Rand Paul Announcing Run For The Presidential Nomination

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Sorry for the rant. I'm okay now.

Good. I'm out of Snickers. I think the Easter Bunny left some Reece's Peanutbutter Cups though.

 

[mrjarrell]

Apparently, those who did not listen to Paul's announcement live are SOL, for the moment. Youtube's infamous bots have managed to get it yanked for some BS copyright "infringement" reason.

Oops. Robotized Copyright Claims Yank Rand Paul?s Announcement from YouTube - Hit & Run : Reason.com

 

[mrjarrell]

Time has a transcript of the speech up.

Full Text of Rand Paul's Campaign Launch Speech: Transcript

 

[ArcadiaGP]

So I guess Planned Parenthood, a 501c org, is choosing a political side? Are they so dense... no, they aren't... they're just pandering to the dumb****s that would read this crap.

APPARENTLY NONE OF THESE GROUPS CAN CONTAIN WOMEN.

https://twitter.com/PPact/status/585537361267838976

 

[level.eleven]

It is going to be difficult to run for President of the United States while your father is the keynote speaker at a secessionist rally to dissolve the United States.

While Rand Paul Seeks Donors, Ron Paul Talks Secession | The Texas Tribune

 

[ATM]

It is going to be difficult to run for President of the United States while your father is the keynote speaker at a secessionist rally to dissolve the United States.

While Rand Paul Seeks Donors, Ron Paul Talks Secession | The Texas Tribune

I'd like to hear more from his father.

 

[mrjarrell]

It is going to be difficult to run for President of the United States while your father is the keynote speaker at a secessionist rally to dissolve the United States.

While Rand Paul Seeks Donors, Ron Paul Talks Secession | The Texas Tribune

Have to agree with Walter Block on this one. Ron's a millstone around Rands neck. And he won't shut up while Rand's running.

 

[jamil]

From Debbie Wasserman Schlutz.

This is a classic example of a GOP presidential candidate thinking he can talk his way into our communities while turning his back on us when it comes to his policy prescriptions,”

Read more: Rand Paul launches 2016 bid with attack on GOP - Alex Isenstadt and Katie Glueck - POLITICO

 

[ArmedProgrammer]

From Debbie Wasserman Schlutz.

This is a classic example of a GOP presidential candidate thinking he can talk his way into our communities while turning his back on us when it comes to his policy prescriptions,”

Read more: Rand Paul launches 2016 bid with attack on GOP - Alex Isenstadt and Katie Glueck - POLITICO

He'd better turn his back on her - I want NOTHING to do with her...

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

From Debbie Wasserman Schlutz.

This is a classic example of a GOP presidential candidate thinking he can talk his way into our communities while turning his back on us when it comes to his policy prescriptions,”

Read more: Rand Paul launches 2016 bid with attack on GOP - Alex Isenstadt and Katie Glueck - POLITICO

OK Debbie...your gal needs help with an email server.

 

[zippy23]

Cue all the haters.......you know something very interesting? The left never bickers about their candidates. They just go pull the lever for their party. Yes this is stupid, but not politically. We have a 2 party system whether anyone wants to admit or like it or hate it, thats the way it is and yes it sucks. The right trashes their own politicians because maybe one thing they dont like.....i would argue way more on the right have a brain and thats why. What sucks is that people against the democrat party wont even vote for romney......and the truth is we could have avoided the insanity of obama by electing this guy instead of staying home. Sure not everything would have gone your way, but most things would have, instead of NOTHING. Seems ridiculous that so many on the right stay home because of disagreeing with one or two things from their own side, rather than disagreeing with EVERYTHING from the other.

 

[jamil]

Cue all the haters.......you know something very interesting? The left never bickers about their candidates. They just go pull the lever for their party. Yes this is stupid, but not politically. We have a 2 party system whether anyone wants to admit or like it or hate it, thats the way it is and yes it sucks. The right trashes their own politicians because maybe one thing they dont like.....i would argue way more on the right have a brain and thats why. What sucks is that people against the democrat party wont even vote for romney......and the truth is we could have avoided the insanity of obama by electing this guy instead of staying home. Sure not everything would have gone your way, but most things would have, instead of NOTHING. Seems ridiculous that so many on the right stay home because of disagreeing with one or two things from their own side, rather than disagreeing with EVERYTHING from the other.

