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If Rand Paul could travel back in time a week and take a do-over on his 2016 presidential campaign roll-out, he probably would.
His opening speech was largely inspiring as it laid out his vision for a country more in line with his libertarian instincts. But it led with a bit of rhetorical bombast thats been heard thousands of times: We have come to take our country back. Which prompted singer-songwriter Jill Sobuleto pen a raunchy, satirical song on Huffington Post.
The Kentucky senator made the obligatory genuflection to Republican icon Ronald Reagan, declaring: I envision a national defense that promotes, as Reagan put it, peace through strength.
But then he continued, I believe in applying Reagans approach to foreign policy to the Iran issue. He was referring to Reagans trust, but verify position regarding the former Soviet Unions nuclear missiles, but he might have phrased it differently.
As political scientist Jack Pitney writes elsewhere in the Monitor:
In late 1986, we learned that the Reagan administration had sold arms to Iran and diverted the proceeds to Nicaraguan anticommunist rebels called the Contras. The Iran-Contra affair was a fiasco that humiliated the United States and led to talk that the Housemight impeach Reagan.
Then there were Pauls run-ins with the press this week following his presidential launch.
He wrangled with Philip Elliot of the Associated Press when he would not articulate his position on possible exceptions to a ban on abortion (rape or incest, for example). He appeared to lectureSavannah Guthrie of NBC Newswhen she summarized his views on foreign policy.
The crankiness of his announcement-week interviewscertainly suggests that hes still getting a handle on retail politics, Jim Rutenberg observed in the New York Times Magazine.
I think that theres more editorializing going on than questioning sometimes, Paul told the New York Times. And I, frankly, sometimes get annoyed with that. And I dont hide it very well.
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Sen. Rand Paul likes to school reporters on how to do their job. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) | ASSOCIATED PRESS
This week, we discuss the fallout from the Columbia Journalism Review report on Rolling Stone's discredited campus rape story, Sen. Rand Pauls campaign strategy of talking down to reporters, and why Democrats have been obscuring their support for more deregulation of big banks.
Listen to this week's "So, That Happened" podcast below:
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Some highlights from this week:
"It's so common, the regular rapes, where someone is passed-out drunk and someone has sex with them. They feel violated and traumatized, and why is their story not good enough for a Rolling Stone reporter?" -- Laura Bassett on CJR's Rolling Stone report
"When a reporter asks him a question, rather than answer the question, we first get a lecture from the Rand Paul School of Journalism. And with journalism schools, you pay a lot of money for very little, so I appreciate the fact that Rand Paul doesn't charge." -- Jason Linkins on the Kentucky senator's "mansplaining"
"Sometimes bipartisan is fine. It's OK at times. But oftentimes it just means doubly corrupt." -- Zach Carter on Democratic support for bank deregulation
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Sen. Rand Paul seldom attends education committee hearings or works on the daily grind of writing letters or bills.
By Maggie Severns
4/11/15 7:36 PM EDT
Sen. Rand Paul has touted school choice in Milwaukee and Chicago and goaded former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush about the Common Core on cable news.
But hes rarely seen working on education policy in the one place he could have a direct effect: the Senate.
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Paul has sat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee since 2011 and is co-chairman of its subcommittee on children and families, but he seldom attends committee hearings or works on the daily grind of writing letters or authoring bills. Paul did not attend any of the five education hearings held by the committee this year, a POLITICO review has found.
Three of those hearings focused on rewriting the countrys hallmark education law, No Child Left Behind, which senators are striving to rewrite this year. The law steers billions of dollars in aid to high-poverty schools, governs teacher-preparation programs, addresses school choice programs and defines the federal role in encouraging academic standards, such as the Common Core.
In February, the Kentucky senator raised eyebrows when he told CNBC and others that vaccines for children should be voluntary but he was absent a week later when the committee met to discuss the subject. Paul isnt the only one on the committee with spotty attendance (though hes the only one among them running for president): Of the 22 committee members, seven had not attended any K-12 education hearings this year. Five senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and committee leaders Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) attended all four. (Fellow Republican contender Sen. Ted Cruz is not on the education committee.)
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The top of the site has a photo of Paul with his quote: "Hillary Clinton's attacks on liberty and the constitution make her unfit to serve as President of the United States."
Paul tweeted a link to the site Sunday morning, and his campaign issued a press release that he will launch the first advertisement against Clinton.
A YouTube video autoplays with an attack ad: "Hillary Clinton represents the worst of the Washington machine. The arrogance of power, corruption and coverup, conflicts of interest and failed leadership with tragic consequences."
The site also has a few dozen shareable images with the text, "Liberty Not Hillary," including Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) and Facebook (FB, Tech30) cover photos and profile images.
LibertyNotHIllary.com, which redirects to a special page on randpaul.com, was registered to Harris Media LLC. The company is a political PR firm that has done work for prominent Republican candidates.
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