[campaignPete R-CT]

if Paul and Cruz both run, expect a nasty dogfight in the grassroots. Previous examples of intramural viciousness ...
PatRobertson vs. Jack Kemp in ‘88
Huckabee vs. Brownback in ‘08 Iowa
and Bachmann Iowa ‘12 got a bit crude.

Rand-Paul not necessarily involved himself ... see his recent comments about Cruz citizenship ... but the paulistas like to freelance.

The Paulistas are strong enough in western NH to successfully undermine Cruz there. It would be best if Paul were to not run and, instead, endorse Cruz.

[Tau Food]

I can say some nice things (things I like) about Rand Paul, but I suspect he's been infected by some of his dad's foreign policy weaknesses. One other thing - there is something somehow feminine about his voice and his manner. I know he can't help that, but it's there and it won't help in a presidential campaign.

I have to say that I have much more confidence in Ted Cruz. I don't think that there's anyone else out there with his qualities.

Ted Cruz - 2016

[C. Edmund Wright]

if Paul and Cruz both run, expect a nasty dogfight in the grassroots. Previous examples of intramural viciousness ... PatRobertson vs. Jack Kemp in ‘88 Huckabee vs. Brownback in ‘08 Iowa and Bachmann Iowa ‘12 got a bit crude.

Which is all so stupid and self defeating. What voters in primaries really want is a vision for beating the libs.....but consultants and candidates are often too stupid and too duped by conventional wisdom to figure this out. Newt proved this twice in 2011-12, and then he and his consultants got stupid too.....

[SoConPubbie]

Rand-Paul not necessarily involved himself ... see his recent comments about Cruz citizenship ... but the paulistas like to freelance.

The Paulistas are strong enough in western NH to successfully undermine Cruz there. It would be best if Paul were to not run and, instead, endorse Cruz.

It would be best that Rand Paul not run because he has his own Amnesty Proposal.

Any candidate who thinks Amnesty is a good thing cannot be trusted and does not have the health and welfare of this country at heart but his/her own political ambitions. This also means that such candidate does not care about what is best for the citizens he/she is supposed to be leading.

Furthermore, because of the destruction such policy would impose on the US, I can only consider Rand Paul, or anyone else that proposes Amnesty, a Traitor!