Republican Rand Paul, son of Texas Congressman and past 2008 Presidential candidate, Ron Paul, has become a political phenomenon making his first bid for public office, rode a wave of support from the "tea party" movement into Kentucky's fall election, where Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway promises to turn back the small-government movement. Image Credit: humblelibertarian.com
Tea Party Movement defined - quotes from Rand Paul
The media and the political society in Washington D.C. didn't see it coming. They labeled these primaries that took place on May 18, 2010 as a move toward typical mid-term "Anti-Incumbency", "Angry", and worse ... "Racist Backlash".
Democrat Arlen Spector lost his bid for a seventh term by running on the policies of the Obama Administration after making the desperate move to save his career by switching political parties from Republican to Democrat. This loss was significant largely due to the fact that President Barack Obama, himself, campaigned for Arlen Spector against the eventual primary winner (Joe Sestak) as he had for other Democrats in tight races in late 2009 and 2010 with the same losing result. The Arlen Spector case, if taken alone, may have been typical mid-term "Anti-Incumbency", "Angry", and worse ... "Racist Backlash" if it was not for the looming fact that Joe Sestak still has to beat Republican Senate nominee Pat Toomey for the Senate seat where going in, Toomey has a statistical lead.
The most significant race in that it was the one race where Republicans and Democrats were going up against a candidate who ran on a Tea Party platform, was the race for the Republican Senate seat in Kentucky ... nominee Rand Paul. In his victory speech, he was able to lay out what these political primaries for the November 2010 mid-term elections will actually be about. Not "Anti-Incumbency", "Anger", and worse ... "Racist Backlash" as the main reporting of these events have been cast.
The following are quotes from Rand Paul, Republican Senate nominee from Kentucky as Mr. Paul’s supporters gathered around the fireplace at his victory party at the Bowling Green Country Club - with 99 percent of precincts reporting, Mr. Paul led Mr. Grayson by 24 percentage points:
"The tea party movement is huge," Paul told cheering supporters. "The mandate of our victory tonight is huge. I think America's greatness hinges on us doing something to save the country. The tea party movement is about saving the country from a mountain of debt that is devouring our country and I think could lead to chaos."
"Washington is horribly broken. I think we stand on a precipice," Paul said, "we are encountering a day of reckoning, and this movement, this tea party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently."
"People are already saying now you need to weave and dodge, now you need to switch," Paul said in his victory speech. "Now you need to give up your conservative message. You need to become a moderate. You need to give up the tea party. ... The tea party message is not a radical message. It's not an extreme message. What is extreme is a $2 trillion deficit."
Rand Paul hammered President Obama for “apologizing for America’s greatness,” and said about Capitalism, “we should not apologize to the rest of the world for our system.”
Rand Paul also said we “should be proud of Capitalism. Capitalism is freedom.”
"It's a nationwide movement," he added, "What I say to Washington is watch out, here we come."
"It symbolizes the growth of the freedom movement," Ron Paul said.
Paul won the Republican nomination without the support of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Louisville ... the senior Senator from Kentucky.
McConnell endorsed Grayson late in the campaign.
So it is out with the old ... and progressive (Democrat or Republican) political culture, without malice, or anger in Washington D.C. - this is what typifies the Tea Party Movement.
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Hey Rand PAUL, ARE YOU A RACIST, IF SO, WHY? is it true that you want to overturn the civil rights amendment dumbo.
Capitalism is not freedom. It may be economic freedom. If it's more, it's freedom many do not want: eg, to die because you have no health care, to let your children starve because you can't feed them, etc. Capitalism depends on money, so if you don't have it, or lots of it, you don't have positive freedom, you have the freedom to die in squalor. Capitalism is very good, yeah right
If you can't feed your children, don't have them. If you don't have money, go earn it. That's what capitalism provides - an opportunity at success - if you're willing to go out and seize that opportunity. Otherwise you're just a person who sits around, whines, probably cries, and begs the government to go out and steal from those who are seizing the opportunity, so people like you can have the money other people earned while continuing to scream poverty. You need to wake up or get out of this country and move to Cuba if you want everything taken care of for you.
