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Rand Paul Knocks Bill Clinton Over Lewinsky Scandal
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyRand Paul hit back hard at Bill Clinton on Monday, making a crack about the former president's relationship with Monica Lewinsky after Clinton attacked the Senate candidate's ideas as "radical." Clinton was in Kentucky stumping for Paul's opponent, Jack Conway, who he called "a practical progressive common-sense moderate who has actually done things and actually has a plan." He contrasted Conway with Paul by describing the Tea Party favorite as "a man with radical ideas and no record to back it up," The Lexington Herald-Leader reported. Paul wasted no time responding, dismissing Clinton's ...
Rand Paul in Kentucky: Campaign 2010's Most Important Senate Contest
By David Corn - Politics DailyThe other day, I was wondering which of the 37 Senate races underway at the moment is the most important. The one in Nevada? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could be booted out of the top Senate position by former Republican state assemblywoman Sharron Angle, a Tea Party darling who has called for phasing out Social Security, who has scolded out-of-work workers seeking unemployment benefits as "spoiled," and who is doing all she can to avoid taking questions from mainstream reporters. Or is it the Illinois race? This contest features two weak and flailing candidates; Republican Rep. Mark ...
Is the Tea Party Losing Its Strength?
By David Corn - Politics DailyWhat a surprise: The Tea Party is not as popular as it once was. That was part of the news contained in a Washington Post/ABC News poll released this week. (The other hardly shocking and bad-for-Democrats news: only 29 percent are inclined to vote for their current representative in Congress.) Fifty percent of the respondents said they hold an "unfavorable impression" of this conservative, anti-Obama, anti-government movement -- an increase from 39 percent in March (when the health care reform slugfest was under way). Those with a favorable view dropped from 41 to 36 percent, and those folks ...
Rand Paul, Michael Steele: Fighting to Keep the Liberty in Libertarianism
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyIt was fascinating to watch the talking heads on weekend round-table discussions try to talk Rand Paul out of the hole he dug for himself. In particular, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's defense of the Kentucky Senate candidate seemed ambivalent and a bit painful. Paul's trouble came with his musings that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 may have overreached when it forbade private businesses from discriminating, that the federal government's condemnation of BP's oil-drenched transgressions is too harsh and that, when it comes to Gulf spills and fatal mining disasters, ...
Jim DeMint: Conservative 'Kingmaker' or Inside-the-Beltway Interloper?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThanks to his aggressive involvement in a number of primary campaigns, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has been dubbed by some in the media as the conservative "kingmaker." But now, even some conservatives are quietly questioning whether that's an apt title. In recent months, DeMint has pulled a power play of sorts with his Senate Conservatives Fund, which essentially serves as a shadow National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). The PAC is run by Matt Hoskins, who also serves as DeMint's spokesman and who, according to one conservative who asked not to be named, "tries to be DeMint's 'big ...
Rand Paul: Like Father, Like Son?
By David Corn - Politics DailyWe all learn much from our parents -- whether we admit it or not. Rand Paul's problem appears to be that he absorbed an important -- but perhaps counterproductive -- lesson from his father: You can succeed in politics by saying what you really think. Ron Paul, the libertarian Republican congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008, has done well for himself speaking his mind -- no matter how unorthodox his brain waves may be. An anti-government advocate, he's known in Washington as Dr. No for consistently voting against federal programs of all sorts. He's been a never-ending critic ...
Rand Paul: An Anti-Government Conspiracy Theorist?
By David Corn - Politics DailyShould a U.S. senator hang out with a 9/11 conspiracy theory champion? That's a question for Rand Paul, the Tea Party favorite who this week won the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky. While Paul was still celebrating, he created a media-political tempest by declaring that he opposed the provision of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 that bans discrimination by private businesses. But Paul, with his die-hard libertarianism and connections to extremists, is a veritable political kerfuffle-creating machine. Take his hobnobbing with Alex Jones, an anti-government activist and one of the ...
Republicans Should Repudiate Rand Paul's Civil Rights Stand
By Peter Wehner - Politics DailyThe best news Democrats received from Tuesday's election was not the victory of Mark Critz over Tim Burns in Pennsylvania's 12th District. It was the Senate primary victory in Kentucky of Republican Rand Paul, son of Rep. Ron Paul. The reason is that Democrats are going to take the views of the younger Paul, also a libertarian, and place them in bright neon lights. They understandably want him to become the face and intellectual representative of the modern GOP -- especially on matters of race. As much of the political world knows by now, Rand Paul has on several occasions indicated that he ...
Rand Paul Under Fire For Views on Civil Rights Act
By David Sessions - Politics DailyRand Paul, the son of Texas congressman Ron Paul and the newly minted Republican nominee for Senate in Kentucky, came under fire this week from Democrats and others after media appearances where he refused to fully embrace the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that legally ended segregation in the United States. Paul defeated Republican opponent Trey Grayson on Tuesday. During his victory speech, Paul said he was bringing a "message from the Tea Party," which expected him to "take our government back." Controversy broke out after Paul was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" ...
Rand Paul Starts Out With Big Lead in Kentucky Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe first poll since insurgent GOP candidate Rand Paul won Tuesday's Kentucky Senate primary has him vaulting to a 25-point lead over the Democratic nominee, Attorney General Jack Conway. Paul leads Conway, 59 percent to 34 percent, with 4 percent preferring someone else and 3 percent undecided, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted May 19. In late April, his lead had been 9 points and in March it was 14 points. What remains to be seen is how much of this was a bounce from his big victory over Secretary of State Trey Grayson and the attention his candidacy got because of its ...
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