Posted on 03/20/2014 4:51:43 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
RUSH: Rand Paul went to Berkeley yesterday, last night. Rand Paul got a standing O from the students at the University of California-Berkeley. Do you know the issue that he hit on that they just jumped out of their seats and applauded him on was the government spying on the citizens? He came out firmly against it, highly critical of it, and they couldn't be quiet.
They were just cheering him like Republicans don't get cheered on college campi. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Rand Paul "delivered a scathing rebuke to the US intelligence community Wednesday, calling it 'drunk with power.' 'I don't know about you, but I'm worried,' the Kentucky senator told 400 people who filled a hall at UC Berkeley's International House. 'If the CIA is spying on Congress, who exactly can or will stop them?'"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vFhXpfEfQg
Reporters talked to the students after the speech, and they just thought it was one of the greatest that they had heard anybody make at Berkeley. Now, he said other things, but that issue of spying, I happen to have seen this reported elsewhere. I've seen it on my tech blogs. These young people that just slavishly support Obama and global warming and every cockamamie idea, when it comes to this NSA business, it's the one area there's not even any confusion about it.
I mean, they're a little confused that Obama would do it, but there is no middle ground on it. They universally oppose it, and they can't blame Republicans for it. I think we get an indication here how Rand Paul's gonna run his campaign. He's gonna go to groups of people, and he's gonna talk about, as a Republican, the things important to them. He's gonna identify whatever it is important. Like to these students, he knew it was spying.
He went to the belly of the beast, UC Berkeley. He's been to Howard University, which is an all-black university. I think other Republican contenders had better take note of what he's doing, 'cause it's very abundantly clear to me what his strategy is. He'll go talk to Hispanics, and whatever he identifies as the issue that gets them out of their seats, he'll talk about.
I don't know what it would be, but he will have one. It might be immigration/amnesty. Who knows? I have no idea. But he obviously knew that the Millennials/college students want no part of this spying. I mean, they're all really tech savvy, and they understand the depths to which the spying is possible. You know, keep a sharp eye.
This would be great if he were taking our conservative message to them.
Instead, Rand Paul is trying to build the political political support needed so that he can defeat conservatism within the GOP and make it a rino/libertarian party, and totally eliminate the Reagan wing.
Just damn. College kids want FREEDOM? Who knew??
Cheers Rush.
I think Rush is way off on this one. Not a single one of these kids will ever vote for Paul, or any Republican….and certainly not enough to swing California. This was a one issue hot button…..among a few hundred kids. Totally meaningless….as far as prez politics is concerned. A Fools errand.
It is more than the intelligence community that is drunk with power. And if that is all that it takes to get elected then this nation is in worse trouble than anyone knows.
the Reagan wing.
Did Reagan advocate government spying on Americans? I don’t remember that. I do remember that he opposed national ID cards.
If Paul can manage to shut down the Federal Reserve, that would be a great achievement to restoring limited government in the USA - after that, everything else would secondary.
He’s not even that organized. He does his own thing. He attacks republicans of all types, schmoozed democrats, whatever works for the moment. He’s a senator. What’s he done to eliminate offenses against the fourth amendment in that capacity
Rush said, today, he just gathers up support no principals.
Who could like this guy?
I will be voting for Rand Paul.
So you don’t think the govt spying on its citizens is a concern conservatives share?
Rand Paul will win.
What is Paul’s strategery? Pissing off conservatives?
Hardly a winning strategery, if you ask me.
“I will be voting for Rand Paul.”
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Beware of Trojan Horses.
Yup.
Rush is never wrong.
And the eating of our own begins.
Now Cruz is my first choice, but Rand is hardly a liberal.
The only thing I worry about him is his crazy father.
Does anybody remember a Republican convention where someone took a Ronald Reagan signed and sat on it? He didn’t become the nominee that year. They said he was too radical. And Jimmy Carter became the president. At least that’s the way I see it.
Rush is never wrong... said the Rush bootlicker.
What does that have to do with the threat to conservatism that Paul poses, he seems OK on the spying issue, it is the places where he is liberal that is the problem.
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