Rand Paul, 2016 Republican front-runner

[Galileo]

Rand Paul, 2016 Republican front-runner

The first eight-plus months of 2013 have convinced us of one thing: Rand Paul acts and the rest of the potential 2016 Republican presidential field reacts.

1. Rand Paul: He’s not a clear front-runner. But, if you are looking for a candidate who can (a) raise the money, (b) has a clear and compelling message and (c) has an obvious edge in an early state (Iowa), then Paul is the only person in the top three who checks all three boxes. We repeat what we said above: Underestimate him at your own peril. (Previous ranking: 3)

2. Chris Christie
3. Marco Rubio
4. Paul Ryan
5. Jeb Bush
6. Ted Cruz
7. Scott Walker
8. Bobby Jindal
9. John Kasich
10. Mike Pence

MORE:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/09/13/rand-paul-2016-republican-frontrunner/

:lmao

[boutons_deux]

Colbert takes on Rand Paul’s Syria incoherence and ‘slumbering wombat’ hairstyle

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Colbert-Paul-wombat-via-screencap-615x345.png

Stephen Colbert skewered 2016 presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)’s “all over the place” approach to how to handle the situation in Syria, as well as the gelled snarl of curls on top of the senator’s head, which Colbert likened to a “slumbering wombat” that could “strike at any time.”

After Pres. Barack Obama laid out the case once again for military intervention in Syria Tuesday night, Paul made his own rebuttal speech, then made the rounds of the cable news shows, seeming to argue multiple cases at once for and against attacking the Assad regime.

Paul was saying over and over that he doesn’t “know whether to trust the Russian proposal or not.”

“Agreed!” Colbert said. “Death it is! Regime change! Shock and awe! Bombs away!”

Then he played a clip from another interview in which Paul said, “I think if we bomb Assad, it will become more likely that the country will become more unstable,”

and another clip in which the freshman senator direly warned of “just about any bad outcome” you can imagine if we do bomb Syria.

“Okay, I was wrong. This is the Rand Paul I agree with,” said Colbert.

“So, just to recap,” he concluded, “Rand Paul says no diplomacy, but we can’t do nothing, but no to the president’s plan and no to regime change.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/12/colbert-takes-on-rand-pauls-syria-incoherence-and-slumbering-wombat-hairstyle/

Like libertarian fans, Rand Paul is a mental midget, an idiot, a fraud, a nutjob, riding on the fringe-y coattails of his screwball father.

KY jelly for brains!

[boutons_deux]

Rand Paul and Ted Cruz’s Defund Obamacare Rally Attracts Dozens of Medicare Using Elderly People

http://ww2.politicususa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/cruz-paul-defund-obamacare-rally-1-485x271.jpg

Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz’s defund Obamacare rally today turned out to be a giant bust, as the only people most interested in stopping Obamacare are old people who are already on Medicare.

Pat Robertson’s CBN Network touted the anticipated huge crowd size (http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2013/September/Anti-Obamacare-Rally-Expected-to-Draw-Thousands/), “The start date for enrolling in the Affordable Care Act is Oct. 1. As the nation gets closer to that date, activists who want to defund Obamacare are putting more pressure on legislators. On Tuesday, they’re bringing thousands of protestors to Washington, D.C., for an event called Exempt America.”

Crowd shots were not often seen during the live stream of the event, and for good reason most of the people there appeared to be the typical older white Republican voters. The great irony of the rally was that many of the people who did attend the event were likely on Medicare. Those in attendance cheered on speaker after speaker as they railed against government run healthcare all the while knowing that they are recipients of one of the best healthcare programs in the country, which just so happens to be run by the government.

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/10/rand-paul-ted-cruzs-defund-obamacare-rally-attracts-dozens-medicare-elderly-people.html

We know Cruz is probably very smart and so a profoundly DISHONEST demagogue and (TX bubba) rabble rouser, repeating ideological lies to get elected, but RP is just fucking stupid.

[DMX7]

Rand Paul and Ted Cruz’s Defund Obamacare Rally Attracts Dozens of Medicare Using Elderly People

http://ww2.politicususa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/cruz-paul-defund-obamacare-rally-1-485x271.jpg

Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz’s defund Obamacare rally today turned out to be a giant bust, as the only people most interested in stopping Obamacare are old people who are already on Medicare.

Pat Robertson’s CBN Network touted the anticipated huge crowd size (http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2013/September/Anti-Obamacare-Rally-Expected-to-Draw-Thousands/), “The start date for enrolling in the Affordable Care Act is Oct. 1. As the nation gets closer to that date, activists who want to defund Obamacare are putting more pressure on legislators. On Tuesday, they’re bringing thousands of protestors to Washington, D.C., for an event called Exempt America.”

