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

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Paul's refugee visa bill fast-tracked

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is getting his legislation to crack down on visas from countries with "significant jihadist movements" fast-tracked through the Senate.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) started the fast-track process Thursday evening on legislation from Paul that was described as preventing "the entrance of extremist into the United States under the refugee program."

The Kentucky Republican's office clarified that the legislation is the crackdown on visas that Paul outlined earlier this week. Under the legislation, visas to nationals of approximately 30 "high-risk" countries would be blocked.

The procedural move will allow the legislation to skip over the Senate committee process and be placed directly on the Senate calendar. While the move could pave the way for it to be brought up the floor, no action has been scheduled.

...http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/260874-paul-gets-refugee-visa-bill-fast-tracked

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Paul: Just war? Think of wounded veterans first

Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul shared a personal side to war Friday when he spoke about the people he thinks of when asked whether going to war is just.

Paul was asked at the Presidential Family Forum to recall a time when someone convinced him to change his stance on a certain issue.
The Kentucky senator said he and his wife, Kelley, helped build a home for a wounded veteran who lost both legs and an arm in battle. The veteran told Paul he joined the military to defend the Bill of Rights and the Constitution — a recurring theme in Paul’s presidential bid. It has in turn “made me think every day about whether or not we go to war,” Paul said.

defend that 7-pound babies have no rights a minute before they’re born. We can win the battle.”

...http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/11/20/paul-just-war-think-wounded-veterans-first-presidential-family-forum/76078732/

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Rand Paul: No More Arm Sales To Middle East Until They Start Accepting Refugees

Rand does have his ways. He's a political Chess player. He put's something out there and then in a week or two comes out with a zinger. In this case it was the Syrian refugee moratorium. Got everyone interested, pissed of or loving it, then BOOM goes the dynamite.

"One of the biggest supporters of Sunni terrorism in the world is Saudi Arabia, Qatar is up there, UAE is up there. Sometimes government, sometimes private donors. What I would say is no more sales of any arms to these countries until they start accepting refugees. The Gulf states have poured gasoline on this fire, they have not taken a refugee. Iran has not taken in refugees and they've been an arsonist in this situation as well. So those who live there need to step up and we need to say we're not going to sell arms to you anymore if you're not willing to do your fair share."

video on Fox...https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=7XBEVzlCT5s

More...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/11/18/rand_paul_no_more_arm_sales_to_middle_east_until_they_start_accepting_refugees.html

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Poll: Trump retakes lead, Cruz surges in IA; Rubio second in NH

Donald Trump has returned to the lead in Iowa while Ted Cruz has now surged past Ben Carson into second place. Carson has slipped from a first-place tie into third.

While Iowa's Republicans generally feel Trump is ready to be commander-in-chief, Cruz scores even better on this measure, boosted by support from very conservative and Tea Party Iowans who feel he is ready to assume the post. That's more than say so about Trump, Carson, Rubio and Jeb Bush.

Since last month, Ted Cruz has gained ground -- and Ben Carson has lost ground -- among some key voting groups in Iowa: evangelicals, Tea Party supporters, those who are very conservative and older voters. And while Trump still leads among some of these groups, it's Cruz who is ahead among the very conservative, and Trump leads Cruz by just two points among evangelical voters.

Cruz's move has come directly at the expense of Carson, as nearly one-quarter of his voters switched.

In New Hampshire, Donald Trump keeps his commanding lead, keeping up support from conservatives, Republicans and the independents who say they're coming into the GOP primary to vote for him. This month finds Marco Rubio nearly doubling his support and pushing into second place -- albeit far back of Trump -- at 13 percent now, up from 7 percent, enough to edge past Carson and Cruz in the nation's first primary.

...http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-trump-retakes-lead-cruz-surges-in-ia-rubio-second-in-nh/

The poll numbers are listed at this site, aka a mainstream shithole.

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Sarah Palin rates the candidates: really admires Rand's libertarian streak

Sarah Palin on the Hugh Hewitt show rates the candidates:

Rand Paul: "Oh, I love the libertarian streak. I really do. Obviously, differences on some foreign policy issues. I was watching him today, Hugh. I’m thinking, Republicans, you are idiots to be marginalizing his supporters, and his dads supporters too. What his supporters are saying is, ‘Come on government. Get off our back and allow us to prioritize our finances. Our cultural aspects of our life that influence us. Let us prioritize according to our own will. Government, don’t do it for us.'"

