GOP - Rand Paul's Presidential Highlight Reel w/ his Libertarian Twist

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul and a Moment of Truth for American Journalism

It was one of the most gratifying exchanges in recent political memory.

When U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) announced his presidential campaign recently, he made a standard campaign stop in New Hampshire. While there, a reporter trotted out one of the standard questions any Republican receives when he declares he is running for national office: What are the exceptions to your views about preventing abortions?

Democrats are never – ever – asked what limits they would place on the current federal policy of unrestricted access to abortion-on-demand. To do so would be to assume that any rational person could believe that abortion absolutism is anything but received dogma, something no self-respecting establishment journalist would ever do (at least if he or she wanted to continue working in "mainstream" journalism).


Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/rand-paul-and-a-moment-of-truth-for-american-journalism-138020/#dO644fZy52quViKA.99

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul Is Right to Demand Reporters Ask Democrats About Late-Term Abortions

It was sort of inevitable that on his first day of campaigning as an announced candidate for president earlier this month, Rand Paul would be asked whether he supported a ban on abortions in cases of rape or incest.

Reporters have been asking Republican candidates that question ever since 2012, when the Missouri Republican Senate candidate said he supported such a ban and added that pregnancies were unlikely in cases of "legitimate rape."


But Paul's reply wasn't what the reporter expected. "Why don't we ask the (Democratic National Committee) is it OK to kill a seven-pound baby in the uterus? You go back and go ask (DNC Chair) Debbie Wasserman Schultz if she's OK with killing a seven-pound baby that's just not born yet.

"Ask her when life begins, and ask Debbie when she's willing to protect life. When you get an answer from Debbie, come back to me."

More...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/24/rand_paul_is_right_to_demand_reporters_ask_democrats_about_late-term_abortions_126380.html

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Rand Paul Is Right to Demand Reporters Ask Democrats About Late-Term Abortions

It was sort of inevitable that on his first day of campaigning as an announced candidate for president earlier this month, Rand Paul would be asked whether he supported a ban on abortions in cases of rape or incest.

Reporters have been asking Republican candidates that question ever since 2012, when the Missouri Republican Senate candidate said he supported such a ban and added that pregnancies were unlikely in cases of "legitimate rape."


But Paul's reply wasn't what the reporter expected. "Why don't we ask the (Democratic National Committee) is it OK to kill a seven-pound baby in the uterus? You go back and go ask (DNC Chair) Debbie Wasserman Schultz if she's OK with killing a seven-pound baby that's just not born yet.

"Ask her when life begins, and ask Debbie when she's willing to protect life. When you get an answer from Debbie, come back to me."

More...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/24/rand_paul_is_right_to_demand_reporters_ask_democrats_about_late-term_abortions_126380.html

Yeah I saw that. Priceless. Also that witch got suckered into it. Paul seems to have a certain focus and will not be detracted from these Libtard Shills.

[Chef Ramsay]

Why Rand Paul Gets So Much Bad Press

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Thankfully, Paul has recently started calling out and exposing the media for being particularly hard on him, and not on other candidates. Their “lovefest” as he calls it, with Hillary Clinton, is unfair considering how much they hound him and other GOP candidates on their views.

And boy does the media love covering Clinton! Reporters are so desperate to get coverage of her that they resorted to running after her van like children after an ice cream truck. There were also so many of them at her campaign opening that they even outnumbered the voters! Although she has also recently received much negative coverage, the media can’t seem to cover her enough. Where is all of this media love for Rand Paul?

Rand Paul, and the other candidates outside of the “normal realm” are being targeted because their ideas are new and different, and that scares people. When it comes to politics, big businesses want a candidate that will continue doing the things that have helped them rake in the money, and won’t ever accept a candidate that aims to change this. Even though these ideas are often in the best interest of the consumer, big businesses, and their money, have a lot more pull than the average American consumer.

