Unless you were watching TheBlaze TV, it’s unlikely you caught Sen. Rand Paul’s response to the president’s State of the Union address. Airing past 11p.m. after the president and Marco Rubio’s remarks, Paul gave a cutting criticism of the State of our Union under the Obama administration, noting the 12 million Americans out of work, the 1 out of every 6 Americans who are poor, and the over $6 trillion in new debt since Obama took office.
On Immigration, Paul said the GOP must be the party who sees immigrants as assets, not liabilities, and called the president out on complaining abou the sequester which he originally endorsed. Paul indicated that both parties need to seriously consider across the board cuts, including to the military.
Paul followed up his response on the Glenn Beck Radio show Wednesday morning, commenting about the need to combat President Obama’s use of executive power, calling on religious leaders to join in the fight against the type of politics of our day.
The Kentucky Senator joined ‘Real News’ Wednesday to discuss his reaction to the president’s policy proposals for term two revealed in Tuesday’s speech, and the media reaction to his speech compared to Marco Rubio’s. Is the mainstream media trying to pit the Republicans against one another?
He also blasted Obama’s speech, saying the president appears to be used to running on this “Santa Claus platform” where new government programs will somehow not cost any money.
Watch a clip from Wednesday’s show below:
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The Race Card
Feb. 14, 2013 at 12:15pmPres Buckwheat should have delivered the status of the Union and not a bunch of govt lies. Where was joe wilson this time? If Buckwheat were white he would never had been elected, he is just not smart enough to understand anything but welfare.
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RinkyDink34
Feb. 14, 2013 at 12:01pm2016 Rand Paul POTUS
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dnasont
Feb. 14, 2013 at 11:58amThe REAL SOTU
2/13/2013
I have about 4 hours of air flight time to offer a rebuttal to the POTUS SOTU presented last night to the people of the USA. I didn’t watch it for two reasons; the 1st is that I watched as all of the president’s advance guard were on the media early in the day providing advance conditioning of the crowd for his same old rhetoric and rewritten campaign speeches, and the 2nd, I was still working a 14 hour day earning my salary for the honor to be called “fat cat millionaire” (my income is far below that inference but sufficient to fall into his class warfare definition) and funding the government’s confiscation program called Income Tax so a few more fat ass welfare recipients who haven’t ever worked an honest day’s work can still buy cigarettes and booze with 35% of my wages.
WARNING!! If you are among the closed minded Liberal sycophants and Obama Marxist devotees who would follow him over a cliff (literally and figuratively) or those anti-capitalism “America is the root of the world’s evils” current day SDS (look up the radical ‘60s communist movement) anarchists then this narrative is not for you and I suggest deleting it now.
The the remaining 83% of Americans who honestly believe the USA is a great place and regardless of political affiliation can read and consider rationally the arguments presented here, I thank you and suggest you read on.
My perspective is important to properly frame my arguments so I offer t
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barber2
Feb. 14, 2013 at 9:55amThere more Trolls on the Blaze than there are sensible conservatives. Divide and conquer seems to be the Chicago radicals’ game plan. Worked for the last election….
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Brother Winston Smith
Feb. 14, 2013 at 11:40amI KNOW! The radicals will do and say ANYTHING to promote losers THEY KNOW WILL LOSE – and SPLIT THE CONSERVATIVE VOTE! A pretty transparent strategy, if you ask me. But you’re right, it DID work in 2008 and 2012. These radicals ELECTED AND REELECTED their King Soetoro, by CHEAT-nominating HATED McCain and HATED Romney… GUARANTEED LOSS! While they had Ron Paul BOTH TIMES… who EVERYONE would have voted for! Boomers, Establishment, Constitutionalists, third partiers, libertarians, conservatives, tea partiers, etc, etc… EVEN DEFECTING OBAMA VOTERS!!!!!!!!
Yup. 2012 CHANGED EVERYTHING. The ABSOLUTE HATRED of the LEFTIST republican party is at a ZENITH! And the Establishment republican radicals WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN, FOR THROWING THE FIGHT AND REELECTING KING SOETORO.
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justangry
Feb. 14, 2013 at 12:51pmConservatives aren’t leading the Republican Party that’s why the party is split.
