Rand Paul’s Challenge: Libertarians Are Still a Small Minority

It has become fashionable in recent years to refer to a growing libertarian wing of the Republican Party, and Rand Paul, the Kentucky senator who announced his candidacy for the presidency on Tuesday, hopes to become the first serious candidate to make it part of a winning primary coalition.

Perhaps in a decade or two, a representative of the libertarian wing of the party will have an easy time winning the nomination. It’s just unlikely to happen in 2016.

The libertarians remain too young and too few to present Senator Paul with a realistic path to the nomination. He has to win over a much larger share of more reliable Republican primary voters, who will have considerable reservations about Mr. Paul’s policies. The other problem he faces: Many of the voters most receptive to libertarian views tend not to vote.

In one sense, you could argue that the libertarian wing of the Republican Party barely exists at all. According to a large Pew Research survey in 2014 of 10,000 respondents, 11 percent of Americans and 12 percent of self-identified Republicans considered themselves libertarian. They met a basic threshold for knowing what the term meant. But there wasn’t much “libertarian” about these voters; over all, their views were startlingly similar to those of the public as a whole.

...http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/upshot/why-rand-paul-cant-win-as-a-libertarian.html?_r=0

Sarah Palin rates the candidates: really admires Rand's libertarian streak

Sarah Palin on the Hugh Hewitt show rates the candidates:

Rand Paul: "Oh, I love the libertarian streak. I really do. Obviously, differences on some foreign policy issues. I was watching him today, Hugh. I’m thinking, Republicans, you are idiots to be marginalizing his supporters, and his dads supporters too. What his supporters are saying is, ‘Come on government. Get off our back and allow us to prioritize our finances. Our cultural aspects of our life that influence us. Let us prioritize according to our own will. Government, don’t do it for us.'"

...http://conservatives4palin.com/2015/11/governor-palin-rates-the-republican-candidates-%E2%80%A2-the-hugh-hewitt-show.html

Poll: Trump retakes lead, Cruz surges in IA; Rubio second in NH

Donald Trump has returned to the lead in Iowa while Ted Cruz has now surged past Ben Carson into second place. Carson has slipped from a first-place tie into third.

While Iowa's Republicans generally feel Trump is ready to be commander-in-chief, Cruz scores even better on this measure, boosted by support from very conservative and Tea Party Iowans who feel he is ready to assume the post. That's more than say so about Trump, Carson, Rubio and Jeb Bush.

Since last month, Ted Cruz has gained ground -- and Ben Carson has lost ground -- among some key voting groups in Iowa: evangelicals, Tea Party supporters, those who are very conservative and older voters. And while Trump still leads among some of these groups, it's Cruz who is ahead among the very conservative, and Trump leads Cruz by just two points among evangelical voters.

Cruz's move has come directly at the expense of Carson, as nearly one-quarter of his voters switched.

In New Hampshire, Donald Trump keeps his commanding lead, keeping up support from conservatives, Republicans and the independents who say they're coming into the GOP primary to vote for him. This month finds Marco Rubio nearly doubling his support and pushing into second place -- albeit far back of Trump -- at 13 percent now, up from 7 percent, enough to edge past Carson and Cruz in the nation's first primary.

...http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-trump-retakes-lead-cruz-surges-in-ia-rubio-second-in-nh/

The poll numbers are listed at this site, aka a mainstream shithole.

Rand Paul: No More Arm Sales To Middle East Until They Start Accepting Refugees

Rand does have his ways. He's a political Chess player. He put's something out there and then in a week or two comes out with a zinger. In this case it was the Syrian refugee moratorium. Got everyone interested, pissed of or loving it, then BOOM goes the dynamite.

