Rand Paul Enters 2016 Race, As GOP Rivals Launch Negative TV Ads Against Him

21st Century Wire says…
This morning Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) announced his 2016 US presidential run.
‘I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government,’ Paul said on his website today.
In an earlier press conference today, Paul declared his commitment to being part of ‘a return to prosperity’ and ‘a return to a government restrained by the Constitution.’
Unlike numerous other ‘wedge candidates’ who are normally propped-up by the GOP establishment in order to create the illusion of a competitive field, Paul looks like he is actually ‘in it to win it’. In the past, characters like Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, John Huntsman and other unelectables were placed into the race in order to dilute the field but also to steal votes away from whomever the GOP establishment considered to be potentially ‘dangerous’ popular candidates.
Contrary to mainstream media pundits, Rand’s father and former presidential candidate Ron Paul was also ‘in it to win it’, but was sidelined by the US media machine who routinely would not report his surging election results, poll results, landslide debate victories and hugely attended political rallies across the US – mostly drawing far larger crowds than any of his competitors during both the 2008 and 2012 campaigns.

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on APRIL 7, 2015.