[Skepolitic]

“I have not seen this level of fear in the Republican establishment, since Ronald Reagan challenged Gerald Ford.”

A striking observation ... and a good prediction of the sort of comments that you’d get from establishment Republicans at FreeRepublic.

[Servant of the Cross]

A striking observation ... and a good prediction of the sort of comments that you’d get from establishment Republicans at FreeRepublic.

the cult of Paul slanders FR as establishment Republicans??!!!

[EternalVigilance]

the Republican establishment

Come on. Rand Paul has spent most of his life as the son of a Congressman, one who has been in office for more than three decades. By definition they are part of the Republican establishment.

[Luke21]

There was both fear and amazement that Reagan would effectively challenge that double dealing Rino. Ford gave us Stevens for thirty five years. No one writes that Stevens was a Ford appointee, but that was exactly what the compromise wing of the GOP regularly gave us back then. People also forget that Jimmy Carter ran as the conservative during the 1976 fall election. Ford was a blueblood, just like Greyson.

The elderly, tempered Reagan of 1980 was a long way removed from the 1976 candidate. It almost cost him, as the press tried to portray him as scrambled, senile, distant, and too old. Bush won the Iowa caucus due to temporary, positive press.

Rand Paul is just starting out. He is no Reagan. But time will tell.