Discussion for article #230946
Toot Toot! Here comes the RandWagon!
This guy has more positions than a windsock in a stiff breeze.
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Itās so nice that such a decisive statement could be crafted by Rand Paulās team of speechifiers only a week after the event! (Next up: Rand Paul makes a strident comment on the Rodney King trial verdict.)
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You might want to lick the thread again there Rand, I think you missed the needle.
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Yes, he flips back and forth on issue after issue, and his his economic views are batsh*t crazy. But the fact that heās willing to at least say the right thing (if not actually do anything) when it comes to certain issuesālet me put it this way, I prefer a GOP with Rand Paul than a GOP without Rand Paul.
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This wonāt help him with the Republican base. Iām beginning to wonder if he isnāt positioning himself for a third-party run ā in, say, 2020.
Heāll run as something in 2016.
Thereās no way heāll give up a POTUS-election g(R)ifting-opportunity.
Thatās big, national money. Learnt from DaddyRon.
Heās simply positioning himself to not be discounted/disqualified so early the PAC money dries up too soon.
jw1
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Iām not a fan of Rand, but you know what? This is a stronger comment then Iāve seen many Dems makeā¦
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Though I note you used āmanyā as a qualifier.
I give Bill DeBlasio credit-- and heās hip-deep in it.
jw1
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So, he mulls it over for a week, concedes the painfully obvious and then qualifies it with āprobablyā.
Thereās leadership you can admire.
Sort of.
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Jesusā¦Rando is sounding more like a Democrat all the timeā¦His Tea Party base is going to be some pissedā¦So Randoā¦youre NOT getting the nominationā¦FOX ānewsā and its shrills will tear you a new one after thisā¦did you not read the Repugnician script sent over by Uncle Mittās Hispanic Driver??(who theyāre still secretly hoping will NOT self deportā¦āwhat we say in public aināt what we believe in private Jorge.āā¦wink wink) Wait until crazy Teddie Cruise gets a hold of thisā¦yikesā¦nice (not) knowing youā¦
Somebody help me out here. Ifā¦IFā¦Garner was selling loose cigarettes, wouldnāt they likely have come from a pack, and assuming the pack wasnāt stolen (actually it wouldnāt matter since the tax is applied earlier) wouldnāt the tax already have been paid. If I buy 5 gallons of gas and then sell off single gallons the State didnāt lose anything. Why is it different for cigarettes in New York City? Iām confused.
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Randyā¦ Donāt take up windsurfing.
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Boy, Shapeshifting Paul certainly has a lot of voters pegged.
On one hand, he follows the GOP talking point on taxes being the ones that choked Garner to death, and that feeds the red meat of his batty base.
Then a week later, he somewhat takes a position against the cop that killed Garner, and many on the left start swooning and giving him kudos, suggesting heās better than a Democrat on said issue.
Heās done this regarding drones (adamantly against them, except if they were used on a liquor store robber). And airstrikes (he was against them before he was for them). Same with foreign aid (even for Israel but now his aides deny he said that, even though he did).
He sure knows how to play that fiddle, then watches each side dance, dance, danceā¦
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Exactly. And by the way, the police searched his pockets when he was on the ground. I donāt remember seeing the stash of loosies.
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Iām someone okay with what Rand said without being swayed into his court. I wish that more Repubs would come over into the sane camp (on this issue, right this minute, I realize he changes) like him AND I wish more Dems wouldnāt be afraid to voice their support for something that shouldnāt be that controversial.
Iām not going to shake my fist at others when they agree with me. Even if itās temporary.
Big GOP donors whoāll be the deciders as to who the candidate will be are going to focus on Mitt, Christie and Jebby and Randās name has not come up. Heās small potatoes. What these donors are doing is beginning an effort to avoid a prolonged primary against HRC
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If I felt Paul was genuine and believed what he was spouting, Iād agree with you.
A broken clock is right twice a day. That still doesnāt mean itās not broken.
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Rand may not get the big money.
But he certainly can skim from the early caucuses without much consternation.
Thereās a profit there. Or Rand wouldnāt be trying.
Heās seen his father do the same thing.
Itās Etch-A-Sketching-for-Dollars on a smaller scale.
jw1
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You are going to be more confused. He had at one time sold loosies which for some obscure reason is a crime there. Offering to buy a couple of cigarettes is a polite way to get a nicotine fix without coughing up the price of a pack or bumming the smokes. Poor people do it and rich people do not, so there you have justification for the law. The tax gets charged each time the product is sold. Tax collectors have a long and thoroughly earned history of regressive parasitic behavior like this. My guess is that they could also arrest all the people who open a pack of smokes without tearing the tax stamp seal so that it can not be reused to avoid the tax. At any rate pandering Kools is not what the cops decided to bust him for, and this is just part of the standard PD press release intended to further incriminate the person in the eyes of the general public and potential jurors.
The real question here is why the cop decided to kill him instead of arresting him.
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