Posted on 01/04/2015 7:56:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
His father couldn’t wrest the nomination from Ronald Reagan in 1980. They are not superhuman.
The Democratic Party will no more nominate a “Reagan Democrat” than we would put Michelle Obama up for vice president. That ship sailed in 1972.
This is fantasy. Early punditry means squat.
Remember how Hitlery was a shoo-in for 2008? Then the Kenyan Commie showed up.
Did you ever hear of David Brat?
Yes, it is time to do that.
But the national GOP chooses to leave them open, because it wants liberal candidates for president, and it’s obviously willing to use democrats to achieve that.
I will support Cruz, Lee or Palin. The rest of the GOP can pretty much take a flying leap.
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]
Go cry somewhere else.
If there were two circles, Tea Party people and The Base (holy crap, in Arabic that is al Qaeda), how much of an overlap do they have? When moderate Republicans or country club republicans speak, do they think they are the base? Or are we conservatives the base? I don’t even know any more.
From every poll out there I read that only the (marginal, loser) tea party types want Ted Cruz. Even moderate republicans think the Tea Party (which I thought was all constitutional conservatives) is wack.
FreeRepublic has never faltered or altered their stance in the umpteen years it’s been in existence. How far away from us has the “base” of the party gone?
Ted Cruz never gets more than a fraction of the votes in these things. I feel like we are stuck in a bad dream. What do the “base” republicans even want from their government? “Do us like the Dems but be more gentle??”
I honestly can believe people would be enamored with Jeb Bush so much that he’d win these kinds of poll. This is getting past the “name-recognition” stage where as I’ve said before, we have a diet of these kinds of article every few days.
I know! It’s like we are being rectally fed Jeb Bush.
Probably. That’s certainly true for the Democrat establishment.
There are still some socially conservative union people who register as Democrats. They are convinced that the GOP is only interested in those who have money and would ship their jobs to China or replace them with illegal aliens. As if the Democrats aren’t doing exactly the same thing, with a little communism thrown in for flavor.
Anyway Webb is going to appeal to these people, you can see it from things he’s been saying in the past. The question for him is how many of this sort still exists.
Palin won’t run but she will be able to rally support. Cruz and Lee would be great.
“Ted Cruz never gets more than a fraction of the votes in these things. I feel like we are stuck in a bad dream.”
Don’t get discouraged, these voter surveys are name recognition at this point.
Oh yes, after he defeated Cantor, he was ubiquitous in news stories.
If you were paying attention, he was in more than one story many times before he beat Can’tor that you obviously missed. And for your second point down the list, a negative attitude never, never, got anyone ahead. So keep your small minded attitude and go snivel to someone else who might give a hoot, you know, something about suffering fools lightly.
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