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Rand Paul's Kentucky Constituency

Posted: Apr 8, 2015

I always like to hear what constituents have to say about their senators or other public officials running for higher office. Are there any MTs from Kentucky out there who have any personal knowledge or stories they can share? Is Rand Paul well liked in your state?

To me, he really seems like a moderate, not too right and not too left. He may be what I'm looking for in a presidential candidate, but I'm open to hear more or follow more links. Many thanks.

If it's just snark or gotchas you want to post about, please don't. Let's have a rational discussion for once.

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On some issues... - moderate independent

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...he seems very reasonable, but on others, he's got some very extreme positions. And I don't like that he's been caught more than once copying stuff from Wikipedia (word for word) and using it in his speeches (see link). In all truth, I don't think he stands a chance in the general election.

Former Tea Party, but reasonable, responsive to constituents. Both right & left accuse him now - of backpeddling to get elected

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If he'd be clearer about why he's changing his mind on some issues, the backpeddling accusations would go away. People on the right feel he's being disloyal to extremism to get elected, people on the left don't trust he's not still extremist.

On the plus side, if you write him, even if you're not in his constituency, he will write you back a very detailed, personal letter regarding his plans and ask for feedback. He has some great ideas about amendable bills/laws in Congress so that sweeping Obamacare-type bills can't happen again without amending them if problems arise, especially with immigration law looming as well. However, his bill to enact this was voted down recently.

On the negative side, he helped start the Tea Party extremism movement and you can still see remnants. Also, his name along with 46 Republican senators on the letter to Iran took his popularity down because it was seen as divisive and hypocritical to accuse the president of not adhering to the constitution with Iran, but did not adhere to the constitution themselves. Because they weren't a congressional majority or even a senate majority, but attempted to represent congress fully anyway, to a foreign country, bypassing full congressional vote entirely to do so. Also, nagging accusations from former female clinical staff at regional hospitals from when he was a practicing ophthalmologist persist about his negative view/treatment of women, they don't seem to want to go away years later. Doesn't mean it's true though, but I have heard that said about him a lot, publicly and privately, before he got into politics in fact.

PS - One more negative to many Kentuckians is he got his MD at Duke. Most Kentuckians aren't big fans of Duke since Christian Laettner, but that's a basketball rivalry thing I don't even count, but sadly true about Kentuckians lol. (Another Blue Devil on the other hand, Christian Laettner, still owes me big money in tips as a cocktail waitress while in college in 1992;)

Saw one of his first interviews - He is extremely rude

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First impressions are usually correct.

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