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jesunn
Feb. 14, 2013 at 8:35amI would assume that Paul’s views would reflect his fathers. He was raised with Libertarian beliefs. I do not hold that against him. Reading the comments, I don’t think people remember the immigration history of the US. While the statue has engraved at its base “Bring me your tired, your Poor” that was not the case. We only accepted skilled, educated, healthy people. Today’s immigration is more forgiving but still requires the same. Today’s we train immigrants who in many cases transfer the technology they learn here back to their native country. I believe we are being hollowed out as a nation by this transfer. Then we have illegal immigrants who come here to make money as manual labors for their families at home (foreign country). While they may reduce the cost of farming, house construction, and yard upkeep, they have a significant cost to society. I also support reducing the military, I believe that China and Russia have more to lose in a middle east blow up than we do.
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Feb. 14, 2013 at 8:03amWe need to really focus on 2014 mid terms. We have to play smart cause the other side (dems, jesses jackson, libs, akmidinajhad, Venezuela, mary Beth, demonic forces..ect..) they cheat all out. Freedom is on the line. Maybe our very lives soon so make it count.
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Southernsoul
Feb. 14, 2013 at 8:44amThis is where Beck has it wrong. His position is that we use the tactics of Jesus, Ghandi, etc.. We can’t afford to. We don’t have time. If we don’t make strong inroads in both the house and senate in 2014, we’re all but done. If the left holds all 3 branches of government this country will be finished.
The left could afford to be patient and plan for 100 years, we can’t. They knew Conservatives wouldn’t round them up and imprison/kill them. The left will do that to us. They are already passing the legislation.
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marybethelizabeth
Feb. 14, 2013 at 7:02amI heard Rand Paul’s speech and it wasn’t on theblaze.
Paul is just another politician. When talking about Washington positively he says We, ie we can make things better, but when making a negative point he says they, ie if congress doesn’t change then vote them all out. He should have said vote us all out.
The biggest problem with Paul’s speech though, and Marco Rubio’s too, is that he criticized the President for things the President didn’t say.
Last summer Mitt Romney was saying the threat from Russia is America’s biggest problem. Yesterday Paul was saying the US should align it’s foreign policy with Russia and China; that the cold war was over.
The Republicans are holding a wet finger up to see which way the wind is blowing.
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denkat56
Feb. 14, 2013 at 4:14amThe point of the matter is that Bozo the clown could do better, than Obama. In fact my 11 year old son would be better than Obama.
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waspanglosaxon
Feb. 14, 2013 at 1:34amYeah, yeah, make a few ultra-vague generalities about ‘morality’, ‘values’ and ‘self-reliance’ and then drag out, if necessary, the old, time-worn issue of abortion (this is to convince folks that you’re a real ‘conservative’, quite unlike those on the other side) and then start ‘licking grease’ like there’s no tomorrow. Listen, Rand, if Obongo succeeds in legalizing 20 million illegal hisps, your chances are already gone. No way they’re gonna vote for you – or for any other Republican, for that matter. And no, you can’t switch back and beg for the votes of the White populace that you’ve already stabbed in the back.
Humph, no wonder they call ‘em “The Stupid Party”.
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Brother Winston Smith
Feb. 14, 2013 at 1:02amDid Rand “playin the game” Paul “rip” UNCONSTITUTIONAL nation-building?
Did Rand “playin the game” Paul “rip” the UNCONSTITUTIONAL “Patriot” Act?
Did Rand “playin the game” Paul “rip” illegal aliens (who are murdering and raping THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS)?
Did Rand “playin the game” Paul “rip” UNCONSTITUTIONAL “War on Drugs?”
Did Rand “playin the game” Paul “rip” the leftist republican media BLACKOUT of Ron Paul?
Did Rand “playin the game” Paul “rip” FAKE-conservative/libertarian Glenn Beck for SMEARING HIS FATHER?
Did Rand “playin the game” Paul “rip” Beck for being an absolute FRAUD, who’s done MORE THAN OBAMA in leading people AWAY from Constitutional Liberty?
Did Rand “playin the game” Paul “rip” the republican/democrat party VIOLATING THE ENUMERATED POWERS?