At one time journalists upheld their duty to deliver objective stories backed by unbiased facts, but those days are long gone. While media darlings like the Clintons and Jeb Bush get loads of coverage, both positive and negative, Rand Paul can’t catch a break. The reporters that aren’t fond of him need to get over their egos, think about what will help Americans as a whole, and work to once again go back to real, unbiased journalistic practices.
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More...http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/why-rand-paul-gets-so-much-bad-press/

[Chef Ramsay]

Why Ron Paul’s big showing in Nevada may have made it harder for Rand Paul to do the same

Republican presidential politics in Nevada -- a key early-voting state -- have been chaotic in recent years, thanks in large part to former congressman and two-time GOP White House contender Ron Paul. Now his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is running for the office -- and the state GOP may be making moves to guarantee the Paul family no longer finds Nevada to be lucky terrain.

Nevada Republicans long generally picked a presidential favorite via primaries. In 2008, they held caucuses instead. Many Ron Paul voters showed up that day -- but even more showed up at the state party's convention months later. Paul's supporters who flooded the gathering, looking to elect their candidate's followers to represent the state at the national GOP convention. The state didn't reschedule another convention, instead opting to choose delegates via conference call.

Paul's supporters pulled a repeat performance in 2012. Even though Mitt Romney overwhelmingly won the Nevada caucuses, Paul -- who finished third -- was able to game the system at the convention, and almost all of the state's delegates to the national GOP convention in Tampa. There, a number of his supporters walked out of the proceedings after a decision to replace some of Paul's delegates.

The 2012 caucuses were "a total disaster the way it was handled. It was an embarrassment for the state," Nevada GOP chair Michael McDonald told The Washington Examiner Friday.

Read more if you aren't hip to how things went down back in '08 and '12...http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/04/25/why-ron-pauls-big-showing-in-nevada-may-have-made-it-harder-for-rand-paul-to-do-the-same/

As you can tell, this isn't exactly a friendly piece but these establishment types never saw it coming where their caucus could be outdone by pure grassroots activism and that's when they played dirty.

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul targets Obama, Jeb Bush in NSA rant

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program is “one of the worst parts of the Obama administration,” a jab not only at the current president but also fellow Republican Jeb Bush.

Paul promised to stop the NSA’s surveillance of Americans in a Twitter rant he launched late Friday and continued into Saturday morning.

“As president, I will immediately end all illegal domestic spying programs,” Paul said in one of about a dozen tweets on the subject.

The NSA’s domestic spying program has come under scrutiny since whistleblower Edward Snowden released classified documents about the agency’s operations.

Paul is making the surveillance a campaign talking point that he hopes will help separate him from the Republican pack.

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More...http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/240066-rand-paul-targets-obama-jeb-bush-in-nsa-rant

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul, Ted Cruz sign pledge not to raise taxes

Rand Paul and Ted Cruz on Friday signed a pledge not to raise raise taxes, becoming the first presidential candidates to do so.

The pledge, drawn up by the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform, includes a promise directed to the public to "oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes."

"Senator Paul understands that government should be reformed so that it takes and spends less of the taxpayers' money, and will oppose tax increases that paper over and continue the failures of the past," said Grover Norquist, president of the group and long-time anti-tax crusader. Norquist later issued a similar statement for Cruz, who signed the pledge shortly thereafter.

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The other prominent declared candidate on the Republican side, Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, has yet to sign the pledge.

Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor who is planning a campaign, has said that he will not sign Americans for Tax Reform's pledge, or any other group's pledge.

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More...http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-signs-pledge-not-to-raise-taxes/article/2563571

[Chef Ramsay]

Here's Rand's speech to the Iowa's Faith and Freedom Summit yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWnMoCmMRLI
He was very well received and got lots of applause.

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul, Hawk or Dove?

