Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, suspended his presidential campaign yesterday. He took fifth place in Iowa, but garnered just four percent of the vote.
I’ll miss him.
“Ours has been a unique voice in this race,” the senator rightly declared, “one that says Big Government threatens Americans from all walks of life, rich and poor, black and white — from the coal miner who has lost his job over President Obama’s destructive EPA regulations to the teenager from a poor family facing jail time for marijuana.”
Some of Rand’s message resonates in the Republican Party; other parts, not so much.
An anonymous senior Paul aide told Politico that the problem — in addition to “Trump” — was “this foreign policy environment,” noting that “Rand was more flavor of the month a year ago . . . before they were beheading people in the Middle East. . . .”
Still, the GOP would be wise to heed Paul’s message, especially on foreign policy.
“I will not ignore the terrible cost of decades of war and chaos in the Middle East, and the unintended consequences of regime-change and nation-building,” the senator assured supporters. “I will continue to fight for criminal justice reform, for privacy, and your Fourth Amendment rights.”
In assessing his presidential campaign, Paul told reporters, “Brushfires of Liberty were ignited, and those will carry on, as will I.”
That’s good. Like his father, Dr. Rand Paul has become freedom’s foremost firebrand. We need him in the U.S. Senate.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob
2 replies on “Standing with Rand”
In a sea of contradictions, deceit, exaggeration and pure blarney, Rand’s few inconsistencies were mild in comparison for the most part. However,his “conservative” position on immigration was highly problematic to all libertarians except Hoppe devotees…
“Decades of war and chaos in the Middle East”, ha! There has been something approaching fourteen centuries of war and chaos in the Middle East. And, it hasn’t been caused by “regime-change and nation-building”. It has been caused by Islam.