"One of the biggest supporters of Sunni terrorism in the world is Saudi Arabia, Qatar is up there, UAE is up there. Sometimes government, sometimes private donors. What I would say is no more sales of any arms to these countries until they start accepting refugees. The Gulf states have poured gasoline on this fire, they have not taken a refugee. Iran has not taken in refugees and they've been an arsonist in this situation as well. So those who live there need to step up and we need to say we're not going to sell arms to you anymore if you're not willing to do your fair share."

video on Fox...https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=7XBEVzlCT5s

More...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/11/18/rand_paul_no_more_arm_sales_to_middle_east_until_they_start_accepting_refugees.html

We shall all make our way up that wonderful curve, I join you in this spectacular event. It's a fine journey w/ no worries.

Paul: Just war? Think of wounded veterans first

Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul shared a personal side to war Friday when he spoke about the people he thinks of when asked whether going to war is just.

Paul was asked at the Presidential Family Forum to recall a time when someone convinced him to change his stance on a certain issue.
The Kentucky senator said he and his wife, Kelley, helped build a home for a wounded veteran who lost both legs and an arm in battle. The veteran told Paul he joined the military to defend the Bill of Rights and the Constitution — a recurring theme in Paul’s presidential bid. It has in turn “made me think every day about whether or not we go to war,” Paul said.

defend that 7-pound babies have no rights a minute before they’re born. We can win the battle.”

...http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/11/20/paul-just-war-think-wounded-veterans-first-presidential-family-forum/76078732/

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Paul's refugee visa bill fast-tracked

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is getting his legislation to crack down on visas from countries with "significant jihadist movements" fast-tracked through the Senate.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) started the fast-track process Thursday evening on legislation from Paul that was described as preventing "the entrance of extremist into the United States under the refugee program."

The Kentucky Republican's office clarified that the legislation is the crackdown on visas that Paul outlined earlier this week. Under the legislation, visas to nationals of approximately 30 "high-risk" countries would be blocked.

The procedural move will allow the legislation to skip over the Senate committee process and be placed directly on the Senate calendar. While the move could pave the way for it to be brought up the floor, no action has been scheduled.

...http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/260874-paul-gets-refugee-visa-bill-fast-tracked

Rand Paul Pushes ‘Defend Our Capital Act,’ Requires D.C. to Issue Concealed Weapons Permits

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
is introducing legislation to keep the people in the District of Columbia more safe, removing existing firearm ownership laws that some argue are restrictive. His legislation would also require concealed weapons permits to grant reciprocity for both residents and non-residents…

...http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/rand-paul-pushes-defend-capital-act-requires-d-c-issue-concealed-weapons-permits/

{Reserved} for future condenmnation or revelations. Or pics

State your appreciation or your condemnation in addition to price specs in here. Trying to take the heat off of the Wall Observer thread for this kind of content and alleged troll behavior. In light of the recent Doxxing which may or may not be true, this is the sandbox to go off in. Is she a complete slut, ugly as fuck, she'll suck your dick for a diet coke?, you name it and it'll be welcome and fostered here! Now is the time for this kind of discussion to be compartmentalized into this flagship for troll-hairy-crotches. No shame zone! This is a public service post so Go

Live beneath thy means and in the future you shall live above your means, especially if you have bitcoin on lock down. Unless there's a decent discount for spending bitcoin, vendors are getting over on you for spending it. Quote me.

TRUMP SURVEILLANCE STATE WILL COMBAT ISLAM

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He was then asked if heightened surveillance would require the registration of Muslims in a database and mandate special identification.
“We’re going to have to—we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely. We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.”

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The program had the characteristics of an advanced police state—mapping of Muslim communities, photo and video surveillance, police informants, police “rakers” (ethnic cops who blended in Muslim communities), the widespread tracking of individuals and intelligence databases of the sort Trump endorsed.

Muslims sued the NYPD over the program. In October the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals found the Muslim plaintiffs raised sufficient allegations of equal-protection violations and reversed a decision made last year by a judge to dismiss the case.
Others have gone further than Trump in calling for draconian measures aimed at Muslims. For instance, David Bowers, a Democrat mayor in Virginia.

“I’m reminded that President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it appears that the threat of harm to America from ISIS now is just as real and serious as that from our enemies then,” Bowers said.

