Rand Paul Won’t Save the Republican Party

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June 21 (Bloomberg) -- The more people see of Senator RandPaul, the more they’re impressed with his political talent.

The Kentucky Republican can come across as an ordinary guyeven though he’s the son of a famously ideological politician.He can identify the right way to frame an issue and the rightmoment to raise it. His filibuster in March in protest ofdomestic drone strikes, though based on a fanciful threat, movedthe Republican Party in his direction on civil liberties.