Rand Paul Planning Campaign Staff Shake-up
Submitted by Michael Nystrom on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 20:00By Roger Alford - Associated Press Reporter
Bluegrass Politics
BOWLING GREEN — Kentucky senatorial candidate Rand Paul said Tuesday he’s planning a campaign staff shake-up a week after a round of interviews in which he dismayed fellow Republicans by discussing his views on racial segregation.
Campaign manager David Adams, a Republican strategist and former blogger who has been with the campaign since it began, will remain, but perhaps in a different role, Paul said.
Paul, who said he was bolstering his staff, won the GOP nomination last week with campaign workers who were largely political novices and volunteers. He said all the staffing decisions haven’t yet been made....
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On Tuesday, wearing his doctor scrubs, the Bowling Green physician spoke about his turbulent week to a friendly audience at a civic club in his hometown.
He drew chuckles when he described last week’s campaign victory with the words of English novelist Charles Dickens: “It was the best of it times. It was the worst of times.”
“I think they’ve used it as an issue to try to make me into something that I’m not,” he said. “I was raised in a family that said that you judge people the same way Martin Luther King said, you judge people by their character not by the color of their skin.”
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Here we go with Jess Benton again
Remember those lousy lousy lousy Ron Paul ads
ron paul's campaign staff sucked.
Some of them became C4L staff and continue to suck.
It's amazing.
Good move...
Regardless of what you think of his stance on the issues, Rand was NOT well prepared (by his staff) for the inevitable ambush questions he was and is going to receive.
Retractions and clarifications do not work well for a candidate like Rand.
His staff should have known that, anticipated these kind of questions, and had him thoroughly prepared.
They didn't and he wasn't.
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Frankly, I wish Ron Paul
Frankly, I wish Ron Paul would have done this after the Nov 5th Money Bomb in '07.
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I wouldn't
believe jack from this AP reporter. They don't report what you need to know, they report what they want you to believe. Remember the propaganda (lies) is flying at record pace.
Just one last kick in the nuts, then a final deathblow
I have permission to post this quote from a friend of mine....
"Stand fast Rand. You've had better intellectual preparation for this moment, by virtue of your upbringing and association with leaders in the Austrian school, than probably anyone in the nation. Put it to good use. Now is the time. Ignore the nail-biters. Use good judgment, but don't back down from obvious truth." DRS, May 22, 2010
Rand you're in the big leagues now...
Just stay on message, stand strong on principles, and don't campaign with the idea of just winning (Remember Specter?) but rather as your father does - with the idea of being a principled constitutional conservative candidate.
And then you'll win.
"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed, over-regulated, and overrun by bureaucrats. The founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with."
-Ron Paul
Agreed!
And he's got to watch both the "left and the right." Rand will win if he is himself.
Better yet ignore both the
Better yet ignore both the left and the right and stay focused on important issues. The media will spin no matter how Rand answers.
Rand does not "deserve to lose" - he is still WAY better
than anyone else running in KY.!!
Debbie
Interesting logic. So let me
Interesting logic. So let me ask you - when Ron Paul dropped out of the presidential race, did you therefore cast your support for and vote for Obama because he was marginally better than McCain? Is this seriously the lesson we've all learned from Ron Paul's message?
No - I figured you would go with that angle. I'm not
saying "lesser of two evils" because Rand is not evil. I'm saying if he's not perfect, he's still so much better than his former or current opponent that it's a no-brainer.
Debbie
Very well said. My thoughts
Very well said. My thoughts exactly. Rand deserves to lose this election. These two contrasting quotes sum it all up for me:
“When it is said that nothing, including a nuclear strike, is off the table on Iran, are those who say it not also threatening genocide?” ~ Ron Paul
“I don’t think you take [nuclear weapons] off the table.” ~ Rand Paul
Case closed
convince aj with that first
then work on the rest of us. although the rest of the country's standard would be raised with him in the senate, no, he shouldn't be there, because the community king Revere1776 doesn't like him. king Revere1776 points at his liberty peasant and say: you shall lose! because you have disobeyed me. then he goes on to direct his other subordinates.
Clever comment, but you all
Clever comment, but you all talk about how you're willing to excuse his "impurity" as if we're quibbling about privatizing roads or something. Genocide is kind of an important issue to me and the fact that Rand is soft on committing GENOCIDE for Christ's sake should shake everyone here. God, I mean even Bush/Cheney never came right out and said "Nuclear first strike is ON THE TABLE."
