Rand Paul_ Pre Debate Message
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I may have been excluded from the debate tonight
but I won't be silenced.
For two years I´ve been saying
the Republican Party needs to be bigger, better, bolder.
That we need more diverse party. We need people
with tattoos and without.
With earrings and without. That we need to be a party
that welcomes everyone. Rich, poor, white, black, brown...
everyone.
But above all else we need to allow the diversity of opinion.
The GOP needs to allow dissent.
To allow the variety of voices to be heard.
Tonight I am banned from the debate even though I met
the arbitrary and capricious polling standards.
That's disappointing to those of us
who want to see a bigger better GOP,
not a smaller one.
My voice is unique in the party
and should not be banished. Alone on the stage
I have argued that making the sand glow
by carpet bombing the Middle East
will in the end create more terrorists than it will kill.
Alone on the stage I have argued
that our guvernment should not be allowed
to indescriminately collect our private phone
or credit card information.
Alone on the stage I have argued for ending the war on drugs
which has disproportionaly encarserated
people of colour.
Alone on the stage I have also argued that regime change
and intervention in the Middle East has made us less safe,
has made the Middele East more chaotic
and allowed the expansion of radical Islam.
There has only been one voice on that stage
to proclaim that you cannot be
fiscally conservative if you are liberal
with military spending.
That our country has been bancrupted
by an unholy alliance between those on the right
who want unlimited military spending
and those on the left who want
unlimited domestic spending.
Without my vioce tonight there will be no voice
for those who truly believe in fiscal conservatism.
Without my voice the liberty wing of our party wonders
if they need to look elswhere
outside of the party for representation.
I refuse to be banned and I refuse to be silenced.
Instead, tonight I take the message
directly to the people.
Join us at 9 PM for National Town Hall.
Turn your TV off.
Choose your own destiny. Donť be let by the nose
to the future that includes only the banal and soporific.
Choose liberty. Unfiltered
and direct from the source.