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

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Walker Continues Lead in Iowa Caucus Poll, Rand Paul Slides


Scott Walker continues to lead the field of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa, according to a poll of likely Republican Iowa caucus participants released on Thursday.

The poll, commissioned by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, also found a 5-point drop in support for Sen. Rand Paul compared to a similar survey by the Des Moines Register late last month.

Walker received 19 percent in the poll, followed by Ben Carson at 13 percent and Jeb Bush at 11 percent. Marco Rubio received 9 percent, followed by Rick Perry at 7 percent, Ted Cruz at 6 percent and Rand Paul at 5 percent.

Paul has been sliding in Iowa caucus polls since January, when he was in second place behind Walker at 14 percent. The latest IRFA poll has Paul in 7th place, tied with “Unsure.”

More....http://freebeacon.com/politics/walker-continues-lead-in-iowa-caucus-poll-rand-paul-slides/

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GOP Senator. Graham: Clinton tops Rand Paul on foreign policy

“Would you say right now that any Republican running would be better, in terms of foreign policy, than Hillary Clinton?” John Dickerson, host of “Face the Nation,” asked Graham on Sunday.
“Yes, except for Rand Paul,” Graham responded. “No, she would be beat by all of us, except Rand Paul.”

Graham also said that he believed Clinton’s foreign policy decisions while serving as secretary of State had severely hurt America’s interests abroad.

“You would have to suspend disbelief to believe that America is well-positioned against Iran, against Syria, against ISIL, against Russia, against China,” he said, using an alternate acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“We’re in a terrible position,” he added. “If Hillary Clinton thinks we’re well-positioned as a nation, she has disqualified herself to be commander-in-chief.”

Clinton served as President Obama’s secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.

Graham said on Sunday that their foreign policy doctrine has badly harmed the U.S. military’s ongoing fight against terrorism.

“I’m dying to hear from my military leadership on how we degrade and destroy ISIL with the current strategy,” he said.

More...http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/244951-graham-clinton-tops-rand-paul-of-foreign-policy

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Rand Paul Finds Medium for His Flat-Tax Message: Snapchat

Coming to a smartphone near you — if you happen to live in Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire or South Carolina, that is: the first Snapchat ad for a presidential candidate.

The “super PAC” backing Mr. Paul, America’s Liberty PAC, will become the first to use the rapidly expanding social media app to advertise on behalf of someone seeking the White House in 2016.

Called “How Rand Rolls,” the 10-second spot talks up the Kentucky Republican’s new flat-tax plan, which he announced on Thursday.

Jesse Benton, the PAC’s director, said Snapchat offered two distinct advantages that other advertising did not. It can be highly targeted to people in certain geographic areas — in this case, voters in the early primary and caucus states. And it offers a high degree of direct interaction with the young audience Mr. Paul is trying to reach.

“We feel it’s an efficient way to reach the people Senator Paul needs to reach,” Mr. Benton said, adding that he expected hundreds of thousands of people to see it. He put the dollar amount the PAC is spending on the ad, which will also appear on the Internet, in the five-figure range.

Anyone scrolling through the curated story content on Snapchat in those four states could see the ad.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/06/19/today-in-politics-charleston-shooting-leads-to-a-campaign-pause/?_r=0#post-mb-7

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKoPjdiO1KI

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Rand Paul Wants Internal GOP Debate Over Taxes

In unveiling his proposal to slash taxes to a single 14.5 percent marginal rate, Sen. Rand Paul wants a debate over whether the GOP should only seek to simplify the tax code.

In an interview with CQ Roll Call, the Kentucky Republican said the plan he outlined in an opinion piece published in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal should encourage a debate about the amount of money the federal government should take in from tax receipts, upending the existing systems of taxes and tariffs along the way.

“I think the main thing that we as Republicans need to do a better job on is that most of the Republicans in Washington I think are — have become beaten down by the system and all they are willing to offer is revenue neutral tax reform. And to me that means they’re just going to shift the burden around, but they’re not going to reduce the overall burden for the private sector,” Paul said. “I think that’s the debate we need to have within the Republican Party: are we the party that wants to shift the burden around … or are we the party that actually thinks that you can stimulate the economy and grow the economy by significantly reducing how much revenue comes into Washington and leaving that money in the private sector.”

