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Joementum posted:What his campaign is most worried about is that he can't be on the KY Senate and President primary ballot at the same time. This is why I love you Joementum.
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FAUXTON posted:Welcome to my world since the first time I saw that pop-eyed motherfucker.
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shadow puppet of a posted:If you discovered this please spam it out to the hot-takes political blogs and sassy nightly shows of the world. It needs to be a thing that follows him like Santorum's santorum problem and Mitt's roof-dog. Rand's got a much more pressing problem of "dudes in white hoods" following him around.
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ErIog posted:Rand's got a much more pressing problem of "dudes in white hoods" following him around. Yeah but 'dude looks like a toy phone' would hurt him in a republican primary.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Yeah but 'dude looks like a toy phone' would hurt him in a republican primary. On the other hand, he did appear at Howard University and condescend to the students with an absurdly cherry-picked history of the 20th century v  v
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ErIog posted:Kentucky state law won't allow you to be on the ballot twice in that situation. Rand needs a state law passed in order to allow him to keep his senate seat while running, and the GOP-controlled state legislature hates his guts. They already told him to get bent about a year ago when he asked nicely if they'd pass the law for him. Haha! Did not know that. Fair play, Kentucky. So he's got to wait until the Senate race and the presidential race are not aligned.
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FAUXTON posted:A Fisher-Price toy telephone wearing a rug. That's pretty close.
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Rand Paul: a figure who for some reason elicits trust from millennials, a man you feel as if you can confide your innermost secrets to.
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sullat posted:Haha! Did not know that. Fair play, Kentucky. So he's got to wait until the Senate race and the presidential race are not aligned. He'll bee too old when that happens, with a good chance he would lose the Senate before then due to everyone in Louisville, Lexington and N. KY hating his guts.
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If KY elects a republican governor couldn't they just run some dude as a proxy, have him resign, then appoint Paul? I was going to look up KY's special election laws but then I saw the guy who started fark.com is running for governor and decided I'd pack it in for the night.
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SedanChair posted:Rand Paul: a figure who for some reason elicits trust from millennials, a man you feel as if you can confide your innermost secrets to. Is it because when you talk to him he just tells you whatever you want to hear?
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FAUXTON posted:Is it because when you talk to him he just tells you whatever you want to hear? From what I hear this was why he got such a good reception when talking at Cal. He just talked about the NSA and overseas drone strikes; he'd probably have gotten run out of town if he'd said "oh I'm fine with drone striking domestic shoplifters" or taking after dear old dad and talking about how the Civil Rights Act was the greatest infringement on property rights in American history or how the American Disabilities Act is unfair to businessmen or poo poo like that.
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Lockback posted:If KY elects a republican governor couldn't they just run some dude as a proxy, have him resign, then appoint Paul? I was going to look up KY's special election laws but then I saw the guy who started fark.com is running for governor and decided I'd pack it in for the night. There's no need for this sort of complicated scheme. The Kentucky primary isn't until May 17, so Rand just doesn't put himself on the presidential primary ballot for that one state. It's only a problem if Kentucky somehow would be the edge between winning and not, which is even more unlikely than him being in contention in the first place.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:From what I hear this was why he got such a good reception when talking at Cal. He just talked about the NSA and overseas drone strikes; he'd probably have gotten run out of town if he'd said "oh I'm fine with drone striking domestic shoplifters" or taking after dear old dad and talking about how the Civil Rights Act was the greatest infringement on property rights in American history or how the American Disabilities Act is unfair to businessmen or poo poo like that. My fischer price chatter phone told me the coolest poo poo.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:From what I hear this was why he got such a good reception when talking at Cal. Ftfy
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sbaldrick posted:He'll bee too old when that happens, with a good chance he would lose the Senate before then due to everyone in Louisville, Lexington and N. KY hating his guts. He'll be 57 in 2020, that's not too old. The second part though, yeah.
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Titus Sardonicus posted:He'll be 57 in 2020, that's not too old. The second part though, yeah. Yeah, but in 2020, he'll be challenging an incumbent President - either a member of his own party (which straight-up isn't gonna happen) or he'll be running against an incumbent Hillary (which sounds like one of the most up-hill things you can do). Yeah, I suppose the incumbent President could really be on the hook if a lot of bad poo poo goes down 2016-2020, but realistically Presidents have been really good at getting reelected in modern times.
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Rand's seat is pretty safe should he choose to defend it this ain't pennsylvania: the big cities are not big enough to outvote the countryside by themselves. If he holds Covington, the Pennyrile, the outer Bluegrass - all areas where his numbers are okay-to-good - and maintains some minor toehold in the mountains. he is fine. I'm afraid america is stuck with Senator Rand Paul for a good while, barring some unexpected shenanigans in the Presidential race.
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I can't tell if this picture is pro or anti-walker. Scott Walker should have listened to his mothers warning about the wind changing.
