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By Andrew Rafferty

Republican Sen. Rand Paul escalated his ongoing foreign policy feud with John McCain on Monday while arguing this his non-interventionist military views are supported by a sizable amount of GOP presidential primary voters.

"I want less, McCain wants more [military intervention]," Paul said at an event sponsored by the Wall Street Journal. "He wants 15 countries more, 15 wars more. But the thing is, is that there is a more and a less argument. When you poll that in Iowa, 45 percent agreed with McCain and 41 percent agreed with me."

Paul was referencing a Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll from early October that asked:

The Republican Party has two main views on foreign policy. Which is closer to your viewshould the U.S. be quicker to intervene in conflicts overseas, as John McCain suggests, or should the U.S. pull back current military engagements to be less interventionist in foreign policy, as Rand Paul suggests?

Paul was asked how he would deal with the possibility that his opponents and Super PACs would attack him for being weak on defense. But the Kentucky Republican said his viewpoint is gaining steam and would not necessarily be a hindrance if he runs for president in 2016.

"This is not a small movement, nor is it easy to say people like myself, who believe in less intervention, can be characterized as people who don't believe in a strong national defense," Paul said. "That is a caricature and I will have to fight that, but we'll see what happens."

McCain and Paul have sparred over the role the United States should play in the world. But the two seemed to be turning a corner recently when McCain said Paul was "evolving with experience" and told The New Yorker he would support Paul if he became the Republican presidential nominee.

First published December 2 2014, 12:38 PM

Andrew Rafferty has been a political reporter for NBCNews.com since 2013. Rafferty writes and reports on politics for the web, and shoots and produces video for all NBC platforms.

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McCain Wants '15 Wars More,' Rand Paul Says

Senator Rand Paul is running for reelection in 2016. Can you believe it? Hes also probably running for president in 2016. That means that Paul will be running for two (2) offices in Kentucky in 2016 a double-win for America, but also something that he cant do according to Kentucky state law.

Pauls favored recourse getting the Kentucky legislature to eliminate a law stating that no candidates name shall appear on any voting machine or absentee ballot more than once is all but dead, after the Kentucky GOPs efforts to take control of the state House fell short on Election Day. Kentuckys Democratic Speaker has been clear that he has no intention of bringing up a bill to eliminate the law, because he doesnt like Rand Paul.

This doesnt leave Paul without options. A couple of them are fairly straightforward: he could just not run in the Kentucky presidential primary and cede those delegates. Or the party could move the presidential primary to a caucus in March and keep the Senate primary in May something that the party could choose to do without the legislatures approval, the downside being that the party would have to cover the costs of the caucuses. The bigger problem with either of these options, though, is that they would only solve the primary ballot quandary, not the general election one: if Paul won the GOP presidential nomination, he would have to drop out of the Senate race.

(This) Salon (writer) is on the record hoping that Paul opts for a legal challenge against the state law, for the spectacle of the whole thing. Just imagine Rand Paul and his lawyers arguing that it is unconstitutional to bar Rand Paul from doing whatever he wants. Anyone who knows anything about the Constitution understands that the Founding Fathers wanted Rand Paul to run for as many offices as possible. Its written in invisible ink on the back of the Constitution, like in the important Nicholas Cage film National Treasure. In his recent interview with Salon, Paul suggested that hes looking into the constitutional challenge.

And yet could there be an even more dramatic option available to this senator who seems to court drama? National Journal reports today on another, more confrontational option, this one involving our old pal Alison Lundergan Grimes:

Perhaps the most intriguing options involve Grimes, the Democratic secretary of state whom McConnell crushed last month en route to his sixth term. One possibility is for Paul to simply file for both offices and dare her to deny one of the most popular political figures in the state a chance to run for both.

I anticipate that if a candidate seeks to appear on the ballot for more than one office, this office would seek guidance from the attorney general and/or the courts, said Lynn Zellen, a spokeswoman in the secretary of states office. The Kentucky attorney general, Jack Conway, is the Democrat Paul defeated to win his Senate seat in 2010.