The presidential candidate’s past proposals to balance the federal budget would require significant slashing of federal programs, and his tax plan would be no different, apparently reducing federal revenue by a minimum of $2 trillion over a decade.

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http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/rand-paul-gop-debate-income-taxes/

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Rand Paul Names Hedge Fund Chief Mark Spitznagel as Economic Adviser

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has appointed Mark Spitznagel, the hedge fund manager, as a senior economic adviser as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination.

At first blush, the two might seem like an odd pair. Mr. Spitznagel is the founder of Universa Investments, a $6 billion hedge fund that is set up to make money in an economic crisis.

But the two share a similar outlook on the government’s role in the financial markets: that it should not have one.

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Mr. Spitznagel, who is 44, gained credibility for predicting two market routs over the last decade, first in 2000 and then in 2008. In the 2008 financial crisis, his Universa funds rose by 115 percent as the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index plummeted. Mr. Spitznagel believes the next market rout is coming soon.

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His thinking is shaped by the Austrian school of economics, which has its roots in 19th-century Vienna and makes the argument that the government should not meddle in any part of the economy because when it does, it causes all kinds of distortions.

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Mr. Spitznagel is also a friend of Mr. Paul’s father, Ron Paul, a former Texas congressman and presidential candidate. The elder Mr. Paul wrote a foreword in Mr. Spitznagel’s book, “The Dao of Capital” (Wiley, 2013), in which Mr. Spitznagel outlines his philosophy of the markets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/business/dealbook/rand-paul-names-hedge-fund-chief-mark-spitznagel-as-economic-adviser.html

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Raised Around Cry For Smaller Government, Rand Paul Carries The Torch

Sen. Rand Paul made headlines recently with his one-man effort to roll back government surveillance. And that's the just beginning of Paul's plan to dismantle big chunks of the federal government.

"The Washington machine that gobbles up our freedoms and invades every nook and cranny of our lives must be stopped," Paul declared in April, as he announced his presidential campaign.

But Paul's hometown of Lake Jackson, Texas, only exists because of a shotgun wedding between big government and industry. The city was hastily built near the Texas Gulf Coast in the 1940s to house workers at a nearby Dow Chemical plant, so that they could produce the magnesium the military needed during World War II.

"The U.S. government stepped in and they made it happen," said Robert Rule, executive director of the Lake Jackson Historical Association.

Lake Jackson's curving streets were master-planned to protect the city's live oak trees — a stark contrast to the unregulated sprawl of Houston, 50 miles to the north.

More...http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/18/413928387/raised-around-cry-for-smaller-government-rand-paul-carries-the-torch

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Herman Cain: Rand Paul nails it with his tax code replacement proposal

Rip it up, roots and all, and start over. (And this feels kind of familiar too.)

I like very much when I see candidates for any office - but especially for the presidency - propose ideas that don't just nudge things a bit in one direction or another, but that actually solve problems. So I really liked when Rand Paul, via an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal published yesterday, proposed to rip out the tax code by its foundations and start over with a simple, flat tax of 14.5 percent on individuals and businesses.

The best thing about this proposal is that Paul recognizes what too many of his rivals for the Republican nomination seem to miss, which is that you're not going to get the federal tax code right by fiddling with it and tweaking it. The Leviathan we find ourselves with today is so riddled with complexities and traps - all of them designed to empower politicians and the IRS - there's no way you eliminate the problems it creates by adding a tax credit here or lowering a rate there.

You have to kill it. Dead. Then you have to institute something new is designed solely to fund government operations, without giving Congress and the IRS tricky little mechanisms by which to manipulate people's behavior - while also having the virtue of being easy to understand and simple to comply with.

I see that Sen. Paul consulted with economists Stephen Moore and Arthur Laffer, and with former Forbes publisher and presidential candidate Steve Forbes, in the development of his plan. Excellent. I know all three men, and I have sought their advice to varying degrees over the years.

And when I read the Paul plan, it sounded kind of familiar. The major difference between what he calls the Flat and Fair Tax and my 9-9-9 plan is that he doesn't propose a national sales tax as part of the package - opting instead for a tax with a somewhat higher rate that applies only to income earned by individuals and businesses. Here are some more details about how it works:

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http://www.hermancain.com/rand-paul-nails-it-with-his-ta

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A New ‘Pro-Rand Paul’ Super PAC is Making Paul’s Official Super PAC Nervous

The phone calls were confounding, until they multiplied. People at the top of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's network were being asked about a new group that wanted to turn donations into campaign wins. What, they asked, was the Concerned American Voters super PAC?

