Rand Paul: ‘The Republican Party Brand Sucks’
“The Republican Party brand sucks
and so people don’t want to be a Republican,” he says
(Washington Times) – Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky likened the
Republican Party to Domino’s Pizza this week during a swing through Detroit,
declaring that the GOP brand “sucks” as he tries to make it more palatable to
minority groups.
“Remember Domino’s Pizza? They admitted, ‘Hey, our pizza
crust sucks.’ The Republican Party brand sucks and so people don’t want to be a
Republican and for 80 years, African-Americans have had nothing to do with
Republicans,” Mr. Paul said at a GOP field office in Sherwood Forest, a
neighborhood in Detroit, according to the Hill.
“We’re also fighting 40 years of us doing a crappy job, of
Republicans not trying at all for 40 years, so it’s a lot of overcoming,” he
said. “You got to show up, you got to have something to say and really we just
have to emphasize that we’re trying to do something different.”
Mr. Paul, who is openly toying with a 2016 presidential run,
has tried to actively engage with the African-American community in an attempt
to make Republicans more appealing to black voters, opening up offices in
places like Detroit and traveling to Ferguson, Mo. in the wake of the shooting
death over the summer of a black man by a white police officer that ignited
racial tensions in the region and across the country.
“If we show up in communities where we haven’t been showing
up … we’re going to win votes like we’ve never won before,” Mr. Paul told
Oakland County Republicans at a separate gathering, according to the
Detroit Free Press, saying it’s not just about getting votes but is “the right
thing to do.”
Responding to the remarks, Republican National Committee
spokesman Sean Spicer says he’s proud of the party and what it has been doing
over the past several years to reach out to African-American and minority
voters “and I think we’re starting to take steps in the right direction.”
He said Mr. Paul, along with Republicans like Rep. Paul Ryan
of Wisconsin, Gov. John Kasich in Ohio, U.S. Senate candidate Ed Gillespie in
Virginia, and Rep. Cory Gardner, running for U.S. Senate in Colorado, has
engaged in outreach to minority communities.
“Do we have a ways to go? Absolutely. Are we perfect? No,”
Mr. Spicer said on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown.” “But I think in the last two
years, this party, under the current chairman, [has] shown that we’re going to
places, we’re taking a conservative message to places we haven’t gone in the
past and I think it’s going to pay dividends in the long run. It may not be
huge in the next election, but we’re going to make small, incremental steps
forward.”
Source:http://www.teaparty.org/rand-paul-republican-party-brand-sucks-64917/
October 30, 2014 11:24 am
Comments
Rand Paul is absolutely correct. Most
Republicans are not happy with the GOP for lots of reasons. Our unhappiness stems from Republicans:
Ignoring the U.S. Constitution and belittling
those who adhere to it.
Voting for NAFTA in 1993,
Not quitting the U.N. in 1992.
Not stopping UN Agenda 21 acceptance in the
U.S. in 1992,
Not preventing the Meltdown in 2008
Not repealing bad laws when they had a chance
from 1980 to 2008,
Not stopping new bad laws from being passed
from 1989 to 2008
Allowing immigration to double, triple and
quadruple since 1988,
Refusing to close the border or drill oil
from 1980 to 2008.
Allowing the EPA to become a monster from
1980 to 2008
Failing to clean up their own rules to stop
wasteful spending from 1989 to 2008,
Running up debt by $5 trillion under the Bush
II administration from 2000 to 2008.
Allowing Democrats to further run up the debt
by an additional $8 trillion from 2009 to 2014.
Running RINOs for President in 2008 and 2012,
Allowing election fraud to flourish in 2008
and 2012,
Not stopping the Democrats from ruining the
economy and running up the debt from 2008 to 2014,
Allowing Obama to “transform” the country
into a Fascist State,
Attacking your own Conservative base from
2012 to 2014.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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