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Rand Paul: RNC Take Note

By: plumely (Diary)  |  March 8th, 2013 at 01:36 PM  | 

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What Rand Paul has done is how you win elections. This type of gumption is what will energize the base and bring out the small percentage of the Republican base who stayed home during the 2012 election.  Conservatives are looking for a fighter. And they are looking for someone who can back a person like Barack Obama down. Senator Rand Paul showed us he is that kind of man. As you in the RNC think about who you will throw all your resources into backing for 2016, and Jeb Bush pops into your heads, ask yourself if he would have been able to do what Rand Paul did. And Karl Rove I hope you are listening to this too. Sorry for the shortness of this diary, but what more can I say?

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  • ddd365

    We need a Rand Paul, not John McCain or Karl Rove. The perception is that the GOP is almost as socialistic as the Left. They wont stand up for what their base believes in and instead make “grand bargain” after “grand bargain”. What they don’t understand is that they have no chance of winning in 2014 as things stand right now and with OFA launching full scale later this month, they appear confused, over their heads and disorganized. Making a clear stand against these policies is the only chance they have — win or lose

    • plumely

      Well, as I see it, in order to reform the Republican party to what it should stand for, we are going to have to make more stands like that of Rand Paul’s. And that means we might lose some fights. But we have to stop looking toward electability and more toward principled stands. In the long run that makes us stronger personally and as a movement.

  • celador2

    RNC maybe should not take sides in a primary but support the winner even one Rove opposed.
    Karl Rove has targeted the open Iowa Senate seat that Harkin will vacate 2014. Rove is going after popular conservative Steve King saying he can not win. After Rove gets through demonizing King that might be more accurate than not. i suspect King’s anti amnesty views are part of the reason Rove is as ruffled as the NYT.

    The other reasons are that King is part of the constitutional conservatives who stand and fight just like Paul, Lee, Cruz and others. Rove can not control him anymore than Graham can control Paul.

    The public always admire integrity and honor in our leaders. We saw that in Sen Paul from Kentucky who spoke to the constitutional powers of the president and about the Bill of Rights for 13 hours.
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    • plumely

      Well we need to shun Karl Rove and the good news is that we can use the left as a proxy army to do that since they dislike him as much as we do.

      • celador2

        Who does give Rove all the big money he has? Conservatives are his target now and as you say the left hold him up as a poster child for Bush, their arch enemy.
        Rove has credibilty as long as the cash flows and as long as his people win.
        If he continues to attack conservatives and play king maker he may sink like a stone.

        • plumely

          Exactly and we need to figure out a way to make him sink like a stone sooner than later without him dragging good canidates down with him.

          • celador2

            Iowa Senate may be the batlefield that determines if Rove sinks or lives to say, I told you so. Latham the moderate Rove type, says he will not run for Senate and Steve King has shown interest, I read in an alert today. If King wins Rove has lost credibilty. But if Kings wins primary and not general Rove will say he was too conservative.
            Iowa has a problem with high taxes and entitlements and corn or ethanol subsidies. It is harder for GOP to win in states they once had a chance. I suspect Obama will have coattails and if he is unpopular in 2014 King may win the Obama backlash vote. If Obama is not unpopular the Democrat may hold Harkin’s seat

          • ww2nd95

            I agree. I think it does depend heavily on Obama’s popularity. I think King has an uphill fight though. Obama did carry Iowa by 9 points over Romney, so I have a hard time seeing that same state sending King to Washington over a Democrat or moderate Republican.

          • celador2

            I do not see how Obama did so well there but he did. 2014 will have a smaller turnout and not all the obama voters. KIng may have a say on issues. But Obama might also campaign in the state despite not being on ballot.
            Will more of the same, the D clone of Harkin, win or a bold new world with a new face in Senate Rep Steve King?
            Harkin said the state was 50-50 and that gives GOP hope.

    • barfaulkner

      Rove does not pull the lever in any voting booth I’ve been in. He’s only puffed up on his own view of himself. I don’t care what he says. He was and is a globalist and that is too much for me. We can take over the RNC……. go to your local meetings….. speak up…… run……. it starts at the tip of your nose. We can oust these old cronies.

      • celador2

        I agree bart, good points. We need to show Rove is not inevitable and bring on fighters like Paul, Cruz, Lee , the constitutional conservatives who take nothing for granted liberals have imposed. Rove operates a PAC for funding campaigns and is not directly tied to RNC but RNC can always use some inspiration and new blood.
        When a right conservative like Rand Paul wins it shows Rove is not always right in his gloom and doom. If Steve King wins Iowa he may join Paul on floor. Rove has made a mistake seeking out Rep King to target for defeat in a Senate primary.