Rand Paul 'Intercepts' Weirdly Conspiratorial Bush-Clinton Phone Call
From the UK punk scene to the hills of Kentucky.
MCDONOUGH, GA - OCTOBER 24: Georgia Senate candidate David Perdue campaigns with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) on October 24, 2014 in McDonough, Georgia.
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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has borrowed a tactic pioneered by the anarcho-punk band Crass. This week, Paul's PAC released what it playfully advertised as a "secret tape" of political adversaries, caught plotting over the phone. What Crass did for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the Kentucky Senator's supporters have now done for Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.
"Maybe we can work something out," says a realistic-sounding Clinton. "We both agree on so many issues: bigger government, Common Core, and amnesty for illegal immigrants.”