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Posted on 04/29/2014 12:26:17 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
BOSTON (AP) — Fighting to move beyond his father’s shadow, Sen. Rand Paul is crafting new alliances with the Republican Party establishment during a Northeast tour that began Friday in Boston.
The 51-year-old Kentucky Republican, son of libertarian hero and former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, headlined an afternoon luncheon hosted by top lieutenants of former presidential nominee Mitt Romney — a private meeting that comes as Paul weighs a 2016 presidential bid of his own. To succeed in a national campaign, however, those close to Paul acknowledge that he must broaden his appeal beyond the Tea Party and libertarian-minded activists who rallied behind his father’s long-shot presidential runs.
Paul offered a unique blend of what he called “libertarian-ish” politics while addressing Harvard University’s Institute of Politics Friday afternoon.
“The Republican Party will adapt, evolve or die,” Paul declared.
He railed against perceived civil liberties abuses in the Obama administration, while suggesting his party should focus less attention on social issues. He also said the GOP should abandon calls to deport millions of immigrants and offered that armed school officials might help prevent further mass shootings.
But more than what he said publicly, Paul’s private actions on Friday marked a new step in his push to strengthen his political standing.
The freshman senator attended the luncheon at the private-equity firm Solamere Capital, a Boston-area company led by Romney’s his former national finance chairman, Spencer Zwick, and Romney’s oldest son, Tagg. Romney himself serves as a senior adviser to the firm and has an office there, although he did not attend the gathering.
Zwick arranged a private audience of just a dozen key members of Romney’s inner circle, including senior advisers Beth Myers, Bob White and Ron Kaufman.
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No.
No.
Yup. Get the most liberal campaign ever to run you for president as a staunch conservative. What a cunning plan. The very people that trashed every conservative in a 57 state area. And Rand is courting them.
Truly he is Reagan reincarnated and will govern likewise.
FURP!!
Well if CBS says so.....
Is it not enuf that Romney put Obama into office twice?
Is it not enuf that Romney installed polygamy, gay marriage,
gay abuse of children, and RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE?
WHAT possible good will come from the G(ive) O(bama) P(ower)
party?
It is obvious that nut case Paul has been moving leftward for some time.
Yeah, ‘cause they really knew what they were doing. Quite the victory President Romney had.
Rand Paul is getting on my nerves!
RP is not going to crash on the runway.
RP is not going to burn on the runway.
RP is not even going to get out of the shop, and has already glued his fingers together while setting the waste basket on fire.
I’ve said this before.
The Constitution is Libertarian.
Individuals are fundamentally conservative.
This is what Democrats fear.
By removing the Federal Government, we will place our faith in the hands of the individual.
As a result, virtually all our social issues will be decided at the local level.
The question is, “Who do you trust ?”
Democrats clearly don’t trust the individual.
Establishment Republicans “Say” they trust the individual, but their actions seem to prove otherwise.
Repeal the mis-named Patriot Acts.
I’ll bet he is.
This is the same team that trashed Sarah Palin, after Mitt Romney lent them to Juan McCain, and they blew that race on purpose.
Professional losers.
“The Republican Party will adapt, evolve or die,” Paul declared.
He railed against perceived civil liberties abuses in the Obama administration, while suggesting his party should focus less attention on social issues. He also said the GOP should abandon calls to deport millions of immigrants and offered that armed school officials might help prevent further mass shootings.”
A Libtardian moron who would get fewer votes that Romney or McCain.
Twins!
A Libtardian moron who would get fewer votes that Romney or McCain.
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Incredible, but true.
Oh he will. The Romney fanatics that spent months attacking anyone here that wouldn’t bow and scrape will just transfer their alliance and do it all over again with Rand. In fact, several of them already are.
So get ready for another year plus of hearing them scream that Rands liberalisn isn’t liberalisn and you want a democrat elected if you do not totally agree.
Historu is repeating as we speak.
It's always fatal.
Such an amalgamation can only lead to a case of “canine fornication”! (He done did gone and s. t. p.!)
I cannot take Rand Paul seriously, once he opened his mouth on his ideas of foreign policy.
"Ron Paul will continue my agendae of gay marriage,
socialized medicine, protection of Obama, and the rape of children."
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