Had we shot ourselves in the foot and elected Rand Paul, we would have won this election 2 months ago. Hillary would be scrambling picking up the pieces as Dems would try to pull any dirt from this pristine man.
>Republicans will support the candidate no matter what and Rand would've easily had the entire party backing him.
>The only republican candidate in years to actually be liked and respected by independents and democrats. During the republican debates most normies and people on the street actually found him to be the most palatable of all the candidates. The party base could have grown two fold. Watch any normie late night show he was on, comments for support by him by liberals are overwhelmingly positive.
> He would be grilling Hillary harder than Trump could've ever dreamed. He's in the senate and has smoked her ass in the benghazi hearings without much media attention. Hillary could've been in jail as I type this.
Rand Paul wasn't confrontational enough to win the primary unfortunately, he appeared weak. The only one who stood a chance of winning both the primary and general was Trump. Rand Paul definitely could have won the general, but there was no way he was going to win the primary.
Noah Jones
he would've been better but Trump is more pleasing to kek
Dylan Richardson
Didn't you read the emails?
Hillary and the media wanted Trump, so we obeyed and gave them Trump like good sheep.
Brody Gutierrez
but muh savior of western civilizaton
Hudson Thomas
Rand isn't pure in his heart. He is running the story that his father showed to have demand - Dr. Ron was pure to the cause though in his heart. Rand is just selling something that he thinks sells. In this sense he is just another politician. He can't be trusted.
Jeremiah Perry
Rand Paul could not run an asymmetric campaign, Hillary's woman card would trump him. Every Clinton scandal would be swept under the rug just like now. Believe me, they would even find ways to attack Rand Paul. They'd send rioters to his rallies too, but Rand would probably not be smart enough to enlist the investigative work of Project Veritas. Which means Clinton would be walking away unscathed.
Colton Lewis
Rand Paul was too week a candidate to win the primaries even with our support. He was a zero sum game for us so we didn't play.
Asher Sanchez
> This is absolutely not what was said in the email
Christopher Lopez
Rand could never have survived. He would have been completely wrecked by the system.
Yeah, because the media has been blowing a real tailwind for Trump the whole time.
Aiden Williams
Rand Paul can be most effective in the Senate. I hope he stays there a long time, and I will be voting to re-elect him in KY next week (his challenger is an openly gay former mayor of a small town in Ky, kid you not)
Aaron Kelly
Because Hillary was hoping she'd just be able to cruise the elections by just saying "trump is a meanie" everytime he spoke. She tried it, it worked at first, then people started looking at the facts.
Joshua Cook
He thought he could fool the Neocons. He was wrong. Attacking Trump was part of this plan, and he got BTFO.
Josiah Sullivan
>Believe me, they would even find ways to attack Rand Paul
100%, he would be labelled as a sexist, a racist (like his father was) and a xenophobe. Just like every republican candidate has for as long as I've been alive. I remember when people liked Mitt until he ran for president, then he was labelled as a racist poor-hating bigot. The media even has a special twist where they paint the previous republican presidents as good guys, so that they can appear unbiased when they're smashing the current one.
No one claimed trump was a sexual predator, sexist or racist until he ran vs a democrat. Watch this happen in 2020 to whichever poor soul wins the RNC nomination (if trump loses this year)
Wyatt Miller
The FBI wouldn't have reopened their case unless they were going to prosecute her. They're not going to let her off the hook twice. This is just common sense.
The FBI, and much of the general public, has been in open revolt since Comey and the DoJ failed to bring Clinton to justice earlier this year. You can expect Clinton to be prosecuted and she will serve jail time.
David Thompson
>a principled constitutionalist will never become POTUS and save the republic
I really like Rand Paul, but he's not cut to be president. I could see him having a high level cabinet position, maybe even VP, but not president.
Samuel Wilson
>The variety of candidates is a positive here, many of the lesser known can serve as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right. In this scenario, we don't want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more "Pied Piper" candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party. They wanted to use Cruz, Trump, and Carson, to force Jeb! to take extreme positions on things so they could say he flip flopped in the general. Remember, they all thought it was going to be Bush vs. Clinton. They did not want Trump Cruz or Carson to get the nomination, they wanted them to force extreme positions on things.
