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FrankRep
08-18-2012, 10:49 AM
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The Tea Party Goes to Washington (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1455503118/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1455503118&linkCode=as2&tag=libert0f-20)
- Rand Paul, 2011



Rand Paul’s Tea Party Manifesto (http://www.businessinsider.com/rand-pauls-tea-party-manifesto-2012-8)


Business Insider / The Daily Reckoning
Aug. 17, 2012


A book review of Rand Paul's book.


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I’ve just finished what might be the finest book ever written by a sitting member of the US Senate. It is daring. It is intellectually serious. It displays mastery of the subject matter. It makes courageous and counterintuitive claims, such as the need for across-the-board cuts in all spending, including military spending and middle-class welfare, by raising the retirement age. It takes on taboo subjects like the war on terror to call for normalcy and peace.

It is not a perfect book, and all political books have to be graded on a curve. But in all, it represents a fundamental and thoroughly coherent alternative to politics as we know it and have known it for half a century. Despite my best effort to view this as another political tract, I found the book invigorating and even thrilling in ways I had not expected.

The book is The Tea Party Goes to Washington by Sen. Rand Paul. It is his first book since he won the Kentucky race for US Senate, running as a Republican and delivering a crushing blow to his opponent despite amazing smears by the media and very little in the way of support from the GOP itself.

Is this book a harbinger of things to come, a sign that the prevailing political paradigm is collapsing or that the political world is beginning to adapt to the dramatic ideological changes present in popular and intellectual culture? There is no way to know. But I do know that it is highly unusual that a book this bold and heterodox would come from a US senator.

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Full article:
http://www.businessinsider.com/rand-pauls-tea-party-manifesto-2012-8

Aratus
08-18-2012, 01:26 PM
here is a nice article to read as we get energized for tampa!

Bastiat's The Law
08-18-2012, 04:45 PM
Sweet!

Sola_Fide
08-18-2012, 05:05 PM
There are a lot of average Republicans in Kentucky who have been introduced to Liberty ideas through this book. I've witnessed this several times. They think Rand is "safe" because he is one of them. Who knows if it will work in the long run.