...http://conservatives4palin.com/2015/11/governor-palin-rates-the-republican-candidates-%E2%80%A2-the-hugh-hewitt-show.html

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Rand Paul’s Challenge: Libertarians Are Still a Small Minority

It has become fashionable in recent years to refer to a growing libertarian wing of the Republican Party, and Rand Paul, the Kentucky senator who announced his candidacy for the presidency on Tuesday, hopes to become the first serious candidate to make it part of a winning primary coalition.

Perhaps in a decade or two, a representative of the libertarian wing of the party will have an easy time winning the nomination. It’s just unlikely to happen in 2016.

The libertarians remain too young and too few to present Senator Paul with a realistic path to the nomination. He has to win over a much larger share of more reliable Republican primary voters, who will have considerable reservations about Mr. Paul’s policies. The other problem he faces: Many of the voters most receptive to libertarian views tend not to vote.

In one sense, you could argue that the libertarian wing of the Republican Party barely exists at all. According to a large Pew Research survey in 2014 of 10,000 respondents, 11 percent of Americans and 12 percent of self-identified Republicans considered themselves libertarian. They met a basic threshold for knowing what the term meant. But there wasn’t much “libertarian” about these voters; over all, their views were startlingly similar to those of the public as a whole.

...http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/upshot/why-rand-paul-cant-win-as-a-libertarian.html?_r=0

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[Video] Rand Paul on Face the Nation w/ John Dickerson 11/22/15

Rand talks about the latest terrorist attacks and makes some points about Trump and Rubio and their deficiencies to be COIC.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=80JKte-hrwk

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Paul: ‘Dishonest’ officials using Paris to promote surveillance

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul on Sunday warned that the intelligence community is deceitfully using the terror attacks in Paris to promote its surveillance agenda.

“When you have a fearful time or an angry time, the people are coached into giving up their liberty,” said the Kentucky senator on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Paul has long railed against government surveillance, a topic that has been thrust into the spotlight in the wake of the Paris attacks that killed about 130 people.

Many officials and some lawmakers have argued that the incident has shown the need to keep the much-maligned surveillance programs exposed by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.
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He also noted that France’s surveillance programs are “1,000-fold greater than we have.”

“They still didn’t know anything about this,” Paul added.

“You can keep giving up liberties,” he said, “but in the end I don’t think we’ll end up safer.”

...http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/261051-paul-dishonest-officials-using-paris-to-promote-surveillance

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The Paul And Cruz Flat Tax Plans Are Best Tax Proposals

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Which brings us to Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. The two of us helped craft their low-rate flat tax plans.

The plans are similar: Paul's rates are 14.5% on business net sales and wages and salaries. Cruz has a 16% business net sales tax and a 10% wage and salary tax.

These would be the lowest tax rates since the income tax was devised 100 years ago. Both are estimated by the Tax Foundation to grow the economy by a gigantic $2 trillion in extra GDP per year after 10 years.

Both eliminate almost all deductions and special-interest carve-outs. (Against our wishes, they retain the tax write-off for charitable organizations and have family deductions that are too big. But no one's perfect.)

They completely kill the corporate tax, the estate tax and the FICA payroll tax.

Yet conservatives are strangely griping. Economists at the Cato Institute have joined with Larry Kudlow to complain that the business tax is a value-added tax (VAT). Such a dreaded tax, they fear, would be a giant new source of revenue and lead to government gone wild, as has happened in Europe.
That's the last thing we want.


Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-brain-trust/112015-781892-paul-and-cruz-flat-tax-proposals-best-candidate-tax-plans.htm#ixzz3sMILqksk

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The Paul And Cruz Flat Tax Plans Are Best Tax Proposals

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Which brings us to Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. The two of us helped craft their low-rate flat tax plans.

The plans are similar: Paul's rates are 14.5% on business net sales and wages and salaries. Cruz has a 16% business net sales tax and a 10% wage and salary tax.

These would be the lowest tax rates since the income tax was devised 100 years ago. Both are estimated by the Tax Foundation to grow the economy by a gigantic $2 trillion in extra GDP per year after 10 years.

Both eliminate almost all deductions and special-interest carve-outs. (Against our wishes, they retain the tax write-off for charitable organizations and have family deductions that are too big. But no one's perfect.)

They completely kill the corporate tax, the estate tax and the FICA payroll tax.

Yet conservatives are strangely griping. Economists at the Cato Institute have joined with Larry Kudlow to complain that the business tax is a value-added tax (VAT). Such a dreaded tax, they fear, would be a giant new source of revenue and lead to government gone wild, as has happened in Europe.
That's the last thing we want.


Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-brain-trust/112015-781892-paul-and-cruz-flat-tax-proposals-best-candidate-tax-plans.htm#ixzz3sMILqksk

The argument about the VAT being an uncontrollable faucet that governments salivate over is a valid argument.

