Rand Paul will participate in August 3rd Voters First Forum in NH - 6:30 pm ET on C-SPAN

[asurfaholic]

I did not think that Fiorina did good at all. I saw a couple people here think she did, that was not my impression at all. She did not answer any questions and was entirely vague. I was especially unimpressed by her "leaders always challenge the status quo, no matter what" bit. Sounded to me like she just wanted to say status quo a couple times, but did not elaborate on what exactly she thinks the status quo is. Or what if she was elected following a few good years of bad regulations getting repealed and some Liberty getting restored, she's still going to challenge the status quo, because she's a leader and that's what they do? I do not have a sense of what sort of leader she is. Plus she seemed unlovable and lacked personality. She's a non factor and will sputter out.

Scott walker appeared to have a strong performance. The rest of the thing nearly put me to sleep. Really the whole group minus Rand looks like a bunch of asshat clowns.

 

[TommyJeff]

What? Fiorina avoided his question about her most unpopular decisions/actions as a leader. He asked a second time and she changed the subject again.

I didn't watch yet, I will watch tonight. But is this a fair question? If someone asked Dr.Paul what people dislike about him the most, and he avoided it, people would be upset with the question.

Which group of people gets to decide unpopular decisions. And who's job is it to bring that groups opinion to her attention? Again, I didn't see this video yet, but this sounds (in your text) like a very unfair question.

 

[TommyJeff]

He is not the only one. Ted Cruz's attempt to defund Obamacare and calling McConnell a liar on the floor count as fighting the machine as well.

Cruz isn't the only one who makes this mistake, but where in the Constitution is the senate in charge of the purse?!

 

[65fastback2+2]

I did not think that Fiorina did good at all. I saw a couple people here think she did, that was not my impression at all. She did not answer any questions and was entirely vague. I was especially unimpressed by her "leaders always challenge the status quo, no matter what" bit. Sounded to me like she just wanted to say status quo a couple times, but did not elaborate on what exactly she thinks the status quo is. Or what if she was elected following a few good years of bad regulations getting repealed and some Liberty getting restored, she's still going to challenge the status quo, because she's a leader and that's what they do? I do not have a sense of what sort of leader she is. Plus she seemed unlovable and lacked personality. She's a non factor and will sputter out.

Scott walker appeared to have a strong performance. The rest of the thing nearly put me to sleep. Really the whole group minus Rand looks like a bunch of asshat clowns.

this

fiorina did horrible

walker impressed me, which is why i listed him in my top 5 that matter.

 

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[Brett85]

I thought Rand did well as far as the substance of what he said. He got in his talking points about how he's the only Republican who is expanding the base and bringing in new people to the Republican Party, and the only Republican who can defeat Hillary in a general election. I thought his delivery seemed kind of awkward, but I think that's just because he was speaking from a remote satellite. I think he would've done better if he had actually been there. I think he'll do better at the Fox News debate on Thursday as well.

 

[JK/SEA]

Seriously? A TEA-O-CON in Seattle? Yeah, no. Let's not get into the habit of shutting down dissent with stupid names, okay?

a stupid name?...sorry, just call em the way i smell em...and you fit the bill...http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Teaocon

btw...i was born in Seattle 63 years ago..

the rest of your post just proves my point.

 

[JK/SEA]

everyone but Rand stunk.

next.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I didn't watch yet, I will watch tonight. But is this a fair question? If someone asked Dr.Paul what people dislike about him the most, and he avoided it, people would be upset with the question.

Which group of people gets to decide unpopular decisions. And who's job is it to bring that groups opinion to her attention? Again, I didn't see this video yet, but this sounds (in your text) like a very unfair question.

Was it fair? Good question. I thought about that too.

I think it was put that way to give her somewhat of an easy out, and it all went according to plan. It was a vague question, allowing for a vague answer. It was a fake attempt to satisfy all of the people who had tougher questions for her.

Is it fair for tough questions in general? Questions about unpopular or controversial decisions? Fiorina is not a politician, has never been a legislator with a voting record, and has never made a decision as part of government. What's left to ask her about?

Would it be fair to ask more direct questions?

"While you were CEO, you made a very controversial decision to purchase and merge with Compaq. It was highly criticized, very expensive, tore apart the Board of Directors, required a destructive proxy battle, and threw the company into chaos which ended with your firing? Was that an example of your leadership?"

"While you were CEO, you made decisions to lay off American workers and replace them with foreign workers. Isn't this the opposite of your new populist rhetoric? Your actions do not match your sales pitch. Where do you stand on companies who outsource and move to other nations, and replace American workers with imported foreign workers?"

"While you were CEO, you were considered a "rock star". You were also accused of living like a rock star with company money. You made liberal use of company jets for shopping trips, you rented the top floors of high end hotels for your personal use, you were an elitist diva and ruled HP like a Queen. Is this an indicator of what a Fiorina Presidency would look like?"

 

[KingNothing]

Dear TPTB:

Can we have just one president that isn't a khazar? Pretty please? I promise we'll behave.

Sincerely,
devil21

lol what are you even going on about?

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

That Ron Paul question could have been WAY more hostile than it was. It was nice to be reminded he took 2nd too.

Ron took 2nd in NH and 3rd in Iowa being the bold, off-the-cuff, truth telling libertarian. Hope Rand channels a little of that or he might not make it out of Iowa.

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

To Rand are you a libertarian? What are you?

Rand: Constitutional conservative, not eager for war, very judicious about war, not a game of Risk. Never first resort, will be last resort.

Different kind of Republican, can beat Hillary in States where others would lose.

I wish Rand would educate the viewers by citing how war grows the state more than anything. This was a strategy of early progressives. Case in point, World War I.

Tom Woods:

It may be interesting to note the zeal with which progressives (with only a handful of exceptions, so there goes the myth of the progressive peacenik) urged U.S. involvement in World War I. Yes, Germany had to be smashed, they said, but the American economy also needed the kind of regimentation and central organization that the pressures of wartime would surely bring. Once people had become accustomed to government direction of the economy, they would be more prepared in peacetime to abandon or at least modify their backward ideas about the sanctity of private property and all that.