Saturday, September 12, 2015

Rand Responds To 'Not the Right Gene' Insult, Calls Trump a 'Swaggering Teenager'

It looks like Trump is getting under Rand's skin.

Following up after Trump said he understood why Ron Paul had appeal but that that Rand didn't get the right gene, Rand has responded.

The St Louis Post-Dispatch reports:
In an exclusive interview with the Post-Dispatch this evening, presidential candidate Rand Paul used some of his strongest language yet in attacking GOP rival Donald Trump, calling the real estate mogul "juvenile" and "dangerous" and comparing him to a swaggering teenager.

At one point in the interview, Paul broke into a Trump impersonation, mimicking his throaty New York accent.

"'Ah, I'm so rich, I've got to be smart, look at me, I'm successful,'" said Paul, impersonating Trump.

"It's like, really? Is that the level of our discourse? I think, ultimately people are going to wake up and say, 'You know what, we had an infatuation with a celebrity, but now that we know he's a fake and he's not really conservative, we're really not going to have someone as juvenile as that running our country.'"
They both sound like spoiled kids to me---and they would both make terrible presidents.

Rand, it would have been a perfect time to look presidential, instead of your goofy Trump impersonation. This looks college sophomore like Aqua Buddha revenge stuff.

Carly is terrible on most issues but she does know how to play off Trump.

  -RW

9 comments:

  1. "Running the country"? Jesus Christ Rand.

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  2. What a great missed opportunity to elevate Ron Paul by saying how he, Rand, could never fill his Dad"s shoes, etc. What a dolt!

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  3. I think what's most amazing to me about Rand's comments on Trump, is that he continually goes back to the dry well of "He's not a conservative" as some kind of "insult" when clearly the fact Trump isn't what the general public considers a "conservative" is partially driving his success. If the GOPers wanted an establishment candidate with traditional "conservative" credentials, they would have plenty of choices outside of Trump.

    Rand really seems out of touch with the political climate. He's griping that the level of dialogue is that of a teenager, yet unaware that the average American is reading at a 7th or 8th grade level.

    lol...oh well. I knew he was going to learn a lesson, I just didn't know how quickly it would come and how hard it would be. I have to say I'm glad, because on my subjective scale, Rand is no where close to being libertarian and I wouldn't want to see the word 'libertarian' dragged through the mud if he had been elected.

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    1. the lesson Rand drew from Ron's defeat was you had tack constantly between the shores of liberty and what the GOP party elite wanted instead Trump seems to point out to the party bosses you can have me and the numbers or go with one of your tools and take your chances.

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    2. Rand is also just a horrible politician. With a 7th grade (or 3rd grade) electorate, Rand goes around making convoluted and complicated policy pronouncements that even us political junkie libertarians cannot follow and do not have the energy to follow. After all of his pandering to the war-vangelicals, O'Reilly announced the other night that Rand is crashing because no one wants to support his "non-interventionism" in the age of ISIS. Talk about finding that sweet spot where his father's supporters think he's a warmongering whore and the war-vangelicals think he's an antiwar weenie.

      Rand, you're just a smooth operator.

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  4. It is difficult to imagine a worse way to deal with Trump.

    "I know you are but what am I?" is a more sophisticated approach.

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  5. As JaimeInTexas said above, Rand completely missed the opportunity to reference his father.
    In addition, he could have started making witty critiques instead of dumb ones in response to Trump. For example, he could have said "Trump is the authoritarian we were warned about by Hayek in the 'Road to Serfdom.'" Conservatives like Glenn Beck claim to love that book, why not use that line?

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