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

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PEW POLLING: AT LEAST 93% OF GOP ELECTORATE OPPOSES PAUL RYAN ON IMMIGRATION

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)58%
 says he’ll take the job as House Speaker only if particular groups — including the important House Freedom Caucus — concede to a list of significant demands. Ryan is demanding support across the Republican conference and says he wants to be “that unifying candidate.”

However, polling data reveals that a Ryan Speakership would do anything but unite the party.

On two of the issues of immense importance to GOP voters — trade and immigration — polling from the Pew Research Center shows that most GOP voters oppose some of the key ideological stances to which Ryan is devoted. The issues of trade and immigration also take on an especial importance as the Ryan-Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

immigration agenda led to the unseating of former Majority Leader Eric Cantor- which began the leadership shuffle – and the recent Ryan-led Obamatrade push helped bring the base’s criticism of the Boehner leadership team to a fever pitch.


...http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/21/pew-polling-at-least-93-of-gop-electorate-opposes-paul-ryan-on-immigration/

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New Iowa Quinnipiac Poll - Rand at 6%

Carson - 28%
Trump - 20%
Rubio - 13%
Cruz - 10%
#5-Paul - 6%
Bush - 5%
Fiorina -5%
Jindal - 3%
Kasich - 3%
Huckabee - 2%
Santorum - 1%
Christie - 1%
Gilmore - 0%
Graham - 0%
Pataki - 0%

Don't care/Undecided: 3%

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/iowa/release-detail?ReleaseID=2291

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Sen. Rand Paul on Alan Colmes

Thursday on “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who is running for the Republican nomination for President of The United States. Sen. Paul, who has written a new book called Our Presidents and Their Prayers, talked to Alan about military action in Afghanistan, Vice President Joe Biden not running for President, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) views on democratic socialism, and the problems of the underclass in America:

COLMES: Is there a perception that in terms of your presidential race, that as a non-interventionist, you don’t differ enough from the current President, President Obama who’s perceived as a non-interventionist, where all the other republican candidates seem to be more militaristic than you are.

SEN. RAND PAUL: I think the interesting thing is that I actually differ from President Obama in ways that are very, very specific and very, very distinct. For example, I don’t think we should be bombing anybody in Afghanistan. You know we bombed a hospital the other day and I do blame the policymakers that are still dropping bombs in Afghanistan.

*****

COLMES: Is it good or bad for republicans that Biden is not running?

SEN. RAND PAUL: Well, I tweeted out a snarky tweet, and my snarky tweet was with Biden out I guess we have a choice between socialism and corruption. And it’s a little bit how I feel. I think Bernie is an interesting guy but I think socialism is a really, really bad system.

COLMES: So you’re calling Hillary Clinton corrupt?

SEN. RAND PAUL: Yeah, I think the whole Clinton Foundation thing really, really bothers me. The fact that Bill was getting money from entities that were in the process of selling a uranium company that had to be approved by Hillary Clinton.

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COLMES: Everybody’s not wealthy we have a growing 1 percent and a not growing underclass in this country.

SEN. RAND PAUL: I guess but compare, and nobody says it easy for those who are in poverty so I’m not trying to downplay it. But poverty in our country compared to poverty anywhere in the world, if you compare them and economically say what happens to people in poverty. Do people in poverty have a television set? Do people in poverty have an air conditioner? A refrigerator? Compared to anywhere else in the world, to their poverty to their lowest 1 or 2 or 3 percent in their society, capitalism has brought everyone along.

COLMES: Are you saying that if you have a television set you’re not really poor?

SEN. RAND PAUL: No what I’m saying is, that if you compare it to the Sudan or Afghanistan or any of the other controlled societies that the poorest people in our society are probably doing better than the poorest people in societies where the government controls the economy.

*****

SEN. RAND PAUL: I will say I think the whole slate of republicans are better than what we have on the other side. And I think where is a philosophical difference. Socialism does have a home in the Democratic party.

