(04-10-2015 08:21 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 06:07 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-09-2015 09:56 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  Ill go ahead and say it now. Any ticket that includes Rand will lose in the general election. America is not ready for a Paul yet. They are still asleep.

I tend to disagree. Is Rand had any charisma and could handle tough reporting, he'd waltz in. But he doesn't.

He is quite charismatic and likable.

I don't agree. "Likeable", maybe, but he sounds like a surfer and looks like a shoe salesman. It doesn't matter to me, I'd vote for him if Cruz and Walker falter, but Americans are shallow.

(04-10-2015 08:24 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 08:21 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 06:07 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-09-2015 09:56 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  Ill go ahead and say it now. Any ticket that includes Rand will lose in the general election. America is not ready for a Paul yet. They are still asleep.

I tend to disagree. Is Rand had any charisma and could handle tough reporting, he'd waltz in. But he doesn't.

He is quite charismatic and likable.

I don't agree. "Likeable", maybe, but he sounds like a surfer and looks like a shoe salesman. It doesn't matter to me, I'd vote for him if Cruz and Walker falter, but Americans are shallow.

They are also slow to change.

(04-10-2015 08:24 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 08:21 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 06:07 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-09-2015 09:56 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  Ill go ahead and say it now. Any ticket that includes Rand will lose in the general election. America is not ready for a Paul yet. They are still asleep.

I tend to disagree. Is Rand had any charisma and could handle tough reporting, he'd waltz in. But he doesn't.

He is quite charismatic and likable.

I don't agree. "Likeable", maybe, but he sounds like a surfer and looks like a shoe salesman. It doesn't matter to me, I'd vote for him if Cruz and Walker falter, but Americans are shallow.

His hair though.

(04-10-2015 08:47 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 08:24 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 08:21 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 06:07 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-09-2015 09:56 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  Ill go ahead and say it now. Any ticket that includes Rand will lose in the general election. America is not ready for a Paul yet. They are still asleep.

I tend to disagree. Is Rand had any charisma and could handle tough reporting, he'd waltz in. But he doesn't.

He is quite charismatic and likable.

I don't agree. "Likeable", maybe, but he sounds like a surfer and looks like a shoe salesman. It doesn't matter to me, I'd vote for him if Cruz and Walker falter, but Americans are shallow.

His hair though.

Exactly.

Politico has an unusually good look at Rand in this piece, particularly:

Quote:“At some point, we’re going to stop comparing him to his father,” said Boaz, who published “The Libertarian Mind” earlier this year and wrote the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on libertarianism. “He’s trying to talk about the issues that matter to him in a way that is appealing and politically plausible.”

Boaz said libertarians must get comfortable with the idea that Rand Paul is trying to win so he can actually govern and thus affect change.

“Bill Buckley gave different speeches than Ronald Reagan,” Boaz said of the founding editor of National Review. “They were coming from a similar place, but Reagan was trying to be president and Buckley was trying to be the editor of an intellectual magazine.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/ra...16833.html

(04-10-2015 12:51 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Politico has an unusually good look at Rand in this piece, particularly:

Quote:“At some point, we’re going to stop comparing him to his father,” said Boaz, who published “The Libertarian Mind” earlier this year and wrote the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on libertarianism. “He’s trying to talk about the issues that matter to him in a way that is appealing and politically plausible.”

Boaz said libertarians must get comfortable with the idea that Rand Paul is trying to win so he can actually govern and thus affect change.

“Bill Buckley gave different speeches than Ronald Reagan,” Boaz said of the founding editor of National Review. “They were coming from a similar place, but Reagan was trying to be president and Buckley was trying to be the editor of an intellectual magazine.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/ra...16833.html

He needs to have Nigel Farage come over and be his advisor. He needs some snappy comebacks and tips on public speaking. Farage is a master of it.