- Paul, the son of former Texas congressman and three-time presidential hopeful Ron Paul, will build on his father's legacy as a candidate eager to bring civil liberties to the forefront of the national dialogue. He's already used his perch on Capitol Hill to draw attention to those issues, including a 13-hour filibuster two years ago blasting the Obama administration's drone policies and a lawsuit against the National Security Agency's phone metadata collection effort.
But Paul, 52, will split from his father in one important way: his approach to the campaign. Where Ron Paul often focused on creating a libertarian movement, Rand Paul is planning a more strategic, less purist operation that could have a hope of competing in a general election.
How much longer until people start announcing their intentions to run 2 elections in advance?
Are you old enough to have been paying attention during the '12 campaign? Clown car is a good way to describe it. Their "debates" consisted of jerk offs like Wolf Blitzer or whoever else asking for shows of hands for such hard hitting questions as, "Who believes in evolution?" It was a farce. No, an abomination of democracy that the once proud organization that is the GOP was reduced to agreeing or disagreeing with statements of basic fact (which they all obligingly disagreed with in turn, no matter the fact in question). GOP has always been evil (at least its Postwar incarnation), but at least it used to be on the side of dour realism. Sadly, this election is going to top the last for biggest political freak show of my life.