Posted on 06/06/2009 7:27:27 PM PDT by GoldStandard
Dr. Ron Paul’s son, Rand Paul, has formed an exploratory campaign for U.S. Senate from Kentucky. Rand Paul is similar to his father in ideology; he favors a strict application of the Constitution to federal government matters, thus opposes the Federal Reserve Bank and the U.S. Department of Education and supports lower taxes and less spending.
A grass-roots movement formed several months ago to draft Dr. Rand Paul to run for the U.S. Senate after incumbent Republican Senator Jim Bunning. Bunning has left hints he may not run for reelection. Bunning, who had a career spanning 15 years in Major League Baseball prior to election to Congress, has polling numbers as low as 28 percent in Kentucky. He has also openly feuded with the establishment Republican Senator from Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The 45-year-old Dr. Rand Paul became a medical doctor (opthamologist) after graduating from Duke medical school, the same medical school his obstetrician father attended. “We believe that the Republican Party in many ways has lost their believability on issues like the deficit.” Dr. Paul told supporters on his exploratory campaign website. “We have a chance to win in this primary.”
Dr. Paul has already garnered more than $64,000 in donations in addition to more than 2,700 supporters on his Facebook cause.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Who said anything about a 3rd party run?
This article is about Rand Paul, Ron Paul's son who is running for Senate as a Republican. Nothing in the article mentions Ron Paul or 2012. But I'm sure he won't be a Republican for long as the GOP elites teams up with the Dems as they've done to Rand's father for years.
It’s surreal, really. Whenever Ron Paul is mentioned, otherwise intelligent FReepers morph into DUers.
Correct.
Neocons not liking you = "anti-semite."
If he’s a chip off the old block, you can keep him.
Of course, I’ll bet 2% of the population will pretend he is the most popular thing since sliced bread ......... again.
I’m sure David Duke and the Klan will heartidly support him.
Bears repeating to show just why so many conservatives want nothing to do with Paul or his worshippers.
Even a moderate would be better than what we have now, a fast track to communism and poverty for all.
Well, you're a nut.
They do come off like democrats there, don't they?
You have to look back a couple of replies to put it the discussion in perspective, it got a bit off topic.
“Perot’s Third Party gave us Bill Clinton”
No, G H W Bush’s caving to the spenders by violating his “Read my lips, no new taxes” pledge gave us Clinton. Perot simply capitalized on Bush’s betrayal of Reaganism to get him dumped.
The Republican party is going the way of the Whigs, and conservatives will have to look elsewhere for succor.
Ron Paul Ping
@ Arizona Carolyn
Historically, the Republican party superceded the Whigs when the Democrat party fragmented over sectional differences and the slavery question. The Republican party is going the way of the Whigs because it has lost its moral compass and deteriorated into “Democrat-lite”. Complaining that departing conservatives who cast protest votes are the cause of the problem, rather than the symptom, will not change the problem. The RINO’s can have the dying carcass. Conservatives will look elsewhere.
You are a liar, simple but hardly pure, and you know it. You are also a slanderer with absolutely no facts to back up your absurd assertions. That rock you slimed your way out from under is beckoning to you.
I can see that you don’t respond to calls for source material for your slanders... there is no truthful material that will back up your lies. Thus you cannot even begin to be honest with us.
I’m a nut, but you support Ron Paul?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
this is so cool; the Congressman Paul, where the smoke there’s fire brigade. Just like a hive’s bees coming to defend the queen.
You people are as bad as obamaCultist’s.
Being conservative means supporting a liberal Republican at all costs?
Then again, how can you claim Paul isn't somewhat “liberal” himself, with his opposition to winning a war and speaking out against earmarks, while grabbing the most of all who claim to be Republican?
Funny how you Paulistinians kept portraying Paul in the lead in polls, yet in actual voting he never got beyond single digits.
For the record, I despised McCain and didn't support his candidacy until Sarah Palin was on board. It angered me that she was held back.
But, you honestly feel another term of Obama would be better than even a moderate Republican?
And you can claim we support liberals?
“Is he an anti-Semite and yellow belly on defense too?”
No he is not. Nor is his father. It doesn’t matter how many times you copy and paste the deceptions, the well informed freedom loving folk know better.
Yellow belly? Are you calling people who served in the Air Force yellow bellies? I have some friends who retired from the Air Force who are some of the bravest men I know.
BTW, to label someone as racist and anti-Semite is a liberal tactic often used against conservatives. So are you a recent convert to constitutional conservatism, or are you just trolling repeating liberal lies?
I didn’t label him as a racist. Don’t put words on my fingertips. His father is an anti-semite, there is page upon page of evidence listed. He’s a yellow-belly because he refused to defend this nation from it’s enemy. He’s also a convenience conservative based upon his acceptance and request for earmarks.
I haven’t even touched on his support from the certain groups. Quit while you’re behind.
Post #45 you said: Bears repeating to show just why so many conservatives want nothing to do with Paul or his worshippers.
Even a moderate would be better than what we have now, a fast track to communism and poverty for all.
First of all, if Dr. Paul hadn't run for President, the Republican Party would have been dead instead of merely being in a coma right now. Paul brought in the fiscal conservatives and the old rightists back into the party, so saying that "conservatives want nothing to do with him" is patently false, because he was arguably the most conservative Republican in the field.
Second of all, you had your moderate Republican and he lost. John McCain was just as liberal as Obama was except on national security. And Palin, as his VP, would have been tainted by his statist administration.
Then again, how can you claim Paul isn't somewhat “liberal” himself, with his opposition to winning a war and speaking out against earmarks, while grabbing the most of all who claim to be Republican?
Sigh. Paul opposed the nation-building and democracy-building in the Mideast aspect of it. If Bush would have went to Congress to declare war, Paul would have voted for it. He still voted to go into Afghanistan and fight the terrorists using tools already available in the Constitution. Earmarks? Please. You obviously haven't participated on the Paul threads because this has been discussed and dissected thoroughly.
Funny how you Paulistinians kept portraying Paul in the lead in polls, yet in actual voting he never got beyond single digits.
Funny how you and other FReepers "FReeped" online polls but then bi!ched when Paul supporters did it. Funny how Paul still lasted longer than all of the other GOP candidates in the primaries except for McNut himself.
For the record, I despised McCain and didn't support his candidacy until Sarah Palin was on board. It angered me that she was held back.
You should know that Paul was partly the reason why McCain picked Palin to try and bring in the folks who supported Paul.
But, you honestly feel another term of Obama would be better than even a moderate Republican?
I would rather have an outright leftist Democrat than to deal with a back-stabbing, gutless Republican who'll still advance the same socialist goals albeit it at a slightly lower speed. There's no doubt in my mind that McCain would have continued the same statist policies that Obama and the Congressional Dems are doing now.
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