Rand Paul Attacks: Donald Trump Is ‘An Empty Suit’

Paul’s campaign on Monday announced a conference call with reporters specifically dedicated to Trump.

Paul sat atop the GOP field in a CNN/ORC poll conducted in March 2014, and had support in the double-digits as recently as April of this year, but in the most recent CNN/ORC poll in July, just 6% of Republican registered voters said they would support the Kentucky senator. “There’s a few people who might be voting either for or against it strictly based on how they feel about Rand Paul, but I think most members of the central committee will approach it as what’s best for the party”.

Numerous participants said they were disappointed when Trump declined to support the party if he was not the nominee, and wouldn’t rule out a third-party run. Trump fired back at Paul, insinuating that Paul was being bought by donors. A PPP poll taken after last week’s GOP debate found Trump has an advantage with pretty much every segment of the GOP electorate, including those who are most concerned with nominating the most conservative candidates and having a candidate who can win the general election. Paul responded that the way to discern the difference is to ask a judge for a warrant.

Second, Rand Paul blew foreign policy by moving toward the Neocons and foreign intervention. “While he appreciates Donald’s golf skills, I will note that [the game] was on his home course that he plays often”, Stafford said. He’s already hedging his bet on the Clintons, OK?Paul was the first candidate to talk about guns during the debate.

Trump shot back via Twitter with this response: “Truly weird Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky reminds me of a spoiled brat without a properly functioning brain”. How is anything he has said about the country more vulgar than the fact that we now judge the success or failure of a campaign by how much money it has raised from how many places? “So I think you’re on the wrong side of this if you’re still arguing for a single-payer system”, snapped Paul. “Now I’m here running for president”. Ted Cruz, who has not openly criticized Trump, Paul declined to attack his Senate colleague.

He added, “I think all the bravado and all the, “You’re stupid” kind of language, it doesn’t really get us anywhere”.

Donald Trump was marked forever as the “short-fingered vulgarian” by those scamps at Spy magazine when his name also was linked to waterfalls in hotel lobbies, grand pianos, and Marla Maples.

Others Republican insiders say that, at the very least, Paul is doing the GOP a service by exposing the current presidential frontrunner’s ideological malleability.

On Saturday, Paul followed up the dispute by tweeting out a cartoon of the exchange, mocking Christie’s position and asking supporters to send in their own drawings. “Donald Trump was down 10 points”, Paul said. Because Kentucky law prohibits a candidate from running for two offices on the same ballot, Paul must decide by a January 26 deadline whether to run in the May primary for president or for re-election to the U.S. Senate.