Crowd shots were not often seen during the live stream of the event, and for good reason most of the people there appeared to be the typical older white Republican voters. The great irony of the rally was that many of the people who did attend the event were likely on Medicare. Those in attendance cheered on speaker after speaker as they railed against government run healthcare all the while knowing that they are recipients of one of the best healthcare programs in the country, which just so happens to be run by the government.

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/10/rand-paul-ted-cruzs-defund-obamacare-rally-attracts-dozens-medicare-elderly-people.html

We know Cruz is probably very smart and so a profoundly DISHONEST demagogue and (TX bubba) rabble rouser, repeating ideological lies to get elected, but RP is just fucking stupid.



:lol

[whitemamba]

If Ron Paul was elected president, all americas problems would of been solved tbh.

[angrydude]

Rand isn't ron. I doubt he'd invade anyone though.

[whitemamba]

Rand isn't ron. I doubt he'd invade anyone though.

I think he saw what he media did to his dad, that being said, i think hes learning to bull shit like politicians do, hopefully that doesnt change is values.

[Blake]

"A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that Christie earns 21% support when Republican voters are asked whom they would vote for if the party’s primary in their state were held today. Florida Senator Marco Rubio runs a close second with 18% of the GOP vote, followed by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush at 16% and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul with 15% of the vote."

http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2016/christie_is_candidate_gop_voters_want_least_as_the ir_2016_nominee


Lol Paul

[Blake]

"As with previous surveys this year, the new CNN poll also indicates no GOP frontrunner.Seventeen percent of Republicans and Independents who lean toward the GOP say they are likely to support New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, with 16% backing Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the House Budget Committee chairman and 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee.Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is at 13%;*"


http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/politics/2016-poll-deep-dive/

Lol Paul

[ChumpDumper]

lol Rand makes major announcement calling for giving gun rights back to felons on the day of a mass shooting.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130916/NEWS01/309160090/Sen-Rand-Paul-calls-restoring-felons-voting-gun-rights

Smooth.

[SA210]

lol Rand makes major announcement calling for giving gun rights back to felons on the day of a mass shooting.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130916/NEWS01/309160090/Sen-Rand-Paul-calls-restoring-felons-voting-gun-rights

Smooth.

Should he change his stance for that day on it?

[ChumpDumper]

Should he change his stance for that day on it?
He shouldn't be an idiot and should wait a day or two to attempt to pander go blacks and felons.

[SA210]

He shouldn't be an idiot and should wait a day or two to attempt to pander go blacks and felons.

Your opinion.

Btw, An Obama supporter trying to call someone else out for attempting to pander to blacks :lmao

[Blake]

Should he change his stance for that day on it?

If he wants to give guns back to felon pot heads, he should push for decriminalization of marijuana instead.

[SA210]

If he wants to give guns back to felon pot heads, he should push for decriminalization of marijuana instead.

I agree

[ChumpDumper]

Your opinion.You think it's the best timing after a mass shooting to talk about giving convicted felons guns?

Yes or no?


Btw, An Obama supporter trying to call someone else out for attempting to pander to blacks :lmaoBTW, Obama didn't have to pander to blacks at all.

[Galileo]

lol Rand makes major announcement calling for giving gun rights back to felons on the day of a mass shooting.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130916/NEWS01/309160090/Sen-Rand-Paul-calls-restoring-felons-voting-gun-rights

Smooth.

This is good, a lot of minorities get hit with non-violent "felonies" when they are young. They deserve the same rights as all Americans.

[ChumpDumper]

This is good, a lot of minorities get hit with non-violent "felonies" when they are young. They deserve the same rights as all Americans.What about the violent ones of any race?

Should people convicted of shooting other people get their voting and gun rights back?

[Galileo]

New Hampshire / Rand Paul 1st with 20%

Paul 20%
Christie 19%
Bush 14%
Ayotte 12%
Cruz 10%
Rubio 7%
Ryan 7%
Jindal 3%
Santorum 2%

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?428084-PPP-2016-GOP-Primary-Poll-New-Hampshire-Rand-Paul-1st-with-20&p=5230593#post5230593

:lmao

[Galileo]

Rand Paul leads in the polls in 10 of 14 states since April (CHART)

Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Iowa, Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio (tied), and New Hampshire.

SEE CHART HERE:

http://media.virbcdn.com/files/26/abb29720ff2722df-2016_GOP_Presidential_Primary_Poll_Results_By_Stat e_Map_Rand_Paul_Small.png

:lmao

[Th'Pusher]

Rand Paul leads in the polls in 10 of 14 states since April (CHART)

Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Iowa, Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio (tied), and New Hampshire.

SEE CHART HERE:

http://media.virbcdn.com/files/26/abb29720ff2722df-2016_GOP_Presidential_Primary_Poll_Results_By_Stat e_Map_Rand_Paul_Small.png

:lmao

So you think Rand has an actual chance of becoming POTUS?

