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Rand Paul: Christie Win Shows GOP Has Room for Moderates
Newsmax ^ | Wednesday, 06 Nov 2013 06:25 PM | Bill Hoffmann

Posted on 11/06/2013 4:19:17 PM PST by Olog-hai

The sweeping re-election of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie proves moderates are an integral part of the Republican Party, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says.

“There’s room in the Republican Party for moderates, like Chris Christie. They seem to be the only ones that are winning in the Northeast,” Paul told “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.

“The other thing that might happen in the Northeast if we had a little more libertarian-leaning Republicans, they would have a chance in the Northeast. But there’s room for moderates, like Chris Christie, and he’s got a place in the party.” …

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To: Olog-hai

Thing is, Christie and other GOP leftists are fine in states that want them, but they are party killers at the top of the ticket. This country doesn’t need more servile Republicans at the feet of the Democrats. We just ran two of them, and they failed.


21 posted on 11/06/2013 4:46:13 PM PST by pallis
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To: Olog-hai

Christie is an up and coming RINO. Plain and simple.


22 posted on 11/06/2013 4:51:13 PM PST by AKinAK (Keep your powder dry pilgrim.)
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To: Olog-hai

Rand, nobody doubts there’s a place in the republican party for moderates. The problem is there’s no place for conservatives. Geez, think before you speak.


23 posted on 11/06/2013 4:51:33 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: SoldierDad
Rand Paul appears to not understand just who and what elected the fat man to office. He was elected by libtards and independents, who have recognized Christie as who he is - one of them.

Christie is the closest thing to a Republican who can elected to statewide office anywhere in the Northeast Corridor. What would you prefer?

24 posted on 11/06/2013 4:52:08 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Revel

I’d vote for a Nazi before I’d vote for a democrat.


25 posted on 11/06/2013 4:53:33 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Lurking Libertarian

I have always viewed Ran Paul as “iffy”


26 posted on 11/06/2013 4:53:51 PM PST by GeronL
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To: VerySadAmerican

Well, Rand apparently believes that libertarians = conservatives and that actual conservatives are of that “right wing” that must be marginalized.


27 posted on 11/06/2013 4:54:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Fine, we can tolerate moderates when Tea Party Conservatives control the party leadership and moderates tow our party line.


28 posted on 11/06/2013 4:55:45 PM PST by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Certainly an establishment Republican. Problem is, we’re looking for conservatives.


29 posted on 11/06/2013 4:55:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: VerySadAmerican

You’d go further left than the Dems?


30 posted on 11/06/2013 4:57:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
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31 posted on 11/06/2013 4:58:40 PM PST by RedMDer (Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: Olog-hai

What a joke.

How about making some room for conservatives?


32 posted on 11/06/2013 4:59:07 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL
How about making some room for conservatives?

There needs to be room for both. That's how coalition politics works.

The thing is, that the Christies, McCains, Grahams, Roves, etc of the Party need to make amends ... real amends, not just cheap lip service ... for their treatment of Tea Party Conservatives. And they need to do it first.
33 posted on 11/06/2013 5:02:30 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: VerySadAmerican
I’d vote for a Nazi before I’d vote for a democrat.

They are one and the same.

34 posted on 11/06/2013 5:03:15 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: tanknetter

I’d rather they just left the party


35 posted on 11/06/2013 5:04:30 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Olog-hai

Rand is right about conditions in the R party. There’s room for moderates and plenty of it.

It’s conservatives who don’t have any chairs at the musical.


36 posted on 11/06/2013 5:08:34 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: GeronL
I’d rather they just left the party

There's not enough of either to sustain a national party on their own. If either the Tea Party Conservatives or the GOPe leave the party it becomes the Whigs.

Which is why I really blame Bill Bolling more than anyone else for Cuccinelli losing. He had a golden opportunity to build and strengthen the GOP coalition in VA, probably guaranteeing himself a US Senate seat in the process, but let his ego and pettiness (something also seen in Christie, McCain, Graham, Rove, etc) get the better of him.
37 posted on 11/06/2013 5:10:30 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: dforest
Paul is ruining any chances he had. He wants it too much and that is why he is corrupting himself.

Are you really that obtuse? Paul just about broke his neck for KC, for crying out loud.

38 posted on 11/06/2013 5:21:27 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s good because Christie requires an immense amount of room. But I think what it really shows is that NJ loves a sleeze ball.


39 posted on 11/06/2013 5:22:14 PM PST by outofstyle (Down All the Days)
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To: SoConPubbie

The simple refutation to Rand’s postulation is the number of wins by “moderate” republicans in the last two presidential elections. The GOP and Rand can do whatever the hell they want, I will only vote Conservative, I no longer have a use for the Republican Party.


40 posted on 11/06/2013 5:28:14 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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