Posted on 09/16/2015 9:55:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As he prepares to take the stage Wednesday for the second televised Republican presidential debate, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is making it clear he wants to use the airtime to go after Donald Trump again.
“I think he deserves both barrels,” Paul said in a Tuesday afternoon interview with The Daily Caller. “I want to make sure everyone in the whole country knows he’s a fake conservative.”
Paul went on offense against Trump harder than any other Republican in last month’s Fox News debate. But despite the attacks, Trump’s numbers have only gotten stronger while Paul’s have faded.
Previewing his argument against the New York businessman at Wednesday’s Reagan Library debate in California, Paul said voters just need more time to learn about Trump’s past positions: “I think ultimately when voters fully grasp who he is and what he supports, I think they’ll run away with their hair on fire.”
“The message hasn’t penetrated yet that Donald Trump isn’t one of us,” Paul argued. “He’s barely a Republican. He’s been a Democrat. He’s been a huge supporter of Harry Reid, Charlie Rangel.”
Paul has been criticizing Trump for acknowledging that he gives money to politicians because he wants to call in favors down the road.
“He’s the consummate insider,” Paul said, “buying and selling politicians.”
Even though he has seen his numbers go down, the senator says he is “comfortable with where we are” because “we have our own niche that’s carved out quite well.”
“I’m the only one on the stage who has actually put forward a budget that balances,” Paul said. “I’m the only one really on the stage who stood up in defense of privacy, through the Fourth Amendment right to be left alone. I’m the only one on the stage who says, ‘you know what, I’m not for sending our sons and daughters back to war in Iraq.'”
Asked about Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina — two other Republicans who, like Trump, have never served in office and have seen their poll numbers rise recently — Paul declined to criticize his rivals.
“I don’t know enough about either one of them to know what their positions are on policies,” he said. “But I think they do represent a significant frustration of everybody with Washington. And I’m part of that. I ran for office because I was unhappy with what’s going on in Washington and continue to be.”
Part of Paul’s challenge now is to convince voters that he’s a true outsider. His campaign slogan is “defeat the Washington machine.”
“I continue to be one of the leading proponents for term limits,” he said. “Because I think the only way to get our government back is actually to have more changeover in office.”
The campaign, he said, is also actively working to remind people he’s been an eye surgeon for 20 years and has spent most of his life outside politics.
“It takes a while,” he said. “Probably 1 in 100 voters knows I’m a physician so we do want my entire biography to be out there.”
Rand is a Dweeb ,, like his dad he is from another universe ,,, perhaps from the planet Youranis .
Thank you. I just spit out my ginger ale. ROFL
I'm certain the entire liberal world (including the GO-Pee) will come down hard on Rand Paul for this remark advocating a gun crime just like they did when Sarah Palin put a target symbol on a map graphic. /s
So we are like stupid? Make sure you speak really slowly and use simple words so we will “fully grasp” Trump.
We know what he is going to say-he isn’t a real conservative. He has already said it and Trump still ascended to the top spot. I wouldn’t spend a lot of time playing Rand’s game tonight if I were Donald. Rand just wants the publicity that the fight will give him. If I were him, I would focus on eliminating Carly Fiorina. decisively. She is low hanging fruit-an easy victory that he can walk away with. He doesn’t need to take all their heads tonight to walk away a winner-one will suffice.
Put that on our tombstone.
Rand Paul and his follower need to find a new home in Guayana.....name Paultown or something.
What if Trump had said that Fiorina deserved both barrels. The headline would something like :”Trump hates women so much that he wants to kill Fiorina.”
But of course the allusion that Trump should be killed goes unnoticed. If Rand were called on it he’s say it is a simple figure of speech. End of discussion.
But Trump is expected to take it. I hope he carpet bombs all these people tonight.
Rand just wants the publicity. Attacking Trump is the only way he gets that.
I can see the debate now, with a Vader voice: "Rand, I am not your father..."
Go For It Rand
A Public Tantrum Will Help You A Lot
If nothing else, what we're witnessing is the scam called the two party system, which is actually one party.
Isn't it funny how the Republicans' line of being a “Big Tent” party doesn't seem to apply to Trump?
Rand Paul is no example of a conservative.
I’ve always liked Rand and he’s never, until now, shown a wacky side like his dad did. But his Trump attacks have a wacky element to them and makes Rand look bad. Rand is not geared to attack mode. It is not his style and he is out of his element when doing so. He should stay on message which means he probably won’t get elected but he’ll be respected and influential for what he says which is often valuable.
Rand is listening to his advisers or donors and has gone off track and off message the way his dad would. I noticed that his dad would be lucid and coherent and actually very good about economics and the Constitution, but something would happen when he switched to foreign policy - he would go into attack mode and would zing off into outer space. Rand does the same when he’s in attack mode. Doesn’t work for him.
====The fake conservatives are the ones who say we must abandon the rule of law and surrender the country to fraudulently documented foreigners.——
There isn’t a real conservative in Congress by now.
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