What a weasel. KY needs to boot both these turds from the Senate.
As far as I’m concerned Rand Paul’s career is drawing night. He’s proving himself to be another whoremongering idiot like the rest of his own kind...
Well Rand is his daddy’s little boy....
If you want to meet real slime. scummy vile, lowlifes whackos just look up Paul followers LOL! Is what it is folks!
Claiming to be for liberty while siding with big government RINOs.
Follow the money.
Paul ran for the Senate in 2010 as an outsider and won his first election with Tea Party support. His floundering presidential campaign is going nowhere and if he wants to keep his Senate seat will need to suspend his presidential campaign and start running in earnest for reelection to the Senate. To win reelection to the Senate he will need big money.
Paul’s attacks on Cruz are confirmation he has sold out to the establishment for the money and ground support to be reelected to the Senate. Another Tea Party class of 2010 sellout. It goes to show that in politics the outsider can occasionally win an election but without access to big money and the party ground organization it is virtually impossible for a Congressman or Senator to be reelected. Once they understand the money game, most outsiders quickly capitulate and become part of the machine.
The essential truth is the people may get angry in a single year and tilt some individual elections enough to bring in a few outsiders. However, average citizens in aggregate don’t contribute enough money to fund modern campaigns. Unless a politician is independently wealthy, he or she is eventually going to have to sell out to the party, special interest groups, or a group of wealthy individuals.
Paul’s strong support of McConnell’s reelection campaign in 2014 was a strong signal he was already house broken. The fervor of his recent attacks on Cruz is a strong signal the establishment has him on a short leash.
Today’s Republican party cannot tolerate independence. If Cruz does not win national office in 2016 (president or VP) the last two years of his Senate term will be miserable and the party will work against him for reelection in 2018. Unless he is able to find some very wealthy conservative backers Cruz will likely find money to be a problem in 2018.
How's that working out in the shrink government game?
Paul reminds me of Rubio, Carson, and Kay Bailey Hutchison...going ethnic on us at the first opportunity - in Rubio’s case, it was Amnesty. In Paul’s case it’s a brother from Kentucky. In Carson’s case, it was Carson saying that he wouldn’t have shot Michael Brown if he were the cop (in other words, because Brown was shot because he was black). In Kay’s case it was tailhook because it involved women (Kay was otherwise one of the biggest supporters of the military ever in the Senate).
All of those cases are SICKENING and they keep making it harder and harder for us Republicans to trust ANYONE who is anything other than a solid white male conservative. I think Rubio’s horrific behavior is even hurting Cruz, who seems to be a very rare exception to this rule.
Wow, Rand backing the establishment? There goes the reputation he’s worked to set up.