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GOP Race Loses Rand Paul's Tech, Privacy Cred

Losing his libertarian stance on tech issues could damage GOP appeal with young voters.

"The Republican presidential campaign lost its biggest privacy advocate on Wednesday when Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky dropped out of the race, leaving doubt about whether the remaining candidates can resonate with the tech community or voters concerned about government surveillance."

Hi everyone,

Well, I'm pretty shattered about Rand's announcement, as I'm sure we all are. I had hoped to see much more support for him going into Iowa, and am disappointed that this has not turned out to be the case.

I have a few thoughts about what led us all to this point, but first want to say that I am emphatically not a Trump supporter, nor in any possible past or future am I a Cruz supporter (even putting those two words together seems oxymoronic in some way), rather I am with Rand to the end, as I have extensively researched the issues and believe that, per his votes and his understanding of the issues and principles of liberty, he is far and away the best Liberty advocate we have in the race.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have not been reauthorized by Congress since 2009. The State Department hasn’t been reauthorized since 2003. For the Federal Trade Commission and National Weather Service, it’s 1998 and 1993, respectively. The Federal Election Commission has been operating with an expired authorization since way back in 1981.

"It's been an incredible honor to run a principled campaign for the White House. Today, I will end where I began, ready and willing to fight for the cause of Liberty.

Across the country thousands upon thousands of young people flocked to our message of limited government, privacy, criminal justice reform and a reasonable foreign policy. Brushfires of Liberty were ignited, and those will carry on, as will I.  

Like many others, I'm very disappointed with the news that Rand Paul is dropping out of the presidential race.  Even if he didn't win, I think there would have been a lot of value in spreading his ideas around the country as much as possible.  It just goes to show that we can't rely on one person to protect our freedoms and fight for liberty.  As the saying goes: if you want something done right, do it yourself.  Take this as clear sign that there is a lot of work to do and it is up to each of us to do our part to promote and protect the principles of liberty and freedom to the best of our abilities. 

This will make the war mongering GOP cream their jeans in excitement. 

Now that they have managed to silence the only voice of peace and sound economic policy. 

I didn't supply a link because you'll hear it soon anyway. 

It's a sad day for the future of liberty. 

Just saw this via C-Span.  I am so disappointed and shocked that I can't even think right now.

For all the popularity of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz in the 2016 presidential primary races, the biggest recipient of individual campaign money from Kentuckians last year was a home-state favorite: Rand Paul.

According to new figures posted Monday on the Federal Election Commission’s website, Kentucky residents have donated a total of $1.39 million to candidates for president through Dec. 31.

The above quote is from Matt Kibbe, formerly of Freedom Works and now with the SupePAC Concerned American Voters supporting Rand.  Kibbe goes on to say that Rand's Iowa vote was actually "very credible considering where he has been."

Interesting comment about Cruz background and training as a "classical liberal" but Kibbe is concerned about Cruz being a neocon. http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/02/rand-paul-campaign-superpac-speak-on-iow.

CAV is sticking with Rand.

ABC News has announced the criteria for its Republican presidential debate (link is external) before the New Hampshire primary (link is external).

The faceoff between the GOP (link is external) presidential hopefuls is slated for Feb. 6 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Here are the three different ways candidates can gain an invitation for the debate stage:

So The Daily Show is now apparently following in Fox's footsteps by replacing 5th place Rand with 6th place Jeb. So much for that man crush Noah supposedly had. Hypocrites of 2012.

Back on September 30, 2008, Donald Trump was asked by CNN's Kiran Chetry what he thought of the plan to bail out failing banks. What he told her: 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/04/20/naturally_trump_supported_t...

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday accused front-runner Donald Trump of having “no clue” about the nation’s nuclear delivery capability.

Read More  http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/263863-paul-trump...