CPAC 2015 - Rand Paul Interviews Sean Hannity
The Republican Liberty Caucus of Idaho was present at CPAC 2015 and some of our members caught an impromptu role reversal interview, where Rand Paul interviews Sean Hannity. Rand Paul is...
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Rand Paul will formally declare his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination with a five-state, five-day announcement tour next month, Republicans knowledgeable about the Kentucky senators plans told The Washington Times.
Mr. Paul will make his announcement first in Louisville atnoon on April 7, then head to New Hampshire onApril 8, Charleston, S.C., onApril 9, Iowa CityonApril 10and Las Vegas onApril 11.
Traditionally, presidential candidates enter the race by declaring in their home state and then flying to at least two of the first four states that hold presidential preference contests the following year.
It takes a significant campaign war chest and logistical planning and know-how to design and execute a three-state announcement tour, said Michael Karem, whose experience in doing national campaign advancement extends back to Ronald Reagans first presidential nomination run in 1975.
Five-state inaugural swings take even more money and advance-work skills, veterans of national campaigns say.
Mr. Paul, 52, is a ophthalmologist elected to the Senate in 2011. He has the support of much of the libertarian-mined conservatives who were devoted followers of his father, Ron Paul, also a physician and former U.S. House member from Texas who enjoyed a loyal following for never deviating from conservative, free-market, individual freedom principles in all his vot
In February, he edged out Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson in the latest CPAC straw poll.
Mr. Paul would be the second formally declared candidate, since Mr. Cruz plans to announce his bidMonday. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Mr. Carson have announced exploratory committees, but have not formally declared their candidacy.
Mr. Paul has the support of much of the libertarian-mined conservatives who were devoted followers of his father, Ron Paul, also a physician and former U.S. House member from Texas who won a strong following for his allegiance to conservative, free-market principles of individual freedom throughout his career in Congress and in two races for the GOP president nomination.
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Rand Paul to kick off 2016 bid April 7 with ambitious five-state tour
Sen. Rand Paul opens his PAC Austin office at the Capitol Factory
In the middle of SXSW 2015 Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) opens the office for his Political Action Committee at the Capitol Factory in downtown Austin, TX.
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More Than a Flip-Flop
03.20.15
Theyve accused the senator of shape-shifting before, but now theyre positively apoplectic he signed the GOPs Iran letterand one of his biggest defenders says its the last straw.
On a Saturday afternoon in mid-January, Brett H. Pojunis, the chairman of the Nevada Libertarian Party, stood outside his office on Flamingo Road in Las Vegas, ashing a cigarette and dissing Rand Paul. Were the Libertarian Party, he told me, dramatically stretching out the word in his New York accent. Paul, a member of the Republican Party, was in town for a visit ahead of formally launching his bid for the White House, and Pojunis didnt particularly care.
Libertarian, he said, is now just a buzzword for Republicans like the Kentucky senator. If Paul was really so libertarian, Pojunis had some advice for him: Well, OK thenjoin the Libertarian Party!
Pojunis led me inside past some staffers hunched over a computer trying to select a new party logo. Is this too swastika-y? he asked, pointing to an image closely resembling the Nazi insignia. We walked past a room cluttered with memorabilia from Baywatch, the 1990s TV show featuring bikini-clad lifeguards, and Pojunis explained that it was the personal office of Michael Burke, the creator of the show and a possible Libertarian Party candidate. He literally has a key to the Playboy Mansion, Pojunis said.
Anecdotally, when Ive talked to Libertarians who identify as Paul supportersparticularly those who campaigned for his father, former congressman and two-time presidential candidate Ron Paulthey acknowledge the reality that Rand Paul may be the best ambassador to the mainstream political world they will ever get. In other words, the senator is not the ideal libertarian (an oxymoronic phrase, given the amount of infighting among libertarians about what exactly that is), but he comes close enough, and certainly closer than any other likely presidential candidate.
But Pojunis and his aides said those Paul supporters were fools. Libertarians who back Paul, he said, are getting all the downside of compromise and none of the upside.
Two months ago, there was little reason to think that Nevadas Libertarian Party, which is considered slightly off the rails even among fellow libertarians, represented anyone other than its own 12,000 members. But some of Pauls recent foreign policy pronouncements have some libertarians, especially those who gravitated to his father for his steadfast opposition to the war in Iraq and George W. Bushs hyper-hawkishness, sounding like Pojunis and his fellow Nevada radicals.
The breaking point came on March 9, when Paul was faced with one of the most challenging decisions of his political career.
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Why Real Libertarians Hate Rand Paul - The Daily Beast
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HAMPSTEAD, N.H. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia on Saturday, saying Americansshould shun the kingdom as it did the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Paul's comments came as he intensified his attack against Hillary Rodham Clinton, again calling on herto return gifts given to her family foundation by foreign countries, including Saudi Arabia. Paul singled out the kingdom for its treatment of women, citing the case of a woman who was gang-raped and later lashed for being in a car with a man who was not her husband.
"This is something that we shouldnt tolerate. This is something we should be organizing a boycott of," the senatorsaid.
[Sweden stood up for human rights in Saudi Arabia. This is how Saudi Arabia is punishing Sweden.]
Paulsaid Saudi Arabia should be shunned as South Africa was during apartheid.
"Remember when South Africa was misbehaving? We organized a boycott of South Africa. We should be boycotting Saudi Arabia and not taking money from Saudi Arabias government," Paul said.
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a likely GOP presidential candidate, said it was unconscionable that Hillary Clinton took donations from foreign governments that exhibit a "horrific" rejection of women's rights. (AP)
At that time international sanctions were levied against the nation, along with a divestment campaign.
While the senator in his statements did not differentiate a government boycott from one by individuals, a spokesperson later said in a statement that Paul was "not calling for a governmental boycott, but rather options for private citizens and investors."
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Sen. Rand Paul calls for Americans to boycott Saudi Arabia