There never was and never will be another Ron Paul. That's it. Let me ask you sir - when the first opportunity comes to Rand in the Senate to either fund the war or not fund the war, what do you think his vote will be? Be honest with yourself. Need I remind you of his two detestable campaign ads showing tanks rolling and storm troopers marching saying how much he adores our troops? Would he really vote against funding their aggressive war of genocide after all that gushing over them he's done to get his seat in Washington? Ask yourself.
Why then, does Ron Paul, whom you think highly of, want Rand in
the senate?
Debbie
Do staffers win elections, or do ideas?
If only Rand's views and ideological fountain mirrored his dad's.
If only...
November will be a hard lesson, and it won't be JB's fault or "staffer's" fault if Rand loses. I hope he wins.
However...
Ideas do matter, and Rand does not YET fully comprehend this. Rand seems clueless to the power of his dad's uncompromising rigor to the Misesian/Bastiat philosophy...
...whatever the political winds may be, and this possible November loss will be his fault for abondoning these ideas, not particular "staffers".
He had a chance (no actually MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY CHANCES) to answer the civil rights (a property rights derivative) questions straight up to Maddow a la the way Stossel did in the wake.
You REALLY DO have the right to discriminate on your own property (your business) and possibly go out of business as a result. This is the heart of property righs.
Then he ducks "Meet the Liberals".
Ideas matter Rand, stick to them...learn from your dad...post-haste, please.
WATCH OUT, RAND! Benton is going to lose this one for you!
Avoid that dim bulb like your political life depends on it.
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Why did this ahole call it
Rand's views on racial segregation, is this guy an ahole or what. It was Rand's view on government intervention into every facet of our lives. These dickheads love to add spin. I am not reading the article, f this guy.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must. like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine
The R3volution requires action, not observation!!!!
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Is Jesse Benton going to be the new campaign manager? Why did they bring up his name?
(If he's a communications director, is he in charge of giving this story to Bluegrass Politics? If so... really classy, Benton...)
Benton seems to act like he
Benton seems to act like he can continue to do a terrible job and no one notices. Well, Jesse, we've noticed!
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KY Libertarians rant on Rand?
I don't know what kind of screwy thing the Libertarian Party of Kentucky has done with their state party platform but private property rights are sacrosanct in the libertarian philosophy.
They correctly point out that Rand opposes same-sex marriage, a true departure from libertarian individual rights theory, but Dr. Paul's comments were "hurtful" to minorities?? They must have listened to some leftist's interpretation of Dr. Paul's remarks about race and the Civil Rights Act instead of his actual words because he was emphatic that he would denounce any business that discriminated on the basis of race and, has he been alive at the time, he would have marched with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a former Libertarian state legislator I know that some Libertarians and even entire state parties can be infected with loopy perversions of the libertarian philosophy and apparently that is the case in Kentucky. I suggest hitting the philosophy books guys.
New Hampshire and Ecuador.
PCC Staff=Kiss of Death
David Adams is the man! He deserves MASSIVE respect for winning the primary for Rand. This win is much more than ANYONE of the former PCC can claim.
I personally don't trust ANYONE from the former PCC after what happened in 2008, and I can predict that NOTHING GOOD can come of ANY IMPORTS in upper level staff in Texas. Intermarried or not, the former PCC has absolutely no ability to run an effective ad campaign. "He's catchin on!" WILL NOT MAKE IT HAPPEN FOR RAND.
I fully expect poll numbers to consistently fall if ANY of the former PCC staff is imported to KY. We will be VERY lucky to win with Benton as campaign manager. PCC staff will be the kiss of death, but the grassroots might just pull it off despite PCC being involved.
sigh of relief
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Thanks for posting! These briefings to the troops
are REALLY going to be needed!
Looks like Rand needs some help battling the Ministers of Disinformation in the comments section ... :/
Send Jesse to Arizona to help
Send Jesse to Arizona to help McInsane!
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Now there's a good idea. Was
Now there's a good idea.
Wasn't it Benton who set up the Ron Paul interview with Brüno aka Sacha Baron Cohen?
Maybe he can do something like that for Sen. Lettuce McInsane.
If JB is married to Ron
If JB is married to Ron Paul's granddaughter, what relation is he to Rand?
I'm in agreement we most...JB needs to go, relation or not. Relatives and business generally do no mix.
he would be rands nephew
he would be rands nephew
JB must go. Adams is OK
JB must go. Adams is OK besides claiming that Rand is for "winning " in Iraq which I have never heard Rand say.
Ventura 2012
Please, sweet baby cheeses, let
JB get "reassigned".
Ron Paul "Sign Wave Across the USA" -- November 5th!