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Rand Paul as President in 2016

Should be Rand Paul the candidate for the Republicans in 2016

  • I'm a right leaning American, yes

    Votes: 12 25.5%
  • I'm a left leaning American, yes

    Votes: 8 17.0%
  • I'm a right leaning American, no

    Votes: 12 25.5%
  • I'm a left leaning American, no

    Votes: 15 31.9%

  • Total voters
    47

ConsvLiberal

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I think he is a really good alternative to Jeb Bush who is not a really good Republican. Should Rand Paul be the candidate for the Republicans in 2016?
 
I would absolutely LOVE IT if Rand Paul were the GOP 2016 nominee for President. Its been a long time since Barry Goldwater allowed the Democrats to nearly sweep from coast to coast from the top of the ticket on down to the state level and its long overdue. Nobody could do that better except Paul.

Okay - perhaps Palin - but that is not going to happen.

For that matter -neither is Rand Paul. But its fun just the same.
 
Of the Republocrat choices thus far, he's the best.
 
I would vote for Rand Paul before I would vote for any of the other Republicans and I would vote for Rand Paul before I would vote for Hillary Clinton and most Democrats. But I would vote for Bernie Sanders before I would vote for Rand Paul. While I certainly hope Rand Paul wins the Republican nomination, I trusted his father more.
 
I am keeping an open mind about ALL the candidates except for Lindsay Graham. I don't know if I could hold my nose tight enough to vote for him. He would be better than Hillary, but he would likely destroy what is left of the GOP. But all the others deserve a chance to be heard and considered.

I will say there are red flags for me with Rand Paul. He was on Fox and Friends early morning today, and while I believe he is sincere, he just seems a bit unrealistic in an electronic world of instant communication in which terrorism is seriously on the rise. I want a President who is aware of the problem and looks for ways to maximize liberty AND not tie the hands of law enforcement to identify the terrorist and intercept they intentions to kill, maim, destroy. I am not convinced that Rand Paul is that man.
 
As of today I don't think he should be the nominee but the process has just started, and I'm going to be open minded.
 
Once again, it is impossible to answer the who is leaning which way poll question, but I agree with TB. It is too soon to tell. While I have eliminated some possible candidates outright, I am keeping an open mind.
What I can say for sure is that I shall not vote party line, but make my decision based on the candidate's experience, voting record, platform....
 
I don't think he will... but I like him more than most the other Republican candidates that I can think of. I would vote for him waaaaay before I would any of the contending democrats that are lining up.
 
I think he is a really good alternative to Jeb Bush who is not a really good Republican. Should Rand Paul be the candidate for the Republicans in 2016?

There are two republicans that I find unacceptable, Graham and Huckabee. I'm on the fence with Santorum. I could live with the rest although I'm content to let the field narrow before I pick a favorite.
 
Jeb Bush is going to be the GOP nom., all the wishing and calling him 'not a good Republican', whatever that means, won't change the inevitable. He has the name, the money, the backing, and the political machine. Pencil him in now.

So the Republican voters, and the Republican voters who call themselves Libertarians but who are really Republicans better find something they like about Jeb. They still defend Jeb's brother's awful presidency, the lies, the useless Iraqi war, the crapping all over our civil rights and liberties, the growing the size of the government like never before. So it shouldn't be too hard for them to find something they like about Jeb.
 
I don't really like him (Ron Paul was better), but he sure as hell is better than the rest of the morons in the GOP and he sure as hell is better than Hillary the clown.

It was pleasing to me when he filibustered the PATRIOT Act and said "**** you" when rubiofag suggested the American "FREEDOM" Act. That gave him some points in my book.
 
What the GOP needs to win is a moderate that they will actually allow to run as a moderate. Of course, that won't happen as even if they get a moderate, they will force them to run so far to the right that they will be unelectable. Then they will claim they need a true conservative to win.
 
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I don't really like him (Ron Paul was better), but he sure as hell is better than the rest of the morons in the GOP and he sure as hell is better than Hillary the clown.

It was pleasing to me when he filibustered the PATRIOT Act and said "**** you" when rubiofag suggested the American "FREEDOM" Act. That gave him some points in my book.
Very true. You know, putting yourself out there, even if it may cost you the nomination, means a lot to me.
 
I think he is a really good alternative to Jeb Bush who is not a really good Republican.
Should Rand Paul be the candidate for the Republicans in 2016?








