Palin Endorses Rand Paul

Sarah Palin injected herself into another 2010 campaign Monday, with her endorsement of Rand Paul, son Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky.

"Governor Palin is providing tremendous leadership as the Tea Party movement and constitutional conservatives strive to take our country back," Rand Paul said in a statement. "Sarah Palin is a giant in American politics. I am proud to receive her support."

Paul also acknowledged that he "has received a generous donation from Governor Palin's PAC."

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DownsizeDC.org sits down with Rand Paul

DownsizeDC.org meets with Dr. Rand Paul to talk about the Read the Bills Act, the One Subject at a Time Act, and the Write the Laws Act.

Nightly Roundup 11/11/09

• Harry Reid is working hard to muscle ObamaCare through the Senate.
• The AP reports on Rand Paul's early promise in the KY senate race. 
• However, a weakening dollar and rising oil prices point to additional current inflation-related problems.
• Walter Block is fighting diverso-fascism, and in style.
• Good for Michele Bachmann for "moving around" the spineless GOP leadership in her political activity.
• She'd better continue this streak of independence, as an anti-establishment movement is swelling in American politics.

Doug Wead on Rand Paul

Those of you who have been hanging around the libertarian reaches of the internets since the days of the Ron Paul campaign will probably recall Doug Wead, a presidential historian, NYT bestselling author, and...Ron Paul supporter.  He has written favorably of the congressman again and again, providing important perspective on the campaign and Ron Paul's broader significance in politics.

Now he writes about the other Dr. Paul.  Rand Paul, Wead argues, must have the establishment running scared, hurrying to closed-door meetings in elite areas of New England.

Just when the national media and the elitist doorkeepers of the G.O.P. thought they had the wiry, incorruptible, troublemaking congressman Ron Paul of Texas locked tightly in their dungeon, never to see the light of day, excluded by their establishment magazines and television networks, well almost, and counting the hours until the old man kicks the bucket and lets them fight wars and spend money in peace, lo and behold, the congressman has a son....

And Rand Paul, the son, has captured the angst of the electorate.  He is right on the issues, right on the solutions, and he has even more of something that Ron Paul, the father, doesn’t have.  Time.  At least one hopes so.

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