Michigan Political Points: Ted Cruz presidential bid pitched by prominent Republican strategist

If Boehner and McConnell both keep their jobs it does not matter who the Republican Nominee might be for 2016. The Republic will not survive two more years of increasingly overt and acquiesced dictatorship. We are facing Stalin to GW’s Lenin or Octavian to Julius. The rhymes are coming hard.

“Saul Anuzis WILL shove a big old Bowie knife into the back of Ted Cruz before he moves on to fawning over Jeb Bush, Romney, or Chistie....”
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Thanks cripplecreek, I trust your knowledge and insight about ALL things Michigan (as well as on the broader national stage). Sounds like Anuzis is the classic “snake in the grass”.

Since Bush intends to skip Iowa, if Cruz is to win, he must win Iowa by a huge margin, to get early momentum.

Does Ted Cruz know the truth about Saul, from what’s been posted here? If he DOES NOT, then WE must get THE WORD out to TED CRUZ.

I don’t know, but it obviously wouldn’t hurt to inform Sen. Cruz that he’s got saboteurs trying to jump on the bandwagon.

Willard’s home state wants Ted Cruz ???

OH NOOOOOEZ !!!

I don’t know about all that. But Saul is incompetent and certainly wouldn’t be of any help to Cruz.

John Yob, is he related to Chuck Yob?

John is Chuck’s son.

A shame he’s backing Rande.

Rand’s gonna have to decide if he wants to keep that Senate seat or abandon it for a difficult Presidential run, because he won’t be able to do both.

Rand and his Paulistinian lawyers are prepared to sue KY in federal court, claiming that it is unconstitutional to place restrictions on running for president or running for the Senate above and beyond the requirements in the Constitution. It’s not a bad argument, really, and he can cite Powell v. McCormack and the U.S. Term Limits case as precedents; of course, his Paulistinian lawyers probably don’t recognize the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court and make an argument based on the Articles of Confederation or something.

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.

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]
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]
[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]