President Paul: Rand Rising? (National Review article by John Fund)

[Pisces]

But at the annual Club for Growth meeting here in Palm Beach, it wasn’t kids in the audience who greeted Paul as a hero, giving him a standing ovation both before and after his talk last Friday. The Club for Growth is a group of sober-minded business owners and investors who have proved their political clout by helping elect tea-party-oriented senators, including Ted Cruz of Texas, Marco Rubio of Florida, and Rand Paul himself.

Some Club members are already in Paul’s corner for 2016. “He has broadened his appeal to include three issues that 75 percent of the American people agree with,” says George Yeager, an investment counselor from New York. “He wants a balanced-budget amendment, term limits, and a questioning of mindless nation-building overseas.”

Jim DeMint, the former South Carolina senator who is now president of the Heritage Foundation, told Club members that he “couldn’t think of a more dramatic contrast between some senators having dinner with President Obama on the same night last week that Rand Paul and his allies were making their courageous stand.” In his view, “the balance of power in the Senate GOP caucus is shifting.” He noted that key members of the Senate leadership, such as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Jerry Moran of Kansas, came to the Senate floor in support of Paul’s effort.

Even Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain’s 2008 presidential effort, told Politico that Paul could be a formidable candidate. “I can’t tell you how many hours and meetings are devoted to discussing the candidate’s vision in a campaign,” said Schmidt. “Well, you wouldn’t have to do that with him. . . . He’s got the right combination of principles, oratory skills, smarts, and showmanship.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/342614/president-paul-rand-rising-john-fund

 

[supermario21]

Lol, "leave Israel in the lurch." Good article.

 

[mz10]

Lol, "leave Israel in the lurch." Good article.

I promise you that one senator was Lindsey Graham

 

[mz10]

President Paul. Just has such a ring to it, doesn't it?

 

[AuH20]

Prejudice against the South??:

They will insist that Paul won’t appeal to women, moderates, and people who will be suspicious of his Kentucky drawl.

 

[tennman]

Funny, when Bill Clinton ran they never said anything about him being from the south...he had a bit of a southern "drawl" on certain words. And what about Jimmy Carters Georgia "drawl?" He wouldn't even pronounce the letter "r." He sounded like Elmer Fudd when he said the word power......his version is "powah."

Such liberal bias in the lamestream media. What about accents from other parts of the country? Should southerners be suspicious of that? Such a fail.

 

[Kords21]

Rise of the libertarians will be fun to watch and engage in. Yeah I know Rand calls himself a republican, but I think he'll bring libertarianism to the forefront in the same manner that Obama did with socialism, remember the Newsweek cover "we are all socialists now"? By 2016 people are going to be even more fed with Obama and the big gov't policies that someone like Rand will be well received by the masses, the MSM is another story.