Posted on 11/09/2015 12:33:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In 2014, Time magazine called Rand Paul “the most interesting man in politicsâ€. One year later, Republican voters do not seem to agree.
While Donald Trump hosts Saturday Night Live and Ben Carson’s autobiography is parsed with Talmudic scrutiny, Paul, suffering from anemic poll numbers, only just escaped being bounced from Tuesday’s primetime Republican debate in Milwaukee.
He is undeterred. Asked by the Guardian at a recent campaign stop if he was still the most interesting man in politics, the Kentucky senator said: “I still am. I still am.â€
For many Republican primary voters, the question is whether the unassuming if somewhat gruff Paul – who insisted on no mayo in the ham and cheese sandwich he ordered for lunch – ever was particularly interesting, or if voters were only attracted to the idiosyncratic, 21st-century libertarianism he expounds.
Paul must find a way to show such people that a substantive platform under which the right to bear arms is just as sacred as preventing government intrusions on privacy can compete with the “bombast†of Trump.
Paul spent Friday making two South Carolina campaign stops and doing innumerable interviews ahead of the Democratic presidential forum that was held in the state that night. Preaching a familiar message of fiscal restraint, he repeatedly told voters: “There is no free lunch.†At a sandwich shop which offered free food for any visiting presidential candidate, he pointedly paid for his meal...
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Who?
Does he drink XX?
Rand Paul...the most interesting man in the world of politics...if you don’t count Jeb Bush and Martin O’Malley.
The guy that made all those maps I think.
I dont’ lose often, but when I lose I lose Big.
Stay thirsty for power my friends.
The nut does not fall far from the tree.
I like Rand. On domestic issues, especially on economic and constitutional issues, the guy is right on. He, like his father, seems to fail a bit on foreign policy even though I don’t think he’s come out as radical on foreign policy as his dad.
Agreed Jim...
doofuss
or is it
doofus
?
Oh, I'm pretty sure he drinks...
Stay goofy my friend.
But he has nice hair! LOL!
I took the test to see which candidate I am most attuned with. It came back Rand Paul 85%. I had a hell of a time
explaining that to my dog.
I think it’s “doofus”, “doofuss” would suggest someone fussing about “doo”. ...which is not a word.
suck up. ;)
Heck. You could say Hitler or Stalin were interesting men.
:)
Stay curly, my friends.
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