Posted on 06/02/2013 7:39:36 AM PDT by Innovative
Rand Paul is the latest Republican to tell his party to open up to a wider range of views within its ranks.
"The party can be big enough to allow people who don't all agree on every issue," Senator Paul told an audience in California, a state that produced three Republican presidents in the 20th century but now votes reliably Democratic.
"When the Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win again," he said.
"It's not going to change who I am or what I talk about but I think we can be a big enough party to include people," Paul said at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., Friday evening.
In his Friday talk, Paul sought to define himself, among other things, as a Republican who cares about the environment.
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I love you, man. *Sniff*
:p
I hope i’m dead before the Republican party looks like the rest of “america”!
So, you’re saying there are TEAparty members on the RAT side of the aisle?
No but there may be undercover Rats in the TEAParty.
Yeah, I doubt they could fake it for more than a couple of days.
Now RINOs, whole different ballgame.
Only if he unequivocally denounces McShamesty and pledges to kill it.
Nope. Big tents are sure losers.
Present him with the invitation and the opportunity to explain himself. I would certainly like to query him and I'm sure others here would also.
When a libertarian becomes the spokesman for conservatives it will be a cold day in hell.
Go ahead. If he decides to become a “God, Country, Liberty” patriotic type of guy and unequivocally denounces “immigration reform,” the “gay” agenda and all other liberal positions that he’s squishy on, I’d be happy to take a look. But he won’t. He’s pushing big tent.
Conservatives support candidates who are Conservative. Race and religion shouldn’t even be a factor, and for the most part it’s not. It’s the dems who are the racists.
It's your forum. You're the power broker, I'm just a conservative interested poster.
I’m surprised Rand Paul said this... The Republican Party, not to its credit, has tried strategy of liberalizing its position (unofficially), putting moderate (aka social liberals) as their poster children for political offices nationwide, and ate its own when it came to sticking up for American values (ex Todd Akin and Mourdock), for negative gains, not to mention truly damaging the moral standing of the Republican party itself. I will never (And i mean it!!) vote for a candidate like Romney again! I will never vote for a social moderate, or a liberal, again. It makes me sick! Republicans need to shut up, and return to it’s Reaganesque conservatism, and yes, i mean neo-conservative values. Forget about isolationism, forget about NOT being the worlds police. We have that mantle, and to disregard it is dangerous for Americans at home!
thank you! very true.
We’ll win when Catholics start returning to the Church. In the past several elections (i don’t remember how far back exactly but i think it goes back to FDR times) the president elected has ALWAYS garnered the catholic vote. And that’s because we make up about a quarter of the population of the US. Part of its the Republican’s fault ( not standing firm on social issues), but a lot of the problem is the Church in the US! bishops refuse to take firmer stances on what moral truths. That must change, and it has to change soon!
That's about the best thing I can say about California.
None the less, all things in cycles. The pendulum only swings so far before it turns around.
Well, it’s your idea. If you wish to pursue it, go for it. I have no interest whatsoever in big tent pushing open borders politicians.
An obscure internet poster has little chance of gaining the attention of national politician. A national political forum like FR might.
Thank you for the heads up, but there is no point of my posting an announcement since Renegade1776’s account has been obliterated.
There is no posting history, and so no ability to see why the zottee is sitting in the alley behind Free Republic, wondering what the hell happened.
There is no blue screen of ZOT, only the white screen of the Obliterati, of which the zottee is now a member in good crispiness.
IOW, nothing for the Viking Kitties to nom on.
Don’t give up! I’m always on the lookout for zottees. Again, thank you, my friend.
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