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Rand Paul: I Will be Campaigning for Mitt Romney

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what a joke rand is

has anyone looked into his fathers politics what a lunatic just like him
I'm voting for OBAMA, third run here we come
who's with me?

As always, it's easy to sit back and point out the negatives

without offering any sort of better option.

While Rand surely isn't perfect, right now he's the best chance for change that I can see.

That being said, I welcome hearing who anyone thinks is a better candidate and why.

Better option? Don't support

Better option? Don't support Mitts!


Your post assumes that we must handcuff ourselves to some human being; which, given we are 2 years away from the next national election - is a bit premature.

Not sure why so many are crying about the last election

so much. What's done is done. It's 2016 that really matters now. Romney couldn't get elected this go around if he had to.

why all the downvotes?

Is it because of cognitive dissonace?

soybomb bumping 2 year old threads again

you really have no life, do you?



This article was in the top list of daily paul article stories - i do not control that. So I clicked on the article and made a comment.

Not sure why you are making personal insults to a fellow daily paul member...

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First of all...

why the hell do you think this deserves to be resurfaced after 2 years?

and 2nd...If romnie runs (AGAIN) it will further legitimize the rotten state of politics and life that we have in this country and, imho, push more people to revolt.

Romnie? Seriously?

What a joke?

Rockin' the FREE world in Tennessee since 1957!
9/11 Truth.

Heck who is to say Rand won't

Heck who is to say Rand won't be supporting Mitt's in 2016?

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rand paul is dead in the water!

his father, our hero and the greatest American Statesman this country has seen in 200 years, flatly refuses to endorse romney yet, 'ol chipper here hits the "campaign trail" for the neocon

dead in the water, i say, they'll leave him high and dry in the next cycle and all his support will evaporate

Henry Clay, my arse!

Rockin' the FREE world in Tennessee since 1957!
9/11 Truth.

I am giggly







All you Rand Paul doubters, pay attention. Give to RandPac if you want Harry Reid, the unconfirmed pederast (http://wizbangblog.com/2012/08/04/is-harry-reid-a-serial-ped...) put to the pasture. THAT IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHO WINS THE WHITE HOUSE!! You know it!!!

No way, never, ever!

"All you Rand Paul doubters, pay attention. Give to RandPac…"

My deeply felt and honest reply to your above quoted statement is as follow: Never, not one penny, not one time. If I ever felt anything positive about Rand Paul, he killed that by endorsing and supporting that no good piece of garbage named willard romney. There was, in my opinion, no reason for him to endorse romney as early as he did. He could have waited till the convention. I hope that is perfectly clear.

Larry in North Carolina

Obviously you do not

understand how the political system works in it's current form. Look no further than Ron Paul to see what happens when you buck the system. The only way to defeat this system is to get in the dirt with the rest of them and then flip after the election. If Rand had refused to support Romney he would have had zero chance in 2016. Become a delegate at your 2016 State Convention and you will quickly understand how the system works and why you have to at least appear to be playing the game!

Not to defend democrats, but

Not to defend democrats, but the booing at the DNC was about supporting Israel, not GOD. Rand knows that.

This is why I hate politcs

Some say its part of Rand's master plan to build a constituency within the GOP so he can reform it--or at least make inroads in the name of liberty.

Others say he's selling out, or at least very naive to think he can win the hearts and minds of the GOP to bring them to his way of thinking.

If you are in the first group, then you believe in playing the political game as a necessary evil. That somehow, someway, working inside the belly of the beast will convert it. Politics is like the dragon Smaug in the Tolkien's Hobbit. It charms you, seduces you, then devours you.

I'm in the second group, because that's what I liked about Dr. Paul--If you are honest and uncompromising, you don't need to play politics and have some shady backroom deal you did years ago come back and bite you, or demand you return a favor pro quo on a issue you are against because you owe someone. Rand is going to find his endorsement of Romney become a political millstone around his neck.

Now some will say I'm radical, or stubborn, or being naive. But I thought that was the point of following the good doctor. Now we have apologists for Rand's behavior, which even if its for good reasons, are still the inverse to what attracted us to Ron Paul in the first place.

Conscience does not exist if not exercised

---Lily Tomlin

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you speak for me, too...

semper fi

why are we here, after all?

Rockin' the FREE world in Tennessee since 1957!
9/11 Truth.

