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

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What Matt Drudge Can Do for Rand Paul

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Drudge's readership skews almost entirely American, heavily Republican, and older than Internet users who get their news from Facebook. A 2012 study found that 41 percent of Drudge readers identify as Republicans—a higher share of conservatives than other big news sites. That said, people who read Drudge religiously are much more likely to be Republican primary voters. So if Drudge deems one Republican candidate deserving of more positive or negative coverage than the rest of the field, it carries enormous influence on the small subset of the population that determines the Republican presidential nominee.

Drudge Report is the most influential news aggregator on the political Internet. Business Insider has estimated the site to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. With the help of one or two other people, Drudge updates the famously bare-bones site throughout the day with ALL-CAPS headlines and links to news outlets. It receives 2 million daily unique visitors and roughly 700 million monthly page views, according to Intermarkets. The Associated Press website receives more than half of its traffic from Drudge. Aside from search and social, the Drudge Report was the No. 1 traffic referrer to CNN, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Politico, and National Journal.
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http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/what-matt-drudge-can-do-for-rand-paul-20150604

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Cato: Rating GOP Candidates on Taxes

Rand Paul posted a detailed plan on his campaign website a couple of months ago, but he has since taken it down amid reports that he is revising it to lower rates even further. As originally posted, Paul’s plan would establish a 17 percent flat tax; however, he is reportedly working with Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation and others to bring that rate down to as low as 13 or 14 percent. The plan would also include a personal exemption, unlike most flat-tax plans, thereby lowering the effective tax rate still further. The size of the exemption was not spelled out, but according to some reports it could be as much as 20 percent. Capital gains, interest, and dividends would all be untaxed.

The estate, gift, and alternative minimum taxes would all be eliminated. Paul also plans a payroll-tax exemption for low- and middle-income earners, though he has not provided details, and such a cut could complicate financing for Social Security. And Paul also proposes even larger tax cuts for high-poverty areas. Paul himself estimates that his plan would reduce revenue by about $700 billion per year, though he intends to propose spending cuts to offset the loss. Paul’s foreign policy came under attack recently as “Barack Obama’s third term,” but he certainly isn’t pursuing Obama’s tax policies.

...http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/rating-gop-contenders-taxes

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Nevada Stays With Caucus System in Blow to Jeb Bush, Boon to Rand Paul

Nevada is keeping its caucuses for selecting presidential nominees, a blow to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and other contenders who hoped to shift the early-voting state to a system of primaries.

Caucuses are considered favorable to candidates who have a network of highly motivated activists, such as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.

Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, who has met with Bush, backed legislation to change to a primary, but the bill never came up for a vote before the Legislature adjourned Monday night. It was the subject of frantic horse-trading and lobbying in the state capitol in Carson City until the final minutes of the session.

The state's Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison, chairman of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign in Nevada, had pushed for the bill.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/nevada-stays-caucus-system-blow-jeb-bush-31475619

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GOP neocon rep: Rand Paul 'absolutely disgraceful' on NSA

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said on Sunday that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had acted only in his own interest during the debate over the USA Freedom Act last week.

“What Rand Paul did was absolutely disgraceful,” he told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “It was shameful and disgraceful.”

King took issue with Paul’s attacks on the National Security Agency (NSA) and its intelligence-gathering methods.

“Rand Paul actually wanted to shut down the NSA for several days for no reason other than to raise money for his presidential campaign,” King said of the 2016 contender.

“He was hurting the American peoples’ security,” he added.

The Senate voted last Tuesday to approve the USA Freedom Act.

It ended the NSA’s bulk, warrantless collection of individual phone records while renewing less-controversial counterterrorism and intelligence measures.

King said changing the agency’s powers was too risky, given the threats menacing America.

He cited last Thursday’s news that hackers had exposed the data of 4 million current and former federal employees as an example of what is at stake in the national security fight.

More...http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/244228-gop-rep-rand-paul-absolutely-disgraceful-on-nsa

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Republican Peter King (dumbass-neocon) won’t retreat from attack on Sen. Rand Paul

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The bill passed by the Senate, known as the USA Freedom Act, resumed the collection of bulk phone records but required telecommunications companies, not the NSA, to hold the data. The government now must make specific requests to access the records.

The House had previously approved the USA Freedom Act. President Obama singed it into law shortly after it passed the Senate.

