IMHO, Rand's body language looked like he was

[cdc482]

Yea, I kinda wondered where Rand was going with the "my father, his father" and "we both have big families" thing, was wierd.

It was conservative rhetoric.

 

[Southerner]

After watching Rand's endorsement a couple of times, he had the look of a POW giving his "they are treating me fine" videotaped speech. A couple of times he looks down like he needs to see a script to know what to say next. Also, you can really tell that he isn't comfortable with the endorsement.

- ML

While I feel certain there was no REAL gun to his head, the man is smart enough to have foreseen/realize the backlash that many of us are now partaking in.

 

[Mini-Me]

It was conservative rhetoric.

It's a foreign language, basically.

I'm surprised that anyone here thought Rand's body language would show anything OTHER than, "I hate this, I hate this, I hate this."

 

[ChristopherShelley]

...Insincere, that he was uncomfortable, that he was put up to it.

Just a reading from my woman's intuition meter.

Watch how he averts his eyes when he makes the original statement to the salivating Hannity. Bleh.

I like to read body language too and I have always thought Rand was trying to walk a tightrope in two ton shoes. Be his own man, be a Paul, and be an elephant. He's a player. He learned from the best.

He IMO is pretty amazing. Paul 2.0. That's just my opinion. I could be wrong. But I see a strong man there.

 

[RonRules]

Just a reading from my woman's intuition meter.

I'm a dude and also noticed it. Posted yesterday that even his smile at 0.16 seconds is insincere.

Hopefully the truth will come out.

I still unsubscribed and unfriended him.

 

[Warmon]

...Insincere, that he was uncomfortable, that he was put up to it.

Agreed! I said the same thing in another post yesterday. I don't know what deal was made, but this was orchestrated - make the endorsement on FOX news so everybody sees it while at the same time, the Romney campaign puts out a press release. Rand is not a dummy and knew there would be serious backlash for doing it. My view is he's taking one for the team, but it's not for their team, it's for ours...

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

I think we are all trying to justify how he could do this and prior to the convention. No matter how much we speculate we won't know for sure unless he tells us.
To me it looks like his political career was threatened more than he was promised the VP position.

I don't think his political career was threatened, because they never wanted him to start with. They actively worked against him. We made him, along with the people of Kentucky.

But then, I also don't think there's a deal. He's playing the game. He watched his father NOT play the game his entire life, with limited results. He's trying a different tactic. Just because you appear to be going along with the program doesn't really mean you're going along with the program.

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

Agreed! I said the same thing in another post yesterday. I don't know what deal was made, but this was orchestrated - make the endorsement on FOX news so everybody sees it while at the same time, the Romney campaign puts out a press release. Rand is not a dummy and knew there would be serious backlash for doing it. My view is he's taking one for the team, but it's not for their team, it's for ours...

Agree.

 

[cajuncocoa]

I think we are all trying to justify how he could do this and prior to the convention. No matter how much we speculate we won't know for sure unless he tells us.
To me it looks like his political career was threatened more than he was promised the VP position. I could be wrong and as much as it nauseates me that he did it, he doesn't strike me as the uber politically ambitious type.

If he was threatened in any way, he won't be able to tell us the real reason. Maybe there is something to this whole "body language analysis" that is telling us more than he can say with words.

 

[kahless]

Did not see this thread first and had just posted in another Rand thread about this. I was kind of scratching my head watching it thinking his mouth looked clenched to one side as he was speaking. I was thinking is this just Rand being Rand or was this part of a deal he took and now he has to bite his tongue to spit out the endorsement.

 

[thatpeculiarcat]

Maybe the Paul families really were threatened?

I've been saying this for a long time.

I don't deny this thought for a second. It's not normal the way Paul was friendly to Romney during the nomination process. Paul destroyed Gingrich. He could've easily destroyed Romney.

 

[Miss Annie]

Yea, I agree with this train of thought. I thought the same as the OP here. I noticed how he avoided Hannity's first line of questioning.
It would not surprise me if this was done for the purposes of protecting...... others. This is not the game of Candyland that is being played. No one is safe. I think down deep we all know that. What would you have done if you were in his shoes and were faced with protecting your family?

 

[Libertytree]

Yea, I agree with this train of thought. I thought the same as the OP here. I noticed how he avoided Hannity's first line of questioning.
It would not surprise me if this was done for the purposes of protecting...... others. This is not the game of Candyland that is being played. No one is safe. I think down deep we all know that. What would you have done if you were in his shoes and were faced with protecting your family?

Not to mention an entire city, along with your family in it. These people are evil. Does it not strike anyone that any of this stuff started right after his breakfast conversation with Bernanke?

 

[ctiger2]

All the current Rand haters are going to have big regret some day.

 

[Brent H]

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

http://bible.cc/isaiah/5-20.htm

 

[tttppp]

...Insincere, that he was uncomfortable, that he was put up to it.

Just a reading from my woman's intuition meter.

Watch how he averts his eyes when he makes the original statement to the salivating Hannity. Bleh.

I agree. It seemed like he was bullshitting us.

 

[Miss Annie]

Not to mention an entire city, along with your family in it. These people are evil. Does it not strike anyone that any of this stuff started right after his breakfast conversation with Bernanke?

And it was also shortly after the big Burger meeting where there were immediately rumors of threats to Dr Paul's safety being talked about.

 

[Sola_Fide]

I agree with the OP. The entire interview was like an apology from Rand.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

Paul did have breakfast with Bernanke before the SHTF...

 

[pen_thief]

I watched a special on Sun Tzu's Art of War. According to his philosophy, the goal was winning. If you had to get dirty to do it, so be it. So I hoping Rand is biding his time and will one day redeem himself. I don't think he can be so foolish as to think we'd allow ourselves to be herded into the Romney camp. I don't think you can have a father like Ron Paul and escape not being a freedom-loving, principled human being. My intuition says there's more going on than meets the eye, and therefore I'm standing back a bit.

But I agree with you, his support of Romney was pure fluff. He couldn't even come up with anything solid. And, I will never forget how angry he looked when Ron lost Iowa.