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

[mayflor2]

BASED ON 287 RESPONDENTS WHO DESCRIBE THEMSELVES AS REPUBLICANS AND 186
WHO DESCRIBE THEMSELVES AS INDEPENDENTS WHO LEAN REPUBLICAN, FOR A
TOTAL OF 473 REPUBLICANS -- SAMPLING ERROR: +/- 4.5 PERCENTAGE PTS.

May 2-4 2014

Bush 13%
Paul 13%
Ryan 12%
Huckabee 10%
Christie 9%
Perry 8%
Cruz 7%
Walker 7%
Rubio 6%
Santorum 2%
Someone else (vol.) 4%
None/No one (vol.) 4%
No opinion 7%


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/06/cnn-2016-poll-bush-and-paul-tied-for-top-spot-in-crowded-gop-field/
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/images/05/06/rel5d.pdf

We need to get rid of the 2 party system completely.   The candidates that both parties keep putting out are continuously less and less qualified as the years go on.   Our political system can not progress in it's current state.

[TheButterZone]

We need to get rid of the 2 party system completely.   The candidates that both parties keep putting out are continuously less and less qualified as the years go on.   Our political system can not progress in it's current state.

Or more and more qualified, when you realize that the only real qualification for all the government positions that matter (the ones where they count their own votes), is to be the worst possible evil, successively worse than your predecessor. Less inhibition from committing heinous acts is doubleplusgood! Just a matter of time before POTUS on down can slaughter newborn babies in front of the world's press broadcasting live from the Rose Garden, and watch decades later as they die a natural death a free man/woman, never having suffered any real consequences whatsoever.

[umair01]

This seems to early a conclusion to make, but if it is Hilary then most likely she would leverage the time of the Clinton admiinistration, jobs, economy, American standards and traditions, and the simplicity as compared to the radically different world we live in today. But a whole lot effort needs to be given to the future of USA,economics,gdp,growth,new bills and regulations,resources,infrstructure,technology,healthcare,jobs...etc

[Chef Ramsay]

This seems to early a conclusion to make, but if it is Hilary then most likely she would leverage the time of the Clinton admiinistration, jobs, economy, American standards and traditions, and the simplicity as compared to the radically different world we live in today. But a whole lot effort needs to be given to the future of USA,economics,gdp,growth,new bills and regulations,resources,infrstructure,technology,healthcare,jobs...etc

For one, Hillary is already backtracking on certain policies that Bill had going back in his tenure. Also, NAFTA was passed back then and this led to much of the US manufacturing industry to flee abroad, thus crimping the domestic job market. Bill still ran deficits but they were covered up by social security money being transferred into the general fund. They set the stage for the deterioration that was to take place later on and the bush wars only made govt spending even worse all the while more people went on entitlements.

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Tied for first in NH in lastest Bloomberg poll

Rand tied with Walker for first with 12, Bush 11, Rubio 11, Christe 7, Cruz 6, follwed by others at 5 and lower.

http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2015-05-08/150510_methodology_final_31343.pdf

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul Plays Down Comments on Military Exercise After Mockery

SAN FRANCISCO — Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has been mocked by liberal pundits who accused him of fanning conspiracy theories about a military exercise along the Texas border, an event that some on the far right believe is a covert effort to impose martial law.

But in an interview this weekend, Mr. Paul said he had no idea what the training exercise — known as Jade Helm — was when he was first asked about it last month on an Iowa radio program.

“Someone on a radio program asked me what it was. I didn’t know,” Mr. Paul said after he christened a new work space for his presidential campaign in the Bay Area. He expressed befuddlement at how his comments about “that ridiculous Jade something” had been blown out of proportion.

“I said sure, I’ll ask my staff to look into it because I didn’t know what it was,” he said.

The comments that drew ridicule by people like Bill Maher, who accused Mr. Paul of pandering to the right-wing fringe, occurred on the Jan Mickelson program. Mr. Mickelson brought up the exercise, telling the senator, “I’d like to know what the rest of the story is on that.”

Mr. Paul replied, “We’ll look at that also.”

More...http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/10/rand-paul-plays-down-comments-on-military-exercise-after-mockery/

[funtotry]

Rand Paul Plays Down Comments on Military Exercise After Mockery

SAN FRANCISCO — Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has been mocked by liberal pundits who accused him of fanning conspiracy theories about a military exercise along the Texas border, an event that some on the far right believe is a covert effort to impose martial law.