You willing to put money on that?

[Galileo]

So you think Rand has an actual chance of becoming POTUS?

You willing to put money on that?

I would not trust you with a 10-foot pole.

:lmao

[Th'Pusher]

I would not trust you with a 10-foot pole.

:lmao

I didn't ask you to put money on it, I asked you if you were willing to put money on it. yes, or no?

[Galileo]

I didn't ask you to put money on it, I asked you if you were willing to put money on it. yes, or no?

depends on the odds.

[Jacob1983]

I will bet 1 dollar.

[Galileo]

Rand Paul wins straw poll at Mackinac Island

Rand 36%
Christie 16%
Bush 8%
Walker 7%
Cruz 7%

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130922/POLITICS02/309220014#ixzz2fdXWoL9J

:lmao

[Blake]

Rand Paul wins straw poll at Mackinac Island

Rand 36%
Christie 16%
Bush 8%
Walker 7%
Cruz 7%

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130922/POLITICS02/309220014#ixzz2fdXWoL9J

:lmao

526 voters

:lmao :lmao

[Galileo]

What about the violent ones of any race?

Should people convicted of shooting other people get their voting and gun rights back?

chumper wants to disarm the black man.

[DMX7]

Gun sellers want to sell guns.

[Galileo]

Rand Paul upcoming guest on Face The Nation 9/29/13

Are we headed toward a government shutdown? Tune in Sunday for @SenRandPaul, @SenatorDurbin, @MarshaBlackburn and ChrisVanHollen

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?428856-Rand-Paul-upcoming-guest-on-Face-The-Nation-9-29-13

:flag:

[Galileo]

Rand Paul on Deface the Nation (VIDEO)

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says if Congress fails to reach an agreement on the budget and Obamacare, and the government shuts down, Democrats' "my way or the highway" approach would be to blame.

WATCH VIDEO HERE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkxN__IRxEQ

:ihit

[boutons_deux]

"Democrats' "my way or the highway" approach would be to blame." :lol

Repugs lost the Senate, lost seats in the House (while losing Congressional votes by 1M), and Dems retained the White House in a landslide which was also a referendum on the Dem's Constitutional LAW ACA as version of successful Romneycare.

Elections have consequences, so Repugs, esp assholes like tea baggers and fake libertarians like RP, you can eat Dem shit.

the shutdown and default are 100% on the Repugs.

[SA210]

lol blue team red team

[Blake]

lol Ron Paul Rand Paul

[Galileo]

lol Ron Paul Rand Paul

LOL NWO.

[Blake]

lol wut

[Galileo]

lol wut

Poll: Paul leads GOP presidential pack

Rand Paul 17%
Christie 13%
Rubio 12%
Bush 11%
Ryan 10%
Cruz 10%
Walker 4%
Jindal 3%

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/326049-poll-paul-leads-gop-presidential-pack

:lmao

[boutons_deux]

Rand Paul is getting smeared as a Cruz companion. RP is fucked outside of his KY jelly-for-brains state and gerrymandered red districts.

but please please please run RP as 2016 Pres candidate with Bachmann as veep.

[Blake]

Poll: Paul leads GOP presidential pack

Rand Paul 17%
Christie 13%
Rubio 12%
Bush 11%
Ryan 10%
Cruz 10%
Walker 4%
Jindal 3%

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/326049-poll-paul-leads-gop-presidential-pack

:lmao

lol Paul

[Galileo]

Paul: Some government ‘idiot’ sent ‘goons’ to block WWII memorial

“Did you read the story today?” Paul asked on Fox’s Hannity. “Some idiot in government sent goons out there to set up barricades, so they couldn’t see the monument.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326019-paul-some-government-idiot-sent-goons-to-block-wwii-memorial?fb_action_ids=1116107118095&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

:lmao

[Galileo]

Rand Paul now leads in Real Clear Politics national polling average

Rand 15.7%
Christie 14.7%
Cruz 12.3%
Ryan 12.0%
Bush 10.7%
Rubio 10.3%
Walker 3.5%
Jindal 3.5%

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html

:lmao

[boutons_deux]

Cruz took 42 percent support,

while physician Ben Carson and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum both took 13 percent support — but Carson came in ahead of Santorum by one vote.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) came in fourth with six percent :lol :lol :lol :lol

and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) took fifth with five percent support.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/328229-ted-cruz-wins-values-voter-summit-straw-poll#ixzz2hpJV4WYa

Randian Paul seems to need a lot more lying and pandering to Christian haters and rednecks.

[boutons_deux]

Rand Paul's Muslim-Bashing Speech

Paul spent his 19-minute speech at the Value Voters summit on Friday talking about Muslims.

Paul opened his speech (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/11/sen_rand_paul_speaks_about_worldwide_war_on_christ ianity_at_2013_values_voter_summit.html) with an attention grabbing line: “From Boston to Zanzibar, there is a worldwide war on Christianity.”

