Rand "The Runner" Paul lost all of my support when he took off and ran out of the foxhole leaving Rep. King all by himself with the dreamers.

Poll: Rand Paul's support slipping among tea partiers?

A nice catch by WaPo's Aaron Blake. Obvious caveats: It's just one poll and tea party subsamples are necessarily small and prone to large margins of error. But as we get closer to the primaries and Paul breaks with conservative orthodoxy in ever more interesting ways, his standing on the right will be closely watched. This is just one data point, but do note it.

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http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/15/poll-rand-pauls-support-slipping-among-tea-partiers/

     Good find and interesting read.
     I had one problem with the conclusion of the authors
and the publication. That is, if we concede the political
game is so entrenched that there is no way in hell any
candidate is ever going to come along who has not sold his
soul, we might as well pack it in.
      Are we to assume the author is correct in attributing
every move Rand Paul makes to some kind of consultant driven agenda, a numbers game?
      I  don't believe that, but for the sake of the argument, let's say that this is the way it goes for all Washington.
      Now then, can we see how cleverly this journalist has
roped in Ted Cruz and paints him with the same brush? The readers are left to conclude there are no moral issues involved, that Rand and Ted work from the same playbook, and that Ted Cruz, it follows, is a clever con man, just like Rand. (Not a straight up guy like Barack Obama.)
      Advertising men, analysts, and psychologists have a name for this technique. Escapes me at the moment.

Principled Conservation was born in Periclean Athens. It's catalyst remains
the ageless wisdom of the Giants of the Past; whose shoulders we stand on.
Libertarianism is a relatively modern 'ism' born in the French Enlightenment,
which was a revolutionary brake w/traditional values, and its laser like focus
has always been on freedom rather than tradition.
Haven't found a Pericles yet but I do recognize a hustler when I hear one
and Rand Paul wins hands down. Listen carefully and you'll hear another
Romney; all things to all people who manages to contradict himself at least
3x per sentence.

Why? Does the poll say why?

This is why we need term limits all the way around and find a way to take the profit out of elected,office.

Quote from: red_dirt on August 15, 2014, 06:51:08 PM
     Good find and interesting read.
     I had one problem with the conclusion of the authors
and the publication. That is, if we concede the political
game is so entrenched that there is no way in hell any
candidate is ever going to come along who has not sold his
soul, we might as well pack it in.
      Are we to assume the author is correct in attributing
every move Rand Paul makes to some kind of consultant driven agenda, a numbers game?
      I  don't believe that, but for the sake of the argument, let's say that this is the way it goes for all Washington.
      Now then, can we see how cleverly this journalist has
roped in Ted Cruz and paints him with the same brush? The readers are left to conclude there are no moral issues involved, that Rand and Ted work from the same playbook, and that Ted Cruz, it follows, is a clever con man, just like Rand. (Not a straight up guy like Barack Obama.)
      Advertising men, analysts, and psychologists have a name for this technique. Escapes me at the moment.