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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 06:00 PM Mar 2013

Report: Club For Growth Eyes Rand Paul For 2016

SAHIL KAPUR 9:39 AM EDT, MONDAY MARCH 11, 2013

Conservative writer John Fund reports in National Review that the well funded right-wing group Club For Growth is eying Rand Paul for a presidential run in 2016.

But at the annual Club for Growth meeting here in Palm Beach, it wasn’t kids in the audience who greeted Paul as a hero, giving him a standing ovation both before and after his talk last Friday. ...

Some Club members are already in Paul’s corner for 2016. “He has broadened his appeal to include three issues that 75 percent of the American people agree with,” says George Yeager, an investment counselor from New York. “He wants a balanced-budget amendment, term limits, and a questioning of mindless nation-building overseas.”

Jim DeMint, the former South Carolina senator who is now president of the Heritage Foundation, told Club members that he “couldn’t think of a more dramatic contrast between some senators having dinner with President Obama on the same night last week that Rand Paul and his allies were making their courageous stand.”


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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/report-club-for-growth-eyes-rand-paul-for

Link to Fund's column at the National Review:
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/342614

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Report: Club For Growth Eyes Rand Paul For 2016 (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2013 OP
Jebus, they need to start pushing that H1b visa for political candidates Thor_MN Mar 2013 #1
Get ready to see "RAND PAUL 2016" spammed all over YouTube. Jamaal510 Mar 2013 #2
 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
1. Jebus, they need to start pushing that H1b visa for political candidates
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 09:48 PM
Mar 2013

'cause they sure as hell aren't finding enough qualified ones here.

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