I will take Ted Cruz or Rand Paul over any of the establishment possibles as they are the only two that really plan to cut the size of the US govt bureaucracy. We can elect Jesus himself as President but if we don’t drastically cut the size and scope of this monster runaway govt we will never get the Republic back. We will never get our personal freedoms back. At least through the ballot box.
Rand Paul is establishment, he is of the Romney/McConnell camp, not outside of it.
Paul is a consistent endorser and campaigner for the establishment, from Romney to McConnell, and even opposes the tea party in practice, in true libertarian style, he serves a political agenda that contradicts the image that he works to project to casual watchers.
March, 2013—”Rand Paul endorses Mitch McConnell in 2014 Senate race, won’t back tea party challenge”
“Sen. Rand Paul says he’s staying out of the Senate runoff this month in Mississippi, where tea party favorite Chris McDaniel is favored against long-time Republican Sen. Thad Cochran in Mississippi.
“We’re not going to get involved” in the June 24 election, the Kentucky Republican, a tea party favorite himself who’s likely going to run for president in 2016, told a handful of reporters in the Capitol.”