Rand Paul, once the outsider, gains GOP support in Ky.
Notice how they make it sound like a horse race, it's not about the best candidate it's about who has a chance to win. I truly hate what the press has done to our elections. If everyone voted for the best candidate not the one with the best odds, we may have a chance to turn the country around.
By ROGER ALFORD (AP) – 15 hours ago
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Rand Paul has run his U.S. Senate campaign as the consummate outsider: a grassroots candidate drawing support from regular Joes and Janes. Now that his candidacy has gained momentum, he's beginning to pick up support from the Republican establishment.
Once dismissed as an oddball and extremist with little chance of being elected to the Senate, Paul is now considered the man to beat in Kentucky. Paul — the son of former Republican presidential candidate and Texas congressman Ron Paul — tried to win favor among state GOP bigwigs Friday by offering his support to Republican congressional candidates in a "take back the House" rally in Lexington.
"With decisions about political support, a lot of people sit on the fence until they are pretty confident of who's going to win," said University of Kentucky political scientist Stephen Voss. "Paul has reached the threshold where a lot of people have decided he's a safe bet."
Paul and his chief rival, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, are running for their party's nomination to replace retiring Sen. Jim Bunning, a former major league pitcher enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Republican leaders urged Bunning, 78, not to seek a third term, fearing he had become so unpopular he couldn't win.
Grayson was the GOP establishment's early choice, quickly garnering some 65 GOP endorsements and benefiting from a campaign fundraiser in Washington attended by some 20 Republican U.S. senators, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Voss said Paul now is the clear front-runner heading into Kentucky's May 18 primary election, citing numerous polls that show he has amassed a sizable lead with his calls to rein in government spending, stop taxpayer bailouts of private companies and balance the federal budget.
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When are the "timid Jims" going to climb aboard?
I refer to US Senators Jim DeMint and Jim Bunning. (DeMint is head of a PAC supporting conservatives for US Senate. Bunning, who is retiring, holds the seat sought by Rand Paul.) I know DeMint has said a few nice things about Rand but, if he really is looking at the GOP nomination for 2012, he may be hoping Grayson skewers him on some pet GOP issue so that Palin will lose face for her early endorsement of Paul and be less of a threat to his plans.
Palin, if she views DeMint as a contender, may have jumped to endorse Rand before DeMint did, figuring DeMint would not go for a "me too" endorsement and would risk not supporting the winning side to stay out of Palin's shadow. Palin has taken heat for endorsing Rand but would come out ahead if he wins.
As for Bunning, he is said to be personally fond of Grayson but I suspect Rand may be growing on him. He can endorse either with impunity since he is retiring. It all depends on what kind of successor he wants to see.
New Hampshire and Ecuador
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New Hampshire and Ecuador
There's precious little about OUR issues in there
and here it is:
he has amassed a sizable lead with his calls to rein in government spending, stop taxpayer bailouts of private companies and balance the federal budget.
"We have got to get rid of the people who claim to be Republicans who, once they get to Washington, act like Democrats,"
said she is delighted prominent Republicans are publicly supporting Paul and seem to be responding to the grassroots call to rein in government spending.
New Hampshire and Ecuador
I heard a jazz man
sing a song about "going down to the crossroads" once.
I was just reading about crossroads
http://thecrossroads.typepad.com/crossroads/2010/03/grayson-...