Did Rand “playin the game” Paul “rip” the republican/democrat party VIOLATING Amendments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14?
Or… was it the typical REPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA “Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it, Obama did it”?
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barber2
Feb. 14, 2013 at 9:50amWhat? Thought you were one of the ” Vote Howard Johnson” parrots during the last campaign ? Are you now officially outing yourself for the Obama Troll most of us think most of you so-called Libertarians really are ?
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OperationNorthwoods
Feb. 14, 2013 at 2:24pmNo but he has in the past. The speech was meant to be a short response not an hour long laundry list of his gripes with Washington.
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waspanglosaxon
Feb. 14, 2013 at 1:00amAs far as I’m concerned, Rand Paul just jettisoned his chances to represent the conservative movement last night. First, Obongo champions the ‘rights’ of illegal aliens over American citizens, then Rubio comes along and agrees with him 100%. And then…I’ll be darned if Rand Paul didn’t come along and endorse the exact same position. That’s it. There officially is NO opposition now, meaning there’s certainly room for some 3rd party effort to step in here to represent White America.
Personally, I couldn’t care less about how these jokers decide to pay the bills. With a country overflowing with mexicans, it really won’t matter. Rubio and Obama are sticking it to ‘Whitey’ or ‘Gringo’, but one certainly might have expressed a lot more out of Rand Paul. Perhaps they should change the national anthem to ‘Grease is the Word’.
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NoNannyState4me
Feb. 13, 2013 at 11:27pmNice freeze frame for the video…
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Eastinfection
Feb. 14, 2013 at 12:17amClick on the little arrow in the upper left corner of the screen. No shame. I was once new at this, too.
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motherboard
Feb. 14, 2013 at 1:10amLOL,yea, they could have picked a better one.
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GuruMeditation
Feb. 14, 2013 at 10:17amAgreed.
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RinkyDink34
Feb. 13, 2013 at 11:23pmRand Paul 3rd Party 2016 POTUS
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Verceofreason
Feb. 13, 2013 at 11:31pmHe’s a religious zealot.
That’s what did Santorum in.
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Gonzo
Feb. 14, 2013 at 7:17amRand Paul Republican party 2016! He made more sense than anyone who spoke on SOTU night.
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barber2
Feb. 14, 2013 at 9:52amVERCE: Just more of the Divide the Conservatives that you Obama Trolls spew.
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GuruMeditation
Feb. 14, 2013 at 10:19amRand rocks!
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Kathleen3
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:41pmA former supporter of Rand Paul, I learned he is no different than other career politicians. The ink was not dry on Romney’s concession speech when Rand Paul threw his hat in the 2016 ring, pandering to the illegals by announcing his newly found pro-amnesty position and to the younger audience by pledging to legalize marijuana. We desperately need someone who honors their oath of office, the Constitution, and someone who upholds and enforces the law vs those who are pandering to the millions of illegal aliens who have violated our laws.
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soybomb315_II
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:47pmthats why judge napalitano should also be considered. he does not play politics
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justangry
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:53pmMany Libertarians believe immigration is a natural right, so I’m not sure he’s pandering. And if your for the Constitution you’re against the PROGRESSIVES war on drugs.
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justangry
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:54pm@Soy, The Judge is one of those Libertarians who believes immigration is a natural right.
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soybomb315_II
Feb. 13, 2013 at 11:13pmyea i wish we had immigration of previous generations where people came here in droves. But as long as the rules are rules – we cannot reward the rulebreakers
but you have to admit rand’s immigration amnesty was politically motivated
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justangry
Feb. 13, 2013 at 11:27pm@Soy, Yup, as I said yesterday… I think he’s playing the game. It wouldn’t be an issue at all if we ended the welfare state, ya know?
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Verceofreason
Feb. 13, 2013 at 11:32pmHe’s aphony libertarian, like a his father, id he doesn;t support abortion rights.
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DLV
Feb. 14, 2013 at 12:25amVerce- There is no “abortion” rights. Only murder.
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justangry
Feb. 14, 2013 at 1:39amThanks comrade for telling me what a real Libertarian is.