Paul noted the actions of two Muslims in each location to support his thesis (http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/rand-paul-boston-marathon-bombing-part-of-a-war-on-christianity-20131011) that there are up to a “100 million” Muslims who want to slaughter Christians.

Paul, in an amazing feat of intellectual gymnastics, told the audience that the war on Christianity had come to America. Where you ask? Well, Paul deemed the Boston marathon bombing to have been perpetrated, “not against our government but against us as a people, a Christian people.”

I get why Paul is desperate. He very badly wants to be President. But it’s not going well. He was publicly smacked down this past summer by Chris Christie, one of his chief rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.

And Paul has recently been overshadowed by Ted Cruz.

All you need to do is check out Paul’s speech (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81226.html) from last year’s summit which focused solely upon his faith and outlook on life to realize that the stakes have changed for him.

To Paul, this speech was sort of a fear mongering “Hail Mary” speech. But it failed. Paul came in fourth in the Value Voters straw poll (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/12/cruz-wins-religious-conservatives-2016-straw-poll/).

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/14/rand-paul-s-hate-speech-sounded-just-like-al-qaeda.html

Like his father, a total loser

[Galileo]

Rand Paul's Muslim-Bashing Speech

Paul spent his 19-minute speech at the Value Voters summit on Friday talking about Muslims.

Paul opened his speech (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/11/sen_rand_paul_speaks_about_worldwide_war_on_christ ianity_at_2013_values_voter_summit.html) with an attention grabbing line: “From Boston to Zanzibar, there is a worldwide war on Christianity.”

Paul noted the actions of two Muslims in each location to support his thesis (http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/rand-paul-boston-marathon-bombing-part-of-a-war-on-christianity-20131011) that there are up to a “100 million” Muslims who want to slaughter Christians.

Paul, in an amazing feat of intellectual gymnastics, told the audience that the war on Christianity had come to America. Where you ask? Well, Paul deemed the Boston marathon bombing to have been perpetrated, “not against our government but against us as a people, a Christian people.”

I get why Paul is desperate. He very badly wants to be President. But it’s not going well. He was publicly smacked down this past summer by Chris Christie, one of his chief rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.

And Paul has recently been overshadowed by Ted Cruz.

All you need to do is check out Paul’s speech (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81226.html) from last year’s summit which focused solely upon his faith and outlook on life to realize that the stakes have changed for him.

To Paul, this speech was sort of a fear mongering “Hail Mary” speech. But it failed. Paul came in fourth in the Value Voters straw poll (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/12/cruz-wins-religious-conservatives-2016-straw-poll/).

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/14/rand-paul-s-hate-speech-sounded-just-like-al-qaeda.html

Like his father, a total loser





uh, Rand said we need to stay out of these countries where there are people who do not like us becasue of our oppressive military. He said we should stop sending foreign aid to them. Rand also denounced violence. Not sure what your beef is.

[boutons_deux]

:lol

Paul Warns of Logan's Run Type Future in VA

Flagging gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli brought in Tea Party demi-god Sen. Rand Paul for a campaign event today in Virginia. And Paul warned of a future (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/rand-paul-warns-eugenics-on-horizon-unless-conservatives-stand-up-against-abortion-rights/2013/10/28/790f5366-3fe9-11e3-b028-de922d7a3f47_print.html), presumably helped along by Terry McAuliffe in which science would lead to the destruction of whole classes of non-perfect people ...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/paul-warns-of-logan-s-run-type-future-in-va

Paul probably worried that he would have qualified to be destroyed as brain-absent by a Terry McAuliffe society :lol

[scott]

I can't wait to find out which other Movie Wikipedia pages Rand will plagiarize in his Presidential Campaign speeches.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/dorsey/rachel-maddow-rand-paul-plagiarized-gattacas-wikipedia-page

Rachel Maddow: Rand Paul Plagiarized “Gattaca’s” Wikipedia Page
How do we know that Rand Paul didn’t write the Wikipedia page for Gattaca?!

[boutons_deux]

uh, Rand said we need to stay out of these countries where there are people who do not like us becasue of our oppressive military. He said we should stop sending foreign aid to them. Rand also denounced violence. Not sure what your beef is.

just a free-floating, general dislike of libertarian frauds.

[angrydude]

uh, Rand said we need to stay out of these countries where there are people who do not like us becasue of our oppressive military. He said we should stop sending foreign aid to them. Rand also denounced violence. Not sure what your beef is.

He dislikes the (R)

[boutons_deux]

Will the Christie Juggernaut Roll Over Ted Cruz and Rand Paul?

