Rand Paul: Voters are ready for a libertarian Republican in 2016

Typical libertarian delusions of grandeur.

While the Republican party has fared well in holding congressional districts, Paul noted that it is “becoming less and less of a national party” by not having a presence on the West Coast, in New England, and around the Great Lakes.

Note to Rand: you will never win nationally in New England or on the West Coast. They’ve put up fiscally conservative, socially liberal / libertarian candidates for years and have consistently gotten beaten down. Recall that Meg Whitman (pro-choice) did worse than Carly Fiorina (pro-life) in CA, and that while Paul LePage and Kelly Ayotte (both pro-life and pro-marriage) are New England office-holders, Charlie Baker and Charlie Summers are not.

The Great Lakes region is the one place the GOP has an opportunity to turn blue states red, and the way to do that is with a socially conservative, economically populist mix.

Stoic Patriot on February 18, 2013 at 7:44 AM

I agree with Stoic Turd. What we need to do is keep putting up candidates like Mitt Romney, John McCain and Akins. They have done so well. Dumbass.

MoreLiberty on February 18, 2013 at 7:48 AM

1.)Mitt Romney and John McCain were not social conservatives. Need I remind you that Mitt Romney was the first governor to ever implement gay marriage? Need I remind you that he ran to Kennedy’s left on social issues? Need I remind you that Mitt Romney is exactly the sort of candidate that would fit Rand Paul’s vision of the GOP future like a glove?

2.)If libertarianism is so appealing, why is that the GOP doesn’t run those regions by now? It’s certainly not for lack of trying the fiscally conservative, socially liberal / libertarian type.

Stoic Patriot on February 18, 2013 at 7:52 AM

I dunno, could have something to do with the party bosses sh*tting their pants at the thought of running candidates who don’t share their own delusions of centralized power and party unity, so they fight tooth and nail to delegitimize those candidates and convince voters into a self-fulfilling prophecy that those candidates “unelectable.”

jr.ewing.78 on February 18, 2013 at 8:00 AM

Are you kidding? The GOP put a ton of time and money into both Scott Brown and Linda McMahon’s races. While they were actively disowning Todd Akin, they were promoting those two as rising stars who represented the best of the party (each of whom are fiscally conservative, socially liberal / libertarian). Each of them still got spanked.

Stoic Patriot on February 18, 2013 at 8:04 AM