Posted on 05/17/2010 9:46:12 AM PDT by TSgt
LOUISVILLE - Riding high in the polls, Rand Paul – the son of libertarian firebrand Ron Paul and the insurgent Senate candidate who has upended the Kentucky GOP primary – offered a preview of his anticipated triumphant message Tuesday night. "This has enormous implications for the power and the impact of the Tea Party movement," he declared. "If we win Tuesday, it will be the biggest victory for a Tea Party candidate in the country...It will show that the Tea Party can elect somebody." These words were delivered not on a campaign stage surrounded by sign-waving supporters, but over lunch Saturday in a tiny Subway restaurant in the back of a gas station on the outskirts of Florence in northern Kentucky. The 47-year-old sandy-haired, Sarah Palin-endorsed candidate, wearing a pumpkin-colored buttoned-down Polo dress shirt and a blue tie, slipped into the Subway incognito and never introduced himself to anyone behind the counter. In fact, when I requested that the recorded music be turned down so I could tape my interview, the store manager came over to the table and asked suspiciously why I was conducting job interviews with unknown people in his restaurant. Yet Rand Paul is also on the cusp of becoming a national celebrity – the dragon-slayer who defeated in a primary up-and-coming Trey Grayson, the 38-year-old Kentucky secretary of state and the anointed pick of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. All recent independent polls in Kentucky show Paul with a double-digit lead – and Republicans insiders who unaffiliated with either candidate tend to take on a funereal tone when discussing Grayson.
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Sharron Angle in Nevada will dump the Senate Majority Leader.
And the Establishment RINO's will only get to watch.
If that ain't an earthquake, what is?
Where is there a list of all the important elections being held tomorrow?
“If we win Tuesday, it will be the biggest victory for a Tea Party candidate...”
I was unaware the Tea Party had candidates? I thought we endorsed candidates, but are there now official Tea Party candidates, or is this someone’s spin?
Spin.
“Spin.”
But...whose? Is this a Paul quote or a reporter tying him to it? Any ideas?
Hmmm need to see some up-ending up in the Blue States.
Rand Paul’s. The Tea Party is a movement and yes, we have favorites. But Paul cannot claim that he is a Tea Party-endorsed candidate.
When Babs gets bounced in Cali-fornia, I guess the Generals can go back to calling her Ma’am. She won’t have earned it anymore. And, if she complains, they can tell her where to get off.
BTW, I know there’s a purpose, but I really hate seeing Carly’s ugly mug on every thread I open. It freaks me out.
The Fiorina race is close-to-home for Big Jim...literally...
Not a big Ron or Rand Paul fan - I think they’re both a bit nuts esp. regarding defense/foreign policy issues.
Rand may make a good Senator though - making points and objections that few have the guts to.
Someone should tell RINO McConnell that he has outlived his uselessness.
I’m so tired of RINOs!
I’m glad to know that I’m not alone in my feelings.
There are no “Tea Party” endorsed candidates because there is no centralized “Tea Party” to make those endorsements. That list is simply the individual bloggers list of whom he believes best represent Tea Party values.
Yep, hence the word, “unofficial”
MSNBC (bleeding hearts) Grayson.
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