I hate politics too

for the very reasons you state. I know what you're saying.


Research the truth, vote your OWN conscience, and you will have less to worry about :-)

Ron Paul set the standard. We must never lower it.


Good for Rand. With Romney

Good for Rand. With Romney practically destroying his campain, Rand is positioning himself very well by playing ball.


Can't blame Rand if Romney goes down.

I heard Michael Savage last night talking about how "Sweater Vest" and Gingrich were to blame for taking Romney down, especially Gingrich, because of all the opposition research they did on Romney during the primaries. All that research was like a gift to the Democrats.

Well to be fair (yuck) what

Well to be fair (yuck) what did Savage expect Santy and the Gingrich to do? They were running against Romney to be the GOP nominee.

And yes you're right they can't blame Rand. If Romney loses, because Rand is a Paul, the GOP can't blame Ron Paul supporters even though they know a majority of us will not vote for Mittens. If that's the case they might as well blame Huckleberry and the evangelicals too, and that won't happen.

Oh, I don't know

They might start blaming everybody and everyone. They have been itching to find their scapegoat for their own failures.

I am hoping for the whole party to go down in flames.

I sure hope there is an

I sure hope there is an ulterior motive behind Rand's pandering to the GOP elites. Because his father and all his supporters have given a HUGE amount of blood sweat and tears just getting to where we are now.


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and to getting rand where he is today...

if not for his father, rand would still be pushing foster grants in lexington!

and this is how he rewards him?

it must be crushing to Dr. Paul to see his son do this...

Rockin' the FREE world in Tennessee since 1957!
9/11 Truth.

I heartily endorse the candate that has a consistant record of..

Standing in opposition to everything I shook down supporters for donations to fight against...It's my secret plan.


Nothing he does surprises me anymore.

It seems to me that he just can't get enough of sticking his entire head, up hannity's behind. But this is no surprise to me and it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone here at the daily paul. I suppose he believes in that old saying about "in for a penny, in for a pound."

Larry in North Carolina

Asked this in another thread with no answer

Who else is fighting for our Liberty in a position of power as high as the Senate?

Who is for auditing the Pentagon, legalizing industrial Hemp, ending foreign aid to 3 countries among many other issues that the "Liberty Movement" is supposed to be all about?

Because of a meaningless endorsement of someone he knows can't win in November Rand's been called a traitor among many other ridiculous names. GET OVER IT! You are cutting off your nose to spite your face. It's ridiculous.

Next election, you will still only have a choice between the two parties. There will not be a third party run that has a chance, Ron Paul knows this and has even said it. But then again, I guess you all know better than Dr. Paul too.

So when you can pick between Hillary or Jeb, Marco, Chris, or Rand, who will you choose. Or will you sit in your ivory tower lobbing verbal grenades at Rand that he isn't 100% as idealogically pure as his father. The naivety is becoming laughable.

I think that many here need to realize that there is an effort to co-opt you to the left. Wake up people, you're smarter than that. The battle for 2016 has already begun, don't be fooled.

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is that what you call it?

thats not the way his father, our Great Statesman, played it!

Rockin' the FREE world in Tennessee since 1957!
9/11 Truth.

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jeff, I'll attempt to answer your post.

There is the letter of 'the law,' and there is also the spirit of the law. No question that Rand fulfills the letter of the law. Rand is standing up to the tyranny in the Senate. I applaud him for that. The Bills that he's introduced in the Senate and the great majority of his votes cast both reflect that commitment to Liberty. In my opinion, these actions are the hardest part of 'the law' to fulfill. They take the most guts for sure.

The rest should be much easier, but it seems not to be in this case, and I do not know why. Verbally endorsing your own father for president not Romney, and casting the lone dissenting Kentucky vote for Ron Paul would have been the best ways he could have of respected his father's Congressional career. These two little things would have sent a very powerful message to us as well. Imagine the effect those two actions would have had with just the members on the Daily Paul alone? He would have gained the complete support of everyone here. Such simple actions; an endorsement and casting one KY delegate vote for Ron Paul. Romney still would have won. Everything else would remain unchanged, except Rand would have gained our full future backing in the process. Rand did not fulfill the golden opportunity to honor the spirit of 'the law' by supporting Ron Paul. I may forgive him someday for that, but not anytime soon.