It was the first time in recent memory that the Iowa GOP Lincoln Day Dinner sold out nearly two weeks in advance, and it was on the strength of its headliner, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who, in turn, was invited on the strength of his 13-hour filibuster against the Obama administration’s use of drones. During the happy hour at a small Cedar Rapids hotel, local donors stood in line to have their pictures taken with Paul, almost completely ignoring their own congressmen, Representative Steve King and Senator Chuck Grassley. They had come to see Paul, and he got a standing ovation before he even started talking.
Paul
began in stand-up mode, describing a recent trip to New York in which
he had driven by the Federal Reserve—the crowd booed on cue—to find it
blocked by police cars. “We go up to the police, and we ask what’s going
on, and they say the Federal Reserve has been robbed. And we said, really?!”
Paul said, his voice nearly cracking in mock disbelief. “They said,
‘Yeah, but we caught the thieves. They got in front of the safe, they
had the big safe open, but they were perplexed. They were flummoxed.
They didn’t know what to do with minus sixteen trillion dollars!’ ”
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He was also recently on The Daily Show, performed well:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-12-2013/exclusive---rand-paul-extended-interview
A smart, smart man, and he'd make a fine President. I just don't know if he can survive the brutal vetting process that the MSM puts Republican candidates through.
Thanks and I'll post this. If Clinton doesn't run for some reason, and any reason will do for me,:) he would have a good chance.
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