Rand Paul Touts GOP Unity, Endorses Susan Collins 'Wholeheartedly' in Maine

Breitbart.com ^ | 27 Apr 2014, 11:50 AM PDT | Dan Riehl

[Resettozero]

OK then...educate me.What,if anything,did you so called "true conservatives" do on 11/6/2012?

A) Stayed home

B) Voted in local and statewide races but left the Presidential race blank

C) Voted for some fringe party like The Ammunition Stockpile Party

D) Voted,with no enthusiasm whatsoever,for Romney as being at least a tiny bit better than his Maoist opponent.

Can you accept ANY of my previous responses to you here over the years? I believe your reading-comprehension skills are better than you lead FReepers to think. I respect that you've always known exactly what your doing on FR. For all I know, Jim Robinson likes and approves of what you do here and doesn't mind that you consistently cause dissention among conservative FReepers, maybe just to keep things lively? You're still here aren't you?

[Norm Lenhart]

e) Voted for a conservative and let the cards fall where they fall instead of helping move the party left then coming to FR and crying that the GOP moved left.

[Diogenesis]

You continue lying about FReepers, just like
Romney, your polygamy promoting boss.

I never called the lying Rat Romney a “Commie atheist”.

He is miserable liar, and you repeatedly are too.

Are you secretly married to Mitt?
Or do you just post his stupid statist policies
here, endlessly, out of love for him?

[Gay State Conservative]

For all I know, Jim Robinson likes and approves of what you do here...

So is that to say that Jim Robinson chose "D"? I have a challenge for ya.In Britain there's a national election coming up in about a year.There'll be three main players in that election.1) "Red Ed" Milliband,an unapologetic Maoist and the *son* of an unapologetic Maoist.2) David Cameron,not conservative by *our* standards but a whole lot closer to being one than Milliband.3) Nigel Farage,a charismatic and articulate guy who has some worthwhile things to say but who doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning.Everyone there is saying that Farage will take just enough votes from Cameron to allow Red Ed to win.If that happens is there any lesson that you,a "true" conservative,can take from that event and apply it in '16?

[Drew68]

f Republicans want to take back the White House in 2016 they must appeal to nontraditional GOP voters in states like Colorado, and Rand Paul is the only candidate with potential to do so.

I agree with you but you're never going to get across to a segment of people who post on this forum and believe that the same country that sent Obama to the White House twice is going to turn around and elect Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin to replace him.

Rand Paul is increasingly looking more and more to be the most conservative candidate who can actually win.

[Diogenesis]

BS. If the GOP wants to even have a chance,
it better show CONSERVATISM ASAP.

And that is not Paul, or Romney, or McCain, and the like.

[jaydee770]

If the only other ballot choice is to vote for a dem and increase the count in Harry Reid’s favor, what can you do?

[Norm Lenhart]

Mitt could actually win until didn’t.

Lets keep licking the frozen flagpole and wondering why we are stuck. Brilliant and cunning plan I say!

[Secret Agent Man]

the problem with pragmatism is that it is subjective. idiots like rand use it to hide their idiocy by “just being pragmatic” - but that’s only their opinion.

[Diogenesis]

BS. If the GOP wants to even have a chance,
it better show CONSERVATISM ASAP.

And that is not Paul, or Romney, or McCain, and the like.

[Norm Lenhart]

Pragmatism is just a more easy to swallow way to say ‘situational ethics’. If one person on earth can show me where conservative philosophy embraces situational ethics as desirable or even acceptable I’ll retract my entire post history.

[Secret Agent Man]

pragmatism == situational ethics == moral relativism == rationalization.

[Resettozero]

If the only other ballot choice is to vote for a dem and increase the count in Harry Reid’s favor, what can you do?

Continue to reject this passive acceptance thinking? It's the same line of reasoning Lindsey Graham's minions are putting forward to us in S.C now in 2014.

If you truly are a Constitutional conservative, I think you eventually will reject this whiny excuse to vote for non-conservatives.

[Norm Lenhart]

And yet supposedly rock ribbed ‘conservatives’ pretend it just isn’t so and over 2 years out from the big election they are already laying the groundwork excuses to embrace it..

funny that.

[Bikkuri]

[Resettozero]

...excuse to vote for non-conservatives only because it’s the former party of most conservatives.

[Drew68]

Mitt could actually win until didn’t.

All Rand Paul needs are Romney's voters and a handful of younger, libertarian-leaning former Democrats unhappy with the economy and Obamacare. And he's courting them and they're responding to him.

[Norm Lenhart]

Yup. And we get amnesty, a moderate GOP that shuns social issues and all the rest.

OH BOY! WHAT A WIN!

We could get that by voting for Hilliary as well. So why vote for the lesser liberal?

[ansel12]

You mean winning independents?

[Resettozero]

All Rand Paul needs are Romney's voters and a handful of younger, libertarian-leaning former Democrats unhappy with the economy and Obamacare. And he's courting them and they're responding to him.

Rad Paul already has "libertarian-leaning former Democrats", for various reasons.

By "Romney voters" you may mean those who will vote straight-party Republican regardless? Conservatives on FR, a few of us anyway, believe that will not be enough to get the nomination for him or win the election if nominated.