If the Republican Party wants to regain its prominence among what my mother likes to call “real people” in America they should look no further than Rand Paul. The notion of a reborn Republican Party is a bit of a “Catch-22″ though. These days the establishment Republicans are still clinging to their neo-conservative foreign interventions of offense and their legislation of morality. Rand Paul represents the anti-establishment which seems to becoming more and more what the “real people” want. As we suggested last week it appears Rand Paul will officially announce his run for Senate later today on the Glenn Beck show.
FRANKFORT — Bowling Green eye surgeon Rand Paul is expected to announce his Republican candidacy for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday on a national television news show.
Paul, who has been exploring a U.S. Senate bid for several weeks, is to appear on Glenn Beck’s show on the Fox News Channel at 5 p.m. Wednesday and will hold a media conference call at 9:15 a.m. Thursday, said campaign manager David Adams.
Rand Paul’s father was painted with the fringe brush by his fellow Republicans during his 2008 Presidential campaign. All indications at this point are that the Republicans are about to make the same mistake again. The establishment is supporting and funding Rand’s likely opponent Trey Grayson. Could succeeding in raising a million dollars in a single day change all of that?
Ron Paul was interviewed by Neil Cavuto yesterday on Fox Business News regarding Barack Obama’s new Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonya Sotomayor. It seemed that Cavuto wanted Paul to focus on the topic of the SCOTUS nominee and Ron went into more limited government generalities as he often does.
Still, Cavuto allowed Ron Paul to speak to the point where I barely recall Cavuto asking more than one or two questions. A few choice quotes from Paul and the clip are below.
“It’s pretty scary…”
“It makes you stop and think though because she was originally a George Bush appointee”
“This appointment, if it goes through is just adding more fuel to the fire of bigger government, more meddling, and nationalizaiton.”
Glenn Beck’s guest host, Judge Andrew Napolitano interviewed Ron Paul today on closing Guantanamo Bay, what to do with the prisoners, and more.
They also discuss the recent credit card regulatory bill. Paul reveals a story about a fellow lawmaker that is representative of all that is wrong with our government officials. Watch it below for the details.
Ron Paul was interviewed by Judge Napolitano and Brian Kilmeade this morning on Fox News Radio. They talked about the recent moves toward socialized medicine. Keep in mind that Ron Paul is also a doctor so he speaks with some personal knowledge of this issue. In fact, he was a doctor prior to the current HMO system being put in place.
The Judge, at one point asks, what is the free market solution to health care?
Listen to the 11+ minute interview below to find out Paul’s answer.
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Ron Paul appeared for another interview on Fox Business News earlier this evening. He hit on the insanity of the latest and greatest budget deficit and his belief that inflation is coming. Here are a few choice quotes:
On the deficit:
“I’m not a bit surprised. In fact I think it’s going to be bigger than 1.8″
“Sometimes I just think they are delirious!”
“We are liquidating debt.”
The host then plays a clip of Ron Paul questioning Bernanke from last week and asks Paul for a reaction to the clip. Watch it below for his answer.
Yesterday’s Freedom Watch provided some fireworks on the torture memos. Fox News anchor Shepherd Smith replaced Glenn Beck on the show and had an abbreviated tirade at the beginning of the show. He shouts, “We are America, We don’t fu@$ing torture!” The Judge and Trace Gallagher continued on without acknowledging the F bomb. Since the show is broadcast internet-only there should be no problem with the FCC.
The Judge’s other guests were Ron Paul (naturally), James Bovard, Shell Roche, and Pastor Steve Anderson. Ron Paul and Napolitano had a chance to talk to each other about several topics without interruption.
They discussed the HR1207, torture memos, secession, and other topics. Shelly Roche again provided feedback and questions for the show from Twitter. This time she did so remotely.
Ron Paul was a guest on the “Brian and The Judge” radio show this morning. Listen to the audio here. The interview is about 13 minutes long.
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“America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.“ - Dr. Laurence J. Peter(Author of The Peter Principle)
Today is tax day. It is also Wednesday which means that Judge Napolitano’s Freedom Watch is on at 2pm EST.
One of Liberty Maven’s newest contributing authors Shelly Roche (BreakTheMatrix.com) is going to be an in studio guest. She will be functioning as social media liaison by reading comments/questions she receives on Twitter during the show. To contribute your own questions/comments check out the details here. Her Twitter profile is here. Also feel free to follow Liberty Maven too.
The main topic of the show will be the Tea Party Tax Day protests happening all across the country.
Ron Paul also makes his triumphant return to the show after a one week hiatus.
Remember you can also watch previously aired episodes at FreedomWatchOnFox.com. The most recent episode is usually posted around 6pm EST each Wednesday.
This week’s Freedom Watch as another great one. Judge Napolitano interviewed British MEP Daniel “Devalued Prime Minister” Hannan to kick off the show. The rest of the show was pretty much dedicated to the TSA audio that Steve Bierfeldt captured as he was detained trying to fly back from the Campaign For Liberty event in St. Louis, MO 2 weeks ago.
In addition to Bierfeldt, joining the Judge for the discussion were Peter Schiff, Mike Ferguson, Lew Rockwell, Michael German (ACLU), and Michelle Muccio (Acton Institute). Apparently, Ron Paul was unable to participate this week marking the first time in 9 weeks that he’s been absent from the show.
Still it was a great in depth discussion surrounding the TSA and knowing your rights when flying. Watch it all below in the embedded playlist. You can watch all the previous episodes of Freedom Watch at FreedomWatchOnFox.com.
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