Rand Paul’s debate hopes: Opponents drop out after tonight

After hours of hearing one candidate after another indulge the childish fantasy that we can cut taxes and balance the budget, apparently only by cutting food stamps, Paul broke every rule in the Republican playbook and pointed out that military spending is a huge sinkhole for taxpayer money.

Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who has been challenging businessman Donald Trump for the top spot in the polls, was the most-discussed candidate among all Facebook users and female Facebook users. “But I agreed with 100 percent of what he said”.

Maybe, but to look at Paul’s numbers-which leave him in the company of John Kasich, holding on to a perimeter podium by his fingernails-attacking a strong military as part of a minimalist platform on government spending doesn’t appear to be a popular argument with conservatives.

Rubio turned the tables a bit, calling Paul a “committed isolationist”.

Paul delivered a similar message in Duluth, telling students he’s “the candidate who will leave you alone”, KBJR 6 reports. Paul refused to concede: “No. I don’t think we’re any safer-I do not think we are any safer from bankruptcy court”.

“You can’t be conservative if you’re going to keep promoting programs you’re not going to pay for”, he argued.

“I know the world is a safer and better place when America is the strongest military power in the world”, Rubio said.

Paul, the most libertarian-leaning candidate in the 15-person GOP field, has maintained a non-interventionist position on foreign policy, an issue where Rubio is among the most hawkish. He was a main participant in a few of the night’s liveliest and most central topics, ably pitching both his tax plan and his foreign policy views. Majority don’t think the government should be putting their friends in jail for marijuana. “Most of the people who want to the no-fly zone also favored arming the allies of al-Qaeda, which became ISIS”. He’s talking about giving people money they didn’t pay.

“That’s how ISIS grew. So the first thing you do is don’t arm your enemies”. Jeb Bush needed a game-changing performance. But he sounded lost and halting as he continued, “And, if you’re a moderate Islamist, you’re not going to be able to survive either”. I want a strong national defense.

In response to media questions, he termed President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive action on immigration reform “an illegal act” and said the greatest threat to the country is its mounting debt, blaming those on the left and right alike.

Similarly, the Paul campaign gathered more than a hundred signatures on Monday from students at the Coffman Union event. Majority don’t think the government should send them back to another wore in Iraq.