None of this will endear Christie to the tea party and fundamentalist factions that presently dominate the Republican Party, but, like the legendary honey badger, he just doesn't care -- and as a strategic matter, he doesn't need to. Drawing parallels with the last two presidential cycles, Christie and his advisors can easily imagine him triumphing over a divided gaggle of right-wing clowns, just as John McCain and Mitt Romney did. And then, somewhat less easily, they must imagine that he will transcend the limitations of those candidates to win in November.

Certainly, Christie is open to attack on many fronts; his record on women's rights and reproductive health, his attitude toward the poor and vulnerable in his own state, his misuse of state resources to benefit himself while slashing vital budget lines -- are all deeply troubling. Like Rudolph Giuliani, he could find that his bullying style becomes stale and grating. His constant blather about public employees may leave voters wondering whether he has anything else to say. And to put it bluntly, nobody who looks like him has been elected president since the departure of William Howard Taft a century ago.

His right-wing detractors will hardly let him escape the primaries unscathed, if he somehow contrives to win the nomination. Yet in the months to come, should he choose to pursue the presidency, Christie can serve a significant role in his party and his country, rallying the forlorn Republicans who reject the nihilism of his opponents. He will tell it like it is about Rand Paul and Ted Cruz -- and they won't like it at all.

http://www.alternet.org/will-christie-juggernaut-roll-over-ted-cruz-and-rand-paul?akid=11091.187590.nh0V2W&rd=1&src=newsletter916696&t=7&paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

[ChumpDumper]

I can't wait to find out which other Movie Wikipedia pages Rand will plagiarize in his Presidential Campaign speeches.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/dorsey/rachel-maddow-rand-paul-plagiarized-gattacas-wikipedia-page

Rachel Maddow: Rand Paul Plagiarized “Gattaca’s” Wikipedia Page
How do we know that Rand Paul didn’t write the Wikipedia page for Gattaca?!Once is a fluke; several times is hilarious.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/rand-paul-has-given-speeches-plagarized-from-wikipedia-befor

[boutons_deux]

Once is a fluke; several times is hilarious.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/rand-paul-has-given-speeches-plagarized-from-wikipedia-befor

Rachel Maddow is having great fun with RP's wikipedia plagiarizing. hilarious stuff, Mr. Wannbe-President! :lol

video here:

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/caught-again-rand-paul-plagiarizing-full-wikipedia-articles-his-speeches?akid=11095.187590.Wp5xQs&rd=1&src=newsletter917241&t=15

[boutons_deux]

Rachel Maddow a 'hater' in Wikipedia plagiarism flap, Rand Paul says

Rachel Maddow (http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/mass-media/rachel-maddow-PECLB000005187.topic) is a "hater" who needs to stop nitpicking -- or so says Sen. Rand Paul (http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/rand-paul-PEPLT007915.topic).

Maddow, the liberal MSNBC (http://www.latimes.com/topic/economy-business-finance/media-industry/msnbc-%28tv-network%29-ORCRP0000017172.topic) host, this week accused GOP leader Paul of making a speech that "totally plagiarized" the Wikipedia (http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/wikimedia-foundation-inc.-ORNPR00066.topic) page for the sci-fi film "Gattaca."


Big deal, Paul said in a Wednesday interview with Fusion. "There are technicalities to this, but nothing I said was not given attribution to where it came from," Paul told Jorge Ramos.

Paul said repeatedly that he didn't claim credit for writing "Gattaca" -- although that sidesteps the real issue, which is whether his speech plagiarized Wikipedia, not the movie.


http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-rachel-maddow-a-hater-in-wikipedia-plagiarism-flap-rand-paul-says-20131030,0,1014205.story#axzz2jLXENkXF

:lol Rachel bitch slapped this litte fringe bitch, caught him red-handed STEALING from wikipedia, and he whines like a little bitch than she's a hating nitpicker! :lol

you liberatarians, tea baggers sure know how to elect and adulate absolute assholes.

[Th'Pusher]

Three pages of Rand Paul's book plagiarized from heritage foundation

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/entire-section-of-rand-pauls-book-copied-verbatim-from-case

This guy is a joke :lol

[Blake]

Rand Paul, 2016 Republican front-runner

The first eight-plus months of 2013 have convinced us of one thing: Rand Paul acts and the rest of the potential 2016 Republican presidential field reacts.