Oliver Parker
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Robert Collins
>good guy rand >getting an extra stack of free cups for the office to save the taxpayers
Dominic Garcia
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Angel Hill
They probably didn't dream Trump would be so successful after the media gave him all of the free coverage/advertising.
What better than a moderate Republican forced to move to the more extreme right than an extreme right demagogue?
Trump was consistently polling worse than the other candidates against Hillary during the primary season. They probably thought they'd hit the jackpot.
And they would have, if the email thing had gone away like it was.
Hell, even Cruz had better numbers than Trump in 1v1 polls against Hillary during the primaries.
Caleb Rodriguez
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Parker Edwards
>Had we could, shoulda, woulda
Matthew Anderson
Soon, He is young. We have to run our politicians through the swamp so we know. He is short but he is quick. Much more able then Lil Rubio.
Rand Paul 2024
Noah Nguyen
Jeez I wonder why all the competent Republicans were destroyed.
Eli Foster
Rand didnt have the stones.
He is the hero we need, but not the one we deserve. He will forever be....our dark knight.
Michael Sullivan
The republic remains free and safe as long as we dont elect Hillary
Jace Davis
Why must every presidential candidate in America have a picture taken of them eating fast food? Is this something that sways the American electorate?
Kayden Brown
Long may he reign
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Brayden Wood
it shows that they are fellow burgers
Robert Hughes
I still Stand with Rand, Which is why I voted for his parties candidate.
Brody Ross
Win Rand can win a primary get back to me
Matthew Fisher
Should have ran a primary then, you are no better then a Democrat. He will win his general election with no problems. He dousnt text underage girls pictures of his "weiner"
Ethan Nelson
Based Rand eating Based In-n-Out. Why couldn't we have nominated him, Sup Forums? Why did we have to get behind the meme?
Aiden Scott
it worked for bill
Josiah Martinez
Rand is a free-trade guy, so I feel Trump is better.
Chase Jones
>this person who couldn't even come close to Trump in the primaries would be winning now
Asher Gomez
FUN FACT: The wikileaks email show that the Democrats pressured the media to stomp out Rand and promote Trump because they thought he gave Hillary the best chance to win.
All I am saying is there is still time. He will only become more wise with a few more years in the Swamp.
Rand Paul 2024
Justin Richardson
This, without Trump it could have been Carson, Bush or Cruz. All candidates that would have a tough time in the general.
William Hill
Reminder that he was leading Yeb! and Christie(And Sleepy Ben... but he woke up)before honorably stepping down.
Gabriel Lewis
This, the average burger consumes at least 15 burgers a week, candidates shows solidarity when they do photo-ops in fast-food joints.
Matthew Stewart
Its our version of kissing the ring but were not faggy monarchist.
Jaxon Powell
I can't disagree with you, Rand (particularly in the first debate) was too low energy. If he'd hit the accelerator on how corrupt Washington is like Trump did he would have gotten more attention.
As it is he became the thinking man's candidate; but not the common man's candidate.
Jeremiah Ramirez
sorry but thats not how it works. Trump already brought all that shit up with x10 more force.
Rand had to destroy Trump in the debate and in ads. I think it would have been quite doable. It's like these guys never even tried hard and just resigned themselves to the actual alpha leader. This was some animal kingdom shit.
How about bringing up that you cant "fire" citizens? Make sure to invalidate all of Trump's business experience as inapplicable to government. Yes its bs, but it's not about the actual truth so much as about impact.
How about bringing up that Trump is indecent in his language? Rofl it's like they all adored how he spoke. Only Jeb Bush with his entire 100 million dollar thinktank came up with a SINGLE good line against Trump on that topic "you cant insult your way to the presidency". That's it. One zinger. You could easily exploit that way more than even Hillary is doing now. Just say that in diplomatic circles, you cant call somebody names to their face which Trump is doing right here on stage all day. Just say that Trump is a TV personality and should stay there where he has experience.
