Hillary Clinton seeks third-party opponent

The left doesn’t screw their own. We are the ones that play that game.

Perot voters are arch conservative salt-of-the-Earth patriotic Americans.

If that were true, then why did they vote for a pro-abortion, anti-gun candidate?

I predict that the GOP’s next nominee will be the one who received the most votes in the primaries. Nothing more, nothing less. If anybody’s favorite losses, it is because a lot of other people who voted did not share your sentiments.

Deserves a repeat. One hundred percent correct, FRiend.

The GOPE and McConnell will do everything they can to destroy any real conservative candidate.

If the nominee is a RINO, I will not support them.

McCain will run Independent if HillBill will pickup the tab.

Meghan? Cindy? John McCain will be 80. He just might want to run, but at this point nobody would vote for him.

Problem with the theory: Hillary's people aren't likely to have much contact or pull with a conservative candidate, so what they'd have to go for is more of a loose cannon -- Trump, Bloomberg, or some billionaire or other -- who might end up hurting her almost as much as the Republicans. Some Democrats might be attracted to a rogue populist or wacky millionaire.

Still, you can see something of the cleverness of the strategy. If there were a somewhat plausible conservative third party candidate in the race early on, that would help a moderate to the nomination by drawing off conservative energy. Then conservatives would be so alienated by the moderate that they would stay home or vote for the third party.

It should be noted, though, that given the politicians who usually run, nominating a conservative isn't the sure path to victory that some think it is.

Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"
I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.
[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]

Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance
...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.
[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]

Rand Paul's immigration speech
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...
[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]

Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'
Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists]
[Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]

If Paul gets the GOP nomination, McCain will run third party.