Paul Delcares for President Copying Star Trek

by John M. Curtis
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Copyright April 7, 2015
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                Known for plagiarism in his speeches, books and legislation, 52-year-old Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced for presidency.  “We need to boldly proclaim our vision for America.  We need to go boldly forth under the banner of liberty that clutches the Constitution in one hand and Bill of Rights in the other,” Paul told an audience in Louisville.  Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s Captain’s Oath “to go boldly where no man has gone before,” sounds a little too familiar to Paul but without, again, the proper citations.  Paul promised to “return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government,” repeating his Father Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) familiar refrain of citing the 1776 U.S. Constitution proving there’s nothing in the document justifying the income tax or any other entitlement, like Social Security, Medicare and now Obmacare, establishing his libertarian ways.

             Right out of the gate, Paul repeats his call for “limited government,” a buzz word of the Tea Party hoping to turn back the clock to colonial days when government did almost nothing for citizens other than providing for the common defense.  “I am running for president,” Paul told his audience today.  “I have a message, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words,” said Paul regarding his opposition for foreign intervention and domestic spending on entitlement programs.  “Defeat the Washington machine—Unleash the American dream,” proclaimed Paul in the vaguest platitudes, straddling the fence opposing government intervention both at home and overseas.  “Too often, when Republicans have won, we have squandered our victory by becoming part of the Washington machine.  That’s not who I am,” painting himself from Day One as falling outside the mainstream

             Without formally announcing yet, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush paints himself as an mainstream Republican, concerned more with capturing independents and crossover Democrats than pandering to the GOP’s right wing base.  Paul caters to Reince Priebus and the Republican National Committee, who seriously believes the GOP lost to Obama in 2012 with mainstream former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney precisely because he was not conservative enough.  With Paul, the RNC gets its Tea Party darling, someone who wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and Federal Reserve Board.  Paul vehemently opposed Fed’s 2008 and 2009 bailouts, supplying cash to bankrupt financial institutions.  Paul criticized President Barack Obama for bailout of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009.  Rand thought it was better to let Detroit and the nation’s biggest banks go bankrupt.

             When Paul talks of Washington being “broken,” he’s referring to the partisan gridlock that makes almost any bipartisan action impossible.  Obama ran on a post-partisan platform in 2008, only to impose Obamacare on Republicans without a single vote, setting the partisan tone for his presidency.  Since signing Obamacrae into law March 23, 2010, Barack watched his presidency grind to a halt.  Even his biggest foreign policy accomplishment of getting Iran to sign onto the Lausanne nuke deal hasn’t found much backing in the Republicans Congress.  GOP conservatives on Capitol Hill, like Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain (R-Ariz) agree with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the accord doesn’t go far enough.  Despite misgivings in Congress, Obama enjoys support from the European Union.  Obama finds himself with almost no House or Senate backing.

             Paut wanted to make it clear that he’s not an establishment candidate, preferring to paint himself as a Washington outsider.  It’s exactly the same message given by Paul’s father during his two bids for president in 2004 and 2008.  “Washington is horribly broken, I fear it cannot be fixed from within,” Paul told his audience, offering himself up as the solution to the GOP’s problems.  “If we nominate a candidate who is simply a Democrat light, what’s the point.  Why bother/” said Paul, referring back to the GOP’s  2012 failure blamed by RNC on Romney’s lack of solid conservative credentials.  Whovever’s advising current GOP frontrunner Jeb Bush, they’re trying hard to sell him as a mainstream Republican—exactly the opposite of what Paul’s trying to do for the GOP’s conservative base.  Paul wants to represent disgruntled white voters unhappy with Obama and the country’s direction.

             Paul offers the shrinking white majority a last ditch attempt to roll back the welfare state, something tried before by GOP icon, the late President Ronald Reagan.  Paul’s announcement makes his father Ron proud, whose libertarian message was laughed off because of his quirkiness.  While Rand looks more hip, his ideas are at least as radical as his father in reversing the size and scope of the federal government.  As the economy stalls because of a lack of government jobs, Rand opposes any increase in the federal budget to hire more government workers.  “Today begins the journey to take back America, to rescue a great country, no adrift,” said Paul.  When Paul says he want “to take back America,” he’s referring to primarily white voters having problems finding gainful employment.  Paul’s backers want to turn back the clock on the government’s role in helping citizens stand on their feet.

 About The Author

John M. Curtis neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news.  He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma


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