Oh ho ho! DaringGrimesy not to let Rand Paul do whatever he wants? Why that sounds like a dare that she should act on because its not much of a dare. The statute may be dumb, but its on the books, and there doesnt seem to be a whole lot of ambiguity to it. It wouldnt be a very difficult decision for Grimes, backed by Conways guidance, to say no sorry you cant do this, because the law explicitly states that you cant do this.

Grimes is up for reelection in 2015. Paul and the Kentucky GOP will try to oust her. If a Republican were to win, as National Journal writes, there would be a three-week window in which the new secretary of state could certify Paul to run for everything. Its not clear, though, how the new secretary of state would get away with blatantly breaking state law to help a political ally. Im sure they can figure it out.

But again, all of these convoluted schemes could be done away with if Kentucky Democrats would just agree to eliminate the law. How dare they not go out of their way to help Rand Paul do whatever he wants. The poor man is the only person in the world who can save this country and this Constitution and they are blocking him, and therefore blocking America. It is unconstitutional to block America. (Just offering up some lines for the court case here, Senator free free to use them, theyre winners.)

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Rand Pauls latest ballot option: Dare Alison Lundergan Grimes to defy him!

Sen. Rand Paul announced his bid for a second term in the Senate on Tuesday, launching what will likely be a complicated election season as he attempts to keep his seat and run for an expected presidential campaign.

In a low-key campaign rollout, the Kentucky Republican declined to hold a traditional kick-off event, making the announcement instead in a lengthy press release that listed his local and national policy efforts.

In fact, Paul wasn't even in Kentucky on Tuesday. He stayed in Washington for votes and to speak at a Wall Street Journal event.

"What he just decided was he didn't need a big rally and a lot of fan fare," Doug Stafford, Paul's senior adviser, said on a call with reporters. "He wanted what he has done to speak for itself."

The problem for Paul is that Kentucky only allows candidates to appear on the ballot once during an election. If he runs for president--a decision he said Monday is "four to six months" away--that would pose a challenge come May 17, 2016, Kentucky's primary day.

And if he wins the GOP nomination for both offices, the dilemma could come up again six months later on Election Day.

Paul has a number of options to get around the law, but his team isn't saying --- at least publicly--- how they're prioritizing the different paths they could take.

"I don't think we've abandoned any option, nor have we settled on any option," Stafford said.

'Just to help Rand'

Paul's allies in the Republican-controlled state Senate tried to change the law through the legislature last year, but the measure stalled in the Democratic-led Kentucky House.

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Paul makes Senate re-election bid official

By Alexis Levinson Posted at 1:38 p.m. on Dec. 2

Paul is a Kentucky Republican. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Photo)

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced Tuesday he will seek re-election to the Senate, while weighing a run for president as well.

That decision will likely come in early spring, said Paul adviser Doug Stafford in an afternoon conference call with reporters.

Earlier Tuesday, one of Pauls Republican colleagues in the Senate, Rob Portman of Ohio, announced he would not run for president, citing his Senate duties. Stafford brushed off such concerns on Pauls part.

Sen. Paul has an enormous amount of energy. If he chooses to run for national office he will still perform his duties as senator, Stafford said, noting Paul was a full-time practicing doctor at the time of his first campaign for Senate.

Paul was not on the call with reporters, which took place while the Senate was voting.

At the moment, Kentucky law prohibits a candidate from appearing on the ballot twice for two different offices. But Stafford stressed there are avenues available to [Paul] should he decide to run for both offices at the same time. He declined to elaborate on the options, but said the campaign does not believe that law applies if one of the ballot lines is for federal office, and one possibility is getting a court to rule on that.

Another possibility mentioned was making Kentuckys presidential primary a caucus, and moving the contest to earlier in the year.

A third optionwould be to oust Democratic Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes and replace her with a Republican who might be more inclined to allow Paul on the ballot twice.

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