Rand Paul to give Tea Party response to Obama State of the Union Address

[bballrox4717]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/08/rand-paul-to-deliver-tea-party-response-to-obama-gop/

This is odd to me, considering that Rubio and Paul were both elected with Tea Party support and have voted very similarly in Congress.

[wan]

I guess Marco Rubio is not good enough for the Tea Party today.

[Blue3]

The whole illegal immigrant thing.

I hope no one covers it live, (*cough*CNN*cough*)

Wonder if Paul will look into the right camera...

[BluegrassBlueVote]

LOL. Love it.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Wait, they're televising the Tea Party response?

[Blackacre]

hehehehehehehehe. This is perfect

[Landslide Lyndon]

Maybe he'll read a couple of chapters from "Atlas Shrugged".

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

What is "Pube fro" gonna say now

[Blue3]

Wait, they're televising the Tea Party response?

Bachmann did the first one a couple years ago, though only CNN televised it, and Bachmann didn't even look into the right camera the whole time.

[RogueBeaver]

I hate the idea of 2 Pubs responding. Hopefully the networks don't televise it.

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I guess Marco Rubio is not good enough for the Tea Party today.

He was only the 7th most right-wing Senator in the last Congress, which isn't quite batsh**t crazy enough. His score was more extreme than any Democrat (including Sanders).

http://voteview.com/SENATE_SORT112.HTM

[BluegrassBlueVote]

I hate the idea of 2 Pubs responding. Hopefully the networks don't televise it.

This is great for Democrats if it Paul's response is farther to the right than Rubio's. The country needs to realize there's a gigantic wedge in the Republican Party right now between the establishment and the crazies.

[Asian Nazi]

I hate the idea of 2 Pubs responding. Hopefully the networks don't televise it.

This is great for Democrats if it Paul's response is farther to the right than Rubio's. The country needs to release there's a gigantic wedge in the Republican Party right now between the establishment and the crazies.

The thing is there's not actually that much of a wedge in between the wings of the GOP.  As has been previously stated Rubio and Paul's voting records in the Senate are nearly the same.

[BluegrassBlueVote]

I hate the idea of 2 Pubs responding. Hopefully the networks don't televise it.

This is great for Democrats if it Paul's response is farther to the right than Rubio's. The country needs to release there's a gigantic wedge in the Republican Party right now between the establishment and the crazies.

The thing is there's not actually that much of a wedge in between the wings of the GOP.  As has been previously stated Rubio and Paul's voting records in the Senate are nearly the same.

Rubio and Paul are about to split mightily on immigration reform. I agree that there really wasn't much different about the two pre-2013, but now each are trying to take different paths to the nomination.

The perception of a party giving two different SOTU responses is more important than anything else. It's not like liberals and the DLC did something like this. The establishment was perfectly happy to let the Tea Party run amok in the 112th Congress, but you can already see the two sides splintering before the immigration debate effectively divorces them (especially when you look at the intent of Karl Rove's new Super-PAC).

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

I hate the idea of 2 Pubs responding. Hopefully the networks don't televise it.

This is great for Democrats if it Paul's response is farther to the right than Rubio's. The country needs to release there's a gigantic wedge in the Republican Party right now between the crazies and the even craziers.

Fixed.

[badgate]

Maybe it will be on Comedy Central

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Maybe it will be on Comedy Central

Naw, except for the parts that Jon Stewart ridicules.

[All Along The Watchtower]

lol

[tmthforu94]

Ran Paul 2016 a leader for our future hell yeah. Let's go!

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

Maybe it will be on Comedy Central

No it will be on Logo jk

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Only Beck's network covered Rand. So basically they (mainstream media) didn't cover the real GOP response.

[bballrox4717]

Only Beck's network covered Rand. So basically they (mainstream media) didn't cover the real GOP libertarian response.