...http://video.foxnews.com/v/4573768114001/alan-colmes-and-sen-rand-paul-/?#sp=show-clips

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Rand's amendment to protect privacy from CISA fails 32-65
Senate shoots down Paul's contested cyber amendment

The Senate on Thursday struck down Sen. Rand Paul's controversial amendment to a major cybersecurity item that the bill's backers said could have killed the whole measure.

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) would shield companies from legal liability when sharing cyber-threat data with the government, in an effort to boost the public-private exchange of information on hackers.

The amendment from the Kentucky Republican, who is running for president, would have stripped this liability immunity from any company found breaking a user or privacy agreement with its customers. The offering received 32 votes, short of the simple majority needed to pass.

CISA has split traditional industries like finance and retail, which argue they need the legal assurance, and privacy groups, which say CISA will give private companies too much leeway to share Americans’ personal data with the government.

Paul, who has made a name for himself and his 2016 campaign by siding with privacy and civil liberties groups on issues such as government surveillance, has taken a strong stance against CISA. On his campaign website, he said the bill “would transform websites into government spies.”

On Thursday, he took the floor to argue that his amendment would implement much-needed privacy protections into CISA.

“This bill says that if a company violates [the privacy agreement] in sharing your information, that there will be legal immunity for that company,” Paul said. “I think that weakens privacy.”

“It makes your privacy agreement not really worth the paper it’s written on,” he added.

In the hours leading up to the vote on Paul’s proposal, industry groups banded together to strongly oppose the Kentucky Republican’s efforts.

...http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/257743-senate-shoots-down-pauls-controversial-cyber-amendment

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Key Ron and Rand Paul advisor [Jesse Benton] acquitted in Iowa corruption trial

An Iowa jury has acquitted Jesse Benton, a longtime aide to both former congressman Ron Paul and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), on charges of lying to the FBI. That decision effectively clears two key Paul family aides who had been under an ethical cloud since a December 2011 decision to pay a state senator for his endorsement.
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"I am happy that justice has been served," Rand Paul said in a statement to The Post.

The legal situation was more complicated for Dimitri Kesari, Ron Paul's 2012 deputy campaign manager, and by all accounts the engineer of the Sorenson endorsement scheme. He entered the trial facing five separate counts; he was found not guilty of obstruction of justice and guilty of creating false records. The jury remained deadlocked on three other counts, giving federal prosecutors 10 days to determine whether to seek a new trial.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/22/key-ron-and-rand-paul-advisor-acquitted-in-iowa-corruption-trial/

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Rand Paul: 'We can save an extraordinary amount of money not putting people in jail'

Last weekend, I spent the better part of 36 hours following Rand Paul around New Hampshire. The three-day stretch was very activities-focused: I asked Paul about the rising cost of college tuition while he bowled in Manchester, talked about his support for fetal rights after he emptied the chamber of a Magnum .357 revolver in Dalton, and watched as he gave slightly modified versions of the same stump speech in towns from Contoocook to Ashland.

Over the course of the weekend, we talked about Americans’ mounting student debt burdens, his role in the recent push for criminal justice reform, and his departure from libertarian ethos—small government, pro-privacy—on the issue of reproductive health and abortion rights.

We’ll share more from those conversations, but here’s where we started: criminal justice reform and why the young conservatives who I spoke to—people who otherwise said they wanted nothing to do with the modern Republican party—like him.

In a gross dereliction of my reporterly duties, I failed to note Paul’s final bowling score. I can tell you that he did manage to throw at least one strike, though.

...http://fusion.net/story/219161/rand-paul-new-hampshire-criminal-justice/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialshare&utm_content=desktop+top

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Rand Paul's last, best chance is to run against Hillary the hawk

When Rand Paul speaks on college campuses, he has a simple message: "I'm not here to send you to war."

Slumping in the polls and struggling to raise money, that's increasingly the raison d'etre of Paul's presidential campaign. In media interviews, he rails against a U.S.-enforced no-fly zone over Syria that has been proposed by both Hillary Clinton and Republican candidates like Chris Christie, arguing that it would repeat the blunder of Iraq and even risk a World War III involving a nuclear-armed Russia.