1. Rand Paul: He’s not a clear front-runner. But, if you are looking for a candidate who can (a) raise the money, (b) has a clear and compelling message and (c) has an obvious edge in an early state (Iowa), then Paul is the only person in the top three who checks all three boxes. We repeat what we said above: Underestimate him at your own peril. (Previous ranking: 3)

2. Chris Christie
3. Marco Rubio
4. Paul Ryan
5. Jeb Bush
6. Ted Cruz
7. Scott Walker
8. Bobby Jindal
9. John Kasich
10. Mike Pence

MORE:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/09/13/rand-paul-2016-republican-frontrunner/

:lmao

:lmao great thread :tu

[boutons_deux]

Rand Paul now leads in Real Clear Politics national polling average

Rand 15.7%
Christie 14.7%
Cruz 12.3%
Ryan 12.0%
Bush 10.7%
Rubio 10.3%
Walker 3.5%
Jindal 3.5%

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html

:lmao

what a shitty list. No less clownish, jerkish, unelectable than Repug pretenders in 08 and 12

Hugged the hated Muslim terrorist n!gg@, Christie is a morbidly obese Wall St greasebag, whose lap-band surgery in Feb seems to have had absolutely NO EFFECT. :lol

[boutons_deux]

This will go really, really well :lol

Michigan GOP Recruits Civil Rights Act Critic Rand Paul To Launch African American Outreach Project (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/22/2986251/michigan-gop-rand-paul/)

The Michigan Republican Party will launch (http://www.eventbrite.com/e/migop-detroit-office-opening-with-senator-rand-paul-tickets-9444016307?aff=efblike) its new African American Engagement Office in Detroit next month, aiming to improve on the mere two percent (http://www.detroitmi.gov/Portals/0/docs/elections/pdfs/2012/November2012/Nov%202012%20General%20Election_Unofficial%20Summa ry%20Report_w%20Director%20signature.PDF) of the vote their presidential nominee received in the city last year. To headline this event, the party has enlisted Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) — though Paul has been an outspoken critic of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/10/1847751/rand-paul-falsely-says-he-never-opposed-the-civil-rights-act/).

The Huffington Post reported Friday (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/22/rand-paul-minority-outreach_n_4319239.html) that Paul will be the star of the December 6 kickoff event. His selection, the article notes, is odd given his record on civil rights and his staunch opposition (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/rand-paul-bail-out_n_3624801.html) to a federal bailout of Detroit.

While Paul has since denied (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/10/1847751/rand-paul-falsely-says-he-never-opposed-the-civil-rights-act/) ever making the comments, he has repeatedly (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/05/19/98217/paul-civil-rights/) criticized (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/#37244354) the Civil Rights Act of 1964′s bans on whites-only lunch counters and discrimination by private employers. “The hard part of believing in freedom,” he has argued, is that it requires believing companies should be free to discriminate on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation (http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/07/11/2288171/rand-paul-zero-tolerance-discrimination/) — even though he personally opposes such discrimination.

Watch Paul explain his views:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/22/2986251/michigan-gop-rand-paul/

[George W Bush]

I don't listen to polls

[boutons_deux]

Rand Paul Says We Must Hurt The Long-Term Unemployed To Help Them


After President Obama used his weekly address (http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/weekly-address) to call on Congress to extend unemployment insurance for the 1.3 million Americans — including 20,000 veterans — who have been out of work for more than 26 weeks, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) offered the counterpoint on Fox News Sunday.

“I do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks that they’re paid for. If you extend it beyond that, you do a disservice to these workers,” he said. “When you allow people to be on unemployment insurance for 99 weeks, you’re causing them to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy.”

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the extension would save 300,000 jobs (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/28/cbo-extending-unemployment-insurance-would-add-300000-jobs-next-year/). In just the first two months of fiscal year 2014, the federal deficit is already down $61 billion (http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44938).
While the unemployment rate is at a five-year low, millions are out of work and the long-term unemployed are suffering the most as this chart from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/05/long-term-unemployment-is-still-at-its-highest-levels-since-world-war-ii/).

http://nationalmemo.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/11-20-13ui-f3.png

http://www.nationalmemo.com/watch-rand-paul-says-we-must-hurt-the-long-term-unemployed-to-help-them/

He's one weird-ass mofo. Typical wealthy sociopathic Randian asshole.

What has RP done, or proposed, to stimulate the economy and reduce (long term) unemployment?

[Harry Callahan]

B-D,

A serious question.......

Given the huge volume of posts since you joined here four or five years ago (an average of 17 a day if my math is right), are you a retiree who has a lot of spare time or do you post at your place of work? Just curious.

[boutons_deux]

So many Repugs, tea baggers, bubbas, red necks, Christian haters, takes a LOT of bitch slappings

[Harry Callahan]

Not to be rude, but you didn't really answer my question. Come clean dude and don't deflect. I'm just asking an honest question.

[boutons_deux]

Not to be rude, but you didn't really answer my question. Come clean dude and don't deflect. I'm just asking an honest question.

your question was honestly rude. let your fantasies run wild.

[Harry Callahan]

Well I tried. I'm not surprised at your response. Typical for you.

To be honest, your whole thing comes off as kind of sad with the constant barrage of articles you come up with. It's clear you have A LOT more spare time than I do.

I guess this is when you call me names. Whatever - I've got better things to do than to go back and forth with you on Spurstalk.