“We can have differences, we can debate them, we can work them out. You can vote against NSA is you want to,” said Mr. King. “But to use your one-person power to unilaterally shut it down, knowing that it is going to be reopened in a couple days — all he was doing was hurting American security at the same time, asking people to send him contributions. That was shameful and disgraceful.”
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Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/7/republican-peter-king-wont-retreat-attack-sen-rand/#ixzz3cRCDSJbJ

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Rand Paul: Lindsey Graham "doesn't rise beyond middle school kind of rhetoric"

Reason: Lindsey Graham said, as part of his critique of your performance, that you're more scared of the NSA than you are of ISIS. Is that true?

Rand Paul: You know, I think there are people who...you have to consider the source. This is a person who said that he would use censorship if he needed to. This is the same person who said, "Well, when people ask for an attorney, you should tell them to shut up." This is the same person who's also said, "If they ask for a judge just drone 'em." I mean, some of the stuff I think doesn't rise beyond middle school kind of rhetoric. So it's hard to know when to respond to people like that.

But I think ultimately if you want to talk among adults about, "Is ISIS a threat to our country?" Yes. "Is NSA a threat sometimes to our liberty?" Yes. I personally don't think you have to trade one for the other. I don't think you have to trade your liberty for security. I think you can have both. I think the Constitution can be a powerful tool. The Constitution never said we wouldn't go after records of criminals or terrorists. The Constitution just says you have to individualize the suspicion; put a person's name on it. I tell people, "I want to collect more records of terrorists, just less records of innocent Americans."

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Lindsey (or Flimsy as I call him) Graham comes out against Rand Paul's Kurdistan Idea

Interesting discussion last week on Morning Joe, where Scarbourugh acts unintentionally as a Paul surrogate, suggesting that Iraq be split up, and Graham says no we need to keep the country intact.

MSNBC Video...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrQawmbwclA

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Breitbart (big right wing website) Presidential Primary - Vote For Rand!

Breitbart is having a "straw poll primary" ...vote and pass it on!

hxxp://www.breitbart.com/primary/ - Unlinked so they don't see legions coming from this site.

Latest results:

Cruz - 31%
Walker - 24%
Paul - 13%
Perry 5%
Carson 5%

Means little but just for fun.

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Man cited by Rand Paul in press for criminal justice reform dies

On the campaign trail, Rand Paul often emphasizes two major goals: criminal justice reform and expanding the Republican Party to include more young and minority voters. In particular, the Kentucky senator has pushed the GOP to speak out against policies that lead to the imprisonment of minorities. In doing so, Paul often cites the story of an black New York City man, Kalief Browder, who spent three years of his young life locked up at Rikers Island prison without trial.

The story has ended in tragedy: Browder, now 22, – committed suicide at his home on Saturday.

Late Sunday evening, Paul offered his condolences to the family of the young man whose story he has told many times.

“Kelley and I extend our most heartfelt sorrow and deepest condolences to the family of Kalief Browder. May his soul rest in peace,” Paul wrote on Facebook.

In 2010, Browder was a 16-year-old high school sophomore arrested for allegedly stealing a backpack. He insisted he was innocent, but spent the next three years of his life – missing his junior and senior year of high school – locked up, awaiting trial. Browder’s case was eventually dismissed by prosecutors in March of 2013.

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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/man-cited-rand-paul-press-criminal-justice-reform-dies

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JON VOIGHT (at Republican Jewish Coalition Gala) on Rand "He’s a little controversial... and that's good too"

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Voight was honored at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Summer Gala Sunday at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with the Hollywood Visionary Award. He said he’s impressed with the slew of Republicans who have already declared.

“It’s good to have debate — real debate — a difference on issues and different sides of the issues,” Voight said. “It’s an important election. I hope people are paying attention.”

Matthew Brooks, executive director of the RJC, said a possible Republican president is the best choice for the future of Israel’s relationship with the United States.

“It’s going to be very clear between a Hillary Clinton-likely candidacy, which means four more years of Barack Obama’s failed policies that relate to Israel, or it means a radically different Republican policy, which returns Israel back to its rightful place as a true and unwavering ally and a special friend of the United States.”

Voight specifically addressed Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who recently created controversy over his filibuster of the Patriot Act. Paul announced his bid for the presidency on April 7.

“I understand that he’s a little controversial at the moment and he’s using that in some way to get a little attention for his campaign, and that’s good, too,” Voight said.