"I think it's the world's dumbest idea and a recipe for disaster, a recipe for war," Paul told the conservative Washington Times. And that's why, in spite of everything, he's still running.

"If I'm not in the race," Paul added, "that voice doesn't get heard. A lot of Americans are with me and think we need a more prudent foreign policy."

...http://theweek.com/articles/584212/rand-pauls-last-best-chance-run-against-hillary-hawk

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Video: Bernie Sanders, Rand Paul protest CISA as it advances in Senate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--1roMcPEyA

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Video: Rand Paul discusses the Hillary Clinton Benghazi committee hearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de6_iKeH2vU

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 Rand Paul on FOX's After the Bell 10-23

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

Lots of talk about Rand's campaign and Hillary's Benghazi situation.

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Video: Rand Paul discusses the Hillary Clinton Benghazi committee hearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=de6_iKeH2vU

Really nice comparison with Bill Clinton & Somalia where he owns the Hillary shill at the end and makes her look like shit in an "eat it bitch" sort of way. Priceless!

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Rand Paul: Free tuition? What about free cars, free makeup?

The first stop during my weekend in New Hampshire with Rand Paul was Spare Time Manchester, a bowling alley that had been papered in “DEFEAT THE WASHINGTON MACHINE. UNLEASH THE AMERICAN DREAM” posters in anticipation of the senator’s visit. Between frames, I asked Paul about something that I’d heard come up time and again while talking to young voters: college debt.

According to data from the Institute for College Access and Success, seven in 10 graduates left school with an average of $29,000 in debt in 2014. That’s a 25% increase from 2008 when the average debt burden was $23,450. While most people in college are feeling this strain, a four-year education is increasingly out of reach for low-income students.

When I asked him about this, Paul came out swinging on Bernie Sanders’ proposal to make in-state four-year tuition free.

....http://fusion.net/video/219775/rand-paul-free-tuition-free-makeup/

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New Book by Rand Paul: Our Presidents & Their Prayers

What is the single most important common thread that unites all American Presidents - such a small number of extraordinary people from different centuries, parties, backgrounds and experiences - as they shoulder the overwhelming responsibilities of the office of President of the United States? There is only one possible answer: their faith.

As a respected national leader and a man of deep faith himself, Senator Rand Paul has written OUR PRESIDENTS & THEIR PRAYERS in collaboration with James Randall Robison to remind us all that in a country founded by religious people, that abiding and rock-solid belief in God has been the key to each and every president's strength.
Senator Paul's inspiring look into the heart-felt sentiments and personal prayers of leaders past and present becomes a powerful testament to our incredible accomplishments: winning the Revolution, writing the Constitution, and leading the world as the most exceptional and longest-lasting democracy in history.

It's nothing short of a miracle, then and now.

Every man who has answered the people's call to become President has looked for and found answers in his faith as he faced the nation's problems, and each president has frequently described his reliance on the Creator in his public speeches, official proclamations and private prayers.
Join Senator Paul in applauding the important role faith has played in our country through over 225 years of triumphs and struggles, justice and injustice, accomplishments and setbacks, war and peace.

In OUR PRESIDENTS & THEIR PRAYERS, Senator Paul stands up to the doubters in this most timely and important affirmation of how faith and prayer have always guided us, and why they must continue to do so as we face major decisions for the future of our country.

...http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=75723X1525906&site=ronpaulforums.com&xs=1&isjs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FOur-Presidents-Their-Prayers-Proclamations%2Fdp%2F1455535737%2Fref%3Dtmm_hrd_swatch_0%3F_encoding%3DUTF8%26qid%3D%26sr%3D&xguid=edc887903f3a4445156242d9bc10770f&xuuid=2e4336229b5651d8658c00ac6dd842ff&xsessid=2dcb345e079a4bf83684dfba241497e2&xcreo=0&xed=0&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ronpaulforums.com%2Fshowthread.php%3F484019-New-Book-by-Rand-Paul-Our-Presidents-amp-Their-Prayers&pref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ronpaulforums.com%2Fforumdisplay.php%3F283-Rand-Paul-Forum&xtz=240

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[Video] Rand Paul on Cashin' In w/ Eric Bolling 10/24/15

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

Eric Bolling said Rand Paul would be on his Saturday morning show - Cashin' In. Good appearance by Rand in this vid.

