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Rand Paul: 'Trump mania' shows country swooning for celebrity over substance
The Washington Examiner ^ | August 23, 2015 | Barbara Boland

Posted on 08/24/2015 4:51:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 08/24/2015 4:51:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is Rand Paul still running?


2 posted on 08/24/2015 4:52:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Evidently more substance than you offer.


3 posted on 08/24/2015 4:53:23 PM PDT by Fungi
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Who is Rand Paul?


4 posted on 08/24/2015 4:53:37 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rand must be jealous. No one swoons over him.


5 posted on 08/24/2015 4:53:54 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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Oh I’ll take celebrity over questionable intentions anyday.


6 posted on 08/24/2015 4:54:02 PM PDT by bakeneko
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Boo hoo Randy. You mean like your dad at CPAC every year?

Which reminds me: I'm gonna have to get my CPAC reservations cause Trumpster will be front and center, I'm sure.

7 posted on 08/24/2015 4:54:15 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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Rand Paul: 'Trump mania' shows country swooning for celebrity over substance

He's a United States Senator, for Pete's sake.

I think he's just jealous.

8 posted on 08/24/2015 4:54:36 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Paul sounds like Linda Graham when says catty stuff like that.


9 posted on 08/24/2015 4:55:10 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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Not celebrity. Anti Wahington establishment.


10 posted on 08/24/2015 4:55:58 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m concerned that Rand Paul would turn into Ron Paul.


11 posted on 08/24/2015 4:56:03 PM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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No, Rand, its not empty anger. Unfortunately you didn’t understand our anger and you certainty have no idea how to tap into it and help. You might have been able had you not cozied up to the establishment or by wasting your time trying to get felons their voting rights back. You missed your chance. So go away and play now.


12 posted on 08/24/2015 4:56:56 PM PDT by uncitizen (i hate gutless people, too.)
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To: Farmer Dean

You gotta feel for these candidates. They’ve played the game for years just for this moment that they get to run for President. and then BOOM...upstaged by a charasmatic billionaire who just may be our next President. It’s gotta hurt, but they have nobody to blame but themselves.


13 posted on 08/24/2015 4:57:14 PM PDT by Hildy (God bless America, God bless SIlverton, Colorado and God protect us from the EPA.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Li’l Randy is just pissed because he was really counting on having that screwed-up hairdo set him apart from the rest of the GOP field. Then along comes The Donald, and Li’l Randy is just sure Trump’s lead in the polls confirms his hairdo theory...


14 posted on 08/24/2015 4:57:18 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rand Paul who?


15 posted on 08/24/2015 4:58:11 PM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s at least partly right on this. The other part though, is that Trump really does know how to tell the press to piss off in a way that really resonates in much of the country.


16 posted on 08/24/2015 4:58:14 PM PDT by zeugma (Zaphod Beeblebrox for president!)
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The Trump immigration plan has more substance than anything any of the others have said or done.

Bye, Rand. The black vote wasn’t happening, anyway. Ask President Kemp.


17 posted on 08/24/2015 4:59:03 PM PDT by Jim Noble (You walk into the room like a camel and then you frown)
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Great idea, insult 25% of the GOP voters. We’re just to stupid to appreciate you, huh? Go away, Rand.


18 posted on 08/24/2015 5:00:02 PM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt)
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Businessman over politician.

YOU DID BUILD THIS, Rand…(feeling empowered now that TPTB gave you the fallback Senator job?)

http://www.usdebtclock.org

Socialism IS Legal Plunder - Bastiat

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.


19 posted on 08/24/2015 5:00:15 PM PDT by PGalt
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It’s funny... if ANY of the other candidates had simply and consistently said and done what Trump said and did, they could be where he is today.

But no, they hemmed and hawed and hedged and talked out of both sides of their mouths and apologized and pandered for cash, just like usual.

And now, Paul and some of the others want us to just shut up, surrender our principles, swallow our pride, forget our own self interest, screw the best interests of the country, and side with them.

What planet are they from, exactly?


20 posted on 08/24/2015 5:01:05 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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