Rand Paul on Trump: “Someone Has to Point Out to the American Public That He’s a Fake”
Rand Paul’s campaign is pretty much running on fumes at this point, and this quote almost made me feel sad for him — because he obviously understands he’s being whipped by a creepy charlatan.
Rand tells me re: Trump: “Someone has to bring him down. Someone has to point out to the American public that he’s a fake.”
— Steve Peoples (@sppeoples) September 13, 2015
Of course, some people might point out that Rand Paul is a bit of a creepy charlatan himself. But Donald Trump is the miserable dead end of modern conservatism, and he’s stepping in and leveraging all the hard work people like Rand Paul put into debasing the right wing electorate, without paying for it himself. The conservative base has been primed for a demagogue like Donald Trump for years, and now the GOP establishment can only watch in horror as he makes them all look like fools.
Meanwhile, here’s Trump’s take on Rand’s flailing:
I truly understood the appeal of Ron Paul, but his son, @RandPaul, didn’t get the right gene.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 12, 2015