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GOP’s Rand Paul to open Vegas campaign office, visit Pahrump

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul is headed to Nevada to open up a campaign office in Las Vegas and meet voters in Pahrump.

The Kentucky senator is scheduled to visit on Monday and Tuesday, before heading to Boulder, Colorado to participate in the third Republican presidential debate on Wednesday.

...http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/26/gops-rand-paul-to-open-vegas-campaign-office-visit/

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Sen. Rand Paul Introduces Resolution for Senate Review on Upcoming Climate Agreement

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Rand Paul introduced Senate Resolution 290, a resolution calling for the U.S. Senate to reassert its constitutional role in treaty review. Specifically, the resolution highlights the need for any agreement reached at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, to follow the past precedent for congressional review, established by the Senate’s call to review the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

...http://politicalnews.me/?id=35899&keys=CONSTITUTION-TREATY-REVIEWS-CLIMATE

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Rand Paul and co at his new Las Vegas campaign office is shown here and is quite good on video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=653&v=vFDIquaTPLQ

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Rand Paul Plots a Comeback: Fair article from US News

The second is organization – the foundation that will only matter if Paul whips up renewed interest in himself somehow. On this point, the Paul campaign tells U.S. News it is in the process of deploying six or seven staffers from its national headquarters to Iowa, Nevada and New Hampshire.

It is particularly focused on students in Iowa, who will be on campus and able to participate in the caucuses on Feb. 1, unlike in previous cycles when the gatherings were held over winter break. Paul has a student coordinator on every campus in the state that's home to at least 1,000 students, and motivating thousands of these young people to caucus will be crucial to his comeback formula.

Paul has 15 staffers in Iowa, compared with Jeb Bush's 10. In New Hampshire, he has 10 compared with Bush's 12. The point: There's parity, even against a much better funded campaign.

As for paying for these endeavors, campaign manager Chip Englander says Paul just completed a retreat with his top donors in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and 30 bundlers doubled-down on commitments going forward. A four-day "money bomb" that followed reeled in $200,000.

"We treat our campaign dollars as preciously as Rand treats taxpayers' money," Englander says. "Jeb's budget-slashing would save more than $1 million per month. We spend less than a million dollars a month already."

...http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2015/10/26/rand-paul-plots-a-comeback

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Glenn Beck Blitz: Senator Rand Paul joins Glenn! (Audio)

https://soundcloud.com/glennbeck/beck-blitz-senator-rand-paul-joins-glenn

Great interview by Mr. Beck that yall should listen to.

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Rand Paul: Bernie Sanders is wrong Socialism leads to extermination


ELECTIONS
Rand Paul On Bernie Sanders: His Socialism Will ‘Exterminate You’ Tomorrow
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STEVE GUEST
Media Reporter
5:53 PM 10/26/2015
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Rand Paul says the democratic socialism advocated by Bernie Sanders  could lead to a government that will “exterminate” people who do not follow the state’s directive.

Appearing on “The Glenn Beck Program” Monday, Paul argued that socialism is the “most anti-choice economic system.”

“If you don’t pay the fine, they imprison you,” argued Paul. “If you will not listen, ultimately, what has happened in history, people get mad when I say this, but they exterminate you. That’s what happened under Stalin.”

Paul said there is “nothing sexy” about socialism. Paul argued that none of our rights should be “subject to a majority” because rights come from your creator and no majority should be able to take them away from you.



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/26/rand-paul-on-bernie-sanders-his-socialism-will-exterminate-you-tomorrow/#ixzz3pkGEUWfI