Since his election to the Senate in 2010 it’s barely been an exaggeration to say that the Republican foreign-policy debate has been Rand Paul versus everyone else. While he has some likeminded colleagues, especially in the House, he is the single figure most associated with a break from the GOP’s Bush-Cheney national-security legacy.

The debate was kicked off by his father, former Texas congressman and two-time GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul. Many hoped that the son would expand the electoral base for what his father started.

In the early stages of his own 2016 presidential campaign, however, Rand Paul has edged closer to the Republican foreign-policy consensus. He has become more hawkish against the Islamic State—even while pushing what is substantively the least hawkish authorization of military force against the jihadists. Although still tentatively supportive of nuclear negotiations with Iran, he preferred signing Sen. Tom Cotton’s undiplomatic letter to Tehran to seeming joined at the hip with Barack Obama. While other Republican White House aspirants in the Senate voted to increase defense spending even if it meant also increasing the deficit, Paul proposed offsetting extra Pentagon money with cuts elsewhere in the budget. Some of his supporters were nevertheless dismayed that the Kentucky lawmaker’s amendment increased defense spending at all—by $190 billion over the next two years, to be precise.

But if Paul is eager to avoid a 2016 foreign-policy debate that pits him against everyone else in the Republican Party, his hawkish detractors are not. No fewer than three prominent Republicans—Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rep. Peter King and former UN ambassador John Bolton—appear to be entertaining presidential bids mainly for the opportunity to argue with Paul in the primary debates.

The most prominent conservative moderator of those upcoming debates, commentator and law professor Hugh Hewitt, has announced that voting for higher defense spending should be a litmus test for Republicans. Hewitt writes that any Republican incumbent who opposes breaking the sequestration spending caps on defense—caps that contribute to short-term deficit reduction and a key part of the only major spending concession Republicans have won from the Obama administration—“should be fired.”

On the day Paul declared his candidacy, the man behind the anti-John Kerry Swift Boat Veterans for Truth television ads in 2004 launched a new seven-figure ad campaign attacking Paul’s foreign policy. The spots are set to run in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, three states Paul visited during his launch and the first three contests of the GOP nomination fight.

More...http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/rand-paul-hawk-or-dove/

[Chef Ramsay]

‘What I Saw Disgusted Me’: Black Rand Paul Supporter Saw This Comment About Her & Had to Speak Out

“Last night a Facebook notification showed up on my screen. A friend had posted a picture to my wall. What I saw disgusted me.”

That’s how Zuri Davis, 19, describes the moment she saw a Facebook post targeting her for being a black, female supporter of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

“A FEMALE AFRICAN AMERICAN who is standing with Rand,” the post said. “She must not realize the platform. The fact he’s pretty much regarded as racist, sexist, a**hole along with the rest of his party.”

“Honey, honey, honey,” it added.

Pics and more...http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/04/24/what-i-saw-disgusted-me-black-rand-paul-supporter-saw-this-comment-about-her-had-to-speak-out/

And here is the same lady from the quoted article who was on Fox and Friends this morning talking about the situation, take a peek.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPkNEKczgNA

[Chef Ramsay]

Dan Bilzerian endorses Rand Paul


For those that don't know who Bilzerian is, he's high stakes poker player and his dad was a wall street banker so his net worth is north of $100 million. He's got 8 million followers on Instagram and 7.6 mill on Facebook so this is great exposure for Rand from low info type folks. Bilzerian is also quite the risk taker and lives quite lavishly w/ porn stars and there's a lot of content out there about him if you look for it. He's a prime target to get in on Bitcoin if people want to hit up his Facebook page about it.

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul having new fundraiser NOW! BRING IT ON BLITZ! 16k donated so far!

He is advertising it on Facebook. Deadline is April 30th! Here is his description...

Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman just held a meeting with a group of her top donors in Manhattan where he distributed a memo calling me out - by name - in the very first paragraph!
The Washington Machine's attack dogs are gunning for me with everything they've got.
But I am not backing down.
Instead, I've got a message for the entire Washington establishment:
"BRING IT ON!"
I'm going to give them a fight like they've never seen!
But today, I'm counting on you to help me deliver that message loud and clear by chipping in a contribution to my "Bring It On" fundraising blitz right away.
Can I count on your support by the April 30th deadline?

https://secure.randpaul.com/?movementbegins&sr=426fb1

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul Lauded by R & B Singer John Legend for His Criminal Justice Work

In a story from the May 7 issue of Rolling Stone that I was unable to find online, R&B singer John Legend talks of his attempt to "spotlight the staggering rise in the jailed population," as the story puts it.

Legend, the story says, "hopes that prison reform can be a bipartisan issue. 'Rand Paul has been talking about it, and we hope this is something that Hillary embraces as well.'"

Keep hoping, Mr. Legend!

This is at least the second time this year that Rolling Stone has singled out Paul for praise above Hillary on an issue of presumed concern to their audience, having previously done so on marijuana issues.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/24/rand-paul-lauded-by-r-b-singer-john-lege

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul Accepts Constitutional Champion Award

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) at The April 22 2015 Constitutional Champions Gala, in Washington.
Rand Paul and others were recognized for their leadership and work to defend the Constitution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrVTWIFuvw

[Bit_Happy]

Why Ron Paul’s big showing in Nevada may have made it harder for Rand Paul to do the same

Republican presidential politics in Nevada -- a key early-voting state -- have been chaotic in recent years, thanks in large part to former congressman and two-time GOP White House contender Ron Paul. Now his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is running for the office -- and the state GOP may be making moves to guarantee the Paul family no longer finds Nevada to be lucky terrain.

Nevada Republicans long generally picked a presidential favorite via primaries. In 2008, they held caucuses instead. Many Ron Paul voters showed up that day -- but even more showed up at the state party's convention months later. Paul's supporters who flooded the gathering, looking to elect their candidate's followers to represent the state at the national GOP convention. The state didn't reschedule another convention, instead opting to choose delegates via conference call.

Paul's supporters pulled a repeat performance in 2012. Even though Mitt Romney overwhelmingly won the Nevada caucuses, Paul -- who finished third -- was able to game the system at the convention, and almost all of the state's delegates to the national GOP convention in Tampa. There, a number of his supporters walked out of the proceedings after a decision to replace some of Paul's delegates.

The 2012 caucuses were "a total disaster the way it was handled. It was an embarrassment for the state," Nevada GOP chair Michael McDonald told The Washington Examiner Friday.

Read more if you aren't hip to how things went down back in '08 and '12...http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/04/25/why-ron-pauls-big-showing-in-nevada-may-have-made-it-harder-for-rand-paul-to-do-the-same/

As you can tell, this isn't exactly a friendly piece but these establishment types never saw it coming where their caucus could be outdone by pure grassroots activism and that's when they played dirty.

Romney had the benefit of a large Mormon vote. Hopefully this time Rand can win the early and later stages, by having the most supporters/votes/delegates. 

[Chef Ramsay]

Gravis Poll: Rand Paul at 15% in NH

Bush 18%
Walker 16%
Paul 15%
Rubio 11%
Cruz 10%
Christie 5%
Carson 4%
Huckabee 3%
Fiorina 3%
Santorum 1%

"Paul leads Clinton 45 percent to 44 percent, he said. “The Kentucky senator beats Clinton among Catholics, 47 percent to 42 percent; among Evangelical Protestants, 72 percent to 22 percent.”

Men support Paul, 51 percent to 40 percent, but Clinton leads Paul among women, 47 percent to 43 percent, Kaplan said. “The numbers are a lot closer among women for Paul against Clinton than for other candidates.”

"“The Wisconsin governor and Bush still lead the pack in New Hampshire, as we have seen in other states,” Kaplan said. “Paul’s strength was dormant, and we have been waiting for his numbers to reflect both the time he is spending in the Granite State and the popularity of his father, the Texas former congressman Ron Paul.”"

