 05/19/2025 10:58:32 AM PDT by Vaduz
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10 posted on 05/19/2025 10:59:03 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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"@RandPaul I'm not afraid to make the tough decisions, even if it means I stand alone I'm standing with the RATS."

There, fixed it.

11 posted on 05/19/2025 10:59:12 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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Some think he is a libertarian lunatic.
13 posted on 05/19/2025 11:00:00 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Problem is if you don’t stand with your party you are effectively standing with the liberal democrats!


14 posted on 05/19/2025 11:00:15 AM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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I had to check which party Rand Paul currently belongs to.
AI says he is a Republican.
I could see him making the case for belonging to either Republican or Libertarian.
Rand was born to the breed of Independence or Libertarianism, growing up as one of Ron Paul’s sons, raised in the Episcopalian Church.


15 posted on 05/19/2025 11:00:18 AM PDT by lee martell
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He stands out in his field.


16 posted on 05/19/2025 11:01:21 AM PDT by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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>> a run for higher office... Some will like it, some won’t.

Some may vote for him. The majority will have the common sense not to.


22 posted on 05/19/2025 11:02:56 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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And standing alone means not properly representing his constituents.


26 posted on 05/19/2025 11:04:14 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Burma Shave)
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For most people, the perfect is the enemy of the good. For Paul, the perfect is the only good, and "good enough" is an unconscionable compromise.

-PJ

27 posted on 05/19/2025 11:04:20 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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“”@RandPaul

I’m not afraid to make the tough decisions, even if it means I’m standing alone.””

Problem is.... he’s not ‘standing alone’. He is standing against the Trump agenda... right along with the enemies of America, the Democrats and their assistants, the RINOs. Thus making RandPaul part of the problem and yet another enemy of America. Nice of him to self-identify, though. Makes it easier to know who to nix next time he’s up for election.


31 posted on 05/19/2025 11:07:06 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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Being "afraid" is not the issue, being "stupid," so as to help the Ds, is the issue.
38 posted on 05/19/2025 11:13:31 AM PDT by rx
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Just another McCain priding himself on being a “maverick “. Nauseating self obsession...


39 posted on 05/19/2025 11:13:32 AM PDT by vespa300
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His approach would be commendable if he was in an executive position instead of being just one voice in a bucket full of inept, incompetent and corrupt fools.

Has he ever been in a position to veto a spending bill?

47 posted on 05/19/2025 11:22:51 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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