The Republican Jewish Coalition is an organization of Jewish Republicans, with more than 40,000 members and 45 chapters nationwide.

http://variety.com/2015/scene/news/jon-voight-republican-candidates-election-jewish-coalition-gala-1201514313/

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Why we should listen to Rand Paul

It turns out that Republicans in Washington are united on one issue: their hatred of Rand Paul. John McCain says Paul is "the worst possible candidate . . . on the most important issue."

Marco Rubio opines that Paul "has no idea what he's talking about."

Lindsey Graham concludes that it would be "devastating" for the party to nominate him.

Conservative commentators are even more vicious and ad hominem.

The obsession with Paul is striking. In a Post op-ed article last summer, then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry mentioned Paul 10 times. I cannot recall an instance in recent decades in which so much vitriol has been directed against a leading political figure by his own party.

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The attacks are almost entirely focused on Paul's foreign policy, which is routinely characterized as dangerous and isolationist. In fact, the real problem appears to be that Paul is trying to force Republicans and many Democrats to defend what has become a lazy, smug consensus in favor of an ever-expanding national security state.

I have read Paul's proposals and speeches on foreign policy. There are some bloopers, odd comments, and rhetorical broadsides, but for the most part his views are intellectually serious and well within a tradition of what he (correctly) calls conservative realism.

They are also politically courageous. Paul has taken positions and cited authorities that are deeply unpopular with his own party.

Yes, of course, he craves publicity and engages in stunts. What politician doesn't? But what makes his opponents most uncomfortable is the substance, not the style.

Take the most recent example: his opposition to the blanket extension of the Patriot Act, which has resulted in some modest restraint on the vast expansion of government powers since 9/11. (The new checks and balances are close to ones recommended by a panel put together by the Obama administration.)

In defending his position, Paul notes — correctly — that we would not even know of the existence of this system of metadata collection if not for Edward Snowden's revelations, that the FBI has been unable to cite a single terrorist plot disrupted by it, and that the special courts in place have few checks and little transparency.

He cites, glowingly, the 1979 dissenting opinion regarding the dangers of government collection of phone records by Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, the Supreme Court's two most prominent liberals of the past half-century.

Or consider Paul's views on lifting the embargo on Cuba, on which he writes: "The supporters of the embargo . . . fall strangely silent when asked how trade with Cuba is so different than trade with Russia or China or Vietnam." This is not a path to primary voters' hearts in Florida.

He has raised uncomfortable questions that no other politician dares raise about Anwar al-Awlaki, an Al Qaeda leader who was killed in a car on a road in Yemen by a US drone strike. Paul has pointed out that since Awlaki was a US citizen, this action creates an extraordinary legal precedent — that the president of the United States can execute a US citizen without trial. He cites approvingly the American Civil Liberties Union, which, he writes, has pointed out that "in modern history, a presidential order to kill an American citizen away from a battlefield is unprecedented."

In the Middle East, Paul has called for caution before the next military intervention, suggesting that it is worth learning some lessons from the past decade. US military interventions, he has argued, have destabilized countries and led to perverse consequences. "As secular dictators fell in Libya, Egypt, Iraq, and now Syria, radical jihadists exploited the vacuum," he has noted.

In Afghanistan, he said, President Obama added 50,000 troops to the US force and spent an additional $120 billion on the effort with little effect. Afghanistan today is by some measures as dangerous as ever — after 14 years of continuous US military intervention and $1 trillion spent, by one estimate. Surely this is worth pondering?

I don't agree with Rand Paul on many things, including foreign policy. I think some of his positions on civil rights are historically blind, cruel, and dangerous. But in the arena of national security, he has time and again raised important, inconvenient questions, only to have them ruled out of order and to be told that he is a crank, far outside the mainstream. In fact, it would be useful and important for Republicans — and Democrats — to stop the name-calling and actually discuss and debate his ideas.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/why-we-should-listen-to-rand-paul-2015-6

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Rand Paul's Off GOP Message Again, This Time on Gitmo

If a Republican wins the White House, the military prison at Guantanamo Bay will almost surely be kept open for the foreseeable future. That is, unless Rand Paul nabs the GOP nomination.

Yet again, the senator from Kentucky has scouted out a position on a national-security issue that makes him an outlier, at least among senators running for president.

That was clear Monday after Marco Rubio introduced two amendments that would extend the use of the prison: one to prohibit funding to programs that would help close the facility, and another that sets a series of tough ground rules before a president could transfer U.S.-held land or water back to Cuba. This follows Rubio's statement two months prior that he would "absolutely" reopen the facility known as Gitmo if Obama somehow closed it, as he promised he would on his first day in office.

