Media’s “Rand Paul Can’t Win” Nonsense – Ep. 71
The Peter Schiff Show Podcast
Peter Schiff
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🗓️ 8 April 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
* Media's take: Why run for President if you can't win?
* "He's too Libertarian to win"
* "He is not as Libertarian as his father"
* "Rand Paul is closer to the mainstream than his father"
* His chances are as good as anyone's at this point
* He is actually closer to his father than he is to the mainstream
* If you like Ron Paul, how can you not like his son?
* Rand will maintain his father's supporters
* There are a lot of Libertarian Republicans, and Rand will attract most of those votes
* Rand has a chance to win in 2016 and in 2020
* If he wins, he will maintain his strong principles
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| 0:00.0 | I want to turn my attention a little bit to politics today. |
| 0:13.1 | Rand Paul, Senator, is officially announcing today his candidacy for the White House. |
| 0:20.8 | I think he's one of the first to officially throw his hat in the ring, although we know |
| 0:25.4 | that there are a lot of contenders on the Republican side. |
| 0:29.7 | Seems that the Democrats can only muster one candidate, Hillary Clinton. |
| 0:33.8 | The good news is, though, her reputation seems to be getting more and more tarnished |
| 0:38.6 | with each passing day. |
| 0:40.7 | And I don't know if you want to hope for Hillary to back out because her reputation is so |
| 0:46.2 | bad based on all these scandals, or if we want to hope that she stays in, meaning that |
| 0:51.2 | a scandal, late in Hillary Clinton will be that much more vulnerable in the general |
| 0:56.8 | election. |
| 0:57.8 | But so far, it doesn't seem like anybody has got the impetus to really announce a challenge. |
| 1:03.6 | But there are a lot of people looking to challenge her in the Republican Party, and Rand |
| 1:09.4 | Paul, again, officially entering the fray today. |
| 1:13.0 | What I think is interesting is a lot of the media coverage surrounding Rand Paul's announcement. |
| 1:18.7 | I mean, most of it kind of goes like, why run for president if you can't win? |
| 1:24.4 | You know, what's the point of Rand running when he has no chance of winning? |
| 1:27.4 | As if, you know, they're already writing his canister off, and it hasn't even begun. |
| 1:31.8 | I mean, that was what they said about his father all the time. |
| 1:34.8 | You know, he has no chance of winning. |
| 1:36.1 | He has no chance of winning. |
| 1:37.4 | Well, they're trying to say the same thing about Rand. |
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