"The poll has a margin of error of ± 4% for the Republican Primary..."

http://gravismarketing.com/polling-and-market-research/new-hampshire-poll-ayotte-opens-up-6-point-lead-walker-others-lead-clinton/

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand was on Fox and Friends this morning talking about the ongoing Hillary donor dilemma and he also got mentioned on an evening Fox show about this conversation. Really helps his image among republicans as being one of the leaders on this Hillary ordeal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg9G7Mi-5t4

[Chef Ramsay]

Chuck Baldwin: Praying for Rand Paul

Make no mistake about it: the neocons are governing America’s foreign policy regardless of which political party is in control of the White House and Congress. And they have been in complete control ever since George H.W. Bush was President. And the vast majority of our congressmen and senators, as well as those who will be running for POTUS in 2016, are in lock-step, I mean LOCK-STEP, with the neocon agenda regarding foreign policy. And, sadly, so are most Christians and conservatives. It is also no hyperbole to say that FOX News is totally and absolutely nothing more than a propaganda ministry for the neocon foreign policy agenda.


For all intents and purposes, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, et al., are behaving EXACTLY as did Germany’s National Socialists (Nazis). If the U.S. government prevails in this case (Saleh v Bush), it will mean that the Nazis’ defense at Nuremberg was RIGHT, and that the allied courts were WRONG to indict them.


Ask yourself, why would Republican senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain viciously attack Rand Paul’s foreign policy like they have? Graham and McCain went on national television last week and said that Rand’s foreign policy was WORSE than Barack Obama’s. Why would Republicans laud a liberal Democrat above a fellow Republican, not once, but over and over? Why? Because these men are governed by the same neocon (Nazi-like) agenda. Rand Paul is not. Democrat and Republican mean NOTHING. As long as he or she allows him or herself to be controlled by the neocon foreign policy, he or she will receive the approbation and support of the governing establishment. And, while what I am about to say is NOT an official endorsement, the ONLY candidate for President who, so far, is not willing to grovel before the neocon foreign policy agenda is Rand Paul. You can bet that the political and media establishments will do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to keep Rand from obtaining the Republican nomination, because, to them, IT’S ALL ABOUT MAINTAINING NEOCON CONTROL OF AMERICA’S FOREIGN POLICY.

More...https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=982039285140329&id=226997970644468

Make sure and check out the comments down below and you'll see how far out some of these moonbeams in the liberty movement are.

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul on The Laura Ingraham Show 4/28 (this morning) - discusses Baltimore, Iraq, Jeb, and TPP (transpacific partnership)
http://fetch.noxsolutions.com/laura/mp3/freebie1_042815.mp3
Laura is the most listened to woman on talk radio in the US.

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul Tells Jewish Audience It Was a ‘Mistake’ to Topple Saddam Hussein

Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican candidate for president, said today in front of an audience of Orthodox Jews that it was a “mistake” to topple Saddam Hussein in Iraq and later wage war in Libya.

“All the way back to the Iraq War, I think it was a mistake to topple [Saddam] Hussein. Hussein was the bulwark against Iran. The Sunnis didn’t like the Shiites, now Iraq is a vassal state for Iran,” Mr. Paul, the libertarian-leaning Kentucky senator, said. “I’m worried [Iran] is twice as strong as it was before the Iraq War.”

Speaking at the Torah Umesorah Hebrew Day School in Midwood, Brooklyn, Mr. Paul said he did not support war with Iran over their nuclear weapons program and took a jab at Hillary Clinton, the top Democratic contender for president and the former secretary of state, for the chaos that resulted in Libya after U.S. forces deposed of Muammar el-Qaddafi.

More...http://observer.com/2015/04/rand-paul-tells-jewish-audience-it-was-a-mistake-to-topple-saddam-hussein/#ixzz3YXMnzqrc