Posted on 04/26/2014 9:48:57 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Before Rand Paul was elected to anything, he appeared in a video with Adam Kokesh. He then went on to support Kokesh’s congressional run in New Mexico.
This is all you will ever need to know about Rand Paul.
Clarification:
Rand Paul is not a classic “conservative”. He is, and often calls himself, a libertarian, a somewhat different breed of cat.
Each of these schools of thought have their own sets of internal logic. This is not to disparage one or the other, because the two do manage to complement each other, but there will never be a natural unity or congruity of how the answers are arrived at.
But both boil down to an important concept - the Federal government has taken on a completely unconstitutional level of involvement in the lives of individual, and both libertarians and conservative just want the Federal government to get the H*ll out of their lives.
But rugged individualism is now considered to be passé. The juggernaut of central planning and managed economic activity is on runaway and headed for the smashed trestle ahead on the tracks. Either you manage to jump off before it gets to that terminal point, or choose to ride it all the way to the end of the line, is some test of personal bravery.
If Rand wants to be President he needs to learn the value of not commenting on every issue under the sun.
The media will give him enough rope to hang himself.
We libertarian minded conservatives need a candidate who can learn to pass on the gotcha questions and use the shrewd tactics employed by Ronald Reagan to gracefully turn the issue around on his opponents.
In this media age there is no way to win by delving into the nitty gritty of issues.
All that will be reported is selective quotes designed to make you re explain yourself. When you have to do that you have already suffered a disastrous blow from which there may be no recovery.
Our nominee will have to run on a defined set of principles that demonstrate how liberty should be restored and maintained in a free society.
Then he will have to stick to a core set of values and be able to apply them to any given issue.
Any good GOP candidate has to take the fight to them as opposed to being reactionary. Waiting for the media to let the people see you is just falling into the trap.
So far Ted Cruz is about the only one with the intellectual prowess and discipline to do the above.
I’ve been very proud of him. Sometimes just shutting up is the best thing to do. Especially when there is nothing to gain by speaking.
Just ask Senator Buck. . . . oh wait. . . .
Rand, have the ‘RATS taken pictures of you in a compromising position? You sure seem to be carrying their water for them now.
40,000 Marylanders voting in VA as well is overemphasized? I don’t think so.
When fraud determines the outcome “threw” ain’t the verb.
When you say someone has their “own set of internal logic” you mean they go by their own rules. Not the rules they pretend to go by.
This includes looking the other way when their cronies cheat.
There’s no way to excuse vote fraud, or to excuse people covering for the vote fraud of other politicians.
Were has a republican ever spoken out against voter fraud???
Where...
Without massive voter fraud, there would be only about 50 or 60 Democrats in the House, about 15 or 20 Democrat Senators, and no Democrat president since Wilson.
But solving that racial imbalance would have been the next leftist mission - an iPad in every house. Plus a laser printer. And free WiFi.
Which means this has been ON PURPOSE. Get that, Mr. Paul? DELIBERATE. FRAUDULENT.
And so, now, with computers able to correlate deliberate violations of laws that are felonies in many states/across state lines and DOCUMENT THEM to the INDIVIDUAL INSTANCE LEVEL and able to document election workers who are appallingly or deliberately negligent in carrying out the specific tasks they were and are hired to perform, the idea of saying this is NO BIG DEAL is deeply disturbing to hear from an alleged conservative or from an alleged libertarian. It is sabotage. It would NOT be disturbing to hear if I was hearing it from a CRIMINAL. It would be exactly what one would expect. The average bank robbery nets $2000. Which is hardly any kind of big deal, money-wise. Yet hundreds of thousands in not millions of dollars of law-enforcement infrastructure will be deployed to catch the perps, if needed, without question.
This is EXACTLY the constant modus operandi of the left. It mattered not that Joe McCarthy became "overly exercised" about the Communist infiltration of the State Department and of government at so many levels-----which was non-trivial on any sort of objective basis---the residue of that episode/era is to call McCarthy a deranged, alcoholic kook despite the fact the he was in very large part correct about his insinuations and accusations. Over and over and over, the warnings issued by those who are on the alert which are in general VERY DIFFICULT to document and prove, are in this case ABSOLUTELY provable. Thus to casually slough off such a collection of open and shut pieces of provable lawbreaking is the worst kind of accession to said lawbreaking.
YES, if it was one or two or ten cases, I myself could readily chalk these anomalies up to clerical errors. But they are not, and they all seem to fall one way. They cannot be non-deliberate.
It is the same thing with this cursed 0bamacare. It was the knuckle-dragging neanderthal obstructionist Republicans who would not, could not see the magnificence of ACA and who stood in the way at every juncture. Because they are idiots, bigots, they hate homosexuals and women and want to take the country backwards. Meanwhile EACH and EVERY prediction made by the people who objected to 0care has come true. But those doubters, those luddites, they are still the idiots and the obstrutors. Get it? The people who accurately foresaw the consequences are the idiots, the people who sold the fraud are the great benefactors.
That would certainly be cheaper than insuring everyone has access to an ID card, and a bottle of purple finger dye at every polling place.
“What is it about Republicans who don’t know when to just zip it and stop blowing off their own feet?”
Amazing, isn’t it? They think they are so damn smart, they have to have a comment about everything, but they aren’t smart enough to see when they are being played. It almost seems like they are super-vulnerable to being played, because they THINK they are smart and they THINK their defenses are up; but they are utterly naive when it comes to understanding the nature of their opposition and tools the opposition has available.
No doubt. But just think how cool it would have been for the local democrat club to email around, pre-filled ballots onto which a “voter” would only have to ad a signature.
Rand has gotten the word from his corporate masters and GOPe Romney handlers in order for them to open their checkbooks.
The dems would NEVER consider the number of vote frauds “overemphasized” if it were against them. They’d be SCREAMING about voter rights and civil rights being abused.
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