Washington Post: "The romance with Rand Paul is gone"

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The romance with Rand Paul is gone
By Michael Gerson Opinion writer June 8

Rand Paul’s presidential campaign, by many recent accounts, is sputtering. The candidate, according to the Atlantic’s Molly Ball, is “flailing.” His campaign, reports National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar, has been called a “disaster.”

These judgments, even if true, are provisional. Pretty much any candidate in the Republican pack is one killer debate performance, one strong poll result, one especially good fundraising report away from a narrative of resurgence.

But there is little question that the initial, ineffable appeal of the Paul campaign has faded. In March 2013, when Paul filibustered against the government’s possible use of Hellfire missiles to murder civilians in San Francisco cafes and Houston restaurants — this seemed to make sense to some people at the time — many conservatives were swept away. “His voice, once lonely,” wrote Noah Rothman, “grew in stature. . . . It was poetic. It was romantic.”

Compare this with Paul’s recent filibuster of the Patriot Act. The Senate gallery was staged with supporters wearing “Stand With Rand” T-shirts. Paul’s online campaign store offered a “filibuster starter pack” for $30, including a “spy blocker” for your computer’s video camera and a shirt reading “The NSA knows I bought this Rand Paul tshirt.” Paul’s Senate colleagues found themselves dragged into the middle of an infomercial. And many were not pleased.

Once it was Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Now it is Mr. Smith uses Senate procedure to conduct a fundraising campaign on a national security issue that he distorts to serve his political interests.

The romance is gone. The bitterness and conspiratorial hints remain. Paul recently blamed the rise of the Islamic State on Republican “hawks.” Under pressure, Paul conceded, “I could have stated it better.” But this was a gaffe of excessive clarity. Paul’s foreign policy libertarianism is founded on the belief that an aggressively fought war against terrorism actually produces terrorism — that the United States has somehow earned the enmity it faces....

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Michael John Gerson is an op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, a Policy Fellow with the ONE Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice, and a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001 until June 2006, as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006, and was a member of the White House Iraq Group.
 
Strong hit piece though, Gerson sure is better at this than hysterical name caller Jenniffer Rubin
 
Sola_Fide said:
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Michael John Gerson is an op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, a Policy Fellow with the ONE Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice, and a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001 until June 2006, as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006, and was a member of the White House Iraq Group.
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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Sola_Fide again.
 
Which of Paul’s rivals, in this case, would be secretly pleased about the killing of Americans if it helped justify a political argument?
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Hmmm, how many years the current war has been going on ?
 
Over the past two years, a new political illness has broken out and infected establishment Republicans since Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has risen in prominence.

When I say establishment, I am referencing the RINOs who are constantly complaining about the Tea Party, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and the idea of fighting for any issue of importance to the conservative movement. We all know a squishy Republican who fits that description.

More specifically, there are a handful of self-appointed guardians of the Republican Party who shudder at the thought of Rand Paul heading the Republican ticket next fall. They have a bad case of what I call “Rand Paul Derangement Syndrome.”

In the past week, this affliction has mutated and now is spreading like a pandemic. The cause was Sen. Paul’s victory in scaling back President Obama’s NSA spying program.

Just take a look at the latest from Michael Gerson of the Washington Post. Gerson may have the most advanced case.

Gerson is a former speechwriter and policy staffer for President George W. Bush. According an insightful Op Ed from an old coworker of Gerson that appeared in The Atlantic in 2007, Gerson is the quintessential self-promoting DC political hack. Evidently, his self-love motivated him to stage a reality political event for reporters where he claimed to write one of President George W. Bush’s famous speeches in a Starbucks in longhand on a pad of paper. According to this coworker, it was all a show.

When not making believe to be writing presidential speeches, Gerson was known to use his skills to create misleading talking points.

During the lead up to the Iraq War, Gerson was credited with creating a talking point for President Bush’s White House Iraq Group that was fool proof. He argued that the first sign of a “smoking gun” that Iraq had nukes, “might be a mushroom cloud.” It was a stroke of brilliance to argue that the United States didn’t need evidence, because fear was enough to get the American people terrified sufficiently to support another war

No worries for a guy like Gerson that the nukes never actually existed in Iraq. And why be concerned that Republicans running for President, including Gerson’s former boss’ brother Jeb Bush, are running away from the Gerson crafted talking points that lead us to the Iraq war.

Gerson’s latest Paul hit piece is titled “The Romance with Rand Paul is Gone.” He is very upset that Senator Rand Paul feels strongly about the 4th Amendment to the Constitution and the natural right of privacy. Guys like Gerson don’t believe in any right to privacy for the content of calls, hospital records or bank records.

Jen Rubin who writes the misnamed column “Right Turn” for the Washington Post is another self appointed thought leader who loves to bash Rand Paul. Rubin was apoplectic with Sen. Paul this past week when she wrote “The GOP is serious about national security. Rand Paul isn’t.” Rubin ranted that Paul had “chosen to be an inflammatory acolyte of his father” and “not a serious presidential contender.”

I had the unfortunate experience of having to deal with Rubin when I worked for Senator Paul as Sr. Communications Director. Rubin has a hard time with facts and she is insufferable.

Rare reported last year “Rubin mentioned Paul’s name 147 times from April 1-20. She only mentioned Obama 131 times (not including ‘Obamacare,’ but just President Obama or his administration specifically).” I expect those numbers were very similar over this past month as Rubin melted down over Rand Paul’s latest filibuster for the Bill of Rights. I don’t know for sure, because I stopped reading her columns a long time ago.

Every day Rubin is allowed to write her meanderings at the Washington Post, the reputation of that once great paper diminishes.

Finally, there is the make believe candidate for President, Rep. Peter King (R-NY). King is known for being the guy who can’t conduct an interview without attacking Sen. Rand Paul. If Rand Paul didn’t exist, he would have a big hole in his life, and nobody would ever book him on cable news shows. Rep. King loves to hate Rand Paul and he has an advanced case of the Rand Paul Derangement Syndrome.

I bet when Michael Gerson burns the toast in the morning, he blames Rand Paul. When Jen Rubin encounters a Republican who dares to utter negative comment about the presidency of George W. Bush, she blames Paul. When Peter King loses an argument on cable, which happens quite often event though he seldom debates anybody, he believes the cause is a Rand Paul disinformation campaign.

As Rand Paul rises in the polls, expect these three to get more agitated and red in the face angry. They are beyond help and can’t be saved.Sadly, there is no cure and the best way to deal with these people is to ignore them.
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He's forgetting Dana Perino and Bill Kristol.
 
Rand Paul’s presidential campaign, by many recent accounts, is sputtering. The candidate, according to the Atlantic’s Molly Ball, is “flailing.” His campaign, reports National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar, has been called a “disaster.”
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Holy nattering nabobs, Batman!

echo chamber (noun): a place where an opinionator's "evidence" is the opinions of other opinionators ...
 
If anyone came across Jennifer Rubin's Up and Down columns, it's clear she is mentally a 3-year old.
 
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