As Bush and Romney Battle, Can Rand Paul Sneak Through In New Hampshire?
In the land of the Libertarian, the Kentucky Senator tries to convince his father’s voters that he’s a man of the true faith.
CONCORD, N.H.—Rand Paul was winding down his day, talking to his fourth overflow crowd in eight hours. He’d started with state legislators who (mostly) had supported his father’s second presidential bid, in 2012. After a chat with the mayor of Manchester, he was off to talk with gun owners. He spun right around to talk to teachers about the threat of Common Core, and then he went up the highway to The Draft, a sports bar owned by the friendly State Senator Andy Sanborn, to address an assemblage of small businessmen.
At the bar, for the third time that day—totally unbidden—a potential voter asked him about militarization.