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Farmhand82
Feb. 14, 2013 at 3:14amYep apparently you are against freedom if you think it should be illegal for a mother to intentionally kill her baby. Crazy fascists! Whats next, they’re going to make rape illegal?!
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SacredHonor1776
Feb. 14, 2013 at 5:55amAyn Rand was for abortion and some see her objectivism an essential form of libertarianism.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/abortion.html
Judge Napolitano believes that rights to live extend to te children, and that the mothers are taking away the child’s rights by killing them.
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justangry
Feb. 14, 2013 at 8:08amHey Sacred… Aye, Rand didn’t believe life began at conception. Her views on abortion were limited to the first trimester, conceding there was a ‘reasonable’ argument against abortion after that. Remember her reasoning was based on the science of the 70′s and early 80′s. Her views may well have been different with the 30+ years of science and understanding of human development since. Even Ron Paul, who is pro-life, has said he wasn’t opposed to the morning after pill. That part of the debate will not be agreed upon in our life time.
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GuruMeditation
Feb. 14, 2013 at 10:23am@Verceofreason: You appear to be one of those single issue morons that doesn’t consider the big picture. This is one of the biggest problems among our voting populace.
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neverending
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:26pmSenator Paul gave a great speech and he is right he did get some coverage – I couldn’t watch the liar in chief but once I knew it was over I looked for Rand’s speech and I pulled it up on cnn on the internet and also live at mediaite and was thrilled to see that. Love to hear him spell it all out in “plain and simple” terms and America had better wake up and pay attention. barry boy is taking this country down at record speed.
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Dirtdigger67
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:12pmNot one more dime will be added to the deficit bahahhh you lied oblamer
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soybomb315_II
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:08pmmark my words….rand paul will not be the nominee because the establishment republicans will scare the older voters. They will be told rand paul is here to take away their social security / medicare. You will end up with a rubio / huntsman / santorum type
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AUsername
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:13pmgenerational warfare and obamacare euthanization and socialized medicine.
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justangry
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:28pmSoy, Isn’t that what Rove’s new superpac is all about to rid the GOP of people like Rand? They will not relinquish their grip easily. They’ll have to be exposed by the media for their flimflam. GB has a fairly large audience and genuinely seems to like him. It would be the greatest thing GB has ever done for this country if he stands up to Rove and the establishment R’s.
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Zipit
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:31pmSo ABUSER! Did you have a point to make?
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Eastinfection
Feb. 14, 2013 at 12:29am“generational warfare and obamacare euthanization and socialized medicine”
That would be a great name for a German Industrial Metal Band.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Feb. 13, 2013 at 9:47pmThis is the same SOTU speech he has given everytime. It’s like a high school class president. “Elect me and you will get a longer recess, less homework, and the Principal will kiss everyone’s ****” Of course there is no way he can get anything he says done, just empty promises and is just telling all the tingly schoolgirls what they want to hear.
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subic
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:12pmYea the bridges, roads, fair share $hit is getting rather old.
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DLV
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:24pmDarmock- who are you talking about? Rand? A) he hasn’t announced he is running yet. B) Well, he is legit. If there was going to be a conservative Pres candidate I want it to be him.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:36pm@DLV
Obummer.
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Farmhand82
Feb. 14, 2013 at 3:20amYeah it was just the usual. Thinly veiled partisanship where he basically just said “hey I’m open to ideas from both sides but really, just shut up and do what I want.” The idiots will gobble up the fake bipartisanship and the country will keep voting for the Santa Clause party.
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steveh931
Feb. 14, 2013 at 12:25pmBig government is not only wrong, it’s simply ludicrous. To think that a central government can improve life for its citizens is ignorance.
Inalienable rights come from God, how you decide to spend your days while here on earth will determine your future, starting today.
If you want to be reminded of what’s wrong with America today, all you have to do is revisit the Declaration of Independence and read the charges against the king. Many of them apply towards the bureaucratic despotism, or central government that we have today.
With Freedom and Liberties a Republic can benefit all citizens, without them we fall into communism. Unfortunately, some in the younger generations believe communism is the answer to their sorrows, and will provide them with opportunities.
Looking at what the central government has done to education since 1978 and what this bureaucratic despotism has created, and allowed is enough proof that communism does not work.
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