Posted on 03/20/2014 7:08:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The conservative 2016 contender wants to lure young and black voters to the GOP, so he's taking his message to them. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
BERKELEY, Calif. – Rand Paul's swing through Berkeley is just the beginning of his foray into traditionally Democratic territory.
After his visit to this liberal stronghold, where he's speaking to students about the NSA and privacy, the Kentucky senator will make stops at the National Urban League in July and at the NAACP in the coming months, if an informal invitation from the group is made official. He's also plotting a trip to Chicago and Milwaukee, Paul said in an interview this week, where he plans to speak about education and "school choice."
It's all part of his effort to cast himself as the man who can broaden the appeal of the Republican Party ahead of a widely expected 2016 presidential run. Among the demographic groups that Paul is most furiously targeting are young voters and African-Americans.
"For the Republican Party to win again we need to go places we haven't been going, and we need to attract people we haven't been attracting. Part of that is the message, but part of that is also showing up," Paul told National Journal. "I think we need to show up in challenging circumstances, so you don't think of Berkeley as being a bastion of Republican politics and so I think it's a good place to go."
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Said it better than I could.
Obviously true but insipid and unusefull.
He has some whacked out neo-isolationist ideas on foreign policy. But our military will be in such bad shape after 8 years of BO, it cannot project his power abroad anyway.
At this point in our history, the enemy within the gates is a far more serious threat then the enemy without them.
He has warts. But far fewer than McCain or Romney did.
Great post. I like it!
We've been under the tyranny of our political labels for far too long.
Do the labels we wear now bear any resemblance to the principles we believe and live by that once long ago might have defined those labels?
Bravo, Rand Paul, for taking that question to what many consider the heart of the marxist beast.
May that beast die the death of a thousand cuts made by the young voters he reached out to.
Hopefully, the entrepreneurial types, whose spirit and drive created our Silicon Valley and similar places, will also listen and question their blind allegiance to a label that is counter to that spirit, their efforts and what they have created.
Social liberal?
Pro-life. Pro-traditional marriage. Anti-welfare.
Yeah... OBVIOUSLY a “liberal”.
I totally agree... but the ~tarians that keep trying to pass as “Conservatives” (here and anywhere near other Conservatives) keep throwing excuses and straw man arguments (and don’t/won’t/can’t see the proof of their wanted candidate(s) NOT being Conservative).
Good luck with deprograming the liberal stronghold not sure if it can be done a weak mind tends to stay in that mode.
Here’s an idea. Don’t tell ‘em. Go, give the speeches, but leave out the parts you KNOW they won’t like.
You’d think this would be common sense.
You mind relating what these are? Paul is not my guy, but I wonder what is considered a whacked out non-isolationist idea.
Rand is running the kenyan’s playbook. Hide your radical views and run as a mainstream candidate to get elected. It won’t work because he doesn’t have the MSM in his pocket.
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More like nutballtopian. Open borders and fiscal conservatism is an impossibility.
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I call Ron/Rand a losertarian.
What radical views? The ACU rates candidates off of their votes. Rand has a 100% rating.
Those must be some SERIOUSLY hidden views if he isn’t even voting that way...
I call you irrelevant.
I'm not sure if Rand is quite that extreme, but too close.
Ah, one of the Kool-Aid drinkers.
Runt Paul and his Libtardian ideas would gain zero votes from blacks and the young skulls full of mush.
They won’t vote for anyone that doesn’t support queer marriage, abortion, drugs, and lots of free stuff.
Embrace any of those and you lose 2 conservative votes for every liberal vote gained.
There is a reason why Libtardians never win elections for anything. Turds in the punch bowl, one and all.
Ah, one of the “reduce everything to an insult” croud.
If there’s not a black person running they stay home anyway.
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