Monday, May 24, 2010
Putting your own Political views aside for a moment, with his comments regarding the Civil Rights Act and calling President Obama UnAmerican for criticizing BP, will Rand Paul hurt or help the Republican Party?
Putting your own Political views aside for a moment, with his comments regarding the Civil Rights Act and calling President Obama UnAmerican for criticizing BP, will Rand Paul hurt or help the Republican Party?
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Just as Obama received a great amount of votes simply because he was not George W. Bush, distancing themselves from Obama & his policies will help any candidate in 2010 & 2012
ReplyDeleteI feel Rand Paul's politically incorrect statements about the long settled civil rights law will hurt the GOP because in my experience, liberal Democrates look for the political value in a sound bite, not the message. Rand Paul's statement is libertarian not racist, but my guess is it will spun and cropped to make Rand Paul look like a goof-ball.
ReplyDeleteDr. Paul's views that private organizations/businesses have a constitutional right to exclude blacks and other minorities is not the mainstream view of the GOP. If the GOP calls Obama on his radical associates like Reverend Wright, then it should own up to it's radical candidates instead of spinning for him. He articulated a view point that is 'out of the mainstream'.
ReplyDeleteBulletMagnetEd here! You should Twitter accounts as a choice :) But I digress...
ReplyDeleteDr. Paul stands to do a lot of good for the GOP simply because he espouses true Libertarian principles of limited government, Unfortunately, two things work against him. One is his relative inexperience dealing with the press. I think he fails to realize that as a Libertarian, the MSM will be out to get him even if he states the sky is blue with photos to prove it. Second, his views as someone who doesn't believe government is the answer will be unpopular no matter what he does. The MSM has been suckling at the breast of Big Government Socialism for so long, they don't even want to entertain the notion that maybe Free Markets might do most jobs far better, far cheaper and far more efficiently. Hence the ceaseless gotcha moments.
In short, I think he will energize voters that would already vote for him anyway. However, since most American voters are just a step removed from counter tops in intellect, many of the non-Conservative and non-Libertarians will listen to what the Talking Heads will tell them and avoid voting for Dr. Paul like the plague. He won't hurt as much as many say he will, but he won't necessarily help much either.
I second the thoughts of BulletMagnetEd...
ReplyDeleteI would add that there is not much that can be done to really "damage" the Republican Party per se. The Republican Party sold out long ago just like 99% of all politicians. I would say that percentage is fairly accurate. Roughly 1 out of 100 politicians in Washington genuinely care about serving the citizens who elected them. The Republican Party needs to be righted. Nominees like Rand Paul can do much to begin that process, but the intellect comment above is a large barrier to overcome. It will take time. I believe the majority of Americans who pay any attention at all are mostly fed up with both major parties and incumbent politicians regardless of their espoused "beliefs." For many years now, we have had politicians who cared only about the lobbyists. This is why we get legislation rammed through Congress with which a majority of the American people disagree. This is not representative government. It is big government run amok. We need as MANY Rand Pauls as we can manage elected in every election for the next 20 years and maybe we will begin to undo much of the damage done over the past 100 starting with the evil Woodrow Wilson.
Since the liberal media will be bashing anything that is contrary to their socialist views Rand Paul will be looked upon as a radical and then lumped in with the GOP to besmirch them. In the war of public opinion then Rand Paul will only do the GOP harm and not help them in any way. His libertarian views are not mainstream and even some conservative republicans will have a problem with some of his views. However I do feel that fresh ideas and radical differences are needed to set the GOP apart from the DEMS. For too long both parties appeared to be walking lock step right down the red path of socialism. Therefore a Rand Paul standing up and saying the Government is the enemy will resound throughout the general population but the Washington insiders will take huge advantage of his somewhat unorthodox ideas.
ReplyDeleteI am not from the U.S, but I think President Obama has every right to say and do what it takes for B.P "Cleanup" their act, they had received suggestions from hundreds if not thousands of people from around the world, I know that a "Tube" suggestion they tried was done not in the way it was described to them. It was described to put the Tube outside the pipe with a compression ring to hold it in place, not inside, just an example of their "over Thinking the situation".
ReplyDeleteWell, I am a conservative Republican and was really rather alarmed at hearing that Rand Paul had so dissed the Civil Rights Act. Not sure what problem he would have with it. I doubt I would vote for him even if he were endorsed by the GOP.
ReplyDeleteA larger percentage of Republicans (by vote number ratios divided along party lines) passed the Civil Rights Act than did Democrats - w/more Dems voting against it than GOP lawmakers... the 'no' votes including the recently deceased and oh-so-revered Senator Byrd who engaged the Congress in one of the longest filibusters in history second only to Republican Senator Strom Thurmond's filibustering of the 1957's Civil Rights Act - just over an entire day's worth of hot air from that blowhard windbag. He didn't segregate himself from the pretty black maid, now did he?
Actually, I'm shocked that the mainstream media isn't reporting that Byrd was not only a member of the KKK, but also a local LEADER in that domestic terrorist organization. How he convinced West Virginians to continue to vote for him over the better part of a half-century I'll never know.
K.W.M. - you're posting in the wrong page. :)
I'm a Kentucky conservative Republican who now has no candidate to vote for in the Senate race. What a travesty. Our first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Kentuckian, preserved the union and led the party that brought us the Fourteenth Amendment. It's like the Twilight Zone for me, down here in the Bluegrass State, to have a Republican so opposed to Abraham Lincoln. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Lincoln Republican. I am a Lincoln Republican. I weep for Kentucky and the Republican Party.
ReplyDeleteNote to Paul supporters reading this. States don't have 'rights'. They have 'powers'. PEOPLE have rights.
Thanks for asking, Leslie.
P.S. I was in Bowling Green today. That's Rand Paul's hometown. We went to the large shopping mall there and I noticed that the employees of the shops there were about 30%-40% African-American. I would guess that's a much larger percentage than the percentage of all Kentuckians who are African-American. Most all employees (regardless of color) were young people who were very professional, well-dressed, courteous people. It's a college town, too, so I would guess many of them are college students. I thought to myself, he must have shopped here with his family and seen reality. How could he even think that??? And I wondered what these young people thought about their hometown boy running for Senate who has these ideas. Ugh!
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