Rand Paul Quotes
I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.
Paul, Rand. "Speech at CPAC." C-SPAN, National Cable Satellite Corporation, 14 Mar. 2013.
The Federalist party had evolved into the Whig Party, his opposition. However, Polk used “Federalist” to designate all conservatives, Whigs or the Federalists who were the precursor conservative party in America.
As a relatively political unknown, he took the opportunity to tell the press and the public that he was a part of the New York Tammany Hall Machine. At the time most NY politicians saw this as a political assurance to the voters—as opposed to the reformers who might change things. Political machines were mostly affiliated with the Democratic Party in the large cities. The corruption tended to b Republican outside the cities, except in the South where all government was Democratic in reaction to the Civil War Republican role. When the Democrats strove to eliminate racial discrimination in the 1960s. the racists of the South persuaded the Whites to shift to the Republican Party which then dominated most of the South. The people who controlled the corrupt machines however did not change. The corruption of the Southern machines just became Republican labeled.
Randal Howard Paul is an American physician and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011. He is the son of former three-time presidential candidate and twelve-term U.S. Representative of Texas, Ron Paul.
