What are they saying about Rand Paul?

Salon also opines that Paul’s exit means that Republicans aren’t interested in a sane presidential candidate.

“The things you do in your house, if you leave them in your house, they wouldn’t have to be part of the workplace”, Paul said last October.

Paul was also burdened throughout the race by simultaneously running for re-election to his Senate seat in Kentucky. He finished fifth in Iowa, with less than 5 percent of the vote, but is projected to do much worse in next week’s New Hampshire primary, with recent polls showing him in ninth place.

“Although, today I will suspend my campaign for President, the fight is far from over”, Paul said in statement released to the media Wednesday morning. He promised to continue to carry his torch for liberty in the U.S. Senate. Rand Paul of Kentucky did the same.

“Many people voted for Cruz over Carson because of this Cruz fraud”, Trump wrote. Trump and Paul had a particularly contentious relationship.

For instance, Politico reported that it’s the Republican Hawks who benefit most from the decision.

“In Washington, Senator Paul has put his own ambition ahead of Kentuckians and is behind policies that would hurt Kentucky families”, Gray said in his announcement. Rand should save his lobbyist’s and special interest money and just go quietly home.

But soon after announcing his candidacy, Paul began a series of stumbles that turned into displays of his thin-skinned personality – and raised questions about his credibility as a doctor. “He buys and sells politicians of all stripes, he’s already hedging his bet on the Clintons, okay?”

Christie lauded Paul for advocating his policy positions in a “thoughtful way”, not, Christie said, by “sloganeering and all the rest like some other folks do”.

Paul had been under pressure by some Republicans to focus his attention on re-election. “The good news for him is now there’s one less competitor”.

“I think Sen. Cruz will pick up a lot of the libertarian-leaning Republicans and the Republicans that have a strong philosophical belief in freedom and liberty and restrained government”, Huffines said. In a race that consists of a populist cum despot, hawkish military supporters, evangelical lunatics seeking to return America to their “Judaeo-Christian founding values”, and a general neglect for individual rights, privacy, and limited government, stood Rand Paul.