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Rand Paul: 'When Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win'
Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo News ^ | June 2, 2013 | Mark Trumbull

Posted on 06/02/2013 7:39:36 AM PDT by Innovative

Rand Paul is the latest Republican to tell his party to open up to a wider range of views within its ranks.

"The party can be big enough to allow people who don't all agree on every issue," Senator Paul told an audience in California, a state that produced three Republican presidents in the 20th century but now votes reliably Democratic.

"When the Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win again," he said.

"It's not going to change who I am or what I talk about but I think we can be a big enough party to include people," Paul said at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., Friday evening.

In his Friday talk, Paul sought to define himself, among other things, as a Republican who cares about the environment.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; gop; gopagenda; idiocy; lunatic; newgop; randpaul
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To: Innovative

Sadly, Rand has caught the clintonian disease, leadership by wet finger int he wind rather than core values.


81 posted on 06/02/2013 10:13:05 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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82 posted on 06/02/2013 1:15:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Innovative

No, all he is saying is that minorities frequently have the ~SAME~ values of conservative Republicans, and that we ~must~ reach these peoples.

We ~MUST NOT~ change our views, values: You lose liberal MSM!


83 posted on 06/02/2013 1:43:44 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Is John Boehner the Neville Chamberlain of American Politics?)
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To: Renegade1776

Uh-huh. What’s your plan to get conservative “busybodies” to stop trying to “rule others’ lives?” Maybe drop those embarrassing social issues, like sodomite marriage, that kind of thing?


84 posted on 06/02/2013 2:42:37 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Innovative
'When Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win'

Win what?

85 posted on 06/02/2013 2:47:35 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Innovative

This is a betrayal of conservatives. Senator Paul, that thing at the end of your leg, just keep it in your mouth.


86 posted on 06/02/2013 3:02:04 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: The Toll

“Does he mean gay and unemployed?”

Or without papers?
Or we all must go get a tan?
Or we must all be on welfare?

I am not sure what he means but anytime someone talks about looks being the measure of equality I can’t consider them a patriotic American or a conservative.


87 posted on 06/02/2013 3:06:32 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Innovative

88 posted on 06/02/2013 3:08:18 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Altura Ct.

+1


89 posted on 06/02/2013 3:12:16 PM PDT by Pelham (Deport illegal aliens? Hell yes!)
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To: GBA

“No doubt they are ready to hear it in California. “

Bzzzt! Wrong answer.

Try again.


90 posted on 06/02/2013 3:15:13 PM PDT by Pelham (Deport illegal aliens? Hell yes!)
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To: Innovative

This guy is not getting my vote. Ever.


91 posted on 06/02/2013 3:18:49 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Liberalism. Ideas so great they have to be mandatory.-FReeper Osage Orange)
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To: Innovative

What do the Rand Paul supporters think — is this a sensible, winning strategy or betrayal of conservatives?

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Don’t know what the Rand Paul supporters think. But securing 5 - 8 % more voters would sure help win national elections and maybe statewide in some cases. The GOP doesn’t need all but they need to convince more that conservative ideals can be a good approach. JMO


92 posted on 06/02/2013 3:19:23 PM PDT by deport
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To: Innovative
'When Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win'

Today America, tomorrow the Universe.


93 posted on 06/02/2013 3:24:27 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Renegade1776

IBTZ!!!


94 posted on 06/02/2013 3:25:00 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Liberalism. Ideas so great they have to be mandatory.-FReeper Osage Orange)
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To: Innovative; Jim Robinson
"When the Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win again," he said.

I would like to see Free Republic offer an official invitation to Rand to come here to give a detailed explanation and to field questions from members. How about it Mr. Robinson?

95 posted on 06/02/2013 3:28:28 PM PDT by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: Thane_Banquo

What a load of twaddle. There are MANY churches still holding the line. I attend one.


96 posted on 06/02/2013 3:29:06 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Liberalism. Ideas so great they have to be mandatory.-FReeper Osage Orange)
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To: Innovative

I don’t care what it “looks like”; I care what it stands for and believes.


97 posted on 06/02/2013 3:29:28 PM PDT by windsorknot (We are Winston Smith)
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To: Irenic

Post of the day!!


98 posted on 06/02/2013 3:30:51 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Liberalism. Ideas so great they have to be mandatory.-FReeper Osage Orange)
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To: Renegade1776
Redefine this, troll:


99 posted on 06/02/2013 3:32:12 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Admin Moderator; TheOldLady

ZOT!!


100 posted on 06/02/2013 3:33:56 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Liberalism. Ideas so great they have to be mandatory.-FReeper Osage Orange)
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