Posted on 10/18/2015 8:35:00 AM PDT by Isara
When Rand Paul entered the GOP presidential race, he sought to stitch together a distinct coalition: his father's fiercely loyal libertarian supporters, millennials, and others new to Republican politics whom he hoped to draw with his provocative stances on privacy and marijuana laws.
Six months later, none of that is working. Paul is a low single-digit blip in the polls. He barely meets the threshold to participate in the next debate later this month. Influential conservatives are urging him to bail out.
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As the Kentucky senator struggles, a sometime ally turned rival, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, is working hard to court voters who adored Paul's father. Rand Paul's strategists had assumed that voters enamored of former Rep. Ron Paul, a Texas libertarian, would be the bedrock of his support.
Cruz, a fellow product of the tea party movement, is beginning to pick up support just as Paul is losing it. The Texas senator is building a large campaign bank account while Paul is spending more money than he is raising.
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Drew Ivers, Ron Paul's 2012 Iowa chairman, suggested there was an inherent conflict in Rand Paul's presidential slogan — "Defeat the Washington machine" — and the fact he campaigned for members of the Capitol Hill establishment, such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. "That is a mixed signal."
Ivers, who is not aligned with any candidate in the 2016 race, said Paul's efforts to court both the right and left was a flawed strategy. "It has backfired," ...
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Cruz last week reported raising about $12 million in the third quarter and having nearly $13.5 million in the bank. Paul, meanwhile, spent more than $4.5 million, about $2 million more than his campaign raised in the quarter. He listed $2.1 million cash on hand.
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RAND PAUL - the next to go.
Cruz is running a stealth campaign that might win the end game. The left and the leftist media is underestimating him and he’s exploiting it very skillfully.
...and it’s working
“Now read on as we provide no real evidence of its working, as we seem to think Cruz beating Paul is the goal, not, you know, actually winning the nomination.”
This is why no one takes this political analysts seriously anymore.
At this point I almost expect Ron Paul to endorse Ted Cruz.
Rand is burning his father’s little kingdom to the ground.
Yeb Arbusto
You have to have been a nutjob to support Ron Paul. Ted Cruz is not a nutjob so I can’t imagine he’ll get the nutjob vote.
Obviously the first question should be “Who would want that rabble?”
Don’t think I’d brag about picking up supporters of a nutcase
What a ridiculous waste of pixels.
How one looks is pretty important in politics....and Rand always appears to have gotten out of bed within the last five minutes.
But, as you said in a previous thread, Trump’s supporters are just a bunch of low IQ retread Paulians...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3349247/posts?page=39#39
Interesting article, no?
If anything, Trump is likely to win the Ron Paul vote, since he doesn’t come off as a war hawk when it comes to Iraq and Syria. We all know they were really opposed to that for years.
I read your use of the word “nutjob” as “Constitutionalist”.
It's not a stealth campaign, it's an out in the open proven strategy of having workers in every county in every state.
My husband and I turned a county from Democrat to Republican after three general elections. Here is the method to do that and it's the method Cruz is using in every state:
If you want to win a game, you must know the rules. In the political game, the rules are the Election Code and every state has those laws. Every state/national election goes by those laws so every county uses those laws to hold those elections. If you know the laws, you can use them to get the votes you want. One also have to be smart enough to know how to use them.
You see, most Democrats do not know those laws. They depend on minorities and folks who have always voted Democrat to go to the polls and vote for them, so they have neglected to know election laws. Cruz knows every election happens in a county (or parish if a state has parishes rather than counties). His workers in counties use the county Republican Chairman to help them know who the key Republicans are in that county.
Plus, they get the voter list of the last Republican Primary and that gives them the names of every Republican who voted in the last Republican Primary. Those lists are gold to use to contact Republican personally, telling them about their candidate and sending all of them flyers about their candidate and contacting them again just before the election and actually taking them to the polls if necessary.
Those laws also tell them how to get poll watchers in every precinct in the November general election to make sure the election is held fairly in every precinct.
Those laws also tell them how to get poll watchers in every early voting location for the primary and general election and how to get their people on the Early Voting Ballot Board in the November general election that verifies all mail in ballots, including how to get one of their people to be the judge of that board in the November general election.
In my county, I was the judge of the Early Voting Ballot Board for ten years. I was the first Republican who ever became that judge. I knew those laws and was able to dump faulty mail ballots.
To win a game, learn the rules.
If the GOP leadership would have brought the Paulbots into the platform at the 2012 Convention instead of shutting them out, Romney would be our President.
“His workers in counties use the county Republican Chairman to help them know who the key Republicans are in that county.”
Talk about “knowing the game”... even if these key Republicans are ‘establishment’ to the core they will want to cooperate with Cruz because getting these voters to the polls and/or registered benefits ANY Republican candidate.
Also this action by Cruz supporters earns good will with the local ‘establishment’.
It’s all good!
And thank you for your rational informative pro-Cruz posts. They really stand out.
“How one looks is pretty important in politics....and Rand always appears to have gotten out of bed within the last five minutes.”
You are correct, your eyes go immediately to that wad of hair going everywhere. Thank God I don’t have his crinkly hair. He must not be able to do anything with it. It has NEVER looked like it was combed. It has to be naturally curled the minute it comes from his scalp. Some blacks who have that problem, mainly women, use straightening stuff of some kind, to take that excessive curl out. I suppose he is too manly to use that even if it worked.
I try to be informative with facts and am not into insulting posters. I get insults and try to answer those with truthful facts.
I became an expert in election law and worked with the state Republican Party, traveled Texas instructing Republican County Chairs and election judges and clerks in election law. Some attorneys came to those seminars and it was a joke between us - no attorney specializes in election law because there is no money in it so they don't know it. Some of those attorneys were running for a judge position so they came to learn election law.
One year, as a member of the state Republican organization of women, I was responsible for instructing some of those women how to register new voters. Well, I didn't want them to register Democrats so I suggested they go to gun shows and register those attending who weren't registered. I figured most of the people there would be Republicans, not gun hating Democrats. We picked up new Republican voters by doing that over the state. Sometimes one has to think outside the box. :o)
Yes any day now Rand is going to have to bow out. I can definitely see Cruz scooping up a good deal of Rands voters.
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