But in an interview this weekend, Mr. Paul said he had no idea what the training exercise — known as Jade Helm — was when he was first asked about it last month on an Iowa radio program.

“Someone on a radio program asked me what it was. I didn’t know,” Mr. Paul said after he christened a new work space for his presidential campaign in the Bay Area. He expressed befuddlement at how his comments about “that ridiculous Jade something” had been blown out of proportion.

“I said sure, I’ll ask my staff to look into it because I didn’t know what it was,” he said.

The comments that drew ridicule by people like Bill Maher, who accused Mr. Paul of pandering to the right-wing fringe, occurred on the Jan Mickelson program. Mr. Mickelson brought up the exercise, telling the senator, “I’d like to know what the rest of the story is on that.”

Mr. Paul replied, “We’ll look at that also.”

More...http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/10/rand-paul-plays-down-comments-on-military-exercise-after-mockery/

I think people are taking it a bit out of proportion, but still there should be an eye on the military as with all the time. I doubt there will be martial law, Texas is not a state to mess with, and especially because of the gun laws there, most of citizens are armed (I believe over 50% of the households)

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul Plays Down Comments on Military Exercise After Mockery

SAN FRANCISCO — Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has been mocked by liberal pundits who accused him of fanning conspiracy theories about a military exercise along the Texas border, an event that some on the far right believe is a covert effort to impose martial law.

But in an interview this weekend, Mr. Paul said he had no idea what the training exercise — known as Jade Helm — was when he was first asked about it last month on an Iowa radio program.

“Someone on a radio program asked me what it was. I didn’t know,” Mr. Paul said after he christened a new work space for his presidential campaign in the Bay Area. He expressed befuddlement at how his comments about “that ridiculous Jade something” had been blown out of proportion.

“I said sure, I’ll ask my staff to look into it because I didn’t know what it was,” he said.

The comments that drew ridicule by people like Bill Maher, who accused Mr. Paul of pandering to the right-wing fringe, occurred on the Jan Mickelson program. Mr. Mickelson brought up the exercise, telling the senator, “I’d like to know what the rest of the story is on that.”

Mr. Paul replied, “We’ll look at that also.”

More...http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/10/rand-paul-plays-down-comments-on-military-exercise-after-mockery/

I think people are taking it a bit out of proportion, but still there should be an eye on the military as with all the time. I doubt there will be martial law, Texas is not a state to mess with, and especially because of the gun laws there, most of citizens are armed (I believe over 50% of the households)

Most states aren't to mess with as the armament levels among the productive are high. That said, posse comitatus should be loud and clear but the feds still do what they want and push the envelope. It's hard to see that they aren't trying to do something new.

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul supports bird flu role of agency he tried to cut

WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul as recently as 2013 proposed cutting an Agriculture Department agency responsible for studying the spread of poultry diseases such as bird flu, a virus that has killed millions of birds in Iowa the past two weeks.

Paul, a Kentucky Republican, had proposed budget plans as recently as two years ago that backed scrapping the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, which includes a division responsible for studying ways to predict, treat and control poultry diseases.

Steve Grubbs, Paul's chief Iowa strategist, declined to address specific spending reductions at the USDA or whether the senator continues to support cutting those agencies as he has in past budget proposals.

But Grubbs said Paul favors the government playing an active role in working with farmers to combat bird flu because the virus has spread throughout several states. As a result, the outbreak triggers what's known as the commerce clause in the Constitution, effectively giving the government the power to get involved, he said.

More...http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/05/11/rand-paul-usda-bird-flu/27110857/

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul: Hillary turned Libya into a ‘jihadist wonderland’

Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul lambasted Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton Sunday, saying she made Libya a “jihadist wonderland” as secretary of state.

“Hillary Clinton’s war in Libya has made us less safe,” Paul (R-Ky.) told John Catsimatidis on The Answer 970 AM radio. “It made it a hotbed for jihadists, and, in fact, I think Libya now is a jihadist wonderland.”

