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Sen. Rand Paul criticized Mitt Romney as too liberal for the Republican Party in 2016.
Romney, the 2012 GOP standard-bearer whom Paul endorsed, has signaled a sudden interest in making a third bid for the White House.
But Paul, a likely 2016 rival, said in a Fox News Radio interview that Romneys promise to be a conservative alternative to Jeb Bush wont wash and that the former Massachusetts governors time has passed.
If (Romney) runs to the right of Jeb Bush, hell still be to the left of the rest of the party, so it may be a difficult spot to occupy, Paul told John Gibson in Mondays interview.
Look, I like Governor Romney, I like him personally, I think he is a good person, I think he was a great businessman, Paul said. But you know thats yesterdays news.
Paul went on to say that he doesnt think theres a third time for Romney. I think he did a lot of things right, but in the end you got to have a bigger constituency, you got to get new people, you got to attract new people to win and I think its time that probably the party is going to be looking for something fresh and new.
Paul reiterated that he will not decide whether to run for president until sometime this spring.
Read more about Pauls comments and his upcoming trip to New Hampshire, Arizona and Nevada.
LOUISVILLE, KY - NOVEMBER 3: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) speaks at an election rally for U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at Bowman Field November 3, 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky. Aaron P. Bernstein, Getty Images
Senator Rand Paul has hired Chip Englander as his campaign manager, CBS News' Gilad Thaler confirmed Tuesday evening, after the Washington Post first reported the move.
Paul spokeswoman Eleanor May said in an email, "Chip has joined Team Rand and will serve as the campaign manager" if Paul chooses to run in 2016. The announcement came just before the senator's trip to New Hampshire Wednesday, where Paul has a schedule packed with events like a diner meeting with legislative leaders, a Second Amendment supporter event, a drop-by at the Londonderry Fish & Game Club, and other meetings with key figures in New Hampshire presidential politics.
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Englander just finished a job as campaign manager, having run newly-elected Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner's campaign, and he is a senior adviser to Rauner's transition committee.
This is Paul's second senior-level hire this week. Paul hired Republican strategist Chris LaCivita as a senior adviser, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. LaCivita, the Journal notes, has worked with both GOP establishment and tea party candidates and can help Paul navigate between the two interests.
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Jeb Bush is a Big Government Republican. Mitt Romney had his chance. And Marco Rubios recent jabs on foreign policy are silly and childish.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is back in insurgent mode, lobbing bombs at his potential Republican presidential rivals and looking to take back a political spotlight that Bush and Romney have been hogging lately. Paul is also heading to New Hampshire and Nevada this week, hoping to strike a fire with voters who want a new voice to carry the GOPs message to the White House.
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You need a candidate who reaches out to new constituencies and is able to bring new people into the party, Paul said. Because if we do the same old, same old candidates, we are going to get the same old result.
While other Republican House and Senate members attend this weeks rare GOP joint congressional summit in Pennsylvania, Paul will be in New Hampshire to meet with mothers and activists railing against Common Core, the education program reviled by the tea party right. An added advantage: The issue gives him a chance to further needle Bush, a prominent Common Core supporter who would probably be a front-runner for the presidential nomination.
(Also on POLITICO: Rand Paul taps Chip Englander as likely 2016 campaign manager)
In an interview Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican did just that.
Hes been a proponent of Common Core, a proponent probably of a much bigger government a Big Government Republican who believes more things should be occurring in Washington rather than decentralization, Paul said of the former Florida governor. He added that his rivals brother and father, former Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush, also backed education policies aimed at more Washington control.
Jeb Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell responded: Gov. Bush would put his successful conservative governing record up against anyones.
Pauls assessment of Romney is only slightly less critical.
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Rand Paul looks to steal 2016 spotlight
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Sure, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul may be welcoming Mitt Romney back into the fray for 2016 -- "the more, the merrier," he has said. And yes, Paul believes the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP nominee would have been a better president than Barack Obama.
But in 2016, the Kentucky senator--who is weighing a run himself--said in an interview Wednesday, "When we choose who we are going to choose among the more the merrier, I think there is an argument to be made ...Governor Romney a month ago said, 'I've had my chance, it's time for somebody fresh and new.' And I kind of still tend to agree with what Governor Romney said."
I spoke with Paul in Manchester, New Hampshire, the second state that will vote in the 2016 nominating contests, where he is doing a series of events to get to know voters there.
The upshot for Paul is that Romney "couldn't attract enough people" to win the GOP nomination. Although he campaigned for Romney in 2012, Paul said the GOP needs to find a path to victory.
A winning constituency, he said, "has to be bigger and more diverse than we've ever had or we will not win or cannot win... there will be an argument for winnability, that we need to try something new."
Asked when he would announce his own plans for 2016, Paul said, "It's a maybe--and it's March or April."
Still, that timeline hasn't precluded Paul from building a campaign network, which he's been doing for months. He added two senior positions this week--a campaign manager for a potential 2016 campaign, Chip Englander, and a senior adviser, Chris LaCivita.
Paul recognizes that he's walking into a crowded field of contenders, but he says that he has a position that is "unique" in his party. He's concerned about the size of the debt and calls it, "the number one threat to our national security." He believes in what he calls a "more reasonable foreign policy," which he characterized as one that's "very judicious," in which "war's the last resort, and...we have to be worried about and wary of unintended consequences of getting involved in war that actually makes us less safe."
He was critical of many of his counterparts in Washington--both Democrat and Republican--for being too eager to put more American troops on the ground around the world. That was particularly true in the case of the U.S. intervention in Libya in 2011, which Paul called "Hillary's war" because of her role in shaping the American response.
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Rand Paul: Romney couldn't attract enough people