I mean the list is ENDLESS. You could easily make some pretty damning story lines. They didnt even touch him on the multiple wives. Why not go there? Ted Cruz could have gone there. Yes it wouldnt be a strong point but it's one more thing to pile up on him.
Trump fucking gave them millions of opportunities, he literally said to torture people is okay. Just fucking point out that even if that were true, you dont say that on an international stage. Now the reputation of the US is forever tarnished just by Trump appearing on stage. Imagine what he will do with power.
Ethan Scott
>Hillary would be scrambling picking up the pieces as Dems would try to pull any dirt from this pristine man. This is exactly why he wasn't allowed to win, slowpoke.
Nathan Morgan
You don't play that game in the primary, lest they win it and you get stuck with a candidate who's reputation you've undermined with your own electorate.
I don't think that strategy would have worked anyway. The zingers bit could; but getting personal would have backfired, besides that would be playing Trump's game and if you play by his rules he's going to win.
Brayden Mitchell
IT'S LITERALLY BECAUSE REPUBLIKEKS ARE RETARDS LITERAL SUB 100 IQ AVERAGE!
Joshua Williams
cucks think the way to win is to get a pussy to run, and when that fails it must be because he wasn't a big enough pussy
Landon Gutierrez
All 3 would have had an easy time. Carson is likable and has the black vote, Bush has the Bush name and Cruz is, unlike Carson Bush and Trump, not an idiot nor incompetent.
Elijah Powell
Well he still has age on his side and I'm sure after trumpfail loses the election, he will plan a come back, and hopefully he could learn something from Trump.
Jaxson Hill
He would have won the women vote as well. The memes wouldn't have been spicy though.
Andrew Russell
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Eli Lewis
Trumptards will scream about how Rand "wouldn't have won anyways so Trump was a better choice" even as Trump's inevitable defeat draws ever closer.
Everyone who's been on Sup Forums for more than 2 years has noticed a large increase in completely retarded redditor Trump supporters who have slowly taken over the board.
Quite frankly, I can't wait for Trump to lose so these cucks kill themselves and stop shitting up the board.
Ethan Young
if the guy is shouting over you during the debate then you have no choice but to shout over him too. you think this is some kind of serenity shit where you have to prove to be the better person. no, this is animal kingdom stuff. If you let the other monkey scream over you and dominate you then you lose. Doesnt matter if you had the better knowledge of banana tree climbing.
Leo Murphy
when will you faggots learn, a libertarian will never win. normies aren't autists.
Dominic Butler
>Everyone who's been on Sup Forums for more than 2 years has noticed a large increase in completely retarded redditor Trump supporters who have slowly taken over the board. No. What happened 2 years ago is people saw time and time again that the libertarian meme didn't stand up against globalist controlled mass migration, violent anti-white leftists, rabid nigger riots, etc. If you still call yourself a libertarian after the past few years you're a fucking idiot.
>I can't wait for Trump to lose So, you've been on Sup Forums for more than 2 years and you can't wait for Hillary to be your president? Get the fuck out.
Also, Rand was a giant pussy even before the primaries started. He thought it was a good time to call for the demilitarization of police during the one time they actually needed to be militarized to stop niggers from chimping out. time.com/3111474/rand-paul-ferguson-police/
He was too much of a pussy to win the primaries and he would have been a Bernie 2.0 doormat in a debate against Hillary.
Levi Collins
Rand was my #1 choice Rubio was my #2 choice
>tfw smart
Daniel Phillips
>No. What happened 2 years ago is people saw time and time again that the libertarian meme didn't stand up against globalist controlled mass migration, violent anti-white leftists, rabid nigger riots, etc. If you still call yourself a libertarian after the past few years you're a fucking idiot. If you think Trump will win, you're a fucking idiot. If you think Trump isn't controlled opposition, you're a fucking idiot.
>being pro-militarized police Found the globalist shill.