Hope you enjoy the Spurs season. At least you got that right. Good luck with whatever it is that you do.

[boutons_deux]

Well I tried. I'm not surprised at your response. Typical for you.

To be honest, your whole thing comes off as kind of sad with the constant barrage of articles you come up with. It's clear you have A LOT more spare time than I do.

I guess this is when you call me names. Whatever - I've got better things to do than to go back and forth with you on Spurstalk.

Hope you enjoy the Spurs season. At least you got that right. Good luck with whatever it is that you do.

why should anybody, like me, here tell anybody here, like you, anything about his personal life?

sad? it's helluva FUN time to bitch slap, expose Repug, tea baggers, patriots, gun fellators, bubbas, nativists, chauvinists, rednecks, "Christians" as ignorant, sociopathic, lying, retrograde, unAmerican, anti-democratic assholes.

[Blake]

Poll: Paul leads GOP presidential pack

Rand Paul 17%
Christie 13%
Rubio 12%
Bush 11%
Ryan 10%
Cruz 10%
Walker 4%
Jindal 3%

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/326049-poll-paul-leads-gop-presidential-pack

:lmao

:lmao :lmao


A Public Policy Polling*survey*released this week showed Rand Paul with the worst net-favorability rating among all GOP candidates. His standing in Iowa has plunged from 10% in April to just 3% now."The biggest loser in the poll is Rand Paul," PPP director Tom Jensen wrote. "Paul's been foundering anyway, and his campaign's ties to the Kent Sorenson mess are probably making things particularly bad for him in Iowa."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/candidate-everyone-thought-could-change-164600304.html

:lmao

[Galileo]

Stand grand with Rand, stand tall with Paul.

[Blake]

Playing the violins while the ship is sinking huh.

Noble but lol.

[boutons_deux]

Randy is dead in the water, all he can do now is promote his "brand", but it's the brand of a loser.

[Clipper Nation]

Stand grand with Rand, stand tall with Paul.
TURN UP FOR TRUMP!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFy0hQ3lY-w

[Galileo]

TURN UP FOR TRUMP!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFy0hQ3lY-w

Rand Paul is invincible. He continues to lead in the polls.

[ChumpDumper]

Rand Paul is invincible. He continues to lead in the polls.Which polls?

Link them.

[Clipper Nation]

Rand Paul is invincible. He continues to lead in the polls.
:lmao

[boutons_deux]

RP is so fucking weird, so full of fucked up ideas.


Rand Paul: 'So Much Of Our Population' Lacks 'Work Ethic'

In an interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-mxBZ2zPKI) with the Catholic television network EWTN last week, Sen. Rand Paul said that the main problem that must be addressed in the immigration debate is that we have “almost defeated the work ethic in our country” and “we’ve destroyed the ethic of work in so much of our population.”

When EWTN anchor Raymond Arroyo asked the Kentucky Republican about the 250 Disney employees who were let go after training their replacements who came to the U.S. on temporary visas, (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html) Paul said the U.S. must “look very carefully at how many people we need.”

But he added that immigration is a “two-fold problem” because “we’re rotting from the inside” thanks to unspecified “people” who lack a work ethic.

“We also have almost defeated the work ethic in our country,” he said. “And so, for like picking crops, hard work, if we didn’t bring in migrant labor, we’re rotting from the inside. We have people who really — we’ve destroyed the ethic of work in so much of our population.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rand-paul-so-much-our-population-lacks-work-ethic

holy shit, what a total weirdo. Because American don't work in the fields, they have no work ethic?

Americans work more hours, have few vacations and national holidays, etc, etc, and 10Ms have no social security net than ANY other industrial country.

[hater]

Smh Rand making his father turn in his grave. Wonder if Dr Paul can renouce him tbh

[Blake]

Rand Paul is invincible. He continues to lead in the polls.

:lol :lol :lol

[DMX7]

Rand Paul is invincible. He continues to lead in the polls.

:rollin

[boutons_deux]

Paul Slanders Clinton

AP Presents Blatant Falsehood About Clinton Charity As An Open Question

He condemned Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose family foundation has raised more than $30 million for Haiti since the 2010 earthquake.
"To me the most disgusting thing about the Clinton foundation is almost none of their money went to charity," Paul said, suggesting that only 6 percent of the Clinton Global Initiative's revenue went to charitable grants.


Considering all of the organizations affiliated with the Clinton Foundation, [Daniel Borochoff, president and founder of CharityWatch] said, CharityWatch concluded about 89 percent of its budget is spent on programs. That's the amount it spent on charity in 2013, he said.

We looked at the consolidated financial statements (see page 4) and calculated that in 2013, 88.3 percent of spending was designated as going toward program services -- $196.6 million out of $222.6 million in reported expenses.