The only way that Rand Paul will ever see the inside of the White House is as a guest.

Wait and see.
 
I don't really like him (Ron Paul was better), but he sure as hell is better than the rest of the morons in the GOP and he sure as hell is better than Hillary the clown.

It was pleasing to me when he filibustered the PATRIOT Act and said "**** you" when rubiofag suggested the American "FREEDOM" Act. That gave him some points in my book.

I agree nearly completely. The filibuster was the right thing to do for "citizens." The NeoCons will make him pay for that, but those warmongers may have pushed too far, even with the Republican toadies that believe all the "War of Terror" bullcrap. We, the USA, seem to be the terrorists, or at the very least, we own most of them. It's a bogus agenda, like "Putin is evil," and China is trying to take over the World. Just bogus agendas that pad Military Offense budgets and maintain the status quo of permanent war. "War is good business, and business is good."
 
As far as national elections go I don't lean left of right. To date there isn't a soul in the GOP mob of candidates I'd consider.

A person cannot get nominated in the GOP unless he/she kisses several rings starting with the Kochs, the Extreme Religious Right and the Tea Party. No thank you very much. I don't want them in my government any more than they are.

Bush and Hillary have never been candidates for my vote and that will not change.
 
Not long after Goldwater, the Republicans won 5 out of 6 presidential elections with Nixon, Reagan, and Bush Sr.
 
A person cannot get nominated in the GOP unless he/she kisses several rings starting with the Kochs, the Extreme Religious Right and the Tea Party.

Yep, and that's a huge problem in the GOP right now. One has to be 100% ideological pure, if they are not then the religious right and TP want nothing to do with them. I truly believe Jeb will be the GOP nominee, but because he isn't 100% 'pure' AND he's a Catholic he will not be the 1st choice of the religious right and the TP, hell he might not be their 5th choice. So Jeb will have to kiss their asses and he'll have to run far, far to the right in the primaries, and that will end up hurting him in the general election.
 
I don't really like him (Ron Paul was better), but he sure as hell is better than the rest of the morons in the GOP and he sure as hell is better than Hillary the clown.

It was pleasing to me when he filibustered the PATRIOT Act and said "**** you" when rubiofag suggested the American "FREEDOM" Act. That gave him some points in my book.


Do you really think that Ron Paul was better? Some people compare him with Jean-Marie Le Pen.
 
As far as national elections go I don't lean left of right. To date there isn't a soul in the GOP mob of candidates I'd consider.

A person cannot get nominated in the GOP unless he/she kisses several rings starting with the Kochs, the Extreme Religious Right and the Tea Party. No thank you very much. I don't want them in my government any more than they are.

Bush and Hillary have never been candidates for my vote and that will not change.

Maybe if you leaned left or right you would have much better information about how somebody in the GOP gets nominated?
 
Maybe if you leaned left or right you would have much better information about how somebody in the GOP gets nominated?

Maybe. In truth I try to avoid voting for anyone in Corpgov. All of whom are owned by Big Money, domestic and foreign.
 
Maybe. In truth I try to avoid voting for anyone in Corpgov. All of whom are owned by Big Money, domestic and foreign.

Are you leaning toward Sanders? I am curious how others view him. He is an interesting candidate and I am hoping he curbs the Clinton machine by a substantial margin. That is, if we don't want to see any more elitists in the WH.
 
Maybe. In truth I try to avoid voting for anyone in Corpgov. All of whom are owned by Big Money, domestic and foreign.

Gee, that doesn't leave many to vote for since they all take those kinds of contributions for their campaigns and leadership pacs. Nobody gets elected President without it.
 
Are you leaning toward Sanders? I am curious how others view him. He is an interesting candidate and I am hoping he curbs the Clinton machine by a substantial margin. That is, if we don't want to see any more elitists in the WH.

So far Sanders has my attention and interest. I like what I have seen in the past and what I am seeing now. It's refreshing. I'd love to see him push Hillary off the radar.
 
Gee, that doesn't leave many to vote for since they all take those kinds of contributions for their campaigns and leadership pacs. Nobody gets elected President without it.


No it doesn't leave many at all. Campaign reform is what we need. Serious campaign reform. It won't happen because most Americans are not that politically aware and are so uninvolved in their own governance that it is almost treasonous. Most Americans are apparently happy with the oligarchy and they will continue voting along party lines because it's much easier for them.
 
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