Rand Paul: 'When Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win' by Niki2

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Rand Paul: 'When Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win'

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Sunday, June 2, 2013 12:17 PM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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Rand Paul is the latest Republican to tell his party to open up to a wider range of views within its ranks.

“The party can be big enough to allow people who don't all agree on every issue,” Senator Paul told an audience in California, a state that produced three Republican presidents in the 20th century but now votes reliably Democratic.

“When the Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win again,” he said.

Like other politicians who have advocated a “bigger-tent” philosophy for their party, the US senator from Kentucky says this doesn’t mean leaving strongly held principles behind. “It's not going to change who I am or what I talk about but I think we can be a big enough party to include people," Paul said at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., Friday evening. More at http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0601/Rand-Paul-When-Republi
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It's good to hear people the right takes at least somewhat seriously talking about this. I did have to smile, however, at

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In his Friday talk, Paul sought to define himself, among other things, as a Republican who cares about the environment. “I bike and hike and kayak. I compost,” he said. “I plant trees. In fact, I have a giant Sequoia I’m trying to grow in Kentucky.”

I'll withhold judgment on how much of an environmentalist he might be until I see where he stands on stuff, but someone should tell him a Sequoia can't grow in Kentucky....Sequoias require moist, rich, balanced ph, and well-drained soil. Pretty tricky recipe, but I wish him luck. There IS one in Kentucky, planted a couple of decades ago, so who knows?

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Sunday, June 2, 2013 12:23 PM

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America loves a winner!

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someone should tell him a Sequoia can't grow in Kentucky

Yes. There needs to be a govt official who forbids him from even trying, huh?

Good grief. If he tries and it doesn't grow, maybe he'll learn his lesson.

Or maybe he won't.

As Hillary would say... what difference does it make ?

Just don't tell the sequoia where it can and can't grow.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Sunday, June 2, 2013 12:39 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Now that's a perfect example of what we've been talking about here in RWED. Did you enjoy writing those nasty comments? My comments weren't in any way a put-down of Mr. Paul or his efforts to grow a Sequoia, I think it's neat--and by the way, there are many of them growing all over the country, planted by people with the same idea as he.

So what inspired your snarking at me about it, a snark having absolutely nothing to do with the topic of the thread, referring to government official forbidding him planting one? Just your dislike of me, or something else?

ETA: I just realized I wrote "can't grow in Kentucky"--I should amend that to "may have difficulty growing in Kentucky".

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Sunday, June 2, 2013 12:43 PM

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America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by Niki2:

Now that's a perfect example of what we've been talking about here in RWED. Did you enjoy writing those nasty comments?

I wrote none.

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My comments weren't in any way a put-down of Mr. Paul or his efforts to grow a Sequoia, I think it's neat--and by the way, there are many of them growing all over the country, planted by people with the same idea as he.

Then why bother w/ what you said in the first place?

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So what inspired your snarking at me about it, a snark having absolutely nothing to do with the topic of the thread, referring to government official forbidding him planting one? Just your dislike of me, or something else?

ETA: I just realized I wrote "can't grow in Kentucky"--I should amend that to "may have difficulty growing in Kentucky".

Actually, a dislike for your political views. Just to be clear.

And yes, " can't grow " has a different twist than " may have difficulty ".

The former has a negative, authoritarian tone to it, while the latter is based more in an informative message.

See my point now ?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Sunday, June 2, 2013 12:48 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Why bother with what I said? Because I found his pointing out his intent to grow a Sequoia in Kentucky amusing, AND REMARKED ON IT, nothing more. An expressed opinion, what's wrong with that?

Additionally, neither "can't" nor "may have difficulty" has ANYTHING to do with a government official FORBIDDING him from trying...you went there; pretty clearly that says something. My "political view" in this thread was a POSITIVE statement about Rand Paul, so that's not where it came from.

The prejudice is obvious; if I'd posted an article about Obama and he'd said exactly the same thing, I would have found it equally amusing, and probably have remarked precisely the same way. But, in my opinion, you see it's from me, and despite it being a POSITIVE post about Rand Paul, assumed my remark about the Sequoia was a diss, and snarked back. That's how we get where we are, and until/unless we change it, it will never stop.

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Sunday, June 2, 2013 2:46 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

“When the Republican Party looks like the rest of America, we'll win again,” he said.

Sooooo... Never? Does never work for you, Rand?

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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