A friend passes on this high-quality video of Rand Paul’s closing statement at a candidate forum for Kentucky U.S. Senate candidates. If you’ve watched enough video of his father, Ron, debating Republicans, the resonances and contrasts are remarkable. Rand looks and sounds like his father, but he’s got a yen for partisan combat and a crispness to his arguments.
Ron, who vastly expanded his support as a kind of cult figure in the 2007 campaign, was always more comfortable making philosophical arguments than grappling with his opponents. Rand makes those arguments, then fires bullets back at his opponents, Trey Grayson and Bill Johnson. It’s an illustration of how a candidate whose first media coverage was of the “isn’t this an amusing sideshow” variety has put himself in position to be the GOP’s nominee in Kentucky.
Rand Paul seriously commanded that interview. Flawlessly converted a question about Romney into an on point message on Santorum
He's some sort of public speaking genius and he blows my mind sometimes. Rand Paul has expended tremendous intellectual effort determining exactly how to win an argument and command a dialogue.
With a kid like that backing you up, how can you not just destroy at interviewing? He is just as good as his father on explaining the issues and that is commendable.
Edit: If you look at the text box at the bottom of the screen during roughly the last 5 seconds of the clip, it says "Only one of the 2012 GOP candidates has served as a U.S. Senator: Rick Santorum." CNN seems to be pulling their usual BS.
Haha. To be fair though, all of their video's display an error for me right now so I doubt this is intentional.Yeah. Fully agreed. This interview was so great that CNN decided to delete it from their CNN youtube account.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y6MdSxYKf8
Pathetic.