The short answer: A headache. The new iteration of the CAV super PAC is the child of a movement that mostly helps but sometimes bedevils Rand Paul. It was relaunched this week, with much fanfare, when long-time FreedomWorks CEO Matt Kibbe announced that he'd left the Tea Party group to become a senior PAC advisor. The new PAC would try to organize Iowa for Paul, starting with 40-full time organizers. Kibbe's goal, he told reporter Byron Tau, was to prevent 2016 from being another "train wreck for the GOP" by out-organizing the Republican establishment.

At FreedomWorks, Kibbe had endorsed Paul's work whenever he could. In 2013, he and FreedomWorks endorsed Paul's filibuster over the legality of drone warfare. In 2014, he stood behind Paul to endorse the senator's civil suit over the NSA's bulk data collection program, "on behalf of our six million-plus members."

Yet people close to Paul discouraged Kibbe from building up his own PAC. It was nothing personal; it was just that the candidate had already sanctioned America's Liberty PAC. One source euphemistically described Kibbe's move as entrepreneurial, to emphasize that the senator had not been pining for a second super PAC.

"We have no animosity and Mr. Kibbe is free to support Rand in any way he likes," America's Liberty PAC Jesse Benton told Bloomberg in an e-mail. "America's Liberty PAC, however, will remain the only Super PAC endorsed by Senator Paul, and the only PAC that will host Senator Paul at events."

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-19/a-new-pro-rand-paul-super-pac-is-making-paul-s-official-super-pac-nervous

This new PAC is only a headache in that it's an alternative to Benton's America's Liberty PAC. To start organizing Iowa for Rand w/ millions of fresh money plus 40 full time staffers is a major boon for Rand's chances. Kibby used to run FreedomWorks, a major libertarian/tea party organization w/ 6 million members and lots of ties to right wing radio talk hosts, so this guy has lots of allies and big donors at his disposal.

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Sen Rand Paul (R): My Fair & Flat Tax Plan Eliminates Payroll Tax & Cuts Deductions - On Fox News Cashin' In w/ Eric Bolling (this morning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUUJgSoDESE
They also cover Donald Trump's entrance into the GOP primary and how Rand outpolls Hillary in 5 states that Obama won in 2012. Great segment.

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Rand Paul doubles down on bill to make Congress more transparent

Sen. Rand Paul is doubling down on passing legislation he says would increase congressional transparency.

The Kentucky Republican, who is running for president, has reintroduced proposals that would limit the subject of any bill to one topic, as well as a separate measure that aims to ensure lawmakers have read a proposal before it's voted on.

Paul suggested his legislation would give Americans more input into the legislative process and prevent Congress from passing legislation "without hearings, amendments, or debate."

"I firmly believe the American people have a right to be part of the legislative process," Paul said in a statement. "My bills will allow citizens sufficient time to read and give input to members of Congress as they consider legislation impacting the lives of all Americans."

Paul's One Subject at a Time Act would require legislation to "embrace no more than one subject," according to the language. It would also block spending bills from containing measures that aren't relevant to departments or agencies being funded by the bill.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/245538-paul-doubles-down-on-transparency-push

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EXCLUSIVE — RAND PAUL ON HIS NEW FLAT TAX PLAN: ‘IT’S THE BOLDEST PLAN OUT THERE’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tells Breitbart News he thinks his new tax reform plan—which would institute a flat tax of 14.5 percent for all individuals and businesses, do away with the current IRS tax code completely, and eliminate the payroll tax—is the “boldest plan out there.”

“The current tax code is 70,000 pages and we think it’s been chasing American jobs overseas and chasing American companies out of our country,” Paul said when asked about the new plan, which he unveiled this week.

We thought about whether we could fix it or not, and really we think it’s beyond fixing—so we figured we should just scrap the whole thing, start over and see what we can do with a flat tax for personal income and for business. What’s unique about ours—there have been flat taxes proposed in the past—but what’s unique about our flat tax is we were actually able to eliminate the payroll tax, we eliminate FICA.