Rubio's amendments are more expansive than one proposed by Ted Cruz, the Texas conservative, to end funding for the transfer of detainees to countries covered by the State Department's travel warnings. Cruz's amendment would codify the U.S.'s informal, revived ban on transferring the vast majority of detainees, who are Yemeni, back home. But Cruz, Florida's Rubio and South Carolina's Lindsey Graham support a bill that would prohibit for two years the transfer of detainees who are considered "medium-risk" or higher, and any transfers to Yemen.

Even former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a likely presidential candidate, recently said the U.S. should keep Gitmo open, despite the public statements of his brother. After he left office, former President George W. Bush, who oversaw the use and expansion of the prison after 9/11, called Gitmo a "propaganda tool for our enemies and a distraction for our allies," and reiterated that it was his goal to close it in his second term.

And then there's Paul.

More...http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/rand-paul-s-off-gop-message-again-this-time-on-gitmo-20150608

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I think I found a celebrity who is for Rand Paul. Matt Damon is a smart man. Everybody should listen to him with his opinion of the world around us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh-HOyJpJsA

MATT DAMON on ELITE & NWO - Amazing Speech On This Evil World

This means America is now a nation of “proles,” whom George Orwell described as the majority of the population who are too distracted by “films, football, beer, and above all, gambling” to care about the decline of America and the destruction of the Bill of Rights. If the proles did become aware of the larger evils, the world would change for the better, which is why the establishment wants to keep the majority of the population distracted with “bread and circuses.”

Americans are now living in a society that in some cases is more draconian, more invasive and more Orwellian than the dystopian tyranny fictionalized in Orwell’s chilling classic Nineteen Eighty-Four. On almost every front, American citizens are under an equal or greater threat of abuse, control and more pervasive and high-tech surveillance than anything Winston Smith ever faced. Compare life in Oceania to life in 2011 America, with quotes from George Orwell’s 1984 appearing in italic. Just as the citizens of Oceania were constantly bombarded with propaganda from the state via telescreens, Americans are now being subjected to the same onslaught in the form of spurious “alerts” from the federal government that are delivered through numerous platforms, including LED screens on the ‘Intellistreets’ lighting network, televisions at Wal-Mart stores that play Janet Napolitano’s “See Something, Say Something” diatribe, FEMA’s Emergency Alert System that can hijack all conventional boradcast communications, and mandatory government messages that will appear on all new cellphones from the end of next year. And if that isn’t enough, the Washington Post today called for the Internet to also be brought under the auspices of a government takeover switch. Whereas Winston Smith only had to put up with Big Brother lecturing him via telescreens, Americans will be peppered with propaganda from every conceivable direction.
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However, Johnson’s warning is nothing new – the super rich have been busy securing property in safe heavens for at least five years in anticipation of the next financial collapse. prepare emergency personnel for dealing with weapons of mass destruction. Dead elites are planning to live on in cyberspace by uploading their cloned brains to computer systems which will eventually take the form of artificially intelligent robots. Did you see Katy Perry’s performance at the Grammys? It was essentially an Illuminati-themed occult ritual. Various media reports say that Perry “dressed up as a witch”, and her performance included a Knights Templar cross emblazoned across her chest, a beast with Moloch horns, dancers in dark robes with devil horns protruding from their heads, and pole dancing with a broom.

Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Apple, Skype, PalTalk, YouTube, Facebook and Google. “People are outraged over secret US surveillance programs and they’re looking for safe, effective search alternatives,” Beens said in a statement. “We’re excited at this growth and we welcome our newest users with open arms.” When George Orwell (pen name of Eric Blair) first published his famous novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, it was the year 1949, and it told a dark story of what he envisioned life may be like in the future-in the year 1984. His book, as well as his name, have become synonymous with privacy concerns involving technology and also an all-powerful, oppressive ruling elite that strictly governs the activities of the population with an iron fist.

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NH Gravis Poll: Rand tied for 2nd at 13%

Interesting new poll of primary voters in New Hampshire by Gravis - which is all over the place IMO.

Jeb in a scorching lead of 21% at the moment (likely an outlier); Rand tied for second with Walker around 13%.

Rand scores 40% among voters with their religious affiliation set as "Other" and 21% among voters 18-49, falling to 6% area in the 50+ Age range. Only scores 2.5% among voters labeled "Protestant".

Sadly didn't include a General Election matchup, those are always the most interesting these days IMO.

