Rand Paul

Randal Howard “Rand” Paul
Junior U.S. Senator from Kentucky From: January 3, 2011 – present
Predecessor	Jim Bunning
Successor	Incumbent (no successor)
Information
Party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Kelley Ashby Paul
Religion	Presbyterian (see also: Rand Paul's religious views)

Rand Paul was Conservative of the Year in 2010 and the first runner-up in 2021.

Randal Howard “Rand” Paul, born January 7, 1963 (age 61), is the anti-establishment, fiscally and socially conservative United States Senator from Kentucky who was elected in 2010 and reelected by a landslide in 2016. He is critical of federal spending, opposes an interventionalist foreign policy, and rejects the calls from neocons for perpetual war. Paul is a movement conservative and a potential future presidential candidate, initially running in 2016. He was a leader for the repeal of ObamaCare. He is a prominent defender of President Trump in the U.S. Senate on certain issues, particularly in support of Trump's focus on putting America First, rather than intervening in foreign countries.

Rand Paul announced his candidacy for GOP Senate Leader on March 9, 2024. Previously Sen. Rand Paul was one of only 8 Republican senators to decline sign a letter to Biden that would escalate the Russia-Ukraine conflict by sending fighter jets to Ukraine.

"Stand with Rand" is a popular slogan among students who support Senator Paul. In addition, Julian Assange is an admirer of Rand Paul.

Sen. Paul lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In November of 2017, he was the victim of a cowardly attack by an irate Democrat neighbor, Rene Boucher, who trespassed on Sen. Paul's yard, snuck up behind him, and violently broke five of his ribs. The shameful attack caused lung contusions which required removal of part of his lungs, and also facial injuries. He was peacefully mowing his lawn at the time of the attack. Police initially charged the perpetrator, who reportedly admitted to attacking Paul, with merely fourth-degree assault despite the seriousness of the injuries. A federal charge was then filed against the assailant, who pled guilty, but was then sentenced to merely 30 days in jail, which is far below sentencing guidelines and which the Department of Justice has appealed for being too lenient.

Amidst the second Democrat attempt to impeach and convict Donald Trump in January of 2021 over false accusations that he was responsible for the 2021 Capitol riot, Paul introduced an amendment to declare the sham impeachment as unconstitutional, which ultimately was defeated by a 55–45 vote; Never Trumpers Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Pat Toomey joined all Senate Democrats in voting against it.

Life

Paul was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul and his wife Carol. Rand Paul was not named after the objectivist and libertarian author Ayn Rand.

In 2010, he won the Republican primary after defeating moderate candidate Trey Grayson by a landslide. Despite intense opposition by liberals and the lamestream media, Rand Paul won by an overwhelming margin first against a RINO favored by the establishment, and then against Democrat Jack Conway in the 2010 Midterms. This was the seat formerly held by Jim Bunning, one of the greatest conservative sports stars, who endorsed Paul in the Republican primary.

In March 2013, Rand led a filibuster of Obama's CIA nomination John Brennan, due to the fact that the administration was unwilling to forbid ordering drone targeting of Americans on American territories, in violation of the 5th Amendment. A month of letter writings without a reply and March 6 testimony from Attorney General Eric Holder prompted the filibuster. A number of Republican Senators joined him, including Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Mike Lee, as well as one Democrat Senator, Ron Wyden. A vote on a non-binding statement clarifying that Obama shall not kill Americans with drone warfare was denied by Democrats in the Senate.

On April 7, 2015, Paul announced that he would seek the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. He dropped out shortly after the Iowa Caucus.

Political positions

Paul at CPAC in 2013.

Unlike many politicians of both major political parties, Rand Paul supports sharply reducing the size of government. Notably in 2018, he single-handedly shutdown the entire Federal government (for a few hours, at least) while he spoke against the hypocrisy of his own party in desiring to pass a 700-page bill that nobody had read and that would create the same deficit spending that his party opposed during the Obama administration.

Paul opposes gun control and same-sex "marriage". He opposes prison sentences for minor drug offenders. Paul sued the Obama administration because the Espionage of American civilians through the NSA. Paul is distrustful of capital punishment but also thinks that it should be a state issue.

Paul is a strong opponent of socialism and wrote The Case Against Socialism in 2019.

Paul won re-election in 2022 with support from star athlete Riley Gaines. Both Gaines & Paul have been targeted victims of leftist violence.

Abortion

Rand is pro-life and spoke at the March for Life rally in 2013.

