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.
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No they don’t, they don’t want to be monitored but they usually support every other left wing meme
Rand wants to bend on amnesty and social issues, he is not fit for my vote
People seem to be unable to distinguish between libertarian and liberal. The Constitution of the United States is libertarian.
“Would you vote for Rand Paul if it was him against Hitlery?”
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That is a ridiculous question. Of course I would.
I would vote for Alfred E Neuman over Hildabeast, or any of the rat Commies.
It is just that I am not now impressed with our Republican (Democrat lite) party, or any of the candidates.
Like the Bushies we’ve had enough Paulista’s. Randy has wandered way off the reservation.
How ironic - how strange in a twisted sort of way - that while she may have despised libertarians; they love her, idealize her, and base their modern dynamics on her Godless philosophy.
Not a single one? Really? You believe that?
ROFL. Libertarians have nothing in common with RINOs.
No, just stop trying to be people's Daddies and get the government out of your life.
Paul doesn't support either of these.
That is a ridiculous question.
In your case it is not a good question. But there are too many who would sit out the election if Paul was the candidate.
I agree with you.
I will be voting for Rand Paul.
Likewise.
Reading Ayn Rand as a teen really helped me in my political discussions during the 1960s and 1970s as I defended Capitalism, especially at left wing centers like the Shelter Half in Tacoma Washington, when I was alone against everyone else there, but I didn’t know that she was to be revered, and seen as more than what she was.
Yes he does, and he is starting his campaign on that platform.
“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.”
She despised libertarians because most of her converts soon left her orbit and became libertarians.
Rinos and libertarians share the view that conservatism needs to be killed off, and the GOP become a social liberal party.
Rinos/libertarians both consider conservatives the enemy, and they share a large portion of a political agenda which supports the left, and empowers the left.
What date do you put on that?
When his delegates crash the various State GOP nominating meetings, you find out how organized he really is. The local TEA party is owned by his supporters and they are currently working hard to fill the GOP halls with his supporters to steal the state of North Carolina, by sheer numbers in a voting forum. Get the State nomination and there is no GOP opposition, he becomes the GOP. Watch and see.
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