Tipsheet

Rand Paul's Comments

The brilliant James Taranto does the best job yet of setting out the issue in lucid, intelligent terms

Let's not hear any members of the press deplore the superficial, "scripted" nature of campaigns if they are just going to distort the statements of someone attempting to do more than simply string a series of poll-tested sound-bites together.  These sorts of partisan, media-abetted "firestorms" are the reason most candidates decide to speak only in anondyne generalities in the first place.