NR Daily: Is Rand Paul’s Health-Care Stance Really Based on Principle?

The greatest trick any politician can pull off is to get his self-interest and his principles in perfect alignment. As Thomas More observed in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, "if we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly." Which brings me to Senator Rand Paul, the GOP's would-be Man for All Seasons. Paul emerged from the smoldering debris of the Republican health-care-reform train wreck as a figure of high libertarian principle, the shining "no" vote on any compromise that came short of full repeal. "Look, this is what we ran on for four elections," Paul told Neil Cavuto of Fox News ...

July 19 2017

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