GOP Establishment Goes Nuclear On Rand Paul
Rand Paul #39;s noninterventionist foreign policy views aren #39;t currying him any favor with conservative pundits, who have recently attacked the Kentucky senator ...
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Sen. Rand Paul on Fox amp; Friends with Brian Kilmeade - 6/19/13
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CHICAGO Let some candidates seek the middle. Rand Paul is comfortable in the muddle.
Some have said the junior senator from Kentucky is the most intriguing of the possible Republican presidential candidates for 2016.
But if he is the most intriguing, it is not because he is the most interesting. It is because its so hard to figure out just what he is saying.
Abortion? That ought to be easy for a conservative like Paul, right?
Not so fast there.
I think the debate is about when life begins, Paul said, stating the problem, but not the solution, something he has become very adept at doing. Is it OK for an 8-pound baby to be aborted one week before delivery? If the mother says shes anxious and wants to kill myself, you can have the abortion one day before its due?
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Paul was speaking at the University of Chicago in an event sponsored by its Institute of Politics. His questioner was the institutes founder and former Obama aide, David Axelrod. And Axelrod tried to pin Paul down several times. But it was like trying to pin down quicksand.
Axelrod asked Paul to state when he thought life begins.
My personal religious belief is that life begins at the very beginning, Paul said.
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First-term Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, said Tuesday that lack of experience can sometimes be a good thing for people seeking top offices against career politicians who have become entrenched in the current political system.
I was a physician, and then a U.S. Senator, and people said, You need to be a state legislator and a mayor and all of these other things before youre in the U.S. Senate and I absolutely disagree with that because I think in some ways, when you have people who are career politicians, theyve been beaten down by the system and are so part of the system that they cant see all the problems of the system, Paul told reporters after speaking at a school choice forum in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood.
The comments came after last weeks remarks by Bob Dole, a former GOP presidential nominee and long-serving U.S. senator who belittled Paul and fellow Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as first termers.
I don't think they've got enough experience yet, Dole told the Eagle newspaper of Wichita, Kansas.
While Paul said he was not responding directly to Dole, the Kentucky Republican said, Maybe you can have too much (experience as well) in the sense that I think that over long periods of time, people lose their zeal for change in Washington and they become part of the system.
Paul said he never criticized President Barack Obama, a first-term Illinois senator, for having a lack of experience when he sought the White House.
Pauls appearance at Josephinum Academy, a Catholic all-girl high school, was part of a two-day Midwest swing to tout school choice as a way to try to gain Republican support from traditional Democratic voters in the African-American and Latino communities.
We have to figure out as Republicans how to get our message to the people who favor charter schools and choice in schools and say, Look, we do care about your kids and frankly the other side cares more about the status quo than your kids.
During his talk, co-hosted by the conservative Illinois Policy Institute, Paul labeled the fight for school choice and publicly funded vouchers as between dead enders and those who believe in education. Afterward, Paul told reporters the dead enders included Democrats in Illinois and nationally, as well as teachers unions.
The Chicago Teachers Union and other educators unions have opposed many aspects of school choice, including charter schools and vouchers, contending they divert public tax dollars from public schools.
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul fires up libertarian-minded Republicans at the annual CPAC conference.
Washington:US Senator Rand Paul, a potential presidential candidate in 2016, said the Republican Party would win more support from young voters by highlighting what he says are violations of privacy by the federal government, including the National Security Agency's surveillance programs.
''It's a message that can grow the party, and the party's got to grow bigger or we're not going to win again,'' Senator Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said on Sunday on Fox News Sunday.
Republicans are looking to improve their showing after President Barack Obama won 60 per cent support among voters younger than 30 in the 2012 elections, according to a national exit poll.
Senator Rand Paul speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in Maryland. Photo: AP
''Young people across the country are fed up with a government that says, 'Hey, the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to your records, doesn't apply to your cellphone','' Senator Paul said on the Fox program, referring to constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
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The 51-year-old senator is trying to build on the network of libertarian-leaning supporters that his father, former Representative Ron Paul of Texas, amassed during his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. The younger Paul has taken positions on civil liberties, criminal justice and foreign policy that differ from Republican orthodoxy, including his opposition to NSA spy programs.
''Lovers of liberty'' can't always agree with the Republican Party, he said last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Maryland.
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