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speaks about her upcoming book in her home town of Russellville, …RUSSELLVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Once described as her husband's secret weapon, Kelley Paul won't be a secret much longer. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's wife of 24 years is
stepping onto the national stage as part of a book tour launching at
roughly the same time her husband is expected to enter the 2016
presidential race. It's a big step for the mother of three who has long
played a significant behind-the-scenes role in Paul's political
operation, but soon will be thrust into a far more public role on the
political world's brightest stage.
"I guess I am as prepared as you can be," she said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'll try to maintain my sense of humor and optimism and just be brave."
Should Rand Paul join the crowded 2016 Republican field later this spring, as widely expected, Kelley Paul will join the ranks of prospective first ladies who help define their husband's political brands. It's a high-profile role that is challenging at best, yet those who know the family suggest that she would adapt well to the next step in her husband's career.
Reserved but politically savvy, Kelley Paul worked for a Republican consulting firm whose clients included another potential presidential candidate, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, before resigning more than a year ago. She is the mother of three sons, ages 15, 18 and 21, already joins team meetings and conference calls, edits speeches and helps prepare her husband for tough media interviews.
"She's a tremendous asset," said John McCarthy, a former Kentucky GOP chairman who has closely followed Rand Paul's rise. "She's a very confident person, very comfortable, and she complements him well."
Having sporadically appeared publicly on her own in recent years, Kelley Paul's public profile has begun to grow.
On Tuesday she kicked off a six-stop speaking tour to Republican women's clubs in her home town of Russellville, where she fondly recalled riding in the annual tobacco festival parade and cheering at high school football games. Her 20-minute speech focusing on her Irish immigrant grandmother moved her audiences throughout Kentucky to tears.
This spring, she has media events and speeches planned for Washington, New York and Memphis, Tennessee, before publisher Hachette releases her book, "True and Constant Friends," in April.
Her
book traces the paths of six women she met the first week of her
freshman year at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Paul said the
women have reunited almost every year since they graduated in 1985
despite living throughout the country.
"I believe there's incredible power in friendship, especially that between women," she said.
At
the book's center is the story of Kelley Paul's own grandmother, Julia
O'Toole, who left an impoverished life in Ireland in 1929 to work as a
maid for affluent New York families.
She
describes the timing of the book as a coincidence not tied to her
husband's potential campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
Yet she speaks openly about the prospect of a White House bid when
asked.
"We do talk about it a
lot," she told reporters after her Russellville speech. "Obviously, he's
laying a lot of the groundwork and doing a lot of the things to make it
possible for him to seek the nomination. But we haven't finally made
that decision yet."
If they do move forward, history suggests that Kelley Paul could play an important role, particularly in times of crisis.
Toward
the end of her husband's 2010 Senate race, she held a rare press
conference to decry what she called "a desperate, shameful attack on our
family" by a Democratic opponent who ran an ad saying that Rand Paul
was affiliated with a college group that mocked Christianity and
worshipped a god he called "Aqua Buddha."
Paul's staff at the time decided that his wife should speak to reporters to highlight the public outcry about the ad.
"At
the end of the day, we all have to look ourselves in the mirror, and
I'm proud to say that my husband will be able to do that when this race
is over," she said at the time.
DRUNK | Japanese Zen master Oda Sesso (1901-66), abbot of Kyoto's Daitokuji
monastery, warned, “There is little to choose between a man lying in the
ditch heavily drunk on rice liquor, and a man heavily drunk on his own
‘enlightenment’!”; AND,
>GREAT GRAND MASTER ARTEEST DONALD P. WILSON, DRUNK WITH POWER<
[SIDEBAR:
In the world of no words, the word is seen and then, not. Many different forms, invisible like an unseen eery tint to visible like a shaded shady dark.
Different formless into formed, images, until forms were formed, subtle and unseen-invisible.
Kelley Paul has the SPIRIT to speak about the truth to those that were and are "Drunk With/ On-In Power".
Rand Paul must not play dice, however, in the universe of "religion". A few sayings for future President-To-Be:
United States Presidents should be more about the business of the U.S. Constitution as a CONTRACT that isn't for the ZIOCONS, ET AL!!!!!
ISRAELI FIRSTERS DOES NOT PASS THE CONSTITUTIONAL MUSTER MR. AND MRS. PAUL, POTUS-FLOTUS #45.
Must agree with Kelley, friends are the key and in the SOUTH the LITTLE WOMEN meeting-up produced our great women spirits the writers of "Little Women", and how spiritual is the energy of the spirit!?
Men in the south during the time of the Little Women met up and tore apart the work of their group, and failure was the end-product.
Little Women praised and loved and supported too, as has Kelley Rand's friends, Hallelujah I intend to vote for her.
That is, should Rand Paul not WORSHIP at the WAILING WALL in Israel; AND,
MEDICAL DOCTOR [MD], GET REAL & DO NOT SUPPORT >> Metzitzah B'peh and/ or the mutilation of Circumcision!
IE POTUS-FLOTUS#45 I support your commitments.
1. U.S. Constitution as the first reality,
A. BILL OF RIGHTS' not for the past, now-future too
2. CONTRACT promises, as you know,
A. PREAMBLE
B. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
C. BUNDLE OF RIGHTS'
.. to be continued ...]
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