Rand Paul drops out - Polidicks

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE[/media] [url]https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/694882084939259904[/url] [quote]BREAKING: Republican Presidential candidate Rand Paul suspends campaign for 2016 nomination - CNN[/quote]

Expected.

I didn't expect him to make it far, but now there is literally no one I want to win. :v:

He shouldn't have spent the first half of his campaign pretending to be a standard, plastic Republican. He started rising in the polls once he started talking like his dad again. It was too little too late. Rand Paul and similar "libertarian" Republicans are going to be the future of that party.

I was actually considering him since he's extremely intelligent on the topics he talks about, oh well. Hopefully next time the GOP will be less bloated and actually get some sane candidates in.

He lacks his father's charisma. I forgot all about him. I would ve supported him (along with Bernie) if I knew he was running. He did not even make a blip on the radar.

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;49664322]Big shame, he was the candidate with the overall best roadmap and ideas, his track is incredibly clean and he is really trustable, too bad he doesn't appeal for the traditional Republican voting base, also the only one who has the protection of the citizen/individual's rights as his top priority, he's the only one in the party that says that the NSA needs to stop wiretapping everyone, that war on weed is stupid and that cops need limit on their power while still being able to protect. Oh well, Rand 2018 is happening[/QUOTE] His name is based off of a crazy political fiction writer's name and his ideas about government are that it should not exist to help people at all or do anything for them......oh except when it contradicts a fundamentalist Christian ideology like his bills to put the government in charge of wombs, and ban what gays can do with each other. About the only good part of his platform was acknowledging that the republicans were not working for the people, and not being a warhawk, but even then he still believes in a 1900s isolationist stance which is laughable today with the US pretty much forced to intervene in Europe, southern Asia, and the middle East by allies and treaties. Also he was about the only one to run against the NSA wiretaps but he still wouldn't go far enough with that because like his opponents he always kept saying that he'd force silicon valley to do something regarding encryption and still says snowden is a traitor

I didn't mind him and I'm all for a more libertarian approach in the GOP but he really did fuck up the first parts of his campaign. He spent way too much time attacking everybody else and it didn't make him look nearly as good as his father. Maybe next time Rand. [editline]3rd February 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Da Bomb76;49664282]He shouldn't have spent the first half of his campaign pretending to be a standard, plastic Republican. He started rising in the polls once he started talking like his dad again. It was too little too late. Rand Paul and similar "libertarian" Republicans are going to be the future of that party.[/QUOTE] I hope you're right about the future, the GOP establishment drives me up a fucking wall and I'll gladly take people like Ron and Rand Paul over the other clowns.

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;49665464]I am strongly sure he said these things during the debate to appeal to traditional republicans but I doubt he'd do anything gay marriage or abortion specially with his tone, he is the smartest and best candidate in the GOP and its really disappointing to see Republicans get behind fake Christians, islamaphobes and war hawks instead of smaller government, no spying, less war and liberty[/QUOTE] Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers that make up more than half of the American population.

[QUOTE=Daysofwinter;49664931]He lacks his father's charisma. I forgot all about him. I would ve supported him (along with Bernie) if I knew he was running. He did not even make a blip on the radar.[/QUOTE] His values and the values of his father are not those of the Republicans. [video=youtube;HGpXHYtkOS8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGpXHYtkOS8[/video]

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49668329]His values and the values of his father are not those of the Republicans. [video=youtube;HGpXHYtkOS8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGpXHYtkOS8[/video][/QUOTE] He got that crowd so pissed they booed him for that? That's depressing.

[QUOTE=MuTAnT;49668611]He got that crowd so pissed they booed him for that? That's depressing.[/QUOTE] It's why libertarians struggle to get anywhere when it comes to things like this. They're shunned by both Dems and the GOP alike. Pretty dissapointing.

Rand didn't stand a chance this election-- with only the actual libertarian voters behind him, and most of the anti-corruption/anti-NSA's rallying behind Bernie and most of the 'game changers' voting for Trump. Rand Paul 2020's gotta be a win, though. Get it? 2020? Because Rand is an eye surgeon?

[QUOTE=MuTAnT;49668611]He got that crowd so pissed they booed him for that? That's depressing.[/QUOTE] To be fair, South Carolina has a huuuge military backing population. The east coast bootcamp for the Marines is there. It's in South Carolina's interest to have an aggressive foreign policy. It's not an especially diverse representation of the country at large, he did take 3rd in the Iowa caucus and caught 8% of the vote in NH afterward. This state is what really killed his campaign which IIRC I called out to happen before it even in a thread way back in that year.