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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Mitch is a tool.
I knew who needed to win as soon as he endorsed Grayson.
Unofficial = CYA for implying that you represent a group you do NOT represent.
Calm down, breath, it will be okay.
I have been to several Tea Parties. The people there represent a wide range of viewpoints, from staunch libertarians to staunch social conservatives, from Palin Haters to Palin supporters, and I find it just as annoying for the Right to misrepresent the truly grass roots tea party as I do for the Left.
We ALREADY HAD the biggest wins with Brown voted in and Crist being forced OUT.
This is just kook paul puffery.
Understood.
It wasn’t my list, just an example of a list.
I’m just sick of the RINO establishment. You’re conservative or your not my candidate.
She gives me the creeps.
This will be the second Senate primary for the Tea Party.
We can have wins without fielding candidates.
““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!
It was an odd headline, and odder still that it was/is a statement from the candidate himself.
He deserves some high praise for that IMO.
Somehow the praise is dampened by the fact that they were losing votes
McConnell has kept the GOP in remarkable lock-step since then. No small task.
It would be worth a Paul nomination just to get a photo of the look on Mitch McC’s face, kind of like Jacob Koppel Javits looked in 1964 with the Goldwater nomination. And while Goldwater had endorsed Javits in 1962, the crusty old New Yorker refused to do the same in 1964.
Yes, but he really didn’t want to hold the troops in line. He is sympathetic on occasion with the Democrats.
Nonsense.
DITTO!
The more “status quo” incumbents that get kicked to the curb the better, IMHO!
And that goes for both parties! Especially Arlen Specter!!!
Wrong. Rand Paul has been endorsed by the Kentucky Tea Party. In fact, he is and was a Tea Party member from the start. He has also been endorsed by Sarah Palin, Steve Forbes, Dr. James Dobson, Sen. Jim Bunning (Whom Dr. Paul will replace), N. Kentucky Right to Life, and Gunowners of America. Gunowners of America has proclaimed Paul as the most pro-gun candidate running for the US Senate.
Establishment RINOS here in KY hate his guts, because they are next to go. Mine is the most Republican county in KY and Dr. Paul will carry it by probably 80%.
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