Punchie he supports private businesses having the right to choose who they will and will not do business with. In the harshest terms this would mean a private business owner would have the right not to serve black people if he or she did not want to, for example. You may not like it but that would be indicative of a truly free society. Why should the feds be allowed to tell you who and who you will not do business with? Should they also have the right to tell you who you can and cannot associate with? How about who you will and will not allow into your home?
I was a little disappointed to hear him say tonight on television that he supports keeping all measures on the table in regards to Iran and nukes. I was hoping he was as refereshing unlike the neo cons as his father.
Kristine, if there is a God in the heavens above, views like yours will end up in the dust bin of history where they belong. Freedom for you should not trample on the rights of others. Freedoms like the ones yous subscribe to are alive and well in Somalia. Not in our great country.
The government PROTECTS the rights of others as provided in the Constitution. It doesn't MAKE rights for people. The so-called rights of a restaurant owner who doesn't want to serve black people tramples on the rights of others. Period. End of story. Rand Paul, you've had your fun playing politician. I will enjoy watching your short career implode.
It's one thing to win a primary. But extremist views are not the mainstream.
The Tea Party: modenr day KKK: angry old white males who are good at blaming their own failures in life; the key word: they are old. They are on the wrong side of history and demographics: tick tock, Billy Bob, tick tock!
Specter lost with the Dems because he is not and never was, a Democrat.
This article misstates the facts. Rand Paul was in the Republiclown primary, this race did not feature a Democrat versus Tea Bagger Republiclown!
If Rand Paul is so against government deficit spending why does he accept the 55% of his medical practice billing that comes from government programs? He wants to raise the deductibles/co-pays on patient visits so he doesn't have to wait for payment through the billing cycle. He wants to protect the poor coal mine owners and oil companies from blame when accidents happen. When you have a list of safety violations a mile long or when you flag your drilling platforms in countries that have the fewest regulations on safety and operations those are not accidents, sounds more like reckless criminal endangerment. Rand Paul and the tea baggers he represents say they are for the constitution and then rail against the rights enshrined therein. He undeniably supports a racist agenda, while saying he "abhors racism".
Tea baggers defined.... egos out of control. Rand Paul won a primary in Kentucky and then made a speech about tea baggers taking their government back, what nerve! Can anyone today even name the nobody he ran against? The right wing media and bloggers are so hungry for anything that smells like the rise of conservatism they'll jump on the first thing that moves.
Rand Paul is going to implode with his non-reality based right wing nut case libertarian theories that do not hold up so well when facing the hard facts of governance. He will only be allowed to answer so many times a question with a question. How many times can he tell the Reagan joke, or stare up at the sky when he says how tall a trillion dollars will stack? (67 miles) This tea bagging libertarian disgruntled republiclown one trick pony is not ready for primetime.
You only won a primary in Kentucky bucko! That seat is held by a real genius now right? Get a Clue, Rand Paul and the tea baggers believe their own press! LOL!
@Sonia: Kristine is CORRECT. Do you really want to see your viewpoint--that businesses should NOT be allowed to decide who they do business with--carried to its logical extension?
Black Entertainment Televisin (BET) would need to be outlawed, then. BET practices racial discrimination, hires mainly black people because of their race and targets their audience on a racial basis. Same goes for Latino TV in LA.
This is just one example. Why is it OK for BET & Latino TV to racially choose who they do business with, but no one else can?
You would have to cancel AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, in which the government discriminates based on racial profiling.
I would never do business with a racial bigot. That's why I refuse to watch BET. But there are enough racial bigots who watch and support them. But that's Rand Paul's point: LET THE MARKET DECIDE (governments are prohibited from discriminating).
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