I think some of the flat tax proposals have struggled in the past because Democrats have said, ‘oh they’re just for the rich.’ But the interesting thing about ours is somebody making $30,000 gets over a $2,000 tax cut. It’s a significant tax cut for people who don’t pay much already in income tax but their main tax is a payroll tax. I think this would be a great way to have a tax cut that everybody gets a little bit of.
Paul said that putting forward a plan like this allows conservatives and Republicans to go straight after Democrats in a legitimate effort to discredit the argument that a bigger federal government is the way to grow the economy and create jobs.

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/19/exclusive-rand-paul-on-his-new-flat-tax-plan-its-the-boldest-plan-out-there/

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Rand Paul dominates the Republican presidential pack on Facebook

As cable news’ influence continues to shrink, especially among the young, the importance of social media in political campaigns continues to grow. According to Pew Research Center and NBC, Millennials overwhelmingly get their news from Facebook over that of traditional media.

“A Pew Research Center study found that 61 percent of Millennials (aged 18-33 currently) get political news from Facebook at least once a week, compared with 39 percent of Baby Boomers (aged 50-68).”
In fact, social media played a significant role in Obama’s 2008 and 2012 victories. Republicans couldn’t even keep up.

Right now, Senate Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is leading the Republican pack on Facebook in some important states. Bloomberg reports that Paul is “the most talked about Republican” in New Hampshire, Iowa, and South Carolina on social media “in terms of unique users.”

Earlier this month it was reported that Paul holds the most “likes” of any other presidential candidate on Facebook.

Rand Paul (R) — 2 million
Ben Carson (R) — 1.4 million
Ted Cruz (R) — 1.2 million
Rick Perry (R) — 1.1 million
Marco Rubio (R) — 875 thousand
Hillary Clinton (D) — 873 thousand
Bernie Sanders (D) 534 thousand
Rick Santorum (R) — 216 thousand
Lindsey Graham (R) — 112 thousand
Martin O’Malley (D) — 70 thousand
Carly Fiorina (R) — 60 thousand
George Pataki (R) — 15 thousand
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http://rare.us/story/rand-paul-dominates-the-republican-presidential-pack-on-facebook/

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Presidential hopeful Rand Paul talks about campaign, Charleston shooting

PADUCAH, Ky -
Republican presidential candidate and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was in the Local 6 area on Friday.

Paul helped local ophthalmologist Dr. Barbara Bowers celebrate her new eye care facility with a ribbon cutting, then they scrubbed and got ready for eye surgery.

Paul took time before the festivities and surgery to talk about his run for the Republican nomination and reflect on the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. Paul called the tragedy "mind-boggling."

"To me it represents a deeper problem," he said. "Obviously there is a law enforcement response. We need to capture and separate this person or punish this person so this thing doesn't happen, but there's also to me a sense of what's wrong with this person? What's wrong with society that someone would kill innocent people, particularly in a church?"

He said he knows gun control will become a hot topic again but said he doesn't think guns are the problem.

"I think guns can be good or bad, but I think guns in self-defense are a good thing," he said.

Paul addressed the growing crowd of GOP candidates and told Local 6 he believes he stands out.

"I'm one of the few Republicans that says, 'Let's think before we act. Let's look before we leap,' and not everything we've intervened in the Middle East its been good for our country," he said.

He added that he's been targeting different voters who haven't heard his message and thinks that's making him a true competitor of Hillary Clinton.

"As this all comes together, that's consistent with my message that sometimes big government messes things up," he said. "I think that it's starting to resonate and I think that's why we're leading Hillary Clinton among independent across the country."

Video and pics...http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/story/29364704/presidential-hopeful-rand-paul-talks-about-campaign-charleston-shooting

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Here's the local Kentucky news report on Rand's performing of pro bono eye surgeries today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn7LK-2PxaU

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Rand Paul's personality predicament\

Sen. Rand Paul articulated a real stunner in what appeared to be prepared remarks in the Senate. He said "Some of them [people in Washington], I think, secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me.

Not doing himself any favors with statements like this. I can't possibly see how he thought that would be a good thing to say out loud.

