Posted on 02/08/2014 10:19:25 AM PST by jimbo123
Promoting Republican outreach to Hispanics, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said this week that the GOP must expand its appeal if it expects to remain politically relevant.
"The party has to be bigger across the country, not only appealing to people of various ethnic background but various economic backgrounds," Paul said Friday during a sweep through Texas, CNN reported.
The remarks came following a meeting with George P. Bush, the 37-year-old son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who's vying to become the next Texas Land Commissioner. Paul, a conservative firebrand who's long-been critical of establishment Republicans like the Bush family, declined to endorse the younger Bush, CNN reported. But he praised Bush's Spanish-language prowess as one key to attracting a broader swath of voters to the GOP's tent.
“The fact that he is a fluent Spanish speaker and spoken to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, it’s good for our party,” Paul said. “I think having people who are trying to make the party bigger is good."
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Gideon would disagree.
Oh boy.
Why is a Bush in the middle of all boneheaded GOP thinking?
Baloney.
Paul would never get my vote.
Democrats occupy the WHite House and the real power of executive by including every group they can gather. Gays, immigrants, minorities, are all welcome.
Republicans will lose again in 2016 if they keep excluding every group who does not fit their strict criteria.
Result? More executive orders shoved down our throats, more Supreme court appointments lasting 30 years, more harm to military and Israel, more late term abortions, more control of healthcare and our lives and of course higher taxes.
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Paul is backing Jeb?
I’d say the deal has been struck.
I’m not buying.
He’s correct, but probably not as he intended. Purging the Party of TEA Party conservatives is indeed narrowing the Party, enough to collapse it. Paul’s clinging to his state’s other Senator will be his undoing for 2016.
If the GOP would stop siding with its corporate paymasters and become the party that protects American workers, it would reverse the current downward spiral. Knock off the specific outreach to minorities and immigrants and concentrate on issues that appeal to all voters.
Those who think this is in any way about ethnicity are sorely mistaken. It’s not. It’s about political philosophy and principle. Those who say otherwise simply don’t know anything about conservatives, or, if they do, they’re just maliciously libeling them.
So why are you lumping homosexuality with being a “minority” anyhow? And you do know the difference between immigrants and illegal aliens, right?
You want a narrow GOP?
Make the conservative base leave the party and you gain NOTHING in return.
Just what do these morons mean by “outreach to Hispanics”?
To them it means endless pandering: amnesty, citizenship, welfare rights, goodies, affirmative action priority, and all that “gimmee stuff” crap.
I real honest outreach would be a lecture on the rule of law and how it governs the rights of all, an instruction on property rights, and how one should not be forced to yield his hard earned wages to a demanding rabble, an appreciation and acceptance of another nations culture, language, customs, and laws, and an eagerness to adopt them.
The outreach should also educate Hispanics that if they fall for the siren call of the Democrat welfare state, they will end up in the same position as the blacks, trading their votes for broken families, unemployment, and a permanent underclass status to the democrat massahs.
Really? Who knew?
I’m not sure Rand Paul is saying anything wrong, but I do think he should stay out of the Bushes. It can only serve to alienate his conservative and libertarian fans.
Someone care to explain why Freepers, supposedly more informed and intelligent than the average LIV or liberal, still harbor the fantasy that this idiot is a conservative and worse yet, promote him as one?
Someone? Anyone?
The problem with the GOP is that it’s spending too much time being a vanilla version of the Democratic Party. Instead of telling people the truth that our federal government is too large and too intrusive in our lives the GOP goes out there and says we can make government more streamlined and better than the Democrats. Huh? When I see that there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties and don’t you think most voters see the same thing. Reaching out to minorities and other affected groups means the conservative message is going to get watered down to a squishy, centrist position that any run of the mill liberal can beat down in a debate and demagogue as extremism. What gets me is if the conservative message was adhered to and promoted night and day by the GOP they would obliterate the left big time and it would force the Democrats to run to the center if they wanted to remain politically viable. Oh, but I guess it’s only a pipe dream since today’s GOP is blending in with the Democratic Party to become one big government-centered, free-spending political entity. Yuck!!
Gideon did what the Lord asked him to do. So faith is the answer becausea an army of 300 was nuts from a human perspective.
I no longer have faith in the GOP. I doubt that the Republic survives, but God is eternal so as long as we cling to the Rock which is Jesus. We will be fine no matter what swirls around us
FREEGARDS
LEX
A small army of the absolutely committed is better than a huge mass of do-nothings. Ask George Washington and the Founders.
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