...http://www.infowars.com/trump-surveillance-state-will-combat-islam/

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A hospital in Sigmaringen, Germany has been forced to hire security guards after numerous incidents in which migrants physically attacked nurses while they were receiving free healthcare.

Schwäbische.de reports that the SRH Hospital in Sigmaringen took the precaution after 40 attacks on nurses in September alone, with nursing manager Silvia Stärk revealing that staff were “totally distressed” by the onslaught of verbal and physical abuse.
Stärk said that refugees were biting and spitting at nurses, with drunk migrants behaving particularly aggressively towards female nurses during night time hours.

“Whenever a nurse working in the emergency room alone, she is accompanied by a security guard,” according to the report, which states that nurses are accompanied by the guards between the hours of midnight and 6am from Sundays to Thursdays and from 10pm-6am on Fridays and Saturdays.

...http://www.infowars.com/german-hospital-forced-to-hire-security-guards-after-refugees-physically-attack-nurses/

And Sen Rand Paul shut down both party leadership in the Senate from passing the refugee housing bill and he's potentially going to filibuster tomorrow morning if they don't stop blocking his amendment which would strip any funding for refugee housing. He just wants a straight up or down vote and currently they're too chickenshit to get others on record nor giving Rand the credit in the Americans' eyes for standing up on this issue. You can find more info in my Rand Paul thread in this sub.

Rand Paul: It's 'bulls--t' to collect phone records after Paris attacks

Washington (CNN)Rand Paul says it's "bulls--t" to argue that U.S. government surveillance needs to be ramped up as a result of the Paris attacks.

At a campaign event at George Washington University, the Kentucky senator told the crowd that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone record data hasn't been stopped, despite a judge's order, due to a six-month window to end the program.

"So when they stand up on television and say the tragedy in Paris means you have to give up your liberty, we need more phone surveillance -- bulls--t!" Paul said.
Paul's libertarian leanings have been at the center of his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. He has opposed U.S. intervention in the Middle East as well as government surveillance programs.

He also has called for a stoppage to the visa waiver program allowing European citizens to travel to the U.S. freely, saying we should only allow Global Entry travelers, who get a background check, to enter freely.

He reiterated that position Thursday to CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

"When a whole section of the world is saying they want to come here and attack us ... we have to be careful," Paul said. "It's hard to tell friend from foe."

...http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/19/politics/rand-paul-government-surveillance/index.html

Rand Paul Forces GOP Majority Leader McConnell to Pull Bill Off Senate Floor Over Refugee Housing (aka welfare): I Will Not Back Down

US Senator Rand Paul forced his own party’s leadership to yank a bill off the floor of the Senate on Thursday over refugee housing, a significant political and policy victory for the Kentucky Senator and 2016 GOP presidential candidate.

Paul also blasted Senate leadership on Thursday for not considering his amendment to the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development funding bill that would have blocked any current refugees in the United States from getting public housing.

“Well I think what boggles my mind is the biggest issue in our country right now is keeping us safe from attack,” Paul told Breitbart News on Thursday afternoon when reached by phone. “My amendment tells the president that we don’t approve of bringing more people here from the Middle East until we have adequate controls on who’s here already. My amendment was not only pertinent to the biggest issue of the day, it was also germane to the bill. Both parties tried to stop me from offering it and that’s a tragedy.”

Paul’s amendment to the so-called T-HUD funding bill would have cut off public housing funding for refugees in America right now.

...http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/rand-paul-forces-mitch-mcconnell-pull-bill-off-senate-floor-refugee-housing-will-not-back/

Rand Paul on The Mark Levin Show [11/17]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=489&v=oTnaz4Pt284

Rand just lays into Marco Rubio about his bs on the immigration policy and about how unconservative he is. Levin had been disappointed in Rand for some of his libertarian leaning views but is back on the track w/ him after this interview realizing Rand's stance to protect American borders and much more. It's a much watch/listen, so do it!