Quote:He's polling higher than Rand, who is (unfortunately) all but done for officially. Kasich is actually my second-favorite candidate in the entire race.

 

I don't think Trump held him back. I think it's that the establishment has been only too happy over the last 15 years to play the boogeyman card with national security, and Rand's platform is based around national security being secondary to Constitutional rights. Sadly, there's a huge chunk of the population that would sooner give up essential liberty for a little temporary security than vote for someone who believes that our rights and dignity should not be subjugated to the government-created boogeyman.

 

  Here's a question that comes to mind.   Do you believe that Ron Paul would be doing well in the polls  ( considering the 2016 dynamics ) if he was running for President in 2016 instead of his son Rand and was several years younger?  

 

  For whatever reasons,  Rand's campaign hasn't come close to having the support that his father had in the last two election cycles.  

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