Rand said it was a “big mistake” for the US to get involved in Libya’s affairs in the first place.
“A lot of times when we topple secular dictators, we’ve gotten chaos and then . . . the rise of radical Islam,” he said.

http://nypost.com/2015/05/11/rand-paul-hillary-turned-libya-into-a-jihadist-wonderland/

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul Vows to Filibuster Patriot Act Reauthorization

In a move guaranteed to rock the political establishment left and right, Rand Paul vowed Monday to filibuster any reauthorization of the (Orwellianly named) Patriot Act during an exclusive interview with the Union Leader in New Hampshire.

I’m going to lead the charge in the next couple of weeks as the Patriot Act comes forward. We will be filibustering. We will be trying to stop it. We are not going to let them run over us. And we are going to demand amendments and we are going to make sure the American people know that some of us at least are opposed to unlawful searches. – Sen. Rand Paul

http://iroots.org/2015/05/11/rand-paul-vows-to-filibuster-patriot-act/

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul staffer licks liberal's camera, murmers softly, "this is a closed event"

A cameraman documenting Rand Paul's town hall event in Londonderry, New Hampshire, on Monday got more than he bargained for when one of Paul's staffers walked right up and licked his camera lens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VOEU3W6PL8&feature=youtu.be
The culprit behind the "I licked it, so now it's mine" move was David Chesley, Rand Paul's political director in New Hampshire. The man behind the camera was from American Bridge 21st Century, a liberal super PAC that tracks Republican candidates. Chesley responded the way that any rational adult would: by licking the camera used to film the event.

http://mashable.com/2015/05/11/rand-paul-lickgate/

[Bit_Happy]

Rand Paul staffer licks liberal's camera, murmers softly, "this is a closed event"

A cameraman documenting Rand Paul's town hall event in Londonderry, New Hampshire, on Monday got more than he bargained for when one of Paul's staffers walked right up and licked his camera lens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VOEU3W6PL8&feature=youtu.be
The culprit behind the "I licked it, so now it's mine" move was David Chesley, Rand Paul's political director in New Hampshire. The man behind the camera was from American Bridge 21st Century, a liberal super PAC that tracks Republican candidates. Chesley responded the way that any rational adult would: by licking the camera used to film the event.

http://mashable.com/2015/05/11/rand-paul-lickgate/

That is one of the strangest things I've ever read, except for seeing a "crazy" libertarian talk about our elite leaders worshiping a 40 foot statue of an owl in the beautiful California countryside. 

[Chef Ramsay]

Paul picks up endorsements of 20 NH state reps

Rand Paul picked up the endorsements of 20 Republican state representatives for his presidential bid Monday.

The Kentucky senator said in an interview the support shows “New Hampshire is one of our best spots. We think the ‘leave-me-alone’ coalition is strong in New Hampshire, and right out of the gate, getting 19 state reps to support us is a big deal. We’re excited about where we’re starting.”

First reported by WMUR.com on Twitter, Paul’s campaign announced the endorsements as he held a town hall meeting in Londonderry.

Those supporting him are Reps. Laura Jones of Rochester, Dan McGuire of Epsom, Keith Ammon of New Boston, Keith Murphy and Bart Fromuth of Bedford, Christopher Adams of Brookline, Glen Aldrich of Gilford, Ralph Boehm of Litchfield, Eric Eastman and David Murotake of Nashua, Larry Gagne, Victoria Sullivan and Joe LaChance of Manchester, Joseph Hannon of Lee, Shem Kellogg of Plaistow, James McConnell of Keene, Jim Parison of New Ipswich, Eric Schleien of Hudson, Brian Seaworth of Pembroke and Nick Zaricki of Goffstown.
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http://www.wmur.com/politics/paul-picks-up-endorsements-of-19-state-reps/32951564

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul Courts San Francisco’s Techies

It’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon in one of the most liberal cities in America, and Rand Paul — the Republican United States senator from Kentucky running for president — is talking about Snapchat.

“We use Snapchat more than anybody else out there,” he brags during a speech in San Francisco. The crowd loves it. It’s a Snapchat kind of crowd.

Paul is speaking from a concrete-floored South of Market coworking space, StartupHouse, that will soon become the campaign’s home in San Francisco. The audience is made up of more than a hundred Rand fans and at least a dozen reporters. One entire wall is covered in chalkboard paint and pink and blue handwritten messages. Startup-y miscellany clutters nearly every empty surface — papers, all manner of cords and chargers, one $4,400 check, uncashed. One guy is wearing a shirt that says “freelance developer.” Another has a laptop sticker that reads “I don’t believe the liberal agenda.” He’s livetweeting. The event is called — and, really, there is nothing else it could be called — Disrupting Democracy. It’s all very two point omg.