We can't vouch for the effectiveness of the programming expenses listed in the report, but it is clear that the claim that the Clinton Foundation only steers 6 percent of its donations to charity is wrong, and amounts to a misunderstanding of how public charities work. [FactCheck.org, 6/19/15 (http://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundation-money-go/)]


Overall, the foundation spends about 89 percent of its money on its charitable mission, according to the independent American Institute of Philanthropy. Based on that analysis, the watchdog group gave the foundation a rating of A for 2013, on a scale that goes to A-plus. Charity Navigator, the other leading group that rates charities, recently put the foundation on a "watch list" because of the negative press that has surrounded it. (That group has not issued a rating for the Clinton Foundation, saying the foundation's structure is too complex to grade.) [Washington Post, 6/2/15 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-inside-story-of-how-the-clintons-built-a-2-billion-global-empire/2015/06/02/b6eab638-0957-11e5-a7ad-b430fc1d3f5c_story.html)]


When most people in the charitable world think of foundations, they think of organizations that give away a lot of money in the form of grants to others who go out and do good works. The Clinton foundation works differently -- it keeps its money in house and hires staff to carry out its own humanitarian programs.
[...]
To offer some context, spending 88 percent of expenses on charitable programs, as the Clinton foundation says it does, would actually be pretty good by industry standards. Parsons said the average reported across all organizations in the National Center for Charitable Statistics is 81 percent -- equal to the Clinton Foundation's rate on its own -- and the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance suggests a minimum of 65 percent. "The foundation exceeds that," [Linda Parsons, an associate professor of accounting at the University of Alabama's Culverhouse College of Commerce] said. [PolitiFact.com, 4/29/15 (http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/29/rush-limbaugh/rush-limbaugh-says-clinton-foundation-spends-just-/)]

Fox News: Experts Say Clinton Foundation's Charitable Spending Percentage Is "Very Good." Fox News correspondent Eric Shawn debunked his colleagues' attacks on Clinton Foundation spending, reporting that claims that the foundation gives roughly 10 percent of its money raised to charitable endeavors is "actually incredibly misleading":
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/08/20/ap-presents-blatant-falsehood-about-clinton-cha/205059

[Clipper Nation]

:lmao MediaMatters
:lmao NewsBusters: Libtard Edition

[boutons_deux]

Kentucky GOP votes to let Rand Paul run for his Senate seat in 2016 in case that President thing doesn’t work out

GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul on Saturday convinced Kentucky Republicans to allow him to run for reelection to his Senate seat while running for president, in case the latter doesn’t go his way.Poll numbers show Paul is far behind in the contest to win his party’s nomination, polling at 4.3%, behind Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush and Donald Trump, the current front runner, according to Real Clear Politics (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html).

The Washington Post reports (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/22/rand-paul-caucus-set-for-march/) the process of getting Kentucky’s first presidential caucus together was rough, following Rand’s less-than-stellar summer of campaigning.
“I applaud the Republican Party of Kentucky on their decision to hold a caucus in the upcoming Republican presidential cycle,” Paul said in a statement, according to the Post. “The people of Kentucky deserve a voice as the GOP chooses their next nominee, and holding a caucus will ensure that Kentucky is relevant and participates early in the process.”

Paul personally attended the vote to lobby for the ability to run for president without jeopardizing his simultaneous campaign for Senate reelection, the Post reports.

In the end, Kentucky’s GOP central committee voted overwhelmingly to move from a primary to caucus system. This allows Paul to get around state laws forbidding candidates from appearing twice on the same ballot, Politico reports (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/state-gop-greenlights-joint-senate-presidential-run-for-rand-paul-121634.html).

Paul has promised to fund the caucuses, which could run him a $500,000-plus price tag. :lol

The Post reports Paul’s campaign for president thus far has been rocky. In August, the heads of his super PAC were indicted on bribery charges, and his performance in the first GOP debate didn’t improve his numbers.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/kentucky-gop-votes-to-let-rand-paul-run-for-his-senate-seat-in-2016-in-case-that-president-thing-doesnt-work-out/

KY jelly Repug assholes wasting their time supporting the LOSER asshole Paul

[Winehole23]

Rand Paul, Republican presidential scrub, buys a special caucus in KY for a quarter mil so he can appear on two different ballots and skirt KY law, running for two offices at once. KY GOP accedes.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/251732-rand-paul-will-be-allowed-to-run-for-white-house-and-senate-in

[Winehole23]

In essence, if he ponies up, he just bought an election.

[boutons_deux]

buy an election? no, just created and bought a KY presidential caucus in campaign where he doesn't have even a slim chance. Paul thinks he is "entitled" to run for two offices at once.

[Winehole23]

I didn't say he bought a victory. supposing he coughs up the quarter mil, he will have paid for a special presidential caucus that otherwise would not have been held.

[JoeChalupa]

Rand is bland. He's out.