{"id":31090,"date":"2015-04-23T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31090"},"modified":"2015-04-21T21:47:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T01:47:36","slug":"rand-paul-against-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/04\/23\/rand-paul-against-the-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul against the machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/rand-pauls-war-on-washington-is-the-fight-america-needs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy Carney<\/a> says that the &#8220;war on Washington&#8221; that keynotes Rand Paul&#8217;s nomination campaign is &#8220;the fight America needs&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rand Paul launched his presidential campaign Tuesday, skewering the \u201cspecial interests that use Washington D.C. as their own private piggy bank.\u201d His campaign home page blared the headline \u201cDefeat the Washington Machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This sort of campaign against Washington is a clich\u00e9 these days, but for Paul, it\u2019s a real thing. He\u2019s been fighting this fight since he entered politics. And that\u2019s why the Republican Party needs him today.<\/p>\n<p>Recall how Paul won his first political race: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell had handpicked Secretary of State Trey Grayson for Kentucky\u2019s open Senate seat in 2010. Eighteen Republican senators funded Grayson in the primary. Only one funded Paul. Grayson raised half a million dollars from PACs in the primary \u2014 20 times what Paul raised from them. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed Grayson in the primary. Paul attacked Grayson for the \u201cAIG Lobbyists\u201d who threw fundraisers for him, which were swarming with lobbyists.<\/p>\n<p>This was the K Street\/GOP Machine. Rand Paul demolished it, beating Grayson by 23 points. That victory, on May 18, 2010, was the day the dam broke in the Tea Party flood.<\/p>\n<p>Since he\u2019s come to Washington, it\u2019s been the same story: Rand Paul against the machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Carney says that the &#8220;war on Washington&#8221; that keynotes Rand Paul&#8217;s nomination campaign is &#8220;the fight America needs&#8221;: Rand Paul launched his presidential campaign Tuesday, skewering the \u201cspecial interests that use Washington D.C. as their own private piggy bank.\u201d His campaign home page blared the headline \u201cDefeat the Washington Machine.\u201d This sort of campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,53,13],"tags":[188,573,517,327],"class_list":["post-31090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-electionwatch","tag-randpaul","tag-republican","tag-teaparty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-85s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31091,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions\/31091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}