Clearly a guaranteed losing formula for the GOP
I like Rand Paul-—mostly.
By osmosis perhaps?
Just further proof of this colorblind society I always hear about.
A waste of time trying to lure black voters off the Democratic plantation.
Young voters are practically worthless because of the influence of a state education and socialist professors. Far as I’m concerned voting age should be raised to 25.
Rand Paul is slowly revealing himself to be an overachieving mediocrity and a panderer.
He’s playing to the media. Trying to neutralize them. Always a bad sign when a candidate cares too much about pleasing the leftist journalists. It is hard to trust Rand Paul.
I don’t see Paul or any conservative attracting the liberal Demonrat base with a conservative message. And watering down conservatism through the me-tooism already present in RINOS just to get votes (an effort which probably would fail anyway), accomplishes nothing good.
I think Rand has had a bit of trouble in this area, the “lunch counter” episode and a few persons who worked for his campaign or had associations with him. Maybe this is pre-emptive. See Jack Hunter who helped Rand Paul in the book “The Tea Party goes to Washington”.
Remember, going into these areas in terms of outreach has more of a payoff than might immediate appear. Yeah, you’re still going to lose the area 80-20 instead of 90-10, but that small swing in a high population area can make a big difference for a statewide total.
Plus, it may help sway some of the suburban LIVs by making your guys look less “scary” than the old-boy racist cariacture Republicans are typically painted as.
Here’s the math:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/152021/Conservatives-Remain-Largest-Ideological-Group.aspx
From a 2012 gallup poll the breakdown is 40% conservatives, 35% moderates and 21% liberal. For the sake of argument lets assume the figures are approximately correct. Conservatives cannot retake the White House or congress with 40% of the vote. Slightly more than 10% of moderates “Must” be persuaded to vote with conservatives in order to advance a conservative agenda.
Is Rand looking in the wrong place? maybe...
Is Rand correct about the need to expand the conservative base? Absolutely...
Can conservatives win by attacking political allies for not being conservative enough? Probably not...
I recall seeing a good video by a conservative presenter about how to attract young voters to the GOP. There were three main points.
Maybe it was Bill Whittle?
Anyone recall?
When the debates come, maybe next year? It will be clearer along with looking at his and the others voting record.
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.
Good luck with deprograming the liberal stronghold not sure if it can be done a weak mind tends to stay in that mode.
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.
Not one dimes worth difference.
This would be great if he were taking our conservative message to them.
Instead, Rand Paul is trying to build the political political support needed so that he can defeat conservatism within the GOP and make it a rino/libertarian party, and totally eliminate the Reagan wing.