Rand Paul super PAC goes dark

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

One of the three super PACs supporting Rand Paul’s presidential campaign has stopped raising money, dealing a damaging blow to an already cash-starved campaign.

In a Tuesday telephone interview, Ed Crane, who oversees the group, PurplePAC, accused Paul of abandoning his libertarian views -- and suggested it was a primary reason the Kentucky senator had plummeted in the polls.

“I have stopped raising money for him until I see the campaign correct its problems,” said Crane, who co-founded the Cato Institute think tank and serves as its president emeritus. “I wasn’t going to raise money to spend on a futile crusade.”

“I don’t see the point in it right now,” he added.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/rand-paul-superpac-purplepac-dark-214221#ixzz3n9W0UuPu

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Hmm, most people's money was on Jindal going next.

[dorkzilla]

1. snort

No one saw that coming, huh?

[erronis]

2. He may have to cut back on his hair gel budget.

But he has his super-pappy to take care of him. Life in the old codgers home...

[KamaAina]

3. My first thought was of Burt Reynolds' bankruptcy filing.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/hair-raising-debts-bankrupt-burt-reynolds-0

We're hoping that Burt Reynolds takes home the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "Boogie Nights." Why? Because an Academy Award victory will lead to more work for the bankrupt Burt, whose liabilities, as these Florida court records show, outstrip his assets by about $10 million. Our favorite debts, of course, are the ones owed to two toupee manufacturers. Also, we love that Burt had to put a price tag on his poor dog. (5 pages)

[dorkzilla]

5. i am pretty sure he is sportin' roadkill

I'm guessing dyed opossum.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Campaign DeathWatch. Wednesday? Friday?

I'm going to say Friday. News-dump it, because he doesn't want to bring much attention to loserdom, still needs to win Senate re-election. Get it hashed over on the Sunday shows and it's out of the cycle.

[underpants]

9. I have to say that I thought he was their best bet

Even with his ballot problem in Kentucky and his direct ties to white supremacy. I just thought he could bring THEIR two sides together and he, in my opinion, connects through the TV.

He got swept away in the Summer of D'uh Donald.

[brooklynite]

10. Disagree...

...this is his SuperPAC, not his campaign. Unless his own 3Q filing is abysmal, no point in crashing out if you can hold on until the next debate (Oct 28).

[wordpix]

13. yes, we all know SuperPacs have nothing to do with the campaigns they fund

while incredibly, they have "no communications with each other"

[wordpix]

15. I go with Fri. news dump, too

[louis-t]

6. It wasn't so "super" then, was it?

[tanyev]

7. Rand Paul super PAC goes Galt.

[malthaussen]

8. And another one bites the dust?

-- Mal

[Sunlei]

11. watch, republicans will try keep the useless Sot in that senators spot forever.

[wordpix]

14. why doesn't the useless sot come over to the Dem side?

He's antiwar, he's anti-incarceration for drug and non-violent crimes. He's sort of half-a-Dem

[Sunlei]

16. no, its tradition for a paul to occupy a gov chair and do nothing great forever, like a ball & chain

on America. Our party has lots of great people his age, we don't need to waste the time on anyone who carried so much water for republicans.

[cprise]

12. Republicans want more war.

Clearly.