Why is that "strangely griping?"

All it takes is to put the VAT in place, and then have another spending-socialist-slut get into the White House, and that's it.

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Emails: CNN Reporter Coordinated With Hillary Aide To Smear Rand Paul During 2013 Benghazi Hearing

A CNN reporter who was recently suspended for two weeks for violating the network’s editorial guidelines showed up in a new trove of State Department emails released on Tuesday in which she appears to have coordinated social media posts with a top Hillary Clinton State Department aide during the former secretary of state’s Jan. 23, 2013 Senate testimony about the Benghazi attacks.

The emails, which were released to the website Gawker, show that Elise Labott, a foreign affairs reporter at CNN, took guidance from Clinton aide Philippe Reines by posting a tweet criticizing Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul for asking Clinton tough questions during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks.

Labott also coordinated with Reines to post a favorable quote from Clinton’s testimony, which she gave just a week before she left office.

In the Reines emails, which are the subject of a Gawker lawsuit against the State Department, Labott appears to pick up on a previous conversation she was having with Reines during the Benghazi hearing, asking him: “are you sure rand paul wasn’t at any hearings?”

Five minutes after sending that email, Labott sent Reines another message sharing what she had tweeted about Paul.

Sen Paul most critical on committee of Clinton, but a little late to the #Benghazi game.Not sure he was at many of the 30 previous briefings
Hours later, Labott and Reines were at it again.

"She was great. well done. I hope you are going to have a big drink tonight,” Labott wrote to Reines, complimenting Clinton’s performance.

Reines followed up that compliment by telling Labott that he had “suggested a good Tweet.”

Labott said that she had not received an email concerning another tweet. Reines wrote back “Pin,” an apparent reference to a private messaging system.

Labott wrote back “will get back to you.” Eleven minutes later she sent an email reading, “done.”...

...http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/25/emails-cnn-reporter-coordinated-with-hillary-aide-to-smear-rand-paul-during-2013-benghazi-hearing/

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KY Governor to challenge Rand Paul for Senate seat

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear plans to announce in early January a run for the United States Senate against Rand Paul. The hope appears to be that his shameless profligacy might draw millions of dollars in leftist donations from around the country.

"Beshear gave us billions in new appropriation-supported debt, billions more in pension debt, signed us up for the Common Core fiasco and ObamaCare so he now wants to put on his diaper and a onesie and go to Washington D.C.," Kentucky Progress publisher David Adams said. "It would be a lot cheaper to let him have a pajama party at the Governor's Mansion this weekend with President Obama, Harry Reid and whoever else he wants to have over."

...http://kyprogress.blogspot.com/2015/11/steve-beshear-to-challenge-rand-paul.html

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Rand in 5th in Iowa at 5% leading Bush

Donald Trump gets 25 percent of Iowa likely Republican Caucus participants in a too-close-to- call race with Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas who is at 23 percent, double his support from four weeks ago, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Dr. Ben Carson has 18 percent, with Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida at 13 percent.

This compares to the results of an October 22 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University showing Carson at 28 percent, with 20 percent for Trump, Rubio at 13 percent and Cruz at 10 percent.

One thing that hasn't changed is the poor showing for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who goes from 5 percent October 22 to 4 percent today.

Today, Sen. Rand Paul is at 5 percent, with Carly Fiorina at 3 percent. No other candidate tops 2 percent, with 2 percent undecided.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/iowa/release-detail?ReleaseID=2305

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Rand Paul super PAC launches ad buy ahead of Iowa, N.H.

A Rand Paul super PAC, hoping to give the struggling candidate a burst of momentum, is launching what it describes as its opening offensive ahead of the Iowa and New Hampshire nominating contests.

The group, America’s Liberty PAC, is purchasing $500,000 in radio airtime in order to boost the Kentucky senator. America’s Liberty PAC will run five separate flights of advertisements – each flight lasts about 10 days – with the first one beginning this weekend.

The first flight, it says, will consist of two ads. One, focusing on Paul’s faith, will air on Christian-focused stations. Religious voters are expected to play an especially central role in Iowa.

Another, which highlights Paul’s plan to combat the Islamic State, will air on news, sports, country and other stations. “In the face of deadly attacks by ISIS, who will keep us safe? While politicians in both parties push liberal immigration policies that put us at risk, Paul is looking to strengthen our security,” says the ad. (While the commercial does not explicitly mention Paul’s Republican rival Marco Rubio, Paul has accused Rubio of embracing a weak-on-immigration approach that leaves the country vulnerable.)

