Sen. Rand Paul this week found himself in a spot that was quite familiar to him before he rocketed to GOP celebrity status — flying without a Republican army behind him.The first-term Republican from Kentucky has sought to maintain his father’s libertarian political base while spending months trying to develop relationships with some of his party’s more hawkish voices.
It was at odds with the opinions of the foreign policy hawks he has privately courted – Paul has had meetings with, among others, Republican mega-donor Paul Singer, a pro-Israel hardliner, and former Mitt Romney adviser Dan Senor.Yet he carved out a path much more in line with Ron Paul when he filed a bill Friday, in the wake of discomfiting disclosures about the government’s database of phone records, to require officials to obtain a warrant for such searchesIt was at odds with the opinions of the foreign policy hawks he has privately courted – Paul has had meetings with, among others, Republican mega-donor Paul Singer, a pro-Israel hardliner, and former Mitt Romney adviser Dan Senor.when you throw red meat with impunity you are bound to hit one or two of your own, which indicates there is no direction to the rants they are toss outs to see if enough slime ison them to make them stick.
But Paul’s move was consistent not only with his father’s smaller-government mantra, but his own. And his advisers said he was being true to himself by taking up the issue.
well if he's being true to himself and at opposition to the rest of the party who's not being truthful?
