From Eric Dondero:Rand Paul is a diehard Ron Paulist on economics and Constitutional matters down-the-line. But his image and emphasis on the issues may be more closely matched with newly elected Massachusetts Senator.
From The Louisville Courier-Journal:
Republican prospects in every state, particularly in federal elections, improved still more a couple of days after the Massachusetts vote.Notably, the younger Paul has broken with the elder on foreign policy issues. For instance, Rand Paul takes a Scott Brown position opposing the closure of Gitmo and relocation of Gitmo detainees to the United States.
Paul's father is U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, whose 2008 presidential campaign base provides the financing to make his son competitive. But Rand Paul is not just running on that base or his father's name.
He is riding much the same wave that elected Scott Brown: Voters who don't believe the economic stimulus package was worth the $1trillion it added to the national debt, who fear health reform, and who want the federal government reined in, starting with its spending habits.
As the article out of Kentucky suggests, he seems to be "catching the Scott Brown wave."
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Rand Paul is a lunatic like his father
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Only a "lunatic" like Ran Paul would want to slash taxes and government programs.
We need more "sane" people like Scott Brown who voted for more taxes and Romney-care.
But the fool on the Hill sees the sun going down,
There is a “Scott Brown wave” that favors small government. But it doesn’t follow that all the candidates who ride that wave are somehow comparable. Scott Brown, for example, has already changed his position on the stimulus:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/01/sen-elect-brown-spend-stimulus-on-shovel-ready-projects/1
So it turns out that Scott Brown may not be a “Scott Brown Republican.” I don’t imagine Rand Paul would make a stunning reversal like that.
Scott Brown is a more liberal Republican than Dede Scozzafava.
check out the link:
http://bshor.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/scott-brown-is-a-more-liberal-republican-than-dede-scozzafava/
I think it is actually more of Rand riding BOTH waves and successfully pulling it off. A lot of political scientists in Kentucky were saying, as this race was just beginning, if Rand could manage to get the Tea Party/Conservatives & Libertarians behind him he could win. But it is rather difficult to do. Thankfully he pulled it off well.
On foreign policy, I think most Ameicans would settle for a "speak softly but carry a big stick" approach to things. That's how we can start winning elections. Lets leave the extremists on both ends out of the equation (The Non-interventionists & the Neo-Cons who want to nuke anyone that says something mean about Israel).
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