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Sir Kodiak posted:There's no need for this sort of complicated scheme. The Kentucky primary isn't until May 17, so Rand just doesn't put himself on the presidential primary ballot for that one state. It's only a problem if Kentucky somehow would be the edge between winning and not, which is even more unlikely than him being in contention in the first place. Actually, he's got an even better plan: he's trying to convince the KY GOP to opt-out of the primary and run a Presidential caucus convention instead. Since that won't be administered by the state, it won't run foul of the ballot law. Parties can do this, since it's up to them what type of selection process they run for nominations, so it has a decent shot of working. It still doesn't solve his general election problem, but that's not really his biggest general election problem anyway. His campaign has also said they're considering suing the state and arguing that the KY election law interferes with federal administration of elections. This is a decent argument, except that it runs counter to Rand's entire political philosophy.
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Joementum posted:His campaign has also said they're considering suing the state and arguing that the KY election law interferes with federal administration of elections. This is a decent argument, except that it runs counter to Rand's entire political philosophy. Hypocracy is the mark of Executive leadership. I don't think Rand has any political philosophy apart from gently caress you, hail Rand.
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Jackson Taus posted:Yeah, but in 2020, he'll be challenging an incumbent President - either a member of his own party (which straight-up isn't gonna happen) or he'll be running against an incumbent Hillary (which sounds like one of the most up-hill things you can do). Yeah, I suppose the incumbent President could really be on the hook if a lot of bad poo poo goes down 2016-2020, but realistically Presidents have been really good at getting reelected in modern times. drat it, you're right and I'm loopy. I was half asleep and a quarter lucid when I made that response, my bad.
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Daily Show took on Iowa http://www.hulu.com/watch/742649
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FAUXTON posted:A Fisher-Price toy telephone wearing a rug. That's pretty close. god dammit
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FAUXTON posted:A Fisher-Price toy telephone wearing a rug. That's pretty close. A gif flipping between those would make a great avatar. 
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Boring guy starts committee  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/scott-walker-2016_n_6556220.html quote:MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday that he formed a political organization to help boost a potential 2016 presidential run, the first concrete step toward a possible campaign that comes as others are also ramping up efforts to seek the GOP nomination. Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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Thanks to that cspan feed I've cleaned up the speech and put it in a format my markov bot understands. Be on the lookout for @palin_ebooks tonight!
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To me, Rand Paul looks like the love child of Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles. 
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badatom posted:To me, Rand Paul looks like the love child of Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles. Cannot unsee 
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Necc0 posted:Thanks to that cspan feed I've cleaned up the speech and put it in a format my markov bot understands. Be on the lookout for @palin_ebooks tonight! You are doing God's work.
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badatom posted:To me, Rand Paul looks like the love child of Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles. Oh that one's better.
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I thought that candidates and their related PACs cannot be actually connected. In other words, why would Christie or Walker announce the creation of a PAC if they are not supposed to know what the PAC is doing?
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Lockback posted:If KY elects a republican governor couldn't they just run some dude as a proxy, have him resign, then appoint Paul? I was going to look up KY's special election laws but then I saw the guy who started fark.com is running for governor and decided I'd pack it in for the night. Joementum posted:Actually, he's got an even better plan: he's trying to convince the KY GOP to opt-out of the primary and run a Presidential caucus convention instead. Since that won't be administered by the state, it won't run foul of the ballot law. Parties can do this, since it's up to them what type of selection process they run for nominations, so it has a decent shot of working. It still doesn't solve his general election problem, but that's not really his biggest general election problem anyway. The republican party hates Paul however, mostly because they belong to McConnell who brings home the bacon for the state (which is what really matters). Basically Paul is hosed unless he wants to sue which wouldn't look all the good for him.
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sbaldrick posted:The republican party hates Paul however, mostly because they belong to McConnell who brings home the bacon for the state (which is what really matters). Basically Paul is hosed unless he wants to sue which wouldn't look all the good for him. That's why I posted the solution I did: he just ignores the Republican presidential primary in Kentucky, which is likely to be irrelevant. He doesn't need the party's help to do that. Also, definitely Iowa, possibly New Hampshire, and maybe even South Carolina will have voted by the time he has to register for the Kentucky primaries (Tuesday, January 26, 2016). He'll have a much better picture of how realistic his chances are by then.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I thought that candidates and their related PACs cannot be actually connected. In other words, why would Christie or Walker announce the creation of a PAC if they are not supposed to know what the PAC is doing? They're not candidates yet, they can hand the reins off at a later date.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I thought that candidates and their related PACs cannot be actually connected. In other words, why would Christie or Walker announce the creation of a PAC if they are not supposed to know what the PAC is doing? Well, a treasurer for the PAC nominally has legal authority over the PAC. In reality, the PAC is what you use to get another 10k in contributions from an individual while trading those contributions with another PAC for someone else's donations. Say I know a guy who owns an insurance brokerage downtown, married with 2 kids, who wants to give me all the loving money he can without the work of going through creation of a SuperPAC. He can max out, his wife can max out, his kids' trust can wire me their double maxes, and then he can repeat his giving by contributing to my candidate PAC, and I'll trade four doublemax checks for four singlemax from a friend's PAC and three singlemax from someone in Iowa I want to influence.
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