Now, They Are Pounding on Rand Paul in Kentucky

First it was conservative national media brutally questioning Rand Paul's presidential campaign. Now they are doing it Rand's home state of Kentucky.

Sam Youngman writes for the Lexington Herald-Leader:

Jimmy Fallon is making fun of him, his would-be mega-donors and Kentucky Republicans are going on the record to criticize him and a leading conservative voice said it's time for Paul to "take your campaign out back and shoot it."

Paul is even publicly criticizing his own efforts to break through the crowded field and get some attention.

In Iowa last week, Kentucky's junior senator decided to live stream on the Internet a day on the campaign trail. Suffice it to say, it was not a glimpse into the daily life of a happy warrior.

Reading questions from Google about his campaign, Paul read the third most popular question asked: "Is Rand Paul running for president?"

Just wait. The answer was worse than the question.

"And uh, I don't know," Paul responded. "Wouldn't be doing this dumbass livestreaming if I weren't. So yes, I still am running for president. Get over it."

The question after that? "Where is Rand Paul in the polls?"

Having fun yet?
That Paul's campaign appears to be circling the drain is by no means a secret or a surprise.

What is surprising is that he is giving every indication that he intends to stay in the race for "the long haul."

Nobody is happier about that than Kentucky Democrats who, despite their complete focus on the race for governor, are positively giddy at the prospect of a broke, bruised and embarrassed Paul returning to run for re-election with his tail between his legs.

 -RW

Secret Service to Protect Trump and Carson

The Secret Service will give agent protection to Ben Carson and Donald Trump while heavily upgrading Hillary Clinton's existing detail, a Washington source close to the agency’s plans confirmed to Newsmax.

The deployment of agents around Republican candidates Trump and Carson is set to begin as early as next week. Approximately two dozen agents will be assigned to each candidate.

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Donald Trump: My Immigration Plans Would Have Prevented 9/11

Donald Trump says that if he had been president in 2001, his immigration policies would have kept terrorists from attacking the World Trade Center on September 11.

"I am extremely, extremely tough on illegal immigration. I'm extremely tough on people coming into this country," Trump said on Fox News Sunday. "I believe that if I were running things, I doubt those families would have -- I doubt that those people would have been in the country."

"Jeb {Bush] said 'we were safe with my brother.' 'We were safe.' Well, the World Trade Center just fell down," Trump continued. "Now, am I trying to blame him? I'm not blaming anybody. But the World Trade Center came down. So when he said, 'we were safe' -- that's not safe. We lost 3,000 people."

"I don't know why he keeps bringing this up," Bush told CNN Sunday. "It doesn't show that he's a serious person as it relates to being commander-in-chief and being the architect of a foreign policy."

Bush said that Trump talks "as though he's still on 'The Apprentice,'"

"I mean, literally, talking about Syria saying 'ISIS should take out Assad, then Russia should take out ISIS' as though it was some kind of board game and not a serious approach is just - this is just another example of the lack of seriousness," Bush said.

Next week Jeb added, "Mr. Trump is probably going to say that FDR was around when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor."

Of course, they both think the United States and the world are board games. The only difference is that Bush thinks he should be the lead central planner and Trump thinks it should be him.

They are both megalomaniacs. The only difference between them is personal style and whose lives they want to interfere with.

Trump is better on taxes, but, overall, he scares me more.

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Jeb Bush Fierce Attack Video: Trump Stumped

Of course, Trump and Bush are both dangerous and don't address the "terrorist threat" as blowback to US adventures of the Empire.





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