Paul co-sponsored and voted for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in February 2020 in addition to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

Foreign policy

He has criticized pro-war politicians and won the CPAC straw poll in 2013 and 2014. Paul is against an American intervention in the Syrian Civil War and was opposed to the Operation Iraqi Freedom or the Patriot Act. Paul is an opponent of the United States embargo against Cuba. Paul has criticized neocons such as Lindsey Graham for their foreign policy views.

Paul supports Israel and proposed to cut off the flow of U.S. taxpayer dollars to the Palestinian Authority.

In 2020, Paul abandoned his party line to join Democrats in supporting a resolution ordering Donald Trump to end hostilities against Iran, although unlike his Democratic counterparts he did so out of genuine principle.

Paul strongly opposes American involvement in Ukraine, and consequently has been targeted by the Ukrainian government as a "Russian propagandist."[1]

Zelensky regime kill list

See also: Myrotvorets

Sen. Rand Paul and Tulsi Gabbard both appear on the Ukrainian regime's kill list.

Sen. Rand Paul has been placed on a Ukrainian kill list for representing his constituents, free speech, and allegedly promoting “Russian propaganda”. The Ukraine Center for Countering Disinformation listed Sen. Paul among a group of politicians, academics and activists that it deems "Enemies of Ukraine". “While I have repeatedly said my sympathies lie with Ukraine, my loyalty is to the United States,” Paul said in a statement. “My oath of office obligates me to defend the United States and that includes defending our country from incurring massive new debt no matter how worthy the cause.”

In April 2022, Sen. Paul accused socialist premier Joe Biden of provoking Russia to invade Ukraine by floating the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO. Both Biden and NATO warlord Jens Stoltenberg had admitted that they never really intended to allow Ukraine to join NATO. Ukraine aid was later found to have been funneled back into Democrat campaign coffers in the FTX scandal by the Zelensky regime.

In May 2022, Sen. Paul delayed a US Senate vote on a $40 billion supposed "Ukraine aid" package, insisting that an inspector general to oversee the spending be included in the authorization. Paul was one of 11 Senate Republicans to vote against the funding.

Sen. Paul responded with a tweet to an NPR official state media report, questioning the massive aid package to Ukraine, given Ukraine's history of corruption. “We shouldn’t be spending the $,” Paul tweeted last week. “If Congress did approve it, a meticulous investigator would need to oversee your $ being spent in Ukraine at a time when Americans can’t even afford gas or groceries.”

Illegal immigration

Paul supported the Pathway to introduce illegal aliens to citizenship.

While mostly a strong conservative, Paul has obstructed the Trump agenda at times, such as joining Democrats and establishment RINOs in blocking President Trump's emergency declaration over the southern border.

Law and order

Despite being strongly conservative on most issues, Sen. Paul is arguably weak on law and order, having denounced President Trump's sending of federal agents to Portland, Oregon amidst the 2020 Antifa riots.

Obamacare repeal efforts

While an ardent opponent of Obamacare, Paul was the only Republican senator to vote against an Obamacare repeal effort in early January 2017, citing the over $8 trillion repeal bill would add to the national debt.

For three separate Obamacare repeal votes, Paul opposed the initial "repeal and replace" measure, while subsequently voting for the two other repeal measures.

Paul opposed the Cassidy-Graham healthcare bill in September 2017, arguing that it is "amnesty for Obamacare", has no effect on the $70 dollar deficit, and a "big government boondoggle".

Surveillance reform

See also: Obama FISA abuse

Paul, along with President Trump, has spoken strongly against allowing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on Americans, arguing for surveillance reform to prohibit the spying of U.S. citizens.

Vaccination

Paul, a libertarian, has opposed the totalitarian agenda of compulsory vaccination, stating that despite the benefits, vaccination should be voluntary. He has adamantly opposed the fearmongering-promoted mandatory vaccination rhetoric amid a measles outbreak in 2019, arguing before a hearing that government-mandated vaccines attack personal rights and that it provides "a false sense of security". Liberals and "progressives" who long hated Paul have attacked him for his anti-totalitarian stance, making implications of utilitarian arguments. On the other hand, establishment outsiders and some conservatives have praised Paul for his pro-liberty stance on the controversial issue.

Fiscal policy

In October 2021, Paul claimed that cryptocurrencies could replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency due to growing distrust in government.[2]

See also

• Eugene Siler, former Republican representative from Kentucky's 8th district
• Rand Paul's religious views

External links

• Senate website
• Facebook page
• Twitter page
• YouTube channel
• Rand Paul 2016 campaign website