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Rand Paul on Mississippi: ‘I’m for more people voting’
Washington Post ^
| June 25 at 2:34 PM
| Paul Kane
Posted on 06/25/2014 3:17:56 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a potential 2016 presidential contender, declined to support tea party critics of Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran's efforts to mobilize non-GOP voters to win the Republican nomination.
"I'm for more people voting, not less people voting," Paul told reporters Wednesday.
Paul, an original tea party icon for his 2010 GOP primary win over the establishment, has worked assiduously the past year on broadening his party's appeal to minority voters, including negotiating with Democrats on efforts to rewrite the Voting Rights Act.
Cochran's vote total grew by almost 40,000 votes from the initial June 3 primary to Tuesday's runoff against state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R). Much of that growth has been credited to courting independent and Democratic voters on the state's Gulf Coast, where shipyard work has been supported by Cochran for decades, and also an aggressive effort to turn out black voters.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: chrismcdaniel; gope; mississippi; mitchmcconnell; paultardation; paultardnoisemachine; rand; randpaul; randpaulnoisemachine; randsconcerntrolls; shutup; thadcochran; thekycandidate
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To: tennmountainman
Well. That sure settles any question of Rand Paul as a 2016 contender for me. Stone cold amoral idiot.
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:32:48 PM PDT
by
Finny
(Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
To: SoConPubbie
Someone needs to inform Rand Paul that this is an issue for the individual states to decide and doesn’t require a US senator’s interference.
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:33:27 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: GeronL
Paul is fine with Democrats picking GOP candidates. Wonder why? LOL.
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:34:42 PM PDT
by
lodi90
To: Stepan12; Hostage
In the novel and movie Starship Troopers only veterans could vote and hold office.
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:37:07 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: lodi90
exactly.
Rand Paul is not a conservative or even a Republican. Most libertarians have no loyal outside baser instincts
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:46:32 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Only those well trained to be subservient to government can vote.... does not sound like a good idea.
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:47:14 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: SoConPubbie
It’s a GOP PRIMARY you idiot Rand Paul.
I can’t take this guy any longer. He’s becoming as bad as McCain, Graham, and Rubio.
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:48:07 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
To: GeronL
So you think that’s what the military is all about?
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:54:58 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: SoConPubbie
Randy, we hardly knew ye, but we know ye now.
Go join the DemoRATS. You'd be much more at home there.
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:55:46 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:56:27 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: tophat9000
No, Progressive have taken over in the Libertaran party just as they have the Democrats and the Republican. No they haven't, there hasn't been any change whatsoever in the purity of their libertarian positions.
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:57:07 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(( Rand Paul---What a tragedy if America wouldn't have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader.)
To: Timber Rattler
It’s way past time for the third party to emerge. Mr. Cochran’s antics in Mississippi with the democratic party probably just cost the republicans a lot of tea party votes. I’m through with them! I will stay home. They’re beginning to look like even bigger crooks than the republicans.
To: SoConPubbie
To: SoConPubbie
March, 2013--"Rand Paul endorses Mitch McConnell in 2014 Senate race, wont back tea party challenge"
"I came out of the tea party movement. I'm very concerned about the debt. I'm very concerned about big government," Paul said on Friday. "But I think the misnomer is to think somehow Senator McConnell isn't. That's what his whole entire career has been predicated upon - fighting against big government."
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posted on
06/25/2014 3:59:48 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(( Rand Paul---What a tragedy if America wouldn't have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader.)
To: tennmountainman
Paul is a nut case.Seems the nut doesn't fall far from the tree....
To: ansel12
That's what his whole entire career has been predicated upon - fighting against big government."Rand, we hardly knew ye.
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posted on
06/25/2014 4:01:59 PM PDT
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: SoConPubbie
I wonder how Rand would feel if that tactic were used against HIM?
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posted on
06/25/2014 4:03:38 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: SoConPubbie
Rand has full blown Potomac fever now. Stick a fork in him.
To: SoConPubbie
Rand thinks his pandering schtick goes over well. He is too too cute and too clever by half
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posted on
06/25/2014 4:26:46 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: SoConPubbie
I notice that guy who used to post “Rand Paul will win” hasn’t shown up in a while...
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posted on
06/25/2014 4:42:14 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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