More...http://howiecarrshow.com/newwebsiteadmin/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/crosstabs2.pdf

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BRUCE FEIN (constitutional lawyer): Rand Paul is right: Neocons created ISIS

Sen. Rand Paul is spot on. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was created and is fueled by Mr. Paul’s lobotomized neoconservative rivals.

In other words, to paraphrase Walt Kelly’s Pogo about the Vietnam War, Mr. Paul’s foreign policy detractors have met the enemy, and they are them!

With the predictability of the sun rising in the East and setting in the West, power vacuums in primitive political cultures give birth to extremists — religious or otherwise. There are no exceptions. Ruthlessness and fanaticism flourish in a Hobbesian state of nature.

Israel gave birth to Hamas by crippling the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Yasser Arafat’s dominant Fatah faction.

Hezbollah emerged from a power vacuum in Lebanon.

Al Qaeda and Taliban were created by a power vacuum in Afghanistan following the ouster of Soviet troops in 1989.

Iran’s radical Shiite regime is the offspring of the power vacuum created by the 1979 overthrow of the shah.

Despite the obvious, Mr. Paul’s deluded Republican opponents bugled for the overthrow of Iraq’s secular President Saddam Hussein in 2003 heedless of the power vacuum that would ensue. Saddam was a fierce antagonist of Iran’s ruling mullahs, against whom he had warred (with U.S. support) for eight years, 1980-88. No-fly zones and sanctions had crippled Saddam’s capacity to threaten the United States. But the neocons insisted on an invasion and the obliteration of Saddam and the ruling Baath Party to save the world from imaginary weapons of mass destruction and to erect a model democracy for the region.

After Saddam’s ouster and death, Iraq predictably became convulsed by internecine warfare and strife between Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds featuring an unstable and extremist sectarian central government allied with Iran. A splinter group of al Qaeda (which itself was armed and trained by the United States to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan), ISIS was born by a U.S.-generated power vacuum in Iraq. ISIS also took root and grew from a complementary power vacuum in Syria, which neocons fortified by urging the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and training Sunni rebels.



Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/9/bruce-fein-rand-paul-is-right-neocons-created-isis/#ixzz3cckJpzDc

This Fein guy knows his history and can really write a great synopsis as you'll see if you can continue on. You can check his past via Wiki, get a better appreciation for him and see where he came from.

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Rand Paul's civil liberties breakthrough

In a campaign that is shaping up as the battle of the boring, the contest of the consultants and the nastiness of name-calling, let's give credit to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for his leadership on the floor of the U.S. Senate in his battle to protect the privacy of Americans against excessive eavesdropping.

Agree with Paul or not — and I agree with much of what he says when he warns against the dangers of the bulk collection of intelligence — he has injected substance and purpose to the presidential campaign. Good for him. He has been attacked for taking this stand of principle to raise money for his campaign. If donors want to support him because he battles for their privacy against Big Brother, good for them!
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Paul received the attention of the nation on a major issue because he earned it by taking a stand on an issue of paramount importance. If every candidate in both parties would find an issue of equal magnitude on which to take an important stand of principle, as Paul did, we would have a better campaign.

I hope Rand Paul continues and escalates this issue, as I suspect he will. It will be hotly discussed in the GOP presidential debates, as it should be, which could well continue his breakthrough moment.
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More...http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/244290-rand-pauls-civil-liberties-breakthrough

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Rand Paul Establishment Derangement Syndrome - hit piece

Over the past two years, a new political illness has broken out and infected establishment Republicans since Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has risen in prominence.

When I say establishment, I am referencing the RINOs who are constantly complaining about the Tea Party, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and the idea of fighting for any issue of importance to the conservative movement. We all know a squishy Republican who fits that description.

More specifically, there are a handful of self-appointed guardians of the Republican Party who shudder at the thought of Rand Paul heading the Republican ticket next fall. They have a bad case of what I call “Rand Paul Derangement Syndrome.”

In the past week, this affliction has mutated and now is spreading like a pandemic. The cause was Sen. Paul’s victory in scaling back President Obama’s NSA spying program.

Just take a look at the latest from Michael Gerson of the Washington Post. Gerson may have the most advanced case.

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http://humanevents.com/2015/06/09/rand-paul-establishment-derangement-syndrome/

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Rand Paul Bitcoin moneybomb July 4th - or anytime between now and then.

This July 4th, in honor of the Declaration of Independence and the Founding of America, I hereby announce a Bitcoin MoneyBomb for Senator Rand Paul's campaign for the Republican Party nomination.