He, after the fact, walked it back a little saying he was using hyperbole when making that statement. But that was just his public position and not his personal feeling which is what he articulated in the Senate. These war mongering/pro-surveillance state folks have been lying about this bulk data collection saying how great it is in helping stop terrorism when in reality, it's just brazen lies to scare people into allowing them to spy at will w/ no limits. The FBI and some group set up by the Obama administration said point blank that this data collection has done nothing to make us safer. The point is, many times in the past these neocon types have said terrorist attacks will come if we don't grow the state's power over us and or fight more and more overseas which subtly means they would welcome more attacks to further their statist goals and keep the MIC rolling in profits. ISIS was armed and offered plenty of territory to expand and train by first destabilizing the middle east and this kind of strategy has repeatedly come out of the neocon agenda. Rand only walked it back because it is easy for the media to demagogue the comment.

That's kind of a problem for me. I don't want another candidate playing politics. I want honest candidates who are transparent and not patronizing for the purpose of winning votes. Don't have a public position that differs from your personal feeling. If you're not doing what you think is best, you're selling out like every other politician. The lack of quality candidates in this field is depressing.

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Rand Paul's personality predicament\

Sen. Rand Paul articulated a real stunner in what appeared to be prepared remarks in the Senate. He said "Some of them [people in Washington], I think, secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me.

Not doing himself any favors with statements like this. I can't possibly see how he thought that would be a good thing to say out loud.

He, after the fact, walked it back a little saying he was using hyperbole when making that statement. But that was just his public position and not his personal feeling which is what he articulated in the Senate. These war mongering/pro-surveillance state folks have been lying about this bulk data collection saying how great it is in helping stop terrorism when in reality, it's just brazen lies to scare people into allowing them to spy at will w/ no limits. The FBI and some group set up by the Obama administration said point blank that this data collection has done nothing to make us safer. The point is, many times in the past these neocon types have said terrorist attacks will come if we don't grow the state's power over us and or fight more and more overseas which subtly means they would welcome more attacks to further their statist goals and keep the MIC rolling in profits. ISIS was armed and offered plenty of territory to expand and train by first destabilizing the middle east and this kind of strategy has repeatedly come out of the neocon agenda. Rand only walked it back because it is easy for the media to demagogue the comment.

That's kind of a problem for me. I don't want another candidate playing politics. I want honest candidates who are transparent and not patronizing for the purpose of winning votes. Don't have a public position that differs from your personal feeling. If you're not doing what you think is best, you're selling out like every other politician. The lack of quality candidates in this field is depressing.

Ok my friend, if you think that Rand is playing the game while not having any under-thought about his end-game, you're on your own. This man is trying his best to influence and gain supporters while doing what is truly right for the US and the rest of the world, so you should finally realize it once and for all. He's done it all from civil liberties to domestic economic policy, you decide.

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Rand Paul’s demented promise: I’ll do to America what Sam Brownback did to Kansas

Libertarian-ish Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul debuted his new plan to “blow up” the federal tax code yesterday, and if you haven’t read Jim Newell’s scorching take on it, then there’s something deeply flawed with you and you should remedy it immediately. The gist of Paul’s plan (replacing the current tax structure with a 14.5-percent flat tax) is the gist of basically every Republican tax plan: massive transfers of wealth up the economic ladder with a few paltry scraps thrown to the middle class that allow Republicans to claim they’re focused on “working families.”

As Paul’s Wall Street Journal op-ed notes, he crafted this plan with the assistance of some of the high priests of supply-side economic theory: frequently and flagrantly wrong bozo Stephen Moore, flat-tax evangelist and dimwit billionaire rights activist Steve Forbes, and the also frequently wrong Art Laffer, who launched the trickle-down revolution that’s given us over three decades of bad economic policy. Anyone familiar with these knuckleheads and the economic philosophy they espouse should already know what they’re promising with Rand Paul’s tax scheme: huge tax cuts aimed primarily at corporations and the wealthy will supercharge the economy and produce untold millions of jobs and untold trillions of dollars in tax revenue.

Rand’s op-ed describes the effect as a “steroid injection” right into the economy’s underdeveloped buttocks:

Here’s why this plan would balance the budget: We asked the experts at the nonpartisan Tax Foundation to estimate what this plan would mean for jobs, and whether we are raising enough money to fund the government. The analysis is positive news: The plan is an economic steroid injection. Because the Fair and Flat Tax rewards work, saving, investment and small business creation, the Tax Foundation estimates that in 10 years it will increase gross domestic product by about 10%, and create at least 1.4 million new jobs.

