REPUBLICANS ARE THE PARTY OF LIBERTY, NOT FREEDOM:

Six months after announcing for president, Paul's campaign is buried in the polls, unable to break single digits, and subject to calls that it's time for him to leave the race. While he's raking in dollars from small donors, he's not raising nearly enough to compete with the top tier candidates. What's worse, Paul's map is contracting, not expanding - his best prospects for victory appear to be in low-turnout caucus states where a small core of committed supporters can carry the day.

In other words, Rand Paul is running a campaign that looks a lot like his father's.

Yet even that isn't going so well - within the liberty movement, there is considerable grumbling that Rand Paul's upgraded version of his father's message has only muddled it.

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