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Rand Paul Breaks Campaign Promise, Accepts Money From Senators Who Bailed Out Banks | Blue Wave News
Oh Rand Paul, already acting like a regular Republican Establishment candidate. Warms my heart to see how he continues to prove people like me right.
In a turnabout from a campaign pledge, Republican senatorial candidate Rand Paul is getting help raising campaign money by GOP senators who voted for the 2008 Wall Street bailout.
According to an Associated Press report, Paul is holding a fundraiser Thursday night in Washington, D.C. Although Paul earlier had said he wouldnt seek money from any politician who voted for the $700 billion bailout, nine of the 12 senators listed on the events host committee were bailout supporters.
In August 2009, Pauls chief primary opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, was scheduled to have a Washington fundraiser that McConnell was involved in hosting. Thats when Paul promised not to take money from senators who backed the bank bailout, but his campaign press release did not say the pledge applied only to the primary.
This isnt about holding politicians to an impossibly high standard of agreeing with everything ones supporters say or do, Paul said in the 2009 statement. But a primary focus of my campaign is that we need Republicans in office who will have the courage to say no to federal bailouts of big business.
Jesse Benton, Pauls campaign manager, said the no-donations pledge was made during the primary campaign and is no longer one they feel the need to abide by since that campaign is over.
Got that? Primary elections are all about souls and integrity and values. Now that the primary is over, its perfectly cool to take money from any source, regardless of its ideologically filthy provenance, because Paul already won the battle for the direction and soul of the Republican party! And as everyone knows, one is only constrained by those pesky, inconvenient straits known as principles in the primary. Anything goes in the general, baby! The primary may be a demonstration of Its not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game, but the general is definitely Win by any means necessary.
Oh Rand Paul, already acting like a regular Republican Establishment candidate. Warms my heart to see how he continues to prove people like me right.