Wow. You almost made me feel guilty for calling Chris Christie a fat ass puss bag. For maybe a second.

 

[KG1]

Wow. You almost made me feel guilty for calling Chris Christie a fat ass puss bag. For maybe a nanosecond.

FIFY

 

[Cerberus]

Cue all the haters.......you know something very interesting? The left never bickers about their candidates. They just go pull the lever for their party. Yes this is stupid, but not politically. We have a 2 party system whether anyone wants to admit or like it or hate it, thats the way it is and yes it sucks. The right trashes their own politicians because maybe one thing they dont like.....i would argue way more on the right have a brain and thats why. What sucks is that people against the democrat party wont even vote for romney......and the truth is we could have avoided the insanity of obama by electing this guy instead of staying home. Sure not everything would have gone your way, but most things would have, instead of NOTHING. Seems ridiculous that so many on the right stay home because of disagreeing with one or two things from their own side, rather than disagreeing with EVERYTHING from the other.

Disagreeing with one or two things? I tried really hard to agree with Romney on one or two things, it was a futile exercise.

 

[Cerberus]

yeah, whatever.

I don't know what Paul meant by that. He can't mean that government people can establish religion as a part of government--there can't be a department of tithes and offerings--because that is clearly unconstitutional. It may be that he's talking about people in government expressing themselves.

This is how I think of it. It doesn't bother me if Congress has prayer before it meets. I don't care if there's a prayer breakfast or not. I don't care if a Christian president puts a nativity scene on the north lawn. I don't care if a Jewish defense secretary wears a beanie. I don't care if a Hindu IRS tax auditor has a Ganesh statue on her desk. I don't mind if the Christian Secretary of State has a picture of Jesus on his wall. I don't mind if religious people act like they are religious while on the job as long as it doesn't interfere with their work, and they don't harass other people with it, and they don't proselytize, and they don't put it in my face.

The problem is, we care too much about that. If we cared less, we would all have more freedom to be who we are. If we had thicker skins, and weren't so damned touchy, we all could do much more of what we want. But no, all people get all ape**** over religion and who's wearing what, and ****ing Charlie Brown Christmas! OMG! Fire that ***** who dares show that in public school! WTF? It's Charlie ****ing BROWN people? Who cares?

People, religious and not, scream bloody hell if someone else's chunk of belief is represented by actual people actually doing stuff. Ohh, we must stamp out religion! It's ruining our Utopia! But it's not just athiests or agnostics, it's everyone. All religions and no religions want to boohoo over other people's beliefs.

Just stop giving a **** that someone else is actively believing something you don't. Okay?






Sorry for the rant. I'm okay now.

This was excellent. People seem to care WAY TOO MUCH about what others perceive them as. So much they often become hatred filled phonies.

 

[pudly]

I see an America where criminal justice is applied equally and any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed.

I'm not sure that he's really thought that through.

 

[jamil]

I'm not sure that he's really thought that through.

I think he's talking about stop and frisk. It may be an effective law enforcement technique, but so is unwarranted searches.

 

[pudly]

I think he's talking about stop and frisk. It may be an effective law enforcement technique, but so is unwarranted searches.

Maybe, but then why did he say "any law"? Stop-and-frisk is a law enforcement technique, not a law.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I'm not sure that he's really thought that through.

I think he's talking about stop and frisk. It may be an effective law enforcement technique, but so is unwarranted searches.

Maybe, but then why did he say "any law"? Stop-and-frisk is a law enforcement technique, not a law.

This sort of "imprecise" speak is another aspect of my concerns with Rand.

 

[avboiler11]

Its politics - EVERYTHING is "imprecise" in a world were vagueness is preferred over crystal-clear thoughts, lest a candidate (especially one more than a year out from primaries) get boxed into a position or statement with no ability to pivot, backpedal, or spin.