Posted on 12/04/2014 1:15:15 PM PST by C19fan
Rand Paul was a big Romney supporter in 2012 and campaigned for him, I wonder who he will back when he drops out of the next primary?
If the three top Conservative candidates — Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and Scott Walker — behave like gentlemen; if they follow Ronald Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment to never speak ill of a fellow Republican and therefore refrain from attacking each other during the primaries; and if they can relinquish their selfish ambitions and unite in support of the Conservative candidate who wins the most votes in the early primaries — then a Conservative can win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
If.
We know that the RINOs are not gentlemen, or they wouldn’t have spent their entire political careers trashing Republican principles in order to get elected. So there’s virtually no chance the RINO candidates will refrain from attacking each other and then unite behind the leading RINO.
The Conservative candidates’ moral characters will determine whether one of them wins the nomination in 2016. Which one of them, if any, will be the first to start tearing down his fellow Conservatives? And which ones will refrain even under extreme provocation? Presidential primaries SHOULD be morality plays. Let’s hope the Republicans will put on a good one in 2016.
Adlai Romneyson.
AAAAAAAAARGH!!!
KILL ME NOW!!!
(Whoops, posted this in the wrong thread)
I can’t much blame Mitt for thinking he has a chance (at the nomination). The GOPE frontrunners are the seriously flawed Jeb and Fat Boy. Clearly much of the GOPE is not satisfied with that.
Out of the 3 I guess I’d take fat boy.
Gee, Romney is sure trying to emulate Dewey who lost the nomination in 1940, lost the GE in 1944, and lost the GE again against a different rat in 1948. The key difference is that Dewey wasn’t 500 years old.
But he did run for president over and over.
Right, he most likely ate it.
I'm no Romney fan, but Reagan ran 3 times.
Have you seen BO1 or BO2 lately?
“But he did run for president over and over.”
That makes Romney the new Harold Stassen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Stassen#Presidential_candidate
So stolen....
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'Sorry, that was a mean thing to say about Romney.Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists][Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]
“And a new party will rise up.”
The Republicans are playing with fire if they think the base is willing to be played for fools.
This isn’t the good old days when the riff-raff didn’t have any way to communicate with each other. We are riff-raff with computers and websites and the game has changed.
The GOP establishment is whistling past the graveyard if it thinks the tea party has gone away. The germ of a new party is right there and the GOPe betrays us at its own peril.
I see a vacuum that needs filling.
This is the GOPs last chance to not commit suicide.
The same shills fail to logically process the cause and effect dynamic involved with voting for people who don't share your values, which is, YOU GET MORE OF WHAT YOU VOTE FOR.
If our side had quit voting RINO after GHWB's term, the Republican party would have swung hard right by now, and would be offering up the kinds of candidates that we can support without having to hold our noses.
The national disaster known as Obama would never have happened and we'd already be well on our way to a restored constitutional republic.
Mitch Daniels wouldn’t go for it in ‘12. in 16, This Old GOPE may get Kasich as the darkhorse favorite. Or favorite dorkhearse.
Well I’d prefer Kasich to Romney, fat boy, and Jeb.
But I want Scott Walker.
I’m convinced, too. He had it, he blew it, and he wants a do-over.
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