Polls show that if he wins the Republican nomination he may be the best candidate to defeat the Democrats. Rand stands for freedom and unregulated Bitcoin. He is accepting Bitcoin on his donation page and is the only presidential candidate to do so.

Please consider supporting him this July 4th.

Donate here now or during the date of honor:  https://secure.randpaul.com/ US Citizens only

“I want to unleash the American Dream. I will return our country to freedom and prosperity, and restore the principles upon which this nation was founded: man’s right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” —Sen. Rand Paul

Declaration of Independence:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

We need to turn up the heat for this July 4th Bitcoin Bomb. I know there is a lot of interest in this, and we need to organize. I have been in contact with some members of the community who want to help. Please PM me or post in this thread if you can help in any way. We need to reach out to the broader community through other avenues like blogs, twitter, facebook, youtube, etc. Cross post this thread into other relevant subs if rules permit.

Please give your support not only for support of the July 4th BitcoinBomb for Rand Paul's presidential bid, but also to resist unjust censorship on this sub, and to combat vote manipulation https://np.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock_puppets_in_rnetsec_last_year_and_are that we all know is going on.

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The romance with Rand Paul is gone

Rand Paul’s presidential campaign, by many recent accounts, is sputtering. The candidate, according to the Atlantic’s Molly Ball, is “flailing.” His campaign, reports National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar, has been called a “disaster.”*

These judgments, even if true, are provisional. Pretty much any candidate in the Republican pack is one killer debate performance, one strong poll result, one especially good fundraising report away from a narrative of resurgence.

But there is little question that the initial, ineffable appeal of the Paul campaign has faded. In March 2013, when Paul filibustered against the government’s possible use of Hellfire missiles to murder civilians in San Francisco cafes and Houston restaurants — this seemed to make sense to some people at the time — many conservatives were swept away. “His voice, once lonely,” wrote Noah Rothman, “grew in stature. . . . It was poetic. It was romantic.”*

Compare this with Paul’s recent filibuster of the Patriot Act. The Senate gallery was staged with supporters wearing “Stand With Rand” T-shirts. Paul’s online campaign store offered a “filibuster starter pack” for $30, including a “spy blocker” for your computer’s video camera and a shirt reading “The NSA knows I bought this Rand Paul tshirt.” Paul’s Senate colleagues found themselves dragged into the middle of an infomercial. And many were not pleased.

Once it was Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Now it is Mr. Smith uses Senate procedure to conduct a fundraising campaign on a national security issue that he distorts to serve his political interests.

The romance is gone. The bitterness and conspiratorial hints remain. Paul recently blamed the rise of the Islamic State on Republican “hawks.” Under pressure, Paul conceded, “I could have stated it better.” But this was a gaffe of excessive clarity.*no it wasn't Paul’s foreign policy libertarianism is founded on the belief that an aggressively fought war against terrorism actually produces terrorism — that the United States has somehow earned the enmity it faces....

htxp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-romance-with-rand-paul-is-gone/2015/06/08/3e60c632-0e1e-11e5-a0dc-2b6f404ff5cf_story.html?hpid=z2

Per the writer...

Michael John Gerson is an op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, a Policy Fellow with the ONE Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice, and a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001 until June 2006, as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006, and was a member of the White House Iraq Group.

In other words, a neocon sock puppet that is hatin big time on Rand catching on as he's been up in every recent poll and knocks Hillary out of the ball game at all times when his GOP competitors are underwater.

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Rand Paul in Baltimore: Kalief Browder shows why urban communities are angry

It was a familiar story, a regular part of his stump speech, but Rand Paul paused before he told it.

"I've been telling this story for about a year and a half, two years now," the Kentucky senator and presidential candidate told Baltimore County Republicans, who had filled a reception hall west of the city. "It makes me sad. I thought about not telling the story again. But I think this young man's memory should help us to try to change things. He died this weekend. He committed suicide. His name was Kalief Browder. He was a 16-year-old teenager from the Bronx. He was arrested, accused of a crime, and sent to Rikers."

As hundreds of Republicans listened—voters, donors, elected officials—Paul retold the Browder story that had become infamous after a profile in the New Yorker. It was more gruesome than the version he usually told, because he was building to something.

"Are we going to let you be raped and murdered and pillaged before you've been convicted?" Paul asked. "He wasn't even convicted! So when I see people angry and upset, I'm not here to excuse violence in the cities, but I see people angry I see where some of the anger is coming from."

More...http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-10/rand-paul-on-kalief-browder-it-makes-me-sad-