And it is certainly very new.

As Vincent Harris, a Paul staffer who sat near the back tweeting from the senator’s Twitter account, told BuzzFeed News, Paul’s campaign is the only one with a tech advisory board, a CTO, a digital strategist, and offices in both San Francisco and Austin, Texas. Another attendee, Matt Shupe, a thirtysomething political consultant, points out that it’s rare for a politician on either side of the aisle to treat California as anything other than an ATM, hosting free, open events such as this one.

Paul’s commitment to courting Silicon Valley is genuine, if a bit puzzling — California hasn’t gone red in a presidential contest since 1988, and as San Francisco Chronicle political columnist Carla Marinucci noted toward the end of the panel, “the tech community voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama in the last election.” But Silicon Valley is nothing if not relentlessly optimistic in the face of mounting obstacles and historic reality. There’s a case to be made that liberal San Francisco’s backlash against the Google Busses and the Twitter tax breaks have served to alienate the tech community, and that, if pitched right, Paul’s particular brand of civil libertarianism could square with Silicon Valley’s iconoclastic ethos.
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After the event — a clean 38 minutes, including opening remarks and a panel discussion — he was mobbed by people requesting selfies and autographs; one fan, a youngish guy in a corduroy blazer, chased the Senator about his startup, a voter engagement app. Think Rand Paul as VC. And then, he was out.
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellencushing/rand-paul-among-the-techies#.jv8J7wEBz

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Releases Newest Edition of ‘The Waste Report’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Rand Paul today released the newest edition to ‘The Waste Report.’ ‘The Waste Report’ is an ongoing project to catalog egregious examples of wasteful spending throughout the U.S. government.This week’s report uncovers thousands of taxpayer dollars of potential waste in the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA).

The newest edition of ‘The Waste Report’ can be found HERE or below.

Nuclear Waste: Department of Energy’s $13K Treadmills

The National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) of the Department of Energy put out a Name-Brand solicitation in February for five Woodway treadmills, with upgrades.[1] Woodway is luxury manufacturer of treadmills; the 4Frontmodel, which NNSA is seeking four of, retails for over $10,000, with upgrades (Personal Training Display Board, +10% incline and +2.5 mph top speed) adding $3,900 per-unit according to a Woodway pricing guide.[2]

The solicitation states that NNSA planned to “utilize the treadmills to qualify Federal Agents on the running requirements established by the NNSA …” The Federal Agents here are Nuclear Materials Couriers, who according to an NNSA recruiting brochure must pass a minimum standard in the 1-mile and a 40-yard dash run, every six months.[3] Perhaps the standard warranting such a high-end treadmill is the ability to outrun nuclear radiation in the event of an accident?

The solicitation indicates these treadmills will service approximately 500 Agents. By comparison Livestrong.comreports that the average Gold’s Gym has approximately 5000 members. They also report Anytime Fitness typically uses LifeFitness 93 or 95ti treadmills which run (no pun intended) around $4,000.[4]

The solicitation was automatically archived in March without being filled. But the question remains, why does the Department of Energy need the Cadillac of treadmills?

This is not the first time a federal agency has bought high-priced exercise equipment. Last month in a Senate Finance Committee hearing, it was revealed that the IRS spent bought $8000 stair climbers. [5]

More...http://www.paul.senate.gov/about-rand/issues/the-waste-report-waste-in-the-us-government-

[Chef Ramsay]

The Maher Manipulation: How Bill Maher Spins Rand Paul Talk on Jade Helm

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

[tradingonmargins]

The Maher Manipulation: How Bill Maher Spins Rand Paul Talk on Jade Helm

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

Rand Paul takes a hard path.  So many of the government insiders will all be against him.

[Chef Ramsay]

The Maher Manipulation: How Bill Maher Spins Rand Paul Talk on Jade Helm

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

Rand Paul takes a hard path.  So many of the government insiders will all be against him.

Correct but

We'll see how thoughtful u r. Rand is the good guy on this point and doing quite a lot to see that justice is done.

[tins]

The Maher Manipulation: How Bill Maher Spins Rand Paul Talk on Jade Helm

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

Anybody with the least bit of sanity knows Mauer is a nutjob.