Rand Paul Will Not Endorse Another Candidate in Primaries, His Staff Says

[jct74]

Rand Paul Will Not Endorse Another Candidate in Primaries, His Staff Says
He will, though, endorse the eventual GOP nominee. Which may be symbolic of why he didn't seem to catch all the Ron Paul fire. Trump, Bernie, ISIS also might bear some of the blame.

Brian Doherty
Feb. 3, 2016 12:13 pm

While Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has dropped out of the Republican presidential race, he will not be endorsing any other particular candidate as the primaries crawl on, said Paul's campaign strategist Doug Stafford in a telephone press conference with Paul's top campaign staff this morning.

Paul does, though, intend to endorse whoever the Republican Party eventually settles on.

That's something his father Ron didn't do, and to at least a small extent that difference in political styles and attitudes may have kept big portions of Ron's support from surrounding Rand, in either giving or polling. I asked Stafford what the Rand campaign thought might have gone wrong with sustaining the perceived "Ron Paul movement."

Stafford was sure that the "Ron Paul movement does exist" but couldn't say precisely why Rand didn't seem to fully re-ignite it. "Voters shift from time time and what's most important to them is hard to capture" but he did see that there were many hundreds of kids still volunteering eagerly for Rand.

Most importantly, Stafford is sure that the issues Rand brought to the fore are still those that should energize anyone who was really into the Ron Paul thing. While "there are many issues that decide how people are going to vote, some within a candidate's control and some not" he reiterated what Rand has said: that the liberty movement is "definitely alive, marching on, and Rand will continue to be its voice in the Senate."

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read more:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/03/rand-paul-will-not-endorse-another-candi

 

[thatpeculiarcat]

That's great to hear! Except for the nominating the eventual nominee part.

 

[Joeinmo]

Intends...huh

read more:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/03/rand-paul-will-not-endorse-another-candi

'Intends'
intersting word, does not say he will for sure.


meanwhile at the Jim Webb Independent for President Facebook page lots of Rand fans pushing for a Webb/Paul ticket

I was kind of shocked

https://www.facebook.com/IHeardMyCountryCalling/

 

[Theocrat]

Cringeworthy End

That's great to hear! Except for the nominating the eventual nominee part.

Yeah, I have a problem with that, too. Why would Sen. Paul endorse the eventual nominee, if all of the potential nominees left contradict his exclusive fiscal conservative views and noninterventionist foreign policy?

 

[CPUd]

Yeah, I have a problem with that, too. Why would Sen. Paul endorse the eventual nominee, if all of the potential nominees left contradict his exclusive fiscal conservative views and noninterventionist foreign policy?

Because he promised he would.

 

[nikcers]

Yeah, I have a problem with that, too. Why would Sen. Paul endorse the eventual nominee, if all of the potential nominees left contradict his exclusive fiscal conservative views and noninterventionist foreign policy?

So they can't claim his 2012 endorsement of the nominee was for political game instead of playing by the unwritten party rules.

 

[Crashland]

Endorsement of a candidate does not mean you support them on everything. It is a token measure you have to go through the motion if you want the party to not relegate you to a powerless position on an unimportant Senate committee, and to not prevent all of your legislative efforts from coming to a vote. If an endorsement alone is enough to sway your vote then you have your own issues, and if it doesn't sway your vote and you think for yourself, then why does it matter?

 

[Theocrat]

Supporting His Enemies

Endorsement of a candidate does not mean you support them on everything. It is a token measure you have to go through the motion if you want the party to not relegate you to a powerless position on an unimportant Senate committee, and to not prevent all of your legislative efforts from coming to a vote. If an endorsement alone is enough to sway your vote then you have your own issues, and if it doesn't sway your vote and you think for yourself, then why does it matter?

I understand the "politics" behind the endorsement, but what I'm concerned about is the image it displays about Sen. Paul, since he has gone after all of the potential nominees as being weak on balance budgets as well as their bloodthirsty eagerness to send "our sons and daughters" to die for regime changes in the Middle East. It's just a blatant inconsistency on Sen. Paul's part.

 

[Crashland]

I understand the "politics" behind the endorsement, but what I'm concerned about is the image it displays about Sen. Paul, since he has gone after all of the potential nominees as being weak on balance budgets as well as their bloodthirsty eagerness to send "our sons and daughters" to die for regime changes in the Middle East. It's just a blatant inconsistency on Sen. Paul's part.

If people are fooled by the image of a meaningless endorsement instead of looking at the policies the senator stands for on the senate floor and on the campaign trail, that's on them.

 

[CPUd]

Ron has endorsed some stinkers in his day, too. He understands the game.

 

[CPUd]

I kinda wish they waited a few days to release this statement though. It is amusing watching the press give him all this attention because they want to see who he will endorse.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Because he promised he would.

Don't make promises you should not keep.

 

[liveandletlive]

unless its Trump. do not endorse Trump.

 

[Mike4Freedom]

Ron has endorsed some stinkers in his day, too. He understands the game.

Yeah, Ted Cruz,

 

[messana]

Ron has endorsed some stinkers in his day, too. He understands the game.

Then why did he endorse Chuck Baldwin over McCain in 2008 and not Romney in 2012?

 

[TheTexan]

Remember he still has a senate seat to win.

A very important position indeed.

 

[nikcers]

Remember he still has a senate seat to win.

So 2-4x a year he can make a grand speech in the Senate about voting or not voting for this or that.

Ted Cruz likes to take credit but I didn't even know who Rand Paul was, or that Obama wanted to bomb Assad until Rand made headlines for protesting it.

 

[Wilf]

Remember he still has a senate seat to win.

So 2-4x a year he can make a grand speech in the Senate about voting or not voting for this or that.

Of course but you whould be happy if he lost his senate seat and died in a car crash.

 

[Cabal]

Don't make promises you should not keep.

Ding, ding, ding

 

[LibertyEagle]

I understand the "politics" behind the endorsement, but what I'm concerned about is the image it displays about Sen. Paul, since he has gone after all of the potential nominees as being weak on balance budgets as well as their bloodthirsty eagerness to send "our sons and daughters" to die for regime changes in the Middle East. It's just a blatant inconsistency on Sen. Paul's part.

Ron did it too.