Rand Paul Plans to Use Ron Paul 2012 Clout to...

A YouTube video blog posted late Sunday clarifies Rand Paul's political strategy, according to Paul Joseph Watson in a story on the Prison Planet website. It's clear Rand Paul is counting on voter loyalty accrued by the Ron Paul 2012 campaign, to further his personal political agenda looking forward to 2016.

Since 2008 Ron Paul has campaigned on issues. That's how he built and sustained an extraordinary grass-roots loyalty. He stuck to the issues closest to the reality experienced by his supporters; people believed he spoke for them.

Now comes Rand Paul, who apparently thinks Liberty Party supporters will somehow, willingly plop themselves mindlessly in front of a collective TV to watch the "star" duo of Rand and Romney rumba away their hard-won political collateral.

It's the issues.

Ron Paul supporters have been either ignored or ridiculed since 2008. Despite the contempt of mainstream media, they have elbowed their way to a place at the table; Tampa should not change that. If the viable candidate will not support the issues, then the people should. The stakes are high, not just for current voters, but for future generations as well, whose livelihood is already pledged toward a bogus debt system that none of the taxpayers have accrued, or even agreed to.

All of a sudden those issues are not supposed to matter.

Rand Paul's ambition has outstripped his political due.

Ron Paul supporters are angry, even distraught. Former Paul staffer Penny Freeman spoke of disarray and betrayals in Paul campaign on recent internet podcast of Adam vs the Man with Adam Kokesh, organizer of the Veterans for Liberty Super PAC political action committee. He also organized Iraq Veterans Against the War. (Note: Kokesh, a former Marine, often uses strong language in his broadcasts).

Freeman became visibly upset while describing what she called betrayals within the Ron Paul 2012 campaign. "Who is going to carry the message to constituents?" she asked. "Who is going to cave in to the establishment? ... Rand has not come to grasp the Libertarian philosophy."

In a Sunday interview on CNN Politics commentator Don Lemon played a video clip from last April's debates, where Ron Paul plainly said Romney had no common ground on economics, that Romney "doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve, he doesn't worry about the foreign policy, he doesn't talk about civil liberties."

Lemon also quoted from a story in Time magazine, where one of Ron Paul's campaign advisors said, "...if you're talking about putting Rand on the ticket, of course, that would be worth delivering our people to Romney."

Is American voter loyalty just another commodity, traded by "insiders" and political power brokers?

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les f. Jun 12, 2012, 5:12am UTC

Paul's loyalty "commodity" is his alone to spend. He'll make the right decision, his people theirs. No one can "take" what's his...free people who insist on self determination, rejecting coercion.

That's the POINT. He built a machine immune to this paradigm.

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Scott H. Jun 12, 2012, 10:30am UTC

Not being a Ron Paul nor Rand Paul supporter in any sense of the word, I believe provides me with a nonbiased outsiders point of view on the issue. I therefore offer the following assessment of Rand Paul.

First of all, no one actually knows anything about Rand Paul, the man nor the politician. He is obviously a follower of his fathers ideology of small government, but other than that, he is essentially, a great big question mark as to what his full ideology entails nor what his political agenda is nor what his personal goals in life nor what direction his new political ideology will assume.

Second, what is known about Rand Paul, is, that he in no way is his a clone of his father nor even a chip off the old block. His past record of self promotion for self egotistical and financial gain without regard for prior set rules are quite obvious. Rand Paul's disregarding the requirements of the American Board of medical Specialist, by his having refusal to be recertified by that Board and instead, audaciously started his own Board of Opthalmologist, installing himself as The Board's Chairman. There is little doubt that he did this in order to circumvent established medical rules and regulations and for own personal advancement, financial gain and egotistical self adoration.

Third, although, Rand Paul has campaigned for his father, giving speeches in which he puts forth parts of his father's ideology, he never actually states that the same ideology of his father, is also his ideology. Nor does he ever state that he will carry on his father's political ideological fight in the Halls of the Senate. Instead, he has envoked a shadowy smokescreen of enunendoes and noncommittal stances. Leaving what he actually believes personally, as well as politically, in a dark room of ambiquity and question.

Fourth, Rand Paul's recent endorcement of Mitt Romney is but one glimps of how far he is willing to stray from his father's well laid footsteps, in order to advance his own egotistical and political agendas. IMO, Rand Paul, is not a man to be trusted by the either the Republican nor Libertarian Parties and will sacrafice even his father's well known place and statue in public life for his own personal advancement. Additionally, he appears to be a man who is first and foremost, out for his own good and welfare, with his personal ambitions being his real agenda and everything and everyone else coming in a far distant second.

Just an observation from a Liberal/Progressive Democrat. I know, I wasn't asked, but you got it anyway.

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Rand Paul Plans to Use Ron Paul 2012 Clout to Further His Own Career in 2016

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