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.
Sorry you don’t understand hyperbole. Sorry you don’t realize that idiotic is an adjective, not a noun.
Rand Paul is the only candidate that would sign the laws necessary to limit the power of the President. We need him for that reason - I’m voting for him.
If Rand Paul is not pure enough for you, I suggest you’re out of luck.
I don’t support libertarians
Enjoy having your country taken over by liberals.
Liberal, is staking out a position against the conservatives and conservatism as Rand kicks off his campaign.
“I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues,” Paul advised. “The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to be festooned by those issues.”
Again, I prefer Cruz for the reasons you just stated.
But extreme limited-government types like Paul will get a lot of social conservative goals achieved simply because liberal agenda fails without taxpayer money to spread it.
Moreover, at least he would return such fights to the states where we could win the issues.
In short, yes, it’s not remotely perfect, but it’s not failing like most of the other RINO idiots.
Gay marriage and social liberalism at the federal level are big government, not small government, and Paul is running for federal office.
If Rand got 3 or 4% of the Howard crowd or these people that would be a net gain.
They aren’t representative of the youth who will vote in swing states.
Rand has a newsflash for Rush. You can’t lock illegals up in camps.
A Rand presidency would also be constrained by Congress, the courts and public opinion. It would be nice to have a guy willing to eliminate and combine departments.
For cost cutting and deficit reducing purposes.
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