More....http://www.salon.com/2015/06/19/rand_pauls_demented_promise_ill_do_to_america_what_sam_brownback_did_to_kansas/

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Poll: Paul slides among GOP primary voters

Support for Sen. Rand Paul slipped in a new poll of likely Republican primary voters, with only 49 percent saying they could see themselves voting for the first-term Kentucky senator for president, compared with 59 percent in the same survey two months earlier.

Former Florida Gov.Jeb Bush led the poll, conducted for The Wall Street Journal and NBC News, with 75 percent of likely voters saying they could see themselves supporting him. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was just behind, with 74 percent support, followed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (65 percent), Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (57 percent) and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (53 percent). Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (51 percent), retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson (50 percent), Paul, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (49 percent) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (36 percent) rounded out the top 10.

The WSJ/NBC poll, released on Sunday’s episode of “Meet the Press,” showed double-digit gains for Bush, Rubio, Huckabee, Cruz and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (31 percent) compared with where they stood earlier in the spring. “Obviously, something’s going on there,” Karl Rove, the GOP strategist and Wall Street Journal columnist, said on “Fox News Sunday.”

The poll of 236 likely GOP voters, conducted June 14-18, had a margin of error of plus or minus 6.4 percentage points. The two news organizations will release horserace numbers for the primary field on Monday.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/poll-paul-slides-among-gop-primary-voters-119256.html#ixzz3diVQCU4E

Way small sample size and politico is a lefty outfit that would love to portray Rand being weak in the GOP field as he would be the toughest to beat in a general based upon repeated head-head matchups w/ Hillary in key battleground/formerly blue states.

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Joe the Plumber reposts: Why the Patriot Act is Tyranny and Rand Paul is a hero

Senator Rand Paul is taking a lot of heat from establishment Conservatives and some in the media for his unwavering stand against the Patriot Act. The party line that is emerging says that we are now vulnerable to terrorist attack.

Even Senator Paul, himself, said he was being accused of damaging America’s defenses against such attacks – By Tom DeWeese

These accusations are almost humorous considering that many of these same establishment Republicans have refused to force Barack Obama to enforce immigration laws. That fact now allows literally anyone who wants to harm our nation to cross over the border and to not only remain here, but also to receive tax payer benefits and perhaps even the right to vote. Reportedly, Obama is allowing people from the same Middle Eastern nations that give rise to terrorism to flood into our nation at horrific rates.

Newly announced presidential candidate Lindsey Graham is especially guilty of this let down in American security as he has pushed for policies to open our borders even further. So too have Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. Has anyone accused them of damaging American national security?

The fact is Rand Paul is a defender of American security unlike any other candidate currently running to lead this nation. He’s one of a very few to openly stand for the Constitutional rights of all Americans to be secure in their homes and free of government snooping into their private business.

The created hysteria over the Patriot Act being a guardian of our freedom is hog wash. This is the Patriot Act that was rushed into place just after a horrific terrorist attack – 911. Of course the nation was scared and of course out went the cry – “Do something NOW to protect us.”

When introduced, we were assured by the Justice Department that the Patriot Act was simply to give federal law enforcement agencies the surveillance and investigative tools they needed to deter future terror attacks. However, the emotional rush to “do something” by quickly passing the Patriot Act, left little time for lawmakers to put its measures under scrutiny. In fact, then Congressman Ron Paul said he couldn’t even get a copy of the Act before the vote.

As a result, provisions of the Act offered major opportunities for government abuses of law-abiding private citizens. The Act says that the government does not need to have a suspect or to even be conducting an investigation related to terrorism to monitor your visits into web sites on the Internet.

More...http://americanpolicy.org/2015/06/18/why-the-patriot-act-is-tyranny-and-rand-paul-is-a-hero/?mc_cid=d933b7001b&mc_eid=3b0a96ba69

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Rand Paul's Father's Day Tribute to Ron Paul (former Representative from Texas and 3-time Presidential contender, now retired but delivered over 4000 babies as an OBG-YN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=20&v=QKHmHIFVGI8