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The Spectacle Blog
One day after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell formally endorsed Trey Grayson, Sen. Jim DeMint threw his support behind Rand Paul for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. Both endorsements were sort of a formality — it has been an open secret that McConnell was for Grayson and DeMint was for Paul — but this makes it official.
DeMint had previously declined to rattle the Senate minority leader by getting involved in the Kentucky race, but McConnell’s public endorsement seems to have moved him. He told Marc Thiessen this week that would be keeping watch to make sure that things didn’t get unfair. DeMint’s most recent endorsee made a surprise second-place showing in the Indiana primary last night. Paul is the frontrunner in the public polls.
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Sean| 5.5.10 @ 12:48PM
McConnell needs someone like Grayson who will support big spending on the Republican side. Paul will oppose big government even if it comes from Republicans.
Pingback| 5.5.10 @ 1:10PM
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kit| 5.5.10 @ 3:43PM
DeMint's endorsement of Rand Paul comes like a kick in the stomach to true conservatives. Rand Paul is no conservative. He's an eccentric libertarian with a record of being cozy with hard-core racists -- he's a chip off the old block.
Tim*| 5.5.10 @ 4:01PM
Sarah Palin endorsed Rand Paul
Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning endorsed Rand Paul.
Greg| 5.5.10 @ 5:16PM
I suspect "kit" doesn't know a true conservative if she supports people like Grayson/McConnell--who would and have both supported the bailouts.
And I thought it was the liberals who threw around the term "racist" in order to suppress debate or close minds...hmmm.
NVA Patriot| 5.5.10 @ 5:36PM
Jim DeMint & Sarah Palin understand something that McConnell and other 'establishment' types don't.
We are not having a political contest in this country. We're at war and the battlefield is the soul of American exceptionalism. We either win or we lose, as Yoda said - there is no try.
The progressives have worked a century+ to concentrate power in Washington. Our founders worked a lifetime to create a government harnessing power in the people while avoiding anarchy and tyranny of central government.
Tyranny comes shortly after a powerful central government unaccountable to the population they rule. Looking at the water situation in CA, the Healthcre bill, the operation of the IRS, the centralizing force of the Dept of Ed now that they control student loands etc. we know Washington sees us a subjects, not self-reliant, free citizans.
McConnell - with every pork vote - enlarged central power. It does not matter his intent.
DeMint and Palin understand the war must be fought FOR limited government. Limited government meansd less Washington and more state and local control.
Rand Paul will fight that battle and that battle is the exitential threat to this generation of citizens. It's ours to win or lose. America is going to either prove we're exceptional again, or we will be another failed great empire.
We need warriors. McConnel disqualifies himself as a warrior. He does not understand the battlefield, the progressive enemy, or the danger of a centralized government wielded by a transformative socialist -
I hope all who read this have stepped up and contributed to conservatives AND taken the advice of coldwarrior at RedState and become a VOTING MEMEBER OF THE local Repub party.
That is the battleground. Win ther locally, and only conservatives advance tot eh national stage. Once the stage is croowded with conservatives, progressives and their enablers will cower and run - see Obey.
We beat the Dem progressives FIRST - they are the greatest, immediate danger. NEXT WE DEFEAT the progressive Repubs and their useful pork-loving idiots.
Yosemeti Sam| 5.6.10 @ 9:55AM
To utter certain conservative shibboleths - does not a whole conservative make!
Universal political playbook trapdoor rule # ____.
There is something to the adage that a nut ( no pun intended) does not fall far from the tree.
Rand Pauls' father:
Ron Paul has a demonstrable vision/proclivity of unwillingness to aggresively supporting US ally Israel - something about abstract notions of cultured neutrality; not to be confused with Christian-Judaeo fellowship.
How about an unequivocal stance from the nut ( again, no pun intended) Rand Paul to supporting Israel - on the fundamental basis of Christian-Judaeo fellowship!
Therein he would be a lock for a senate seat!
No mealy-mouthed throw-away-lines from a would-be senator should otherwise be embraced!
Rand Paul - an eye surgeon - may he see?
Orlando Tom| 5.6.10 @ 2:03PM
The corrupt Republican establishment is in full panic mode.
I expect the corrupt Republican establishment to accuse Rand of killing the baby Jesus before the election.
Rand Paul means what he says, we are coming to take our government back.
No more big government Republicans!
Margie| 5.6.10 @ 10:28PM
Rand Paul actually said, "Iran wants nukes because it feels threatened." Poor babies!
To understand the Libertarian, non-interventionist, terrorist-sympathizing, anti-Israel Paul-bot mind, go here:
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/0.....ur-of-the-“ron-paul-revolutionary”-mind-2/