Wednesday, August 29, 2012

VIDEO: The Sad Performance of Rand Paul

Listen to how aggressively CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks up how the Republican National Committee snubbed Ron Paul and yet Rand answers by evading Blitzer's questions about the snub of his father. Sad.




Translation: Beat my father, diss my father, cheat my father, it's OK, establishment Republicans are great.

(ht Travis Holte)

17 comments:

  1. Robert your way too harsh on Rand Paul,
    his answer was very Paulian...be patient.

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    1. Be serious. Ron Paul has never fawned over the Republican mainstream the way Rand does in this clip. And while, Ron may be to humble to push back against injustices against him, Rand has shown in the past that when it moves him, he is not afraid to push back, such as when he tried to get the credentials moved of a reporter who confronted him.

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    2. Exactly. Neil Cavuto asked his father the same question, the same day, and got the same answer: nothing to see here, move on. Why is Rand any worse?

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    3. Ron should not push back against injustice done to "him", but to hundreds of people who invested their money, energy, time and hopes in working for him, and who were brutally snubbed by the RNC thugs. By remaining silent on this, he sided with the RNC thugs and betrayed his own supporters.

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    4. Because Ron is humble and never pushes back, while Rand is never humble and always pushes back, except to defend his father.

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    5. I agree with Ivan Jankovic wholeheartedly on one point, and that is father and son are not out of step with each other in the way they view the big picture. Ron Paul isn't giving his full endorsement to Romney because he seems to have concerns about foreign policy and civil liberties, but he isn't looking to embarrass him at the convention (as he has made quite clear on numerous occasions) and he indicated yesterday he (marginally) supports the Romney/Ryan ticket over Obama/Biden. Also, though Ron Paul political style is more anti-establishment than his son, I don't see any reason to doubt that he is in full agreement with his son that the Republican party is the best vehicle to advance the libertarian movement for the future. (If he truly felt differently, Ron Paul would not have declined to run in the Libertarian party over the last two election cycles, nor would he hesitate to support a Libertarian candidate like Gary Johnson over Mitt Romney).

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  2. The problem, Wenzel, is you think you live in a free country. You don't. You never have.

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  3. Ugh.

    Are there any other members of Ron Paul's family we can turn to???

    Does he have a libertarian cousin we can elect??

    This media soap opera is a zero sum game. Let us forget it and stop feeding the beast. Ron Paul has had an incredible career. Let's find more pro-liberty candidates. I would be one of them, but due to some naughty pictures, I'm screwed.

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  4. Wolf Blitzer seems to care more about Ron Paul than his own son. I hope Rand,Jesse Benton and campaign for sell-outs have had a fun time disgracing themselves. It made me want to vomit every time Rand glowed on about the Rebuplican platform. Rand said: "we got a lot of good things into the platform": I'm sure if Mitt Romney becomes president he will declare war, audit the fed, return to the gold standard, end domestic drone spying and return our fourth amendment rights. A party platform is usually 75% lies, those lies are used to persuade boobus that some kind of change is going to happen. Then, almost by magic, when the candidate takes office he discards all the lies he told on the campaign trail and maintains the status quo so he/she can keep in power. I am glad all of this has happened so even Ron Paul supporters can see how useless politics are. electoral politics is an arm of the state, it is the state's game and the state is dealing the deck. Rand Paul, Mike Lee,Jim Demint and all the other"constitutional"Republicans are going to continue to sell your freedom and liberty down the river. Paulians, or libertarians for that matter,will never TAKE over the Republican Party because they make the rules. And yeah: Fuck you Rand Paul, you are snake on a diet of turds!

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  5. I don't approve of what Rand has been doing, but I do believe that, in his mind, he is acting in a tactical way, so that he can make changes as president that his father was never able to do. #Paul2016

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    1. I agree with this sentiment completely. I'm still on the fence about whether I prefer his approach or Ron's. I suppose I'd like to see both. Until the uncompromising Ron types take a majority, I'd at least like to see many of Rand's type incrementally moving us towards more freedom.

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  6. Wow....Rand is just dripping slime. How horrible.

    Someone needs to beat him like a red-headed step child for treating his father this way.

    Interesting time for the loss of audio early in the clip btw....was that how it aired originally or was it lost in conversion? Anyone know?

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    1. I saw it live and it wasn't missing audio on my end...

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