Liberty Civil Rights speech by Senator Rand Paul Howard University
Liberty Civil Rights speech by Senator Rand Paul Howard University. ANOTHER GREAT SPEECH by rand paul.
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Rand Paul talks justice, prison reforms ahead of likely 2016 bid
Prospective 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) spoke to students and voters at Bowie State University on Friday, focusing on reforming America #39;s justice system and prisons....
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), heading to Texas this weekend for the South by Southwest digital-palooza, will open an Austin office for his RANDPAC political committee as part of his effort to attract tech talent and appeal to younger voters.
Paul, who also plans a Bay Area office, will speak Monday afternoon at the office opening in the Capital Factory complex. The outpost, according to RANDPAC, will center on digital engagement and product innovation.
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Paul chatted with POLITICO Playbook as he kicked off a busy four days of political travel, ahead of his expected announcement next month that hell seek the 2016 GOP nomination.
On Friday afternoon, Paul speaks on criminal-justice reform at Marylands Bowie State University, one of the nations oldest historically black colleges and universities. On Sunday evening in Austin, on the third day of South by Southwest, Paul appears with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith to discuss how technology has transformed politics, campaigning, governing and citizen engagement.
POLITICO: Why Bowie State?
PAUL: A young man wrote us, one of their students, wrote us about some of the things weve been trying to do, and so we contacted him. Ive been saying for a couple of years now that Republicans need to go where we havent been going, and we need to ask new voters to come and join us. And I think theres a great opportunity for us. Theres only upside potential for us. I think theres a lot of our message that will resonate beyond where weve tried in the past. We just have to take it there."
POLITICO: Do you get any hostility when you speak in a place like Detroit?
PAUL: Most people have actually been very friendly. The most common response I get is: Were glad youre here and were glad youre competing for our vote. Weve gone probably a couple of generations now where everyone has automatically assumed that virtually all of the African-American vote is Democrat. So Republicans dont bother to go to any venues that are predominantly African American, and then the voters get pigeonholed that way. But then they get disappointed that their Democrat representatives dont want to show up, because they take them for granted.
POLITICO: What will your message be at Bowie State?
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Interview: Rand Paul to open Austin office
One thing they dont teach you in Political Pundit School (which, thankfully, does not actually exist) is that repetition is key to success. To be sure, thats not to say that the kind of self-plagiarism Thomas Friedman has parlayed into an obscene amount of influence and wealth should be encouraged. It is to say, though, that part of getting people to listen to your opinion is finding ways to say it over and over again. And as Paul Krugman found out while spending most of 2009-2013 urging more fiscal stimulus, if your opinions run contrary to those of the wealthy, sounding like a broken record is still no guarantee.
With that lesson firmly in mind, then, Im going to make an argument Ive made a few times before despite the fact that its in conflict with people whose pocket change probably exceeds my own net worth. And that argument is as follows: Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul is not only an unserious person who will never be president; he is also an unserious person who will never be president whos spent most of his time in office jettisoning the few policy stances that made him an interesting prospect to begin with. Beyond his own personal ambition, his soon-to-be-official candidacy has no point.
Obviously, I dont consider this to be a particularly new development. But some of the senators most recent actions make the disconnect between the idea of Rand Paul for President and the reality of Rand Paul for President especially glaring. Take his decision to endorse the substantively embarrassing and politically disastrous open letter that the vast majority of Republicans in the Senate recently sent to the leaders of Iran. Despite insincere claims to the contrary from the likes of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his proxies in the GOP, if negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran over its nuclear program falter, the most likely eventual outcome will be war. Maybe between Iran and Israel; more likely, between Iran and the U.S.
Paul, who is supposedly the standard-bearer for the GOPs dovish wing, knows this. But because seeing the Islamic Republic as the source of all evil in the world has become part of Republican Party doctrine and because Paul is desperate to be that partys next presidential nominee the devoted non-interventionist and believer in the Constitution gave this attempt to pave the way for war and undermine the separation of powers his John Hancock. Since the move was utterly incompatible with who Rand Paul is supposed to be, the senator now says that he only did it so as to strengthen President Obamas hand. The evident difficulty with which Pauls devotees at the libertarian magazine Reason swallowed this nonsense testifies to its fundamental absurdity.
Ugly as that may have been, though, it wasnt even the most serious self-inflicted wound to Pauls brand of the week. Because while you can make excuses of political expediency for his stance on Iran, theres no way to understand how this believer in a hands-off foreign policy could promote nation-building. Yet when it comes to the creation of a hypothetical Kurdish state in the Middle East, thats exactly what Paul recently did! I would draw new lines for Kurdistan and I would promise them a country, Paul told the cosmopolitan wonks of Breitbart News on Wednesday. The promise, he said, would make the Kurds fight like hell against ISIS. One imagines itd make the leaders of Turkey, a vital U.S. partner, do some fighting, too.
So, if youll indulge me for a minute, Id like to take a birds-eye view of the interesting proposal of a Rand Paul presidential run. Initially, the argument for his campaign went more or less like this: Pauls libertarianism is in line with the new, Tea Party-era conservative mindset. His opposition to the war on drugs and mass incarceration would allow him to appeal to non-white voters like no other national Republican. His distaste for military intervention would be to the liking of a war-weary nation. And his opposition to the NSA and bulk surveillance would tempt left-leaning millennials to give the GOP a closer look. (Plus, his staff knows how to use social media and theyre hip to all the latest memes!)
Now, heres how that case is looking today: The new hotness when it comes to fiscal policy in the GOP is to cut taxes and hike defense spending while yelling look out behind you! whenever anyone notes that this would explode the deficit. Concerning Pauls appeal to minorities, hes still strong on reining in the drug war and reducing mass incarceration, but hes also got that opposing-the-Civil-Rights-Act albatross hanging around his neck. Hes no longer much of an opponent of warmaking in the Middle East (which, in fairness, aligns him with an increasing number of Americans). Hes cool now with nation-building. And one of his more significant acts in Congress last year was to help kill a bill intended to constrain the NSA.
Granted, Paul is still ahead of the curve when it comes to social media; hes getting on Snapchat, in fact! But with that thin reed left to support an entire presidential campaign, forgive me if I quote a running segment on John Olivers HBO show and ask one question about Rand Paul 2016: How is this still a thing?
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