In total, America’s Liberty PAC plans to produce 10 radio ads to air over the five flights. The group’s strategists say the radio commercials are the “first salvo” in a final march to the Iowa and New Hampshire contests. It also plans to roll out TV ads, direct mail and a digital program in the coming weeks.

...http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/rand-paul-super-pac-ads-iowa-new-hampshire-216213#ixzz3sXCV0OKC

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[Video] Hillary Clinton's Illegal War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=dPEXV4WPwTU

Great video by Team Rand and it shows the give and take when he questions her on the Senate Foreign Relations Cmte. Rand has been strong on this all along and those that have paid attention, have known it all along.

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[VIDEO] Rand Paul on Intelligence Gathering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=717&v=Z7HtH6skLuA

These are the kind of interviews that Rand excels at - the more casual discussions. I think he may do better to make more mention of the failed Clinton policies and how he is the only one that is different, but that was a good job. The interviewer was also very fair and respectful, playing a reasonable devil's advocate which led Rand into answering for the concerns that primary voters may have.

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Rand Paul Proclaims Surveillance “Bullshit” In New Super PAC Ad

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul declares that calls for more surveillance in the wake of the Paris attacks are “bullshit” in a series of social media ads targeting young people being released by one of the main super PACs supporting his candidacy.

“So when they stand up on television and say, ‘The tragedy in Paris means you have to give up your liberty, we need more phone surveillance’ — bullshit!” Paul says in the 15-second clip for Facebook, which was pulled from footage of a speech he gave at George Washington University last week. The super PAC, America’s Liberty PAC, also made two shorter ads for Snapchat. All three ads were provided to BuzzFeed News in advance of the ads’ release today.

The ads emphasize Paul’s differences with the rest of the Republican field on national security during a fraught time in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. The attacks have intensified the hawkish tendencies of the other candidates and highlighted the fault lines over surveillance and privacy issues within the GOP field. Marco Rubio, for example, last week criticized rival Ted Cruz for voting for the USA Freedom Act, saying “the weakening of U.S. intelligence gathering leaves America vulnerable.”

....http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/rand-paul-proclaims-surveillance-bullshit-in-new-super-pac-a#.lbx5lpPRo

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Rand Paul: Boston Bombers Were ‘Coddled’ But Still ‘Decided To Attack Us’

Presidential Candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
tells radio host Jeff Kuhner that we “coddled” the Boston bombers, “gave them free stuff” and they still “decided to attack us.”

“The Boston bombers came here as refugees,” Paul said. “We coddled them, we gave them free stuff, we gave them free housing, and yet, they decided to attack us.”

“The fact that we had two Iraqi refugees posing as refugees come into our country and want to attack us with stinger missiles shows that it wasn’t, and I don’t believe still is, very rigorous,” he said.

Rand said that he met with Obama administration last week to discuss the risks associated with the refugee program.

“A woman from the administration acted offended because I implied that any refugees could be terrorists,” Paul said. “There is a great risk and it’s a mistake for the Obama administration to downplay the risk.”

...http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/25/rand-paul-boston-bombers-coddled-still-decided-attack-us/

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Russia-Turkey Conflict May Spark Nuclear War: Rand Paul

Turkey’s downing of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet on Tuesday could trigger a nuclear war, warned Senator Rand Paul. After shooting down the Russian plane in Syrian airspace, Turkey held an extraordinary session with NATO members. Tensions between Russia and Turkey are already on the rise as President Vladimir Putin accused Ankara of “stabbing in the back.” Putin warned that there would be serious consequences.

Turkey claims that the warplane violated Turkish airspace, and it had warned the pilots. However, the Kremlin said the plane was in the Syrian airspace during its flight. The Su-24 came down in Syria’s Latakia province. The Kremlin is also sending its Moskva missile cruiser close to the Syrian and Turkish borders. If the situation escalates further, the US and other NATO members will be dragged to fight against Russia.

....http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/11/russia-turkey-nuclear-war-rand-paul/

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Have the Paris Attacks Doomed Rand Paul’s White House Hopes?

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Hirsh writes, "Civil liberties, which made a comeback with the Snowden revelations of 2012, will also now fade once again as an international issue," and "This new right-wing normal will also no doubt seal the fate of less hawkish candidates—in particular the already-fading Rand Paul, whom (Marco) Rubio denounced at the last debate as a 'committed isolationist' and who can no doubt hear the tolling of political oblivion even now."
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http://www.newsweek.com